Portraiture in Early India: Between Transience and Eternity. By Vincent Lefèvre. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. xix, 219 pp. $135.00 (cloth).

Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill.

André-Georges Haudricourt was born in 1911. He grew up on his parents’ farm, in a remote area of Picardie. He was curious of techniques, plants and languages from his early childhood. After he passed the Baccalauréat in 1928, his father advised him to enter the National Institute of Agriculture (Institut national agronomique), in the hope that he would obtain a prestigious position in the admin...

Alison D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Shechner and Paolo Brenni (eds), How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2017), History of Science and Medicine Library, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. xxxii + 240, $150, hardback, ISBN: 9789004324923.

Brill-Zinsser Disease in Moroccan Man, France, 2011

To the Editor: Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by human body lice. For centuries, it has been associated with overcrowding, cold weather, and poor hygiene. Brill-Zinsser disease is a recurrent form of epidemic typhus that is unrelated to louse infestation and develops sporadically years after the primary illness. Clinical features are similar to, but milder th...

Robert G. McKinnell, The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer: The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. xvi, 196, $50, hardback, ISBN: 9789004286795.

studies. What she reveals is a very complex mixed economy of care from the 1870s to the 1920s, with hospital provision often costing mid-sized UK towns more than larger ones, a case study of Liverpool underlining how policy varied geographically. While this might easily have become simply another book on twentieth-century health care in the UK and Ireland, this book, like the topic it covers, i...

the relationship between individual versus pair writing tasks and levels of fluency, complexity and accuracy in efl writing by iranian learners

پژوهش کنونی با هدف مطالعه رابطه بین نوشتار بصورت انفرادی و گروهی با میزان دقت، پیچیدگی و سلاست دانش آموزان زبان انگلیسی حین نگارش متون انجام شده است. بمنظور دستیابی به این هدف، دو گروه از دانش آموزان مقطع متوسطه موسسه زبان کیش انتخاب شده و سپس از آنها خواسته شد تا 6 متن را با 6 موضوع متفاوت و طی 6 جلسه به نگارش در آورند. تجزیه و تحلیل این پژوهش با هدف اندازه گیری میزان دقت، پیچیدگی و سلاست نوشت...