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A guide for translators, about the translation theory, the translation process, interpreting, subtitling, internationalization and localization and computer-assisted translation. A special section is dedicated to the translator's education and associations.    The guide include, as annexes, several independent adaptations of the corresponding European Commission works, freely available via the EU Bookshop as PDF and via SetThings.com as EPUB, MOBI (Kindle) and PDF.    For a “smart”, sensible translation , you should forget not the knowledge acquired at school or university, but the corrective standards. Some people want a translation with the touch of the source version, while another people feel that in a successful version we should not be able to guess the original language. We have to realize that both people have right and wrong, and that their only fault is to present requirement as an absolute truth.  Teachers agree at least on this princip...

  About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species.    " No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." (Steve Jobs )    CONTENTS:     Death  - Philosophy of death  - Religions  - - Animism  - - Atheism  - - Buddhism  - - Christianity  - - Hinduism  - - Islam  - - Jainism  - - Jehovah's Witnesses  - - Judaism  - - Latter-day Saints  - - Spiritism  - Symbolism  - Personification of Death  - - Notable personifications  - - In mythologies  - - - Hindu mythology  - - - In Japan  ...

Techniques and actions for a company to develop the sale of the products and services by adapting, where necessary, the production and commercialization to consumer needs.    Marketing is considered as the first creative link that will lead to sales. In an environment increasingly changing, the marketing strategy is mobilized to retain a focused and solvent clients by providing economies of scale necessary for the success of the company. By advertising, marketing can also be used to create a portfolio of new customers without automatically seek a margin in the short term.  The marketing strategy aims to put the company in question in line with the implicit or explicit requirements of the market in which it operates. The foundations of the strategy are to discover and especially to influence the needs of potential customers and identify products and services. Political communication, advertising, promotion and organization of the sale  of products is in...