Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Keywords: cinema, iranian, masterpieces, amp, masters
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 093421185X
ISBN-13: 9780934211857

The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories of our time. There is scarcely an international film festival anywhere that does not honor the aesthetic and political explorations of Iranian artists. Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema celebrates this remarkable emergence. It focuses on twelve of the most important Iranian filmmakers of the past half-century--among them, such pioneers as Forugh Farrokhzad, Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jafar Panahi. In his examination of their lives and t

Author: Najmieh Batmanglij
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Keywords: persia, taste
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 184511437X
ISBN-13: 9781845114374

Author: Simin Daneshvar
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Keywords: persian, classics, iran, modern, novel, savushun
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-09-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0934211310
ISBN-13: 9780934211314

â??A very engaging saga...â?? â??Washington Post Book World â??A powerfully resonant work...â?? â??Publishers Weekly â??Outstanding foreign fiction...â?? â??USA Today Savushun (pronounced â??sa-voo-shoonâ??) is a folk tradition, surviving in Southern Iran from an undateable pre-islamic past, that conjures hope in spite of everything. The novel chronicles the life of a Persian family during the World War II Allied occupation of Iran. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-islamic monuments, the great Persian poets, the shrines, sufis

Author:
Publisher: Mage Pub
Keywords: riddle, iranian, revolution, hoveyda, abbas, sphinx, amir, persian
Number of Pages: 368
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1850433283
ISBN-13: 9781850433286

Author: Najmieh Batmanglij
Publisher: Mage Publisher
Keywords: iranian, cooking, ceremonies, modern, persian, food, life, ancient, new
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0934211345
ISBN-13: 9780934211345

This is a treasury of 240 classical and regional Iranian recipes. 120 colour photographs intertwined with descriptions of ancient and modern ceremonies, poetry, folk tales, travelogue excerpts, and anecdotes make "New Food of Life" not just a collection of recipes but also an introduction to Persian art and culture. Each recipe is presented in a format that is brilliantly logical and marvellously easy-to-follow. You will learn how to cook rice, the jewel of Persian cooking, simply yet deliciously. And by combining it with a little meat, fowl, or fish, vegetables, fruits, and herbs, you’l

Author: John, H Cochrane
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, finance, foundations, economy, markets, real, financial
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2005-10-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1933019158
ISBN-13: 9781933019154

What are the real, macroeconomic risks that drive asset prices? This question is centrally important to macroeconomics. Where better to learn about the risks of recessions and depressions than by understanding the prices of assets such as stocks that carry macroeconomic risks? The question is also at the core of finance. For example, finance has long wondered if asset prices are "rational" or not. The only meaning of that term is whether asset prices are properly connected to macroeconomic risks. Financial Markets and the Real Economy reviews the current academic literature on the macroe

Authors:Frank, A. Sloan, Lindsey, M. Chepke,
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: trends, microeconomics, foundations, health, economics, public, law
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1601980744
ISBN-13: 9781601980748

The Law and Economics of Public Health synthesizes the empirical research findings on the relationship between law and the public’s health that are found scattered in different literature ranging from economic journals to medical journals, journals on addictive behaviors, law reviews, and books. This is the only study to date that has assembled the empirical evidence from many areas ranging from motor vehicle liability and dram shop liability to medical malpractice, products liability as it applies to pharmaceutical products, and medical devices. The Law and Economics of Public He