Hidup Becky Bloomwood sungguh mulus: dia punya pekerjaan yang menyenangkan, tinggal di apartemen Manhattan bersama pacarnya, Luke, dan mereka membuka rekening gabungan (walaupun belum sepakat apakah rok Miu Miu termasuk pos pengeluaran rumah tangga). Kemudian Luke melamarnya! Sesudah itu hidup Becky jadi rumit lagi. Ibunya ingin mereka menikah di Inggris, ingin Becky mengenakan gaun pengantinnya dulu. Ibu Luke ingin mereka menikah di Plaza Hotel New York, dengan pesta mewah, kue pengantin spektakuler, dan kada-kado luar biasa… Becky harus mengambil keputusan––tapi sulit sekali! Waktu terus berjalan, padahal ada dua rencana yang sedang digodok di dua negara. Becky pun menyadari dia menghadapi masalah besar…

Becky Bloomwood is delighted when her boyfriend proposes, but her visions of a perfect wedding day dissolve as her mother plans a backyard wedding and her high-society mother-in-law-to-be insists on a lavish affair at the Plaza Hotel.

Après un long voyage de noces, le retour à Londres est difficile pour Becky Bloomwood-Brandon : pas de boulot, un budget sous haute surveillance, un mari débordé, une meilleure amie occupée ailleurs, des parents en pleine psychothérapie... Plus une surprise de choc : Becky découvre qu'elle a une sœur, née des amours prénuptiales de son père. Et quelle sœur ! Radine comme un pou, gaie comme une porte de prison, pas féminine pour deux pence, Jess déteste les fringues, le maquillage et le chocolat. Et, surtout, elle a une sainte horreur du shopping ! Finie la belle vie ? Envolés les rêves d'entente familiale ? Terminé le lèche-vitrines? C'est mal connaître la plus attachante des fashionatas, qui, une fois encore, a plus d'un tour dans ses sacs...

Dernier volet d'une trilogie désopilante, L'accro du shopping dit oui marque le retour de Becky, cette Fois-ci bien décidée à faire du plus beau jour de sa vie un événement inoubliable. Faisant fi des mauvaises langues qui lui prédisent l'enfer auprès d'une dépensière pathologique, Luke vient de demander Becky en mariage. Pour une accro du shopping, c'est la consécration... ou le début du cauchemar. Car Becky va très vite se retrouver dans une drôle de situation. Doit-elle se marier dans la maison de ses parents, au cœur de la campagne anglaise, et pousser le devoir filial jusqu'à porter la robe de sa mère, celle qui la fait ressembler à un feuilleté à la viande ? Ou se soumettre aux exigences de sa très chic belle-mère : liste de mariage glamourissime, somptueuse cérémonie au Plaza et immersion dans la crème du gratin new-yorkais ? Cruel dilemme, mais impossible n'est pas Becky...

This volume – the first-ever collection of research on healthcare interpreting – centers on three interrelated themes: cross-cultural communication in healthcare settings, the interactional role of persons serving as interpreters and the discourse patterns of interpreter-mediated interaction. The individual chapters, by seven innovative researchers in the area of community-based interpreting, represent a pioneering attempt to look beyond stereotypical perceptions of interpreter-mediated interactions. First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting 7:2 (2005), this volume offers insights into the impact of the interpreter – whether s/he is a trained professional or a member of the patient's family – including ways in which s/he may either facilitate or impair reliable communication between patient and healthcare provider. The five articles cover a range of settings and specialties, from general medicine to pediatrics, psychiatry and speech therapy, using languages as diverse as Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Italian and Spanish in combination with Danish, Dutch, English and French.

I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.