pressure in various diseases follow, and here we wish that the author could have stated well-known facts in medicine without finding it necessary to quote copiously from writers quite unknown in this country in support thereof. The treatment of hypertension is well done and there is a new chapter on blood pressure in children. The book is easy reading, but there is evidence here and there of ca...

This paper seeks to provide an input towards developing the proposal for the research project, “Pathways of Women’s Empowerment” to investigate the determinants of women’s empowerment where and when it occurs. It primarily attempts to give an overview of the trends in research, thinking and programmes in Pakistan from 1975 onwards in the area of women’s empowerment and bodily integrity in order...

Based on his experiences during a journey through mainland Southeast Asia in 1923, Somerset Maugham wrote a book of colonial travel entitled The Gentleman in the Parlour. As the work of one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century, Maugham’s travelogue both expressed and helped to shape contemporary thinking about Southeast Asia and Western imperialism. Focusing especially on his re...

Perhaps it is just as well that most medical practitioners are neither famous nor of any real interest to general public. Professional writers, poor souls, ?re not spared the risks of fame. This book by Geoffrey Grigson spells out their problems. Fortunately none of us is likely to be the target (or S|Jbject) of such public critical appraisal. A tactfully Phrased obituary notice in the medical ...

A solution to get the problem off, have you found it? Really? What kind of solution do you resolve the problem? From what sources? Well, there are so many questions that we utter every day. No matter how you will get the solution, it will mean better. You can take the reference from some books. And the transputer instruction set a compiler writers guide is one book that we really recommend you ...

Italics in Rayer’s text indicate words and phrases emphasized by him. The footnotes to the translation are taken from the original 1840 French edition. Where Rayer used abbreviated book titles, these have been given in full. Other additions appear in square brackets. The full names and dates of writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century cited in these notes are given as far as possibl...

abstract from ancient time, iranians were interested in searching in the realm of arabic language and culture. it happens because of the necessities and religious background of arabic language, to some extent is due to iranian trend toward getting new knowledge, also it relates to the discussion of aesthetics and art. therefore, gradually we have observed some works in these domains and as a re...

This presentation will focus on describing and synthesizing the results of basic empirical research done between 1980 and 2005 on second language writers, their composing processes, and their written texts. Altogether, 193 studies were examined. Studies were limited to those in published form—books, book chapters, and journal articles. Not included were conference proceedings and ERIC documents...

This little book by Dr. Ram Narain on the treatment of disease by climate contains a large amount of information about many Indian Hill sanitaria as well as many European health resorts. It is very clearly and simply written, and the author has made good use of the works of many writers on the climatic tieatnient of disease. It is somewhat remarkable that, except the well-known work of Macnamar...