FARS

färs or Farsistanfärsĭstänˈ, province (1991 pop. 3,543,828), c.51,500 sq mi (133,400 sq km), SW Iran. Shiraz is the capital and chief city, located in an oasis occupying a valley c.6 mi (10 km) wide and 20 mi (32 km) long. The province is largely mountainous. Grain, cotton, tobacco, opium, fruit, and wine are produced along the coastal Persian Gulf area. Livestock is raised. Oil and natural gas reserves have stimulated the local economy. Industries include food processing and the manufacture of chemicals, fertilizers, and textiles. The population is mostly organized by tribe; the leading tribes are the Qashqai and the Khamseh. One of the most historic regions of Iran, Fars is more or less identical with the ancient province of Pars, which was the nucleus of the Persian Empire. The ruins of Pasargadae and Persepolis, early Persian capitals, are in Fars. The Arabs changed the name Pars to Fars after they conquered the region in the 7th cent.

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books on: Fars  - 567 results

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1.
Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914
Book by Kate McCullough; Stanford University Press, 1999
Subjects: American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Group Identity In Literature, Local Color In Literature, National Characteristics, American, In Literature, Race In Literature, Regionalism In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History
...writers under consideration here--Sui Sin Fars representation of transnational relations...Spring Fragrance," focuses on Sui Sin Fars journalism and her 1912 collection of short...culture. This chapter shows that Sui Sin Fars representations of community--specifically...
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The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State
Book by D. T. Potts; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Elam--Antiquities, Elam--History
...Palaeolithic through Chalcolithic) in Fars 29 2 5 Fauna represented in archaeological...found were discovered in the highlands of Fars province ought to have pointed the way...l-i Malyan near Shiraz in the highlands of Fars province which proved that it was the...
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Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850
Book by Abbas Amanat; Cornell University Press, 1989
Subjects: Babism--History, Iran--Religion--19th Century, Sh?I?Ah--Iran--History
...Sayasatgaran-i Daurib-yi Qajar Events in Fars province offer a case in point. Between...trade and agricultural production made Fars the countrys second most prosperous province...exceptionally ineffective governor brought Fars to the brink of chaos. 47 Commenting...
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Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret
Book by Richard Schechner, Ian Watson; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Barba, Eugenio--Knowledge--Theater, Experimental Theater, Odin Teatret
...5.6 Sketch of the set for Min Fars Hus 130 5.7 Sketch of...devoted to the groups 1972 production Min Fars Hus ), because Barbas primary aim in publishing...Milan, where she saw the Odin perform Min Fars Hus in 1973. Following this Bergamo season...
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Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context
Book by Timothy B. Powell; Rutgers University Press, 1999
Subjects: American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Group Identity--United States, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Identity (Psychology)--United States, Pluralism (Social Sciences)--United States
...Chapter 10 Genealogy, Genre, Gender: Sui Sin Fars "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of...Nicole Tonkovichs exegesis of Sui Sin Fars Leaves from the Mental Port- folio of...underlie critical constructions of Sin Fars nationality, gender, and genre to reconstruct...
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Empire and the Mind of the Child: Sui Sin Far's "Tales of Chinese Children"
Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; MELUS, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Children, Children of AIDS patients, Children of Holocaust survivors, Children of abused women, Children of alien laborers, Children of disabled parents, Children of drug addicts, Children of entertainers, Children of gay parents, Children of migrant laborers, Children of military personnel, Children of politicians, Children of prisoners, Children of single parents, Children of the mentally ill, Children of women prisoners, Children of working mothers, Children of working parents, Colonization--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Ethnicity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Immunization of children, Sui Sin Far--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tales of Chinese Children (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Vaccination of children
...Empire and the mind of the child: Sui Sin Fars "Tales of Chinese Children" by Martha J. Cutter Sui Sin Fars (Edith Eatons) collection of short stories...on. This essay examines two of Sui Sin Fars childrens stories, however, to illustrate...
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Modeling the Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Pair Strength on Associative Recognition
Journal article by Jing Xu, Kenneth J. Malmberg; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Accuracy, Cognition & reasoning, Studies
...difference between hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) increases, and thus, factors can improve AR via qualitatively different patterns of HRs and FARs: HRs can increase and FARs can decrease, HRs can increase and FARs can remain...
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"A Chinese Ishmael": Sui Sin Far, Writing, and Exile
Journal article by Joy M. Leighton; MELUS, Vol. 26, 2001
Subjects: Asian Americans--Conduct of life, Asians in Canada--History, Asians in the United States--History, Eaton, Edith Maude--Conduct of life, Identity--Social aspects, Race relations--History, Women authors--Conduct of life
...garbled, and the nurse informs Sui Sin Fars mother, "Little Miss Sui is a story-teller...consciously or unconsciously on Sui Sin Fars part, is immediately associated with deceit...from fiction, thus resulting in Sui Sin Fars punishment. This may not seem like an enlightening...
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Sui Sin Far and the Chinese American Canon: Toward a Post-Gender-Wars Discourse
Journal article by Wenxin Li; MELUS, Vol. 29, 2004
Subjects: Asian American literature--Analysis
...studies was perhaps the recovery of Sui Sin Fars work in the late 1970s and early 1980s...Fiction, 1850-1940, takes note of Sui Sin Fars uncollected short story "A Chinese Ishmael...twentieth century. (1) Unfortunately, Sui Sin Fars presentation of Chinese American characters...
