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The Life and Times of the Shah

The Life and Times of the Shah

Gholam Reza Afkhami

Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the shah's life ...
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, ...

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, ...

Trita Parsi

Interview with Gholam-Reza Afkhami, former adviser to Mohammad Reza Shah, Washington, D.C., March 5, 2004. 2 Interview with former Iranian diplomat stationed in Israel, Tehran, August 12, 2004. 3 Samuel Segev, The Iranian Triangle ...
Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. ...

Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. ...

Andrew Friedman

Interview with John Macy, by Gholam-Reza Afkhami, December 26, 1984, 15, 25 –26, FISOHA. 200. “Farideh H. Pickett Iranian Embassy Staffer,” 201. Charles Wohlstetter, The Right Time, the Right Place (New York: Applause, 1997), 214– 17; ...
Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty

Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty

Ali Gheissari

Gholam Reza Afkhami, ed., Siasat va Siyasatguzarie Eqtesdi dar Iran, 1340– 1350 (Ideology, Politics, and Process in Iran's Economic Development, 1960– 1970). Interview with Alinaghi Alikhani (Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Iranian  ...
The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West

The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West

Dore Gold

2. Gary Sick, All fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran (Lincoln: Baninprint, 2001), 193. 3. Amir Taheri, The Spirit ofAllah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution (Bethesda: Adler & Adler, 1986), 107; and Gholam Reza Afkhami, The Life ...
Reza War and Peace: A Photographer's Journey

Reza War and Peace: A Photographer's Journey

Reza

The book follows Reza’s photographic career and is narrated in his own words, focusing our attention on the costs of war and the human condition.
Alexandre Reza

Alexandre Reza

Vivienne Becker

This monumental edition, part of Assouline's Ultimate Collection, presents more than one hundred rare pieces of Reza's creations, and includes a history of the famed gem house in archival documents and vintage photography.
Making sense of bullfighting

Making sense of bullfighting

Reza Hosseinpour A

Where does all this pageantry come from? Why don t we see more women bullfighters? Does bullfighting have a future? These are the questions that came to Reza Hosseinpour s mind when he first moved to Spain and was exposed to bullfighting.
Robot Futures

Robot Futures

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh

In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhshconsiders how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as itincorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings.
Live Generation: Iran’s 1999 Student Uprising that Opened ...

Live Generation: Iran’s 1999 Student Uprising that Opened ...

Reza Mohajerinejad With Liz Malon

Dr. Hamid Akbari Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Teaching Professor of Management Director, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Leadership Fund at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago Foreword Reza Mohajerinejad's fascinating memoir ...
Making Sense of Bullfighting

Making Sense of Bullfighting

Reza Hosseinpour

This is the full color version of the book.
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development

Professional SharePoint 2010 Development

Thomas Rizzo

Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider, Scot Hillier, Kenneth Schaefer. SharePoint 2010 Development Second Edition Torn Rizzo Reza Alirezaei Paul]. Swider Kenneth Schaefer Jeff Fried Scot Hillier WILEY John Wiley & Sons, ...
Ethnizität, Moderne und Enttraditionalisierung

Ethnizität, Moderne und Enttraditionalisierung

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The following account by Houchang Chehabi of the deep force behind Reza Shah's drive for modernization is also relevant for understanding this outlook: » The obvious gap between the European model and the Muslim reality could be ...
The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave

The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave

Polly Morland

For bullfighting access and demystification, I am indebted first to Alexander FiskeHarrison and later, in Seville, to Antonio Navarro Amuedo and Reza Hosseinpour, as well as to Sophie Payne, who provided additional translations. The writing ...
Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and ...

Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and ...

Reza N. Jazar

The first edition of this book was published in 2007 and soon after its publication it became a very popular reference in the field of robotics. I wish to thank the many students and instructors who have used the book or referenced it.
Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International ...

Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International ...

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DIAR: Advances in Degradation Modeling and Processing Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam Synchromedia Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence, ́Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, QC H3C ...
World Order: A Bahai Magazine

World Order: A Bahai Magazine

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professor of anthropology at the University of London and author of books on Iran and Iranian cinema, notes that children have emerged as surrogate adults because of restrictions related to women, and Hamid Reza Sadr, a film writer in ...
Fundamentals of Gas Shale Reservoirs

Fundamentals of Gas Shale Reservoirs

Reza Rezaee

In general this book provides comprehensive information about the key exploration, development and optimization concepts required for shale gas reservoirs.
Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation: Women-only urban ...

Public Urban Space, Gender and Segregation: Women-only urban ...

Reza Arjmand

®A comparative analysis of predictors of sense of place dimensions: attachment to, dependence on, and identification with lakeshore properties. ̄ Journal of Environmental Management 79:316¥27. Kakar, Palwasha L., and Brandy Bauer.
Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle ...

Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle ...

Reza Aslan

Arabic. by. Haifa. Zangana. His life was short but rich, crammed with events. He was arrested at the age of seventeen, released five years later, and executed when he was twenty-four. At the foot of the mountains, the bushes burn and the vines ...
Democracy in Iran

Democracy in Iran

Misagh Parsa

I am grateful to colleagues for discussions on various aspects of the work: Ervand Abrahamian, Reza Afshari, Hamid Akbari, Kazem Alamdari, Asef Bayat, Sohrab Behdad, Cyrus Bina, Bruce Cumings, Randy Earnest, Ali Ghaisari, Mohammad ...
Markets, Business and Sustainability:

Markets, Business and Sustainability:

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Improving Environmental and Economic Performance in the Food Chain; the Lean and Green Paradigm 173 Keivan Zokaei, Ioannis Manikas and Samsad Reza 10. Design for Globalized Green Supply Chain Networks with Nearshored ...
Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects

Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects

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... Michigan, USA VIBEKE HJORTDAL Professor and Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark REZA HOSSEINPOUR Transplant Fellow, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK YOSUKE  ...
Biomaterials and Their Applications

Biomaterials and Their Applications

Hamid Reza Rezaie

This short book presents an overview of different types of biomaterial such as bio ceramics, bio polymers, metals and bio composites, while especially focusing on nano biomaterials and their applications in different tissues.
Iranian Cinema: A Political History

Iranian Cinema: A Political History

Hamid Reza Sadr

Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, this book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering descriptions of the key films and looking at recurring themes and tropes, such as the ...
Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

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Manuscripts. Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam Abstract A novel system for word spotting in old Arabic manuscripts is developed. The system has a complete chain of operations and consists of three major steps: pre-processing  ...
Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity

Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity

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See Houchang Chehabi, "Staging the Emperor's New Clothes: Dress Codes and Nation-Building under Reza Shah," InniKin Studies 26, 3-4 (1993): 209-29. 7. Araqi, p. 20 8. Araqi, pp. 20-21. 9. Nasser Pakdaman, "Darbareh-ye Qatl-e Kasravi ...
Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi ...

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah: The Pahlavi ...

Bianca Devos

23 See the contributions by Keivan Aghamohseni and Houchang Chehabi, Chapters 4 and 3. 24 See the contributions by Roja Dehdarian and Christoph Werner, Chapters 10 and 9. 25 See the contributions by Keivan Aghamohseni and ...
How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public ...

How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public ...

Mr. Erwin Tiongson

Mr. Erwin Tiongson, Mr. Hamid Reza Davoodi, Sawitree S. Asawanuchit. APPENDIX. I. Comparison. of. Data. Sets. As noted in the main text, there have been three previous studies that also compiled large cross-country data sets on the ...

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