The conservative movement and especially its think tanks play a critical role in denying the reality and significance of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), especially by manufacturing uncertainty over climate science. Books denying AGW are a crucial means of attacking climate science and scientists, and we examine the links between conservative think tanks (CTTs) and 108 climate change denial ...

There are known gender differences in book preferences in terms of both genre and author gender but their extent and causes are not well understood. It is unclear whether reader preferences for author genders occur within any or all genres and whether readers evaluate books differently based on author genders within specific genres. This article exploits a major source of informal book reviews,...

Online book discussion forums provide rich information on how readers think about and describe books, how books are related to other books and how people search for and recommend books. Within the Social Book Search (SBS) Lab at CLEF we analyse book search requests on the LibraryThing forums and find several types of complex search tasks where bibliometrics naturally combines with information r...

The Library of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles (EUB), the University’s publishing imprint, have recently agreed to collaborate to provide free online access to recent outof-print books published by EUB. The e-books are available on the Digithèque website, a collection of digital copies of printed books created by the Library. This initiative is valuab...

the encyclopedia of islam (leiden) is one of the most important / out–standing appearance of a descriptive–historical or phenomenon–logical attitude to the western islamic studies. also it is considered the symbol of specialization in the studies. since history, culture and civilization of iran pre /after islam) and shi, ism are among the important topics of islamic studies, we show that how th...

One of my favorite undergraduate microbiology teachers used to remind us that the study of biology was important because “we are all biological citizens in a biological world.” Authors James Trefil and Robert Hazen would probably modify that statement, and say that studying science is important because “we are all physical citizens in a physical universe.” In the two books they have coauthored,...

the european authors and thinkers in classic period and particularly romantic one were searching the root and basis of european culture and languages. the decoding of sanskrit emphasized the centrality of the orient for european culture. goethe, the famous poet and author of germany, under the influence of this movement and for his own interest, studied the works of orientalists too. alltough h...

needs analysis is an important step in curriculum development. teachers, writers and researchers must be aware of students’ needs to be able to make good decisions in choosing their teaching methodology or preparing course books. by the term “need”, we mean the gap between the current state and the desirable state. in the case of persian language, there is no corpus based on students’ need, the...