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This book highlights fundamental, but often neglected, issues important for a better understanding of present-day Iran. It underlines the idea that the most effective means for a nation to meet challenges and practices of the modern era lies with the fundamental values and norms that resonate with its inhabitants. This book is meant to be a companion to the author’s published book Iran Revisited: Exploring the Historical Roots of Culture, Economics, and Society that expands upon that book’s ideas, without repeating its theoretical reasoning. Its goal is to offer a better understanding of the current and evolving situations in Iran. In this regard, the author tried to clarify his position through a host of suggestions, most notably, the need to consider social rights as the bare minimum but extremely imperative criteria in our contemporary discourse for the betterment of our society. These rights, he argues, are the most fundamental tenets of any community that strives to succeed and flourish. In this context, the underlying discussion rests on the following claim: the most persisting problems in Iran are the outcomes of the gradual regression of the people’ mindset that persistently overlooked their heritage and value system in favor of imitating ideas that were/are neither compatible with their culture and history, nor applicable to the country’s socioeconomic conditions. The author, therefore, presumed that these predicaments are self-inflicted: they were neither caused by a specific state, nor belong to a historical period, or individual(s); they cannot be characterized by political or economic terminologies, but are firmly rooted in people inability to recognize that the most vital principle in developing and propelling a nation forward is the existence of a unified people. .

Iran --- Social life and customs. --- Middle East—Economic conditions. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Middle East-History. --- Middle Eastern and North African Economics. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- History of the Middle East. --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Middle East—History.

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The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was privately financed mainly by the Jewish world community. The book draws on a wealth of documents and historical insights to reveal the processes and powers that led to the successful completion of the project and, as well as its actual impact on scientific activities in Israel, and on the rise of a local computing community. Based on archival data, the book shows how a synergy of personal dedication together with an organizational and national mission that links the Zionist vision with science and technology for the Jewish people helped to achieve a well-defined goal. The book offers intriguing insights and refreshing perspectives to all readers interested in the Zionist movement or in the history of computing.

Electronic data processing --- History. --- Computer science. --- Middle East-History. --- Technology-History. --- Culture. --- Technology. --- Management. --- History of Computing. --- History of the Middle East. --- History of Technology. --- Culture and Technology. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Informatics --- Social aspects --- Technology --- Middle East --- Computers. --- Middle East—History. --- Technology—History. --- Industrial management. --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace

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Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy offers an interdisciplinary and multifaceted research concerning wine trade and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity.

Wine industry --- Wine and wine making --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Middle East --- Commerce --- Antiquities --- History. --- Rome --- Antiquities. --- Commerce. --- Wine and wine making. --- Wine industry. --- To 476 --- Italy. --- Italy --- Middle East. --- Economic conditions --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Alcoholic beverage industry --- E-books --- Wine industry - Italy - History - To 476 --- Wine and wine making - History - To 476 --- Rome (Italy) - Commerce - Middle East - History - To 476 --- Middle East - Commerce - Rome (Italy) - History - To 476 --- Rome (Italy) - Antiquities --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Rome (Italy : Comune) --- Rome (Italy : Governatorato) --- Rūmah (Italy) --- Roma (Italy) --- Rom (Italy) --- Rím (Italy) --- Rzym (Italy) --- Comune di Roma (Italy)