Popular Myths

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. It also explores topics that listeners will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as "opposites attract", "people use only 10% of their brains", and "handwriting reveals your personality", and provides a "mythbusting kit" for evaluating folk psychology claims in everyday life.

Lokpriya Kahaniya by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan is a collection of beloved stories that have been passed down through generations in India. From the brave and courageous tales of Rani Laxmi Bai and Maharana Pratap to the heartwarming stories of Krishna and Sudama, these timeless tales continue to inspire and captivate audiences of all ages. Chauhan's masterful storytelling transports listeners to a world of heroism, devotion, and sacrifice.

Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook, Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths. Drawing from Scientific American’s “Fact or Fiction” and “Strange But True” columns, we’ve selected 58 of the most surprising, fascinating, useful, and just plain wacky topics confronted by our writers over the years.

The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling Fact or Fiction: Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths return with Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained. We cast an analytical eye on another collection of urban lore and cultural myths that persist so long in our collective consciousness they acquire a ring of truth. Who hasn’t heard the “five-second rule”, which insists that food dropped on the floor is safe to eat if it’s picked up within five seconds? How many of us have been told to “feed a cold, starve a fever"?

The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11. And then, there are subjects from alien invasions to the Moon landing was simulated - theories that are truly out of this world, which according to some, is flat. Many of these crazy concepts have jumped off the pages or screens to become so pervasive in our culture that thousands - even millions - subscribe to them as reality.

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to life as a video game in the early twenty-first century. Rockstar Games' Red Dead franchise, beginning with Red Dead Revolver in 2004, has grown into one of the most critically acclaimed video game franchises of the twenty-first century. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West offers a critical, interdisciplinary look at this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of game studies and American history.

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did.

This is George Dasent's classic collection of Scandinavian folklore. This is not about Norse mythology per se; so if you are looking for tales of Odin, Loki, and Freya etc., you will have to look elsewhere. Rather, this is an anthology of folk tales, similar to the Grimm Brothers', or Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands. All of the usual suspects are in place, including giants, trolls, witches, evil step-siblings, magical boons and tasks, and anthropomorphic animals.

Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity.

Myths of PR uses popular myths about the theory and practice of public relations as a vehicle for helping start-up owners, brand marketers, communications practitioners and students to distinguish between fads and tried-and-tested PR practice. Its purpose is to shatter widespread misconceptions about PR and grant listeners insight into why these myths have endured in spite of clearly demonstrable evidence to the contrary.

“As I sat in the front row that day, I was 80% faking it with a 100% real Gucci bag.” Samhita Mukhopadhyay had finally made it: she had her dream job, dream clothes—dream life. But time and time again, she found herself sacrificing time with family and friends, paying too much for lattes, and limping home after working for twelve hours a day. Success didn't come without costs, right? Or so she kept telling herself. The Myth of Making It is a field guide and manifesto for all of us who are tired, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of hustle culture.

У себя на родине сказки Шахразады в разных социальных слоях издревле встречали разное отношение.

История изучения переводов "Книги тысячи и одной ночи" в России может быть изложена очень кратко. До Великой Октябрьской революции русских переводов непосредственно с арабского не было.

Свидетельство багдадских писателей X века о существовании в их время арабской книги сказок "Тысячи и одной ночи" подтверждается наличием отрывка из этой книги, относящегося к IX веку. В дальнейшем литературная эволюция сборника продолжалась вплоть до XIV-XV веков.

В четвертом выпуске аудиоальманаха "Классика зарубежного детективного рассказа" вас ждут аудиоверсии следующих произведений лучших мастеров детективного жанра.

Наиболее поздними по времени создания являются сказки плутовского жанра, по-видимому включенные в сборник в Египте, при его последней обработке.

Многие исследователи пришли к выводу, что "Тысячу и одну ночь" более целесообразно, чем по географическому принципу, объединить, хотя бы и условно, в группы по времени создания или же по принадлежности к социальной среде, где они бытовали.

Сказки "Тысячи и одной ночи" принадлежащие к той или иной группе, родившись в определенной социальной среде, естественно имели в этой среде и наибольшее распространение.

Отрицательное отношение к "Тысячи и одной ночи" реакционно настроенных арабских филологов XIX века печально отразилось на судьбе ее печатных изданий.

При исследовании "Тысячи и одной ночи" каждую сказку надлежит рассматривать особо, так как органической связи между ними нет, и они до включения в сборник долгое время существовали самостоятельно.