disappearance of national characteristics, except for the name. Whilst most hospitals' histories are written by members of staff whose warmth in partially remembered narrative and anecdotal detail appeals to readers, this book seems at first glance somewhat dry. Also, one looks in vain for specialized case histories. On the other hand, meticulous attention is given to a vast amount of primary s...

disappearance of national characteristics, except for the name. Whilst most hospitals' histories are written by members of staff whose warmth in partially remembered narrative and anecdotal detail appeals to readers, this book seems at first glance somewhat dry. Also, one looks in vain for specialized case histories. On the other hand, meticulous attention is given to a vast amount of primary s...

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

'The History of Hindu Chemistry' is one of the rare, important books published in twentieth century. Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, the author of this book, who was a chemist by profession, has contributed greatly to the field of Rasashastra in his own style. The book in two volumes is in English and has achieved international recognition. The work became the cause of enlightening people specially, ...

Since “making moral education the fundamental task of education” was put forward, various disciplines and majors in higher vocational colleges universities have been integrating curriculum thinking politics into aspects teaching. This paper takes Reading “Working for peanuts” Unit 3 Book 2 General English (Foreign Studies) as an example to explore content course design a typical case.

the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. this article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

The significant role of needs analysis in enriching the design and content of ESP course books could be in no way ignored. The present study based on a three-year longitudinal needs analysis study of medical students, a medical ESP course book was developed and approved by experts. The feedback of the four-semester practice of the approved book revealed that practitioners showed great interest ...

In August 1998, an interviewer for an Indonesian news weekly asked Amien Rais, a major figure in national Islamic politics and founder of the National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional), why he had altered the name of the party from the originally proposed Partai Amanat Bangsa. He replied, “We chose Partai Amanat Nasional because it would be better translated into English as National Mandat...