The breathtaking pace of global economic integration owes in large part to the globalization of economic thought embodied in general free market principles. Cautionary tales of the perils of free trade are often just that, cautionary. Most such authors are not against free trade per se; instead they attempt to draw attention to the need for the creation of institutions that can support such trade.

True-crime stories of outlaws have been a part of popular culture in England since the Middle Ages. Tales of criminality gained increasing circulation in print through the Old Bailey Sessions Papers (1674–1913) and the “dying confessions” published in broadside form by the Ordinary of Newgate in the eighteenth century.1 The confessional broadsides were designed as warnings for their audience; t...

Published in 1632, Jingjiang’s Besotted with Bamboo Recluse’s The forgotten tales of Longyang (Longyang yishi ) is a short story collection focusing on contemporary male same-sex prostitution. Among the twenty tales, the stories narrate various forms of male prostitution from private agreements, to deals via go-betweens, to public male brothels. This diversity of venues and arrangements appears...

a considerable part of persian classical literature is devoted to didactic literature. mysticism has also been very important in persian didactic literature and sufi tales are clear example of that; since all these tales have been used for the purpose of teaching. attar, one of the greatest persian poets, has paid lots of attention to these tales and has benefited them a lot in his works. attar...

This paper presents an approach for automatically identifying high-level narrative structure information, particularly character roles, from unannotated folk tales. We introduce a new representation called action matrices to encode Propp’s narrative theory on character role and their “sphere of action.” We tested our approach in a fully automated system (Voz) using a corpus of 10 folk tales. Ou...

This article will present what we know of the life and times of an important alchemist, Ibn Umayl. It is entitled ‘Towards a Context’ because I have not yet consulted a number of his treatises, which are mostly only available as manuscripts. Ibn Umayl’s position in alchemy accords with Hermetic doctrines, and may have developed as a traditionalist reaction to developments in alchemy around the ...

Complex tissue regeneration involves exquisitely coordinated proliferation and patterning of adult cells after severe injury or amputation. Certain lower vertebrates such as urodele amphibians and teleost fish have a greater capacity for regeneration than mammals. However, little is known about molecular mechanisms of regeneration, and cellular mechanisms are incompletely defined. To address th...