The Handbook of SpanishEnglish Translation is a lively and accessible book for students interested in translation studies and Spanish. This book details the growth of translation studies from Cicero to postcolonial interpretations of translation as rewriting. It examines through examples the main issues involved in translation and interpretation such as text types register interference equivalence and untranslatability. The chapters on interpretation and audiovisual translation and the comparative analysis of Spanish and English are especially significant. The second part of the book offers a rich compilation of diverse Spanish and English texts academic literary and government writings comic strips brochures movie scripts and newspapers and their published translations each with a brief introduction by Professor Aranda.