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On the Flexibility and the Fallibility of Associative Memory
Journal article by Kenneth J. Malmberg, Jing Xu; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Memory, Random variables, Simulation, Theory
...hit rates (HRs) and false alarm rates (FARs) increase. Over the past dozen or so years...presentations has little or no effect on FARs (Cleary et al., 2001; Kelley Wixted...compound cue model predicts an increase in FARs with an increase in target repetitions...
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Research Skills: a Fundamental Asset for Accountants
Magazine article by Jacqueline A. Burke, Robert Katz, Sheila A. Handy, Ralph S. Polimeni; The CPA Journal, Vol. 78, January 2008
Subjects: Accountants, Education, Skill development, United States
...the Financial Accounting Research System (FARS) research materials available under the...students completed a practice case using the FARS database, which became the source for case...students completed in groups. In addition to FARS, students searched other authoritative...
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Maintaining a Professional Accounting and Auditing Library
Magazine article; The CPA Journal, Vol. 63, December 1993
Subjects: Accounting firms, Data bases, Information retrieval, Libraries, Online, Publications, Recommendations, United States
...FASB offers its Financial Accounting Research System (FARS), FARS requires 11 MB of hard disk storage and includes FASB...index. There are three ways to locate information through FARS--tables of contents, topical index references, and word...
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From the "Axis of Evil" to the Literary Realms of Spanglish
Magazine article; The Advocate, March 1, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Killer Cronicas: Bilingual Memories (Book)--Book reviews, The Quince Seed Potion (Book)--Book reviews
...the saga is told through the eyes of Sarveali Jokar, a servant to a great dynasty of rural landowners in the ancient city of Fars. "Oblivious to the modern age that was sweeping his country in the midst of World War II," and through decades of humiliation...
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Saadi of Shiraz: The 13th Century Persian Poet of Compassionate Wisdom
Magazine article by Rasoul Sorkhabi; World and I, Vol. 24, June 2009
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Saadi--Biography
...the Mongol destruction--thanks to the wise rulers of a local dynasty called the Atabeks of Fars, who tamed the Mongols by paying them. The Atabeks ruled the Fars province during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and Shiraz was their capital. When...
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Regional Water Woes: Bad and Getting Worse
Magazine article; The Middle East, October 2001
Subjects: Droughts--Middle East, Middle East--Water-supply, Water resources development--Planning, Water-supply--Management
...million population to live "hand-to-mouth". In Iran, which Israel currently perceives as its primary adversary, Lake Arjan in Fars Province has become a scorched landscape of cracked, arid earth in the countrys most severe drought in 30 years. Water is rationed...
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Western Relief Agency Plane Forced Down by the Iranians; INTERNATIONAL
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 8, 2008
...plane was unclear. Irans semi-official Fars news agency said it was American, but the...occurred and was checking into the report. Fars reported that the plane was carrying five...allowed to continue to their destination, Fars reported. It said the plane was a Falcon...
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YOUR SAILORS ENJOY BEING HELD CAPTIVE; Iran Taunts Blair as It Releases New Pics
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), April 4, 2007
...conditions". Tehran released a new pictures of the captured Brits in tracksuits, playing chess and tucking into coffee and fruit. The Fars news agency, a mouthpiece of the Iranian government, said they were enjoying "so-called captivity... while Tony Blair still makes...
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Washington Times Reporter Arrested
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 24, 2009
Subjects: Agence France-Presse, Journalists, News agencies
...government had arrested a reporter for The Washington Times who had been covering the disputed election in that country. The Fars news agency quoted the countrys director general of foreign media at the Culture Ministry as saying a Times reporter of Greek...
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Persona Non Grata
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 7, 2007
Subjects: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
...opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is still a part of the Great Satan," a government spokesman told the Iranian Fars news agency. If theres a lesson here, its that a Westerners correct politics do not buy indulgence from this awful regime. That...
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Marts
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 20, 2009
...125 Haithwaite Farm, pounds 125 Longrow Farm, pounds 102 Buckabank Farm. Texel pounds 125, pounds 112, pounds 105 Haithwaite FarS m, pounds 115 Harene, pounds 112 Nelson Hill Farm, pounds 108 Cracrop. Greyfaced pounds 102 Greenah Villa, pounds 102 (x2) Sceugh...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fars  - 12 results

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Fars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FARS fars or Farsistan farsistan , province (1991 pop. 3,543,828), c.51,500 sq mi...are the Qashqai and the Khamseh. One of the most historic regions of Iran, Fars is more or less identical with the ancient province of Pars, which was the...
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Shiraz
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SHIRAZ sheraz , city (1991 pop. 965,117), capital of Fars prov., SW Iran, at an altitude of c.5,200 ft (1,580 m). It is...buried in garden-enclosed tombs in Shiraz. A university and the Fars Museum are also in the city. Nearby are the ruins of Persepolis...
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Farsistan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FARSISTAN Iran: see Fars . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Pars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARS ancient province, Iran: see Fars . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Firuzabad
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIRUZABAD firoo z bad , town (1991 pop. 43,424), Fars prov., S Iran, near Shiraz. The town has a noteworthy palace built (3d cent.) by Ardashir I; it is a large rectangular building...
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