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miscellaneous resources

abebooks - Large online book store search site
For all you lovers of rare and out of print language and other books. On this site you can search among 5500 independent/2nd hand bookstores

Alex Eames' Translator Tips
This site is here to enhance and improve the lives of translators and those who would like to be translators. The slogan says it all really - helping translators do better business. I am here to help you do better business.

bibliofind - Another large online book store search site

GIANT - Global Information Access NeT
GIANT is a comprehensive database of organizations and experts in international affairs. Its contents can be searched by organizational name, location, subject, type, and resource offerings In addition, this service provides a limited-area, full text web search of the sites maintained by the organizations listed in GIANT.

ISO - Online (French version available)
The Web site of the International Standards Organization. Find anything and everything related to ISO standards here.

Jokes on translation and languages
A valuable resource for translators suffering from stress!

KwMap - A Keyword Map for the whole Internet

The Language Consulting Centre (LCC)
The LCC has opened its virtual doors for everyone working in the production and management of multilingual information -- as a documentation manager, translator, technical writer, information manager, etc. The project is partly funded by the European Commission under the MLIS program (Multilingual Information Society) and offers information and consulting services free of charge.

Project Gutenberg
Here you'll find the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and a whole lot more.

Phrasebase
Phrasebase is a privately owned and funded project. A network of friends who share a passion for cultures and languages. Our goal is to create the absolute best online language learning resource community.

Realtime, multilingual chat (Java-enabled browser required)

Resources for subtitlers

The Translation Services and Languages Info Guide

Worldwide per-diem rates from the U.S. Dept of State

Worldwide Telephone Directories
This is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world.

WWW Virtual Library
The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.

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