Textbooks play a crucial role in English language teaching and learning. One of the methods for selecting the most appropriate textbook for a particular educational purpose is comparing two or several similar textbooks with each other. Textbook evaluation can provide useful information about the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and can lead to the selection of the most suitable materials f...

The present qualitative research, for the first time, aimed at comparing and contrasting the extent cultural components and subcomponents are represented in the elementary levels of A Course in General Persian and Top Notch Series as foreign language teaching textbooks. The adapted checklist of Lee's Big ‘C' and little ‘c' cultural components (2009) was used for the current study.  After conten...

This study aims to evaluate an English textbook in a private school example Sinop. Although schools and public follow the same curriculum, there are differences preference. In this study, as external evaluation, was examined terms of design elements; and, internal book instructional elements. The research qualitative process carried out by two different researchers. Results showed that although...

Previous editions of this book were well received by both the students and gynsecologists for whom they were meant. The present edition shows a vast improvement in the details of the matters dealt with previously as well as in the inclusion of the recent developments of the subject. Few textbooks contain a better or more exact description of the anatomy of the female genitalia than what is give...

professor working in an institution hoary with the best traditions of scientific medicine. Recent works on such important subjects like ' Erythroblastosis Fcetalis'?Penicillin Therapy, etc., have been incorporated for the benefit of students going up for examinations. At the same time the usual paraphernalia of a textbook of obstetrics, viz, the description of the mechanism of labeur, discussio...

on the modern system, the old nomenclature is also given. The chapters on filtrable viruses, immunity, bacterial virulence, toxin, antitoxins and agglutinins are particularly good for the concise and comprehensive way in which these subjects have been dealt with. The inclusion of the more important pathogenic protozoa in a small chapter will be appreciated by the busy practitioner though it is ...

This interesting book, though arranged in the form of a textbook, really consists of a collection of papers by American surgeons, purporting to cover the whole field of general surgery. The 1695 pages of text are shared by no less than 188 writers, of whom a few have contributed less than two thousand words each. No doubt this is what makes the book so attractive; every section has an air of fr...

We report on a formalisation experiment where excerpts from an algebra textbook are compared to their translation into formal texts of the Isabelle/Isar prover, and where an attempt is made in the formal text to stick as closely as possible with the structure of the informal counterpart. The purpose of the exercise is to gain understanding on how adequately a modern algebra text can be represen...

In the preface to the First Edition of Williams' Obstetrics published in 1903 the author wrote these words: "I have attempted to set for-th as briefly as seemed to be consistent with thoroughness, the scientific basis for and the practical application of the obstetric art. . . I have endeavored to present the more practical aspects in such a manner as to be of direct service to the obstetrician...