Multipolar World Order: Old Myths and New Realities

China in the Early Modern World: Shortcuts, Myths and Realities

China has attained new importance in world history. Recent textbooks now regularly include a historian who specializes in China. [1] Asia's spectacular economic growth in the past two decades,.and awareness of China's huge global demographic and economic weight have gained her new recognition. Consequently, specialists now need to push beyond their focused research to address broader questions ...

Dollarization: Myths and Realities

Myths and Realities

The use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services and supports with infants and young children has been limited, owing to a number of myths about the appropriateness of AAC use with this population. This article will provide an overview of some of the myths that have hampered the inclusion of AAC into early intervention service delivery and refutes them. It will then examine ...

Myths and realities

At this conference, the subject of tyre/road noise is on the agenda to a greater extent than ever before. This paper aims at giving an insight into the past, present and future of tyre/road noise emission in the society as well as its control. This is made by means of exploring some myths and realities related to the subject. The following myths are explored: 1. Tyre/road noise has become a con...

Hyena Myths and Realities

Hyenas, first of all, were regarded as scavengers and consumers of carrion. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79) spoke of them as the only animals that dig up graves in search of corpses (ab uno animali sepulchra erui inquisitione corporum). Conrad Gesner, the great sixteenth-century cataloger of natural history, reported that they gorge themselves so gluttonously after finding ...