Myths and Archetypes in Rushdie’s Postcolonial World

Archetypes, Causal Description and Creativity in Natural World

The idea, formulated for the first time by Pauli, of a “creativity” of natural processes on a quantum scale is briefly investigated, with particular reference to the phenomena, common throughout the biological world, involved in the amplification of microscopic “creative” events at macroscopic level. The involvement of non-locality is also discussed with reference to the synordering of events, ...

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 ...

Myths, scientific evidence and economic policy in an aging world

The aim of this article is threefold: to show how important the communication of scientific evidence from the economics of aging is in order to demystify popular fallacies; to review where we stand in the more subtle mechanisms behind these fallacies and where more data and research is needed to fully understand the economics of aging; and to emphasize the link between theory, evidence, and pol...

The Complex World of Adolescent Literacy: Myths, Motivations, and Mysteries.

In this article, Elizabeth Birr Moje, Melanie Overby, Nicole Tysvaer, and Karen Morris challenge some of the prevailing myths about adolescents and their choices related to reading. The reading practices of youth from one urban community are examined using mixed methods in an effort to define what, how often, and why adolescents choose to read. By focusing on what features of texts youth find m...

Globalization and Postcolonial States