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Exploring the Effect of Safety Leadership and Safety Performance in Solid Waste Management Industry: Supporting SDGs
Authors: ZULKIFLY Syazwan Syah , NASRUDDIN Hairul Nazmin , YUSOF Mazlina , AZIZ Alice Nurizza AB
Published: December 2024

This study is motivated by the essential role that solid waste management (SWM) plays in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically in fostering sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and promoting health and well-being (SDG 3). The contributions of SWM workers are fundamental to achieving these sustainability goals, as they actively support waste management and environmental initiatives. Therefore, ensuring the safety and well-being of SWM workers is critical to sustaining SWM efforts and advancing the SDGs. However, workplace accidents—often resulting from unsafe practices—pose ongoing challenges in the sector, highlighting the need to understand factors that influence worker safety behavior. Safety leadership, particularly through supervisory coaching, concern, and proactive monitoring, has been recognized as an effective driver of safety performance. This study investigates how these aspects of safety leadership impact safety behaviors and accident reduction among SWM workers engaged in public sanitation—an area with limited prior research. Data were analyzed through structural equation modeling using partial least squares (PLS-SEM). Results indicate that safety leadership, as demonstrated through coaching, concern, and monitoring, significantly influences safety behaviors among SWM workers. Furthermore, both coaching and monitoring show particularly strong effects in reducing accident rates within the company. This study examines the impact of safety leadership dimensions—coaching, concern, and monitoring—on safety behaviors and accident reduction among solid waste management (SWM) workers in Kedah, Malaysia. Leveraging Social Exchange Theory and Accident Causation Theory, the research reveals that while coaching and monitoring significantly reduce accidents, the influence of safety concern was unexpectedly limited. These findings provide theoretical insights and practical recommendations for enhancing safety performance in high-risk industries, supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11)
Low-Resource Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-based Multitask Learning
Authors: Wu Tao , Cao Xinwen , Jiang Feng , Cui Canyixing , Li Xuehao , Xian Xingping
Published: December 2024

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental subtask for information extraction that aims to locate and classify named entities in unstructured text into predefined categories. Recently, large-scale language models (LLMs) have achieved SOTA performance on a variety of natural language processing tasks. However, because NER is a sequence labeling task in nature while LLMs is a text-generation model, the performance of LLMs on NER is still significantly below supervised baselines, and NER remains a difficult task. Meanwhile, the word boundary and semantic information of Chinese words are usually quite vague, as words contained in Chinese texts are not separated by spaces. Thus, the NER task still requires supervised learning paradigm and heavily relies on large amounts of labeled data, such as entity type and boundary information. However, the cost of labeling data can be prohibitively large, and the purely supervised approaches usually suffer from poor generalization capability. In this article, we propose a multitask learning-based bidirectional iterated dilated convolution model, BCNN-CWS, for low-resource NER via leveraging word boundary information of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) task. Specifically, to efficiently recognize named entities, an iterated dilated convolutional model with a limited number of layers is implemented. In addition, a bidirectional causal convolution mechanism is presented for contextual information extraction. Results of extensive experiments on public Chinese datasets demonstrate that BCNN-CWS achieves superior performance over state-of-the-art models, and it yields up to about 50% speed improvement over existing methods. It is worth noting that BCNN-CWS can be further improved by combining with a pretrained model.
 
Received: 25 Spetember 2024 | Revised: 4 November 2024 | Accepted: 28 November 2024 
 
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work. 
 
Data Availability Statement
The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Github at https://github.com/jiangfeng13/BCNN-CWS.
 
