Data Processing and Visual Literacy in Medicine and Science. ByDoigSimmondsandLindaReynolds. Pp. 192. Butterworth Heinemann, 1994. £17.50 paperback. ISBN 0 7506 0982 6

Mary de Young, Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), pp. vi, 368, $55, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7864-6897-3.

Life Atomic is thus a historical epistemology from the inside out. Creager’s method is reminiscent of what Marxists call immanent critique and what Clifford Geertz once called ‘internal conversion’. (It is, I think, an accident of history that Geertz’s term is drawn from atomic physics.) Methodological innovation, in this mode, need not be imported. It can be found in the sources themselves. Cr...

Waltraud Ernst (ed.), Work, Psychiatry and Society, c.1750-2015 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. xiii, 378, £75.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-7190-9769-0.

to have it and to rely on it. The price of the book, at £90, makes it inaccessible to them. I don’t know of plans to make the book more easily available in East Africa, but it is vital that this happen. In conclusion, Doyle’s analysis is subtle and rich. The body of research on which it is based is monumental. It is a book we can all rely on in moving towards the next stage in studying the prob...

Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet: by Todd W. Taylor and Irene Ward (Editors). Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 200 pp. ISBN 0231113315 $17.50 (paperback)

In their introduction the editors claim that this is a book for writing instructors written by writing instructors. Although they do not mention this explicitly it is clear that they are assuming a USA context. Not only are all the contributors from universities in the United States but many chapters also refer to the contemporary situation of what they calìcomposition and rhetoric studies' in ...

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.

the role of visual aids and translation in teaching vocabulary in est

the present study investigated the effect of the two vocabulary teaching techniques in est, namely the use of translation and the use of visual aids as two separate vocabulary teaching techniques. to answer the question of the study, a pretest (michigan test) was administered to the 58 randomly selected est students at khajeh nasiredin tusi university, faculty of mechanics. after the homogeneit...