Agamben, Giorgio. 2005: State of Exception. University of Chicago Press, 104 pp.

University Press, 2005.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity (CoI) is an important addition to the growing body of work on ‘cognitive’ and construction-based grammars, which CoI links to evolutionary issues in interesting ways. CoI also touches upon a number of fundamental (indeed philosophical) issues in the study of linguistic communication, meaning, and human cognition; it should be applauded for the explicitness wit...

Sharon M. Leon, An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 240, $45.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-226-03898-8.

date by someone wishing to imitate Galen. But this is unlikely for several reasons. While such ‘reconstructions’ are known for literary themes, none involves such precise detail of past (or fictitious) events, and none of the pseudonymous medical material (excluding the Hippocratic letters) bears any resemblance to this type of pastiche. Arguments from verbal parallels with later Christian mate...

Elizabeth Hallam, Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 444, $57.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-86189-375-8.

hospital she had booked into. She was shaved, enema-ed, and wheeled into the labour ward, a huge room with beds of screaming women, separated by curtains and with students checking them. After the birth she was wheeled into a corridor for a day or two until a bed in a ward became available. She only had contact with her baby at feeding times, she was in bed for nine days, home on the tenth, ‘wi...

esp needs analysis of iranian ma students: a case study of university of isfahan

نیاز سنجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد ایرانی در رابطه با زبان تخصصی: مطالعه ای در دانشگاه اصفهان هدف از این مطالعه بررسی نیازهای یادگیری زبان خارجی دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشد دانشجویان دانشگاه اصفهان در رشته های زیست شناسی، روانشناسی، تربیت بدنی، حسابداری و فلسفه ی غرب میباشد. در مجموع 80 دانشجودر پنج رشته ی متفاوت از دانشگاه اصفهان در این پژوهش شرکت داشتند.علاوه بر این هشتاد دانشجو،25 استاد دروس ت...

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution Partha Niyogi (University of Chicago) The MIT Press, 2006, xviii+482 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-262-14094-2