Author Contribution Statement
Tao Wu: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision. Xinwen Cao: Resources, Data curation. Feng Jiang: Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Canyixing Cui: Data curation, Writing -review & editing. Xuehao Li: Resources. Xingping Xian: Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition.
Pensamiento histórico y aprendizaje basado en videojuegos: análisis comparado de las competencias adquiridas a través de dos videojuegos de estrategia histórica. Un estudio de caso
Authors:   , Fernández Cárcar Miguel
Published: December 2024

In this doctoral thesis, a study is carried out to test the didactic effectiveness of some historical, commercial, and strategy video games, when developing some historical thinking skills in secondary education students. To do this, attention is paid to the interactivity of the medium and the emotions that it can awaken in those who play it. In this way, the design of a didactic sequence with two different history video games is proposed to be able to work, compare and evaluate (effectively) the historical learning acquired; specifically, the learning and development of two of the competencies of historical thinking such as multicausality and historical empathy (Santisteban, González and Pagès, 2010). To do this, a pretest-posttest design has been chosen and there have been three groups of 2nd year of ESO, of thirty students per group. One group has worked on the topic with the video game Europa Universalis II, another group with Age of Empires II and the third (control group) has worked on it with the textbook and with master classes. The common thread of the project has been the Late Middle Ages, the last topic to work on in this course, according to the official curriculum of Navarra. The project has had two very different parts, the first has worked on the economic, demographic and cultural development experienced at that time, relating this topic to multicausality and the need to understand that the development of a state depends on several causes with their respective consequences. In the second part, we have worked on late medieval conflicts focused from the point of view of the people who lived them, doing work of historical empathy.
With all this, this work contributes to the determination of good practices in the teaching and learning process of historical thinking, using an innovative resource such as video games.
educación al aire libre
Authors: Garrido-Pérez Edgardo I.
Published: December 2024

La pandemia del Covid 19 ha ampliado la apertura mental hacia metodologías educativas aplicables fuera del aula. El objetivo de este ensayo es atraer a la comunidad educativa hacia la opción de la educación al aire libre en parques, bosques, cultivos, granjas, playas, caletas, plazas, calles y ciudades por ser eficiente, divertida y barata. Temas tan complejos como la evolución por selección natural y las filogenias evolutivas se explican con eficacia y amenidad observando crítica y participativamente las plantas o animales inofensivos de fácil obtención (v.g. moluscos) disponibles fuera del aula. La Historia, el Civismo, las Artes y el comportamiento social se aprenden constructiva y transdisciplinariamente en los parques o calles observando las edificaciones u otras infraestructuras. Aprendiendo al aire libre se estimulan las hormonas del placer entre el alumnado lo cual facilita que trabajen con entusiasmo cuando se les asigne que lean libros y atiendan las clases de intramuros. Lo lúdico no contradice el rigor escolar sino que lo complementa porque todo juego, incluso el de aprender, tiene reglas que necesitan seguirse y estudiarse.
subprocesos de resolución en la Prueba de Aptitud Académica de la Universidad de Costa Rica
Authors: Martínez Alpízar Diana , Valverde García Marisela , Rojas Rojas Guaner
Published: December 2024

Este artículo se interesa en los procesos de respuesta de la Prueba de Aptitud Académica de la Universidad de Costa Rica (PAA). Específicamente, describe sus subprocesos, así como las formas en que interactúan entre sí. La investigación utilizó una metodología cualitativa.
Se recurrió a la entrevista de jueces expertos. Una vez codificado y analizado el material, se concluye que los subprocesos involucran tanto la reorganización de la información como la generación de información nueva, pero en ocasiones es difícil establecer cuál de las dos tiene mayor peso en el ítem. En cuanto a la interacción entre categorías, se detectaron dos de ellas. La primera, la alternancia implica que el ítem puede resolverse mediante dos procesos diferentes. La segunda es la complementariedad. En este caso, se detecta la presencia de dos categorías necesarias para resolver el ítem.
Pentecostal Liturgical Theology
Authors: Rice Monte Lee
Published: December 2024

This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost.A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body of liturgical theologies. This cutting edge work analyses four theologians at its forefront: Tanya Riches, Daniela Augustine, Chris E.W. Green, and Wolfgang Vondey.It does so through a "liturgy as primary theology" approach, which defines liturgy as "the church at prayer”. Here, Rice shows how Pentecostal experience clarifies liturgy as the church at prayer on the altar.

