There was Once a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass

Once upon a Time, There Was Papyrus

'Once upon a time there was a congress...'

Corresponding author: Prof. Michael John Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Via Olgettina 48 20132 Milano, Italy e.mail: [email protected] conclude immediately‘, spoken by the irritated moderator. Of course, he could have rehearsed the presentation beforehand to get his timing right. He hadn’t thought of that. He could also have numbered his slides in order to know where he was in the presen...

Once upon a time there was complex numerical estimation

During the last decade, evidence collected in cognitive, developmental, and comparative research showed that adults prevented from verbal counting, along with infants and non-human animals possess numerical systems that are independent of language (the so-called “non-verbal numerical abilities”). Interestingly very similar results were reported among mammals, birds, and fish, leading some autho...

the archetype of mother: a never-ending story retold by poe

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...

In the Beginning, Middle, and End There Was a Garden: Bahram Sadeqi’s Malakut

It seems impossible to think of the Persian art without mentioning the significant presence of gardens. They are present in miniature painting, architecture, and literature. One of the modern works of Persian fiction in which gardens play a significant role is Malakut (1961), a novella by the modern Iranian fiction writer Bahram Sadeqi (1936-1984). The story of this novella begins in a “green g...