A collection of Book Reviews for Volume 1, Number 1

A Collection of Book Reviews

a criical evaluation of prospect 1: iranian junior high school english book

این پایان نامه کتاب زبان انگلیسی پایه هفتم(پراسپکت 1) را بر اساس چک لیست کانینگ ورث (1995) مورد ارزیابی قراردهده و نقاط قوت و ضعب کتاب مذکور را بررسی می نماید. در گام دوم نیز از طریق مصاحبه با تعدادی از دبیران زبان انگلیسی که کتاب مورد نظر را تدریس می کنند، نظر دبیران را در مورد پراسپک 1 جویا می شود.

Book Reviews (MSR XI.1, 2007)

After years of painstaking research Dr. Giuseppe Scattolin has at last published his critical edition of Ibn al-Fa≠rid ̋'s D|wa≠n. While Ibn al-Fa≠rid ̋ lived during the Ayyubid period, his verse was a dominant influence on later Arabic poetry composed under the Mamluks. Moreover, his verse and mystical ideas were, at times, sources of contention among factions of ulama during Mamluk rule, while ...

Book Reviews (MSR XII. 1, 2008)

Thomas Bauer seems very much intent on discrediting my chapter on Mamluk and Ottoman poetry (in the Post-Classical Period volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, edited by Roger Allen and D. S. Richards and published in 2006), which apparently contradicts the premises and ideas he himself had already put forward about this long period, one that happens to be his chosen area of spe...

AIDS Research Reviews: Volume 1

The best analogy I can come up with for the transition to third year-and it is neither original, nor, for that matter, particularly good-is that of learning to live in a foreign land. My preparation as a Yale medical student was like being immersed for two years learning the social, political, and economic history of the Hungarian people-and then being handed an unabridged Hungarian dictionary,...