Drawing from critical discourse analysis, continental philosophy, and Aristotelian wisdom, this incisive book proceeds by narrating a healing soteriology that makes humanity willed to the common good signified by Pentecost. Working from Walter Hollenweger’s insights on the ecumenical promise of Pentecostal liturgy, Rice identifies inclusivity, liberative spirituality, Majority World epistemology, gift-sharing community, and scholarly re-oralization as apt benchmarks for Pentecostal liturgical theology. This inclusive multi-faceted form reveals how Occidental voices dominate the Pentecostal discourse, yet conversely offers augmenting pathways toward a more globally representative theology, summoning the Pentecostal academy to the altar.

The foremost pathway this book presents is its theology of Pentecostal meaning-full worship. Through the lens of liturgy as a cosmic gift economy, Rice shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost. Through engaging Ricoeurean/Aristotelian narrative theory, this eye-opening work thus climaxes with a briefly constructed Pentecostal theology of the altar. It shows how Pentecostal meaning-full worship fosters moral formation as worshippers place themselves on the altar of sacrifice, becoming priestly partners with God; fuelling the gift economy that flourishes his household, till all creation be willed to Pentecost.
Material Politics in Turkey
Authors: Ekinci Mehmet
Published: December 2024

This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere background to or object in politics, revealing the formative role of material entities and processes in political processes of infrastructure construction, knowledge production, and technical expertise in Turkey. Chapters explore the politics of material entities such as roads, canals, oilfields, and mines as well as less elaborated material sites, including military bases, soccer fields, and wetlands. In the context of Turkey’s ongoing politics of ‘modernisation’, these interdisciplinary case studies from the fields of anthropology of infrastructure and extraction, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities, provide important new analytical and theoretical approaches to understanding Turkish politics at local, national, and transnational scales.
Stolen Nation
Authors: El-Malak Lena
Published: December 2024

While Palestinians continue to face the threat of expulsion from their homes, identifying legal mechanisms that can be used to assert Palestinian’s property rights is needed more than ever. This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property during the Nakba . Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a law-based approach to enforce this right and the form it should take.

The book demonstrates how the legal rights of Palestinian refugees, specifically as related to their properties, have been marginalized and excluded from the political discourse of the “peace process”. Here, the legal rights of Palestinian refugees are demonstrated, challenges for invoking these rights in international and domestic courts are determined, and forms of restitution and compensation outlined. This study offers a timely contribution to provide a comprehensive legal, as opposed to a political, economic or historical analysis, of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees for their property losses. Additionally, the book seeks to demonstrate the importance of adopting a legal framework in any future negotiation for a peaceful resolution to this long standing struggles for liberation.
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Ward Kiron
Published: December 2024

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction.Chapters provide important new insights into the new ways that authors approach, reclaim, and use ’totality’—as a method for approaching the contemporary, rather than an object to be represented. In this, we find some of the most radical and challenging attempts in recent fiction to reimagine our world on the back of a contested history and in the face of an unstable future.

Where major studies of literary encyclopaedism have historically tended to draw from the canon, this book looks to move beyond this tradition, and pays particular attention to work from Indigenous, Asian American, and Latin American contexts. In doing so, it looks to address the challenges of reading world literature in the contemporary.
Donald Rodney
Authors: Hylton Richard
Published: December 2024

Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time.A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new dynamic to British art – a hitherto unseen interplay between aesthetics, politics, humour and Black consciousness.Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politicis the first book-length study of a protean practice which spanned the early 1980s to the late 1990s and included a prodigious output of work across painting, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and new technologies.

Across eight meticulously researched chapters, the book examines the social and cultural events which inspired Rodney's artwork and the responses it elicited. From his formative years in the West Midlands as a leading exponent of ‘Black Art’, to a subsequent decade of unbridled visual innovation and social critique, the book ventures new detailed analyses of key works, exhibitions, artistic influences and collaborations.

