Text Book of Embryology

Some Aspects of Text-book Development in Azerbaijan

Critique of Research Book (Art)/ Structure or Text: A Look at the Art of Plot Forming, Shaapur Azimi

A deconstructive critique of a mystical anecdote from the book Ronaq al-Majalis [The Prosperity of Meetings]

     Deconstruction was first introduced in the thought of Jacques Derrida as a way of re-reading texts and questioning its presuppositions. This type of critique seeks to find new meanings by finding binary oppositions in the text and disrupting the superiority and domination of one side over the other, and on the other hand, by discovering gaps and discontinuities that have arisen in the text...

Embryology: Constructing the Organism

Embryology texts are most frequently organized in one of two ways depending on their intended purpose. Undergraduate texts are usually structured such that their sequence mimics the stages of embryolog-ical development. This, of course, makes sense, as it follows the method used by most instructors and allows one to rapidly locate information about a specific event of development. Unless, that ...

A History of Embryology (1959), by Joseph Needham

In 1931 embryologist and historian Joseph Needham [3] published a well-received threevolume treatise titled Chemical Embryology [4]. The first four chapters from this work were delivered as lectures on Speculation, Observation, and Experiment [5], as Illustrated by the History of Embryology at the University of London. The same lectures were later released as a book published in 1934 titled A H...

Textbook of Embryology

of the scientist in the service of the state" we gain but a scant impression of the qualities of the Park we knew, for however true such an epigrammatic statement may be it fails to reveal the genial humanitarian spirit which was the essence of the man. Fortunately, Wade Oliver has made this facet of Park's life a dominant note throughout the pages of the book. The important fact is not that Pa...