Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27 SCIENCE / Natural History

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 27 SCIENCE / Natural HistoryThis issue of Alif is published on the centennial anniversary of the founding the first Casa dei Bambini, a progressive educational institution for children, which seeks an alternative mode in bringing them up and nurturing their independence. An extract from the writings of the pedagogue of this innovative method, Maria Montessori, is here translated into Arabic for the first time. This collection covers the universe of children through interviews,

This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society

Filmer and Machiavelli

and life in precarious realms

Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British female doctors used to position themselves as experts and leaders in birth control and family planning research and practice

It first reviews techniques for optimising tractor fuel consumption as well as developments in fuel-efficient tractor designs

managing climate variability and seasonal forecasting

This second publication of biblical reflections on statelessness presents new perspectives

honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere

No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and convulsive change than China in the twentieth century

Heit el-Ghurab (aka Lost City of the Pyramids)

structure and purpose of the first and no longer extant version of his most controversial play

and illustrate the tracks and trails of the more commonly encountered mammals