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Books are one of the most important tools to convey knowledge, they survived to be a convenient and portable source of information. On the other side, Electronic books (e-books) are playing a big role in attracting a huge number of readers, but still paper books are preferable by many people due to some drawbacks in e-books. Yet, Interactive books combines all positive features in ordinary book...

Iris Borowy (ed.), Uneasy encounters: the politics of medicine and health in China 1900–1937, Frankfurt am Main and Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 230, £40.00 (paperback 978-3-631-57803-2). Iris Bruijn, Ship’s surgeons of the Dutch East India Company: commerce and the progress of medicine in the eighteenth century, Leiden University Press, 2009, pp. 388, illus., e39.50 (paperback 978-90-87-28-05...

This essay explores Alexander von Humboldt's Views of Nature (Ansichten der Natur). In this complex text, Humboldt endorses the European civilizing mission and shares some its prejudices, but also criticizes collateral damage that results from conquest colonialism; he embraces Enlightenment acknowledges dialectic; recommends nature as cure for civilizations in conflict, recognizes human culture...

from the antiquity, muslim scholars have always been interested in working on the hadiths(talks) of the prophet mohammad (pbuh). since then, the hadiths, in all fields, especially in fields of health and medicine, have attracted the attention of many scholars, leading to the publication of a number of books on hadiths as well as the collection of hadiths, including those related to health. the ...