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Book and war What is the fate of bookstores in a crisis? Omid Porhafer Moghani / founder and director of the book Tokai Foman Alan Torn, in part of the book "Social History of the Future" and in the chapter on leisure activities, social participation and cultural innovation, says: "Cultural behavior is determined both by advertising and at the social level. The specific and limited role of people in the groups they belong to allows people to be satisfied with their personal interests for a longer social life period, it gives a longer life opportunity. As the duration of work decreases, this area of ​​socially uncontrolled behavior will increase according to the person's level of education and income, both by escaping from place and time, his time will be devoted to relaxing activities or releasing social and cultural pressures. Whenever we look for the state of a society, in addition to the official indicators related to the economy, social welfare and freedom, it can also be observed in some way through absorption or lack of absorption in these circles. That is, in the informal assessment of the quality of thought and spirit of a society, it can be sought in the abundance, multiplicity or richness of assemblies related to the cultural and artistic spheres of a city and country. In societies similar to ours, these independent spaces fulfilled several other functions, so it is not wrong to say that it was the beating heart of the society for practicing awareness and thinking. Why was the book welcomed during the crisis? Two interesting suggestions here. The first proposition can be said in an optimistic view and it is a kind of reference book for people who face any difficulty in life and for people at that time, it plays the role of a shelter. This topic can be examined in Corona, protests, war, bereavement, divorce, inflation and the like, since by examining the amount of book sales in the mentioned times, we will arrive at a figure that is very different from the usual conditions, and in addition to the amount of the issue, through inquiries from central distribution centers and bookstores, we will arrive at another noteworthy situation these days, namely. The book is completely out of reach and almost forced out of the consumption basket of Iranian households.

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Book and war What is the fate of bookstores in a crisis? Omid Porhafer Moghani / founder and director of the book Tokai Foman Alan Torn, in part of the book "Social History of the Future" and in the chapter on leisure activities, social participation and cultural innovation, says: "Cultural behavior is determined both by advertising and at the social level. The specific and limited role of people in the groups they belong to allows people to be satisfied with their personal interests for a longer social life period, it gives a longer life opportunity. As the duration of work decreases, this area of ​​socially uncontrolled behavior will increase according to the person's level of education and income, both by escaping from place and time, his time will be devoted to relaxing activities or releasing social and cultural pressures. Whenever we look for the state of a society, in addition to the official indicators related to the economy, social welfare and freedom, it can also be observed in some way through absorption or lack of absorption in these circles. That is, in the informal assessment of the quality of thought and spirit of a society, it can be sought in the abundance, multiplicity or richness of assemblies related to the cultural and artistic spheres of a city and country. In societies similar to ours, these independent spaces fulfilled several other functions, so it is not wrong to say that it was the beating heart of the society for practicing awareness and thinking. Why was the book welcomed during the crisis? Two interesting suggestions here. The first proposition can be said in an optimistic view and it is a kind of reference book for people who face any difficulty in life and for people at that time, it plays the role of a shelter. This topic can be examined in Corona, protests, war, bereavement, divorce, inflation and the like, since by examining the amount of book sales in the mentioned times, we will arrive at a figure that is very different from the usual conditions, and in addition to the amount of the issue, through inquiries from central distribution centers and bookstores, we will arrive at another noteworthy situation these days, namely. The book is completely out of reach and almost forced out of the consumption basket of Iranian households.

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