Albert Lewis Kanter launched Classic Comics in 1941, a series of comic books that retold classic literature for young audience. Five Shakespeare’s celebrated plays appear the collection. The popularity Classics Illustrated encouraged Seaboard Publishing to issue competitive brand, Stories by Famous Authors (1949-51), which three Shakespearean dramas. Although both these enterprises aimed reinfo...

Social science is entering a golden age, marked by the confluence of explosive growth in new data and analytic methods, interdisciplinary approaches, recognition that these ingredients are necessary to solve more challenging problems facing our world. We discuss how developing “lingua franca” can encourage research, providing two case studies (social networks behavioral economics) illustrate th...

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

Our understanding of the ‘Golden Age’ of British retailing, during the period from the mid1970s through to the mid-1990s, has centred around a discussion of the impact that a rising retail concentration and a perceived increase in retailers’ market power has had on social welfare and competition policy. This increase in concentration and market power is itself understood to have evolved from th...