Book review: Cities of the World

Book Reviews Planning World Cities: Globalisation and Urban Politics

Does globalisation lead to convergence? This question is pervasive in all fields of social science and currently the dominant answer sounds like the following: although globalisation has been the dominant discourse during the past 15 years and has changed agendas and policies, regional, national and local cultures and institutions still strongly shape social and political processes and outcomes...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Review Review of the World Class Parasites Book Series

1. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2. Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, USA. 3. Department of Microbiology/Immunology, University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, USA 4. Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Parana, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil 5. Instituto de Biofisica Car...

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...

Book Review: Evolving Cities: Geocomputation in Territorial Planning