Book received

Effect of Book Therapy on Shyness and Social Adjustment in Elementary School of Sama

Introduction: Book as Therapy is a tool to put you in touch with books that are helpful to read when facing certain problems. So the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of book therapy on shyness and social adjustment of students. Methods: The research method was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of Sa...

Critique of Research Book (Literature)/ Which Hafiz? An Overview of Hafiz and Russian Poets: Alireza Anoshirvani

Abstract One of the broad areas of research in traditional comparative literature is the study of the influence of one poet on another in a different culture. Almost all literary influences occur through translation. The translator is a mediator between the two poets, and any study of literary influences in the realm of comparative literature would be irrelevant if the role of the translator a...

Recent Books Received

Virtual and Adaptive Environments: Applications, Implications, and Human Performance Issues

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Contingency Wheel: Visual Analysis of Large Contingency Tables

We present the Contingency Wheel, a visual method for finding and analyzing associations in a large n×m contingency table with m < 100 and n being two to three orders of magnitude larger than m. The method is demonstrated on a large table from the Book-Crossing dataset, which counts the number of ratings each book received from each country. It enables finding books that received a disproportio...

Put Away

this book received such publicity at the time of its publication that there must be few who do not know what it is about. Briefly, it is the result of a four years study by a research team, headed by Dr. Pauline Morris, principal lecturer in Sociology at the Borough Polytechnic, London, of the physical, psychological and sociological environment which institutions provide for the mentally handi...