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The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present day.

This 4th edition remains essential reading for anyone new to the field and has been updated to include The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies, Translation and Power, Postcolonial translation, Skopos theory, Translation and new technology, The ‘Translational Turn’, translation studies in the Chinese and Indian contexts, and translating for the theatre.

His studies revealed that what makes experience genuinely satisfying is 'flow' - a state of concentration so focused that it amounts to complete absorption in an activity and results in the achievement of a perfect state of happiness.

One of the most prominent psychotherapists of our time offers a deeply moving chronicle of the challenges and breakthroughs that come from a wholly new practice of one-time-only therapy sessions.

Celebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the centre of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces that have made him a global icon.