Deploying recurring metaphors of the ‘diseased’, traumatised and ‘raced’ body, Rodney addressed racial and social inequality, legacies of slavery, police brutality, sport, and Black male identity in novel and powerful ways. Attending to the artist’s material dexterity and visual acuity, the book considers how and why Rodney’s innovative practice uniquely challenged delineations between the political and non-political, personal and public, representation and visibility. Over a generation has passed since Rodney’s premature death from the effects of the hereditary blood disorder sickle cell anaemia at aged thirty-six. Despite this, Rodney's work continues to speak to our contemporary moment in a multiplicity of ways. As such, the book provides a much-needed critical perspective and insight to the work and legacy of a nonpareil British artist.
Problems and Possibilities of Neoliberal Education Reforms
Authors: Toprak Mustafa
Published: December 2024

Neoliberal education reforms promise (but often don't succeed) to improve student outcomes and provide more equitable educational opportunities to students with different backgrounds.

They hold schools accountable for their performance through high-stakes testing and linking performance to rewards and sanctions, and by empowering parents. This book presents a critical and objective appraisal of these neoliberalist education reforms. Mustafa Toprak considers the practical elements of neoliberal reforms, including voucher systems, choice, accountability, competition within and between schools, educational inequalities, and high-stakes testing, and in doing this, contributes to social justice debates and the idea of education as a common good. He uses reforms in Chile as a case study and offers a critique of its neoliberal educational reforms. Rather than discrediting all the central tenets of neoliberal education, Toprak considers the pros and cons of these reforms for students, teachers, schools, and societies and proposes new reforms to ensure that policies accurately and responsively address the needs of all stakeholders.
Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form
Authors: Paulo Guimarães João
Published: December 2024

Arguing that the 19th century concept of “living form” (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.Indebted to 19th century science, the notion of a “living form” endured throughout the 20th century and the poetic vanguard’s word games and collages mirrored the disjunctive frameworks that redefined how scientists made sense of life in the age of networks and non-linear systems.

Featuring readings of texts from poets including Ed Dorn, A.M.J. Crawford, P.Inman, Chris Vitiello, and Christian Bök, this book shows how a number of vanguardist poets explores the commonalities they detected between nature’s processes of creation and their own methods of composition. In doing so, it highlights devices like punning, paragrammatic play, metamorphic figuration and memetic repetition, mechanisms these poets find at work in the cybernetic, genetic and digital systems they investigate in their poems.
Defending Materialism
Authors: Kolozova Katarina , Paul Cockshott William , Michaelson Greg
Published: December 2024

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted.DefendingMaterialismfollows the political and theoretical background of this intense philosophical controversy, defending atomistic and mechanical materialism against idealist paradigms. These accounts range from the explicit idealism criticised by Lenin and Einstein to the implicit Hegelian idealism that influenced Soviet dialectical materialism. Following several key threads, the authors trace how the idea of atoms has changed over the centuries, how ideology has influenced both sides of the idealism/materialism divide, and how the nature of time in physics, biology and human society can give a fresh view of historical materialism. Starting from the origins of materialism in ancient Greek thought and moving through its revival in Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin gives a full picture of the links between the Marxist tradition and the ‘coarse materiality’ to which the worlds of science and philosophy have found themselves both subscribed and averse.
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood
Authors: Franks Hallie M.
Published: December 2024

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the “fit” American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.In this historical moment, 19th-century anthropometric methods, the anti-corset dress reform movement and early fitness culture were united in their goal of identifying and producing healthy, procreative female bodies. These discourses presented ancient statues of Venus – most frequently, the Venus de Milo – as the supreme visual model of a superior, fit, feminine physique. An America of such Venuses would herald the future prosperity of the “American race” by reviving the robust health and moral righteousness of the ancient Greeks.

