Author: Shirin Yim
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: wish, ruby
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2002-09
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0811834905
ISBN-13: 9780811834902

Ruby is unlike most little girls in old China. Instead of aspiring to get married, Ruby is determined to attend university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. Based upon the inspirational story of the author’s grandmother and accompanied by richly detailed illustrations, Ruby’s Wish is an engaging portrait of a young girl who strives for more and a family who rewards her hard work and courage.

Author: Shirin Bridges
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Keywords: queen, umbrella
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060750405
ISBN-13: 9780060750404

When Noot is finally allowed to paint umbrellas like the other women and girls in her village, she secretly hopes that she might be chosen as this year’s Umbrella Queen. Carefully, she creates serene flowers and butterflies exactly as she has seen her mother and grandmother do for years. But soon her imagination takes over, and Noot finds herself straying from the old patterns, to the dismay of her family, who depend on the traditionally painted umbrellas for their livelihood. Her parents tell her she must go back to the old designs and Noot obeys, knowing that the King is coming so

Author: Shirin Wadia
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Keywords: homeopathy, handbook
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8172249616
ISBN-13: 9788172249618

Author: Shirin M. Rai
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: studies, york, women, democratisation, perspectives, gender, international
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2000-08-05
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0312232101
ISBN-13: 9780312232108

International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization brings together the experience of women’s democratic movements in different countries and regions, North and South, and assesses how different discourses of democracy have been used by women’s groups to assert women’s rights. Sensitive to particular histories, ideologies, and cultural contexts, the contributors assess the strengths and the problems facing women’s democratic movements as they consolidate their gains and face new challenges.

Author: Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: wisdom, persia, maghribi, shirin, divan, muhammad, critical
Number of Pages: 573
Published: 1994-12-31
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0728601974
ISBN-13: 9780728601970

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Authors:Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Pouneh Shabani Jadidi,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: shirin, ast, farsi, course, introductory, persian, routledge
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-06-22
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415561000
ISBN-13: 9780415561006

The Routledge Introductory Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast is an innovative Persian language course designed both for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are new to the language. Focusing both on grammatical and communicative competence, the course contains 15 lessons combining authentic dialogues and texts with grammar explanations, exercises and audio materials to guide and support the student through the key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. Key features: lively, content-based materials – the language is taught and practiced through a variety of dialogu

Author: Shirin Akiner
Publisher: Kegan Paul International Ltd.
Keywords: soviet, union, peoples, turkic, muslim, appendix, islamic, non
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0710300255
ISBN-13: 9780710300256