The shortlist of best books of the year of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been announced in the sections of environment, law, economics, education, sociology and political sciences.

IBNA: 23 works are selected to be considered in the final round of screenings by the panel of judges for the Book of the Year Award.

Following is the shortlist of the selected works: 

Environment:
1. Land logistics and environmental planning in southeastern Iran by Isa Ebrahimzadeh
2. Ecological economics : an introduction by Michael Common, translated into Persian by Esmaeil Salehi
3. Management of parks and forest parks by Morteza Sharifi 

Law:
1. Religious liberalism in international law by Saeid Rahei
2. Decision-making rituals by Mehdi Hodavand
3. Information privacy by Farid Mohseni
4. Comparative official law by Mehdi Hodavand 

Education:
1. Research method and approaches in the philosophy of education by Khosro Bagheri
2. Insightful education and training by Alireza Rahimi
3. An introduction to education in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Khosro Bagheri 

Economics:
1. Political economy : a comparative approach by Barry Stewart Clark, translated into Persian by Abbas Hatami
2. Microeconomic theory: basic principles and extensions by Walter Nicholson and translated by Mohammad Mehdi Asgari 

Social sciences:
1. Interaction between culture and communications by Ebrahim Fayyaz
2. Political sociology in Iran by Mahmous Shafiei
3. Sociology of knowledge by Karen Manhayem, translated by Fariborz Majidi
4. Social movements by Charles Tilly, translated by Ali Morshedizad
5. Seeking meaning by Farhad Sasani
6. Modernology and Occidentology by Hussein Kachouyan 

Political sciences:
1. Heidegger & the political : dystopias by Miguel de Beistegui, translated by Siavash Jomadi
2. Political economics of Militarism by Esmaeil Husseinzadeh and Parviz Omidvar
3. Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives On and Beyond Asia by Amitav Acharya, translated by Alireza Tayyib
4. Forerunners of freedom and excellence in a politica-religious approach in the contemporary Iran by Mehdi Baratalipour
5. Politics and philosophical foundation in political thinking by Hamid Azdanlu

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