During the era of Bush administration and post-September 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between Hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. From my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an Iranophobic...

Somatic illness is not only an individual experience of physical and psychological suffering, but also a psychosocial status that modulates the patient's interpersonal relationships. Receiving a diagnosis of cancer causes severe distress. The patient's family, too, feels the emotional ups and downs of the patient. Like the patient, they feel distressed during the onset, course and outcome of th...

BACKGROUND Chronic widespread pain (CWP) affects 10% of adults and often causes significant disability in everyday life. Research on time in chronic conditions has focused on biographical disruption and perceptions of past and future. However, more mundane aspects of time are also disrupted in a condition such as CWP, which is uncertain on a minute-to-minute, day-to-day basis, as well as in the...

for the first time, potentilla balansae sojak. and potentilla radiata lehm. are reported from north and northeast of iran. potentilla balansae pesmen is akin to p. anatolica and p. umbrosa but differs from both in its smaller petals, fewer tooted leaflets and usually subpinnate leaves. potentilla radiata lehm., is a hybrid species in origin, (p. argentea 㗠p. thuringiaca ). the photographs of ...

In this book, we use the term domestic photography to describe the photographic activities of ordinary people taking and using images for non-professional purposes. Also, in our use of the term we focus on the kind of use in which photography is not a hobby as such but embedded in other activities. The word ‘domestic’ implies that the activities take place mainly in homes, and the home is the h...