GLOSSARY

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 529.

Writing a book landed Salman Rushdie with a price tag of 2 million pounds on his head. Are his publishers, and the reissuers of Sade, irresponsible, or are they brave in providing access to a variety of points of view? Similarly, the arguments about why you should not trade with hostile or morally dubious countries seem to apply in a different way when educational books, or titles spreading a different political ideology from that of the party in power, are the products in question.

The role played by publishers in the human rights movement has been pivotal. This is because the basic work of protecting human rights begins with documentation.

Of course, this power to communicate does not apply to books alone – newspaper articles and television programmes can be far more immediate in their effectiveness. But while many other media of communication are necessarily ephemeral, because tomorrow's edition is being prepared as today's is seen, books smack of permanence. Why else have dictators tried to burn, or the politically correct, to ban, them.

1. The published product – издательская продукция

2. Message – основная идея

3. The ability to publish – способность издавать

4. Publishing courses – курсы по издательскому делу

5. The printed word – печатное слово

6. Free speech – свобода слова

7. Cover – переплёт

8. Pages and ink thereon– страницы, исписанные чернилами

9. A book's moral impact on society – моральное влияние книг на общество

10. Publishers – издатели

11. Educational books – учебники

12. Titles – заголовки

13. Power to communicate – способность передавать информацию

14. Media of communication – СМИ

15. Ephemeral –«однодневки»

16. Edition – издание

17. Books smack of permanence – книги несут на себе отпечаток вечности, книги не отделимы и принадлежат вечности.