This volume focuses on specialist translation one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology law sociopolitics and medicine but also with lesser researched areas such as archeology geography nutrigenomics and others. As a whole the book achieves a blend of theory and practice. It addresses a variety of issues such as translation strategy based on text type and purpose intercultural transfer and quality assessment as well as textual and terminological issues in bilingual and multilingual settings including international organizations and the European Union. Today translation competence presupposes multidisciplinary skills. Whereas some chapters analyze the linguistic features of specialpurpose texts and their function in specialized communication others show how specialized translation has changed as a result of globalization and how advances in technology have altered terminology research and translation processing.