Venuses had long been symbols of beauty, but the new situation of Venus statues as an aesthetic and moral destination for women set up a slippage between ideal sculpture and living bodies: what did it mean for a woman to embody – or to try to embody – the perfect health and beauty of an ancient statue? How were women expected to translate this model into flesh? What were the political stakes to which this vision of a nation of American Venuses was bound? Who was believed to conform to this ideal, and who was excluded from it? In taking on these questions, Franks engages with physical culture and dress-reform media, modern artwork that adapts Graeco-Roman traditions, anthropological texts, art histories of ancient Greece, film, advertising and medical reporting on women’s health.
Civil Society’s Education
Authors: Winch Christopher
Published: December 2024

This book examines the relationship between the educational activities of civil society and those of the state via three case studies in vocational education, political education, and educational markets.Winch argues that the narrower educational activities of the state cannot be understood independently of those that take place in civil society which consists of institutions such as families, churches, businesses, trade unions, charities and political associations. Drawing on arguments and ideas in the work of Hume, Wittgenstein, Rhees, Vico, Hegel and Gramsci and building on the work of authors such as Bakhurst, Roedl and Hamlyn, the book breaks new ground in offering a philosophical account of civil society and the place of education within it. It is relevant to a range of societies, including those without a state or where the state has little influence, located in geographically and temporally diverse contexts.
War Came To Us
Authors: Miller Christopher
Published: December 2024

WINNER OF THE WITOLD PILECKI INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD SPECIAL PRIZE

A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine’s past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a decade.

'Vivid… Shocking… [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.'Daily Telegraph

'A beautiful blend of memoir, reportage and history...superb.'Irish Times

'...powerful and insightful...Miller provides a human dimension to a bloody conflict.'Kirkus Reviews

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for theFinancial Timesand a foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier.

This is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller’s personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters,The War Came To Ustakes readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine’s modern history. From the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas in the far east to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv; from the Black Sea shores of Crimea, where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine’s peninsula, to the bloody battlefields where Cossacks roamed before the Kremlin’s warlords ruled with iron fists; and through the horror and destruction wrought by Russian forces in Bucha, Bakhmut, Mariupol, and beyond.

With candor, wit and sensitivity, Miller captures Ukraine in all its glory: vast, defiant, resilient, and full of wonder. A breathtaking narrative that is at times both poignant and inspiring,The War Came To Usis the story of an American who fell in love with a foreign place and its people — and witnessed them do extraordinary things to escape the long shadow of their former imperial ruler and preserve their independence.
Reeds Vol 8: General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers
Authors: Russell Paul A
Published: December 2024

The essential coursebook for all students studying general marine engineering.General Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineersconsiders the different needs of those studying ‘general’ marine engineering, including the most recent changes to the Merchant Navy syllabus and current pathways to a sea-going engineering career.

Accessibly written and clearly illustrated with technical engineering drawings, it covers all the latest equipment, practices and trends in marine engineering. It incorporates the 2010 Manila Amendments, particularly relating to management.

This latest edition reflects all the developments in the field, including updates and additions on, amongst other things: - Sustainable ships systems - Hybrid power and energy management systems - Battery technology and hydrogen fuel cells - Biofuels - Waste heat recovery - Corrosion of metals in sea water - SOLAS rules on steering ships - Electric vehicle battery fires

The book includes test examples for student self-assessment, and these have also been reviewed and updated to ensure this volume remains current.
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin
Authors: McGaugh Scott
Published: December 2024

The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by aNew York Timesbestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances.

This book distills war down to individual young men climbing into defenseless gliders made of plywood, ready to trust the towing aircraft that would pull them into enemy territory by a cable wrapped with telephone wire. Based on their after-action reports, journals, oral histories, and letters home, this book reveals every terrifying minute of their missions.

They were all volunteers, for a specialized duty that their own government projected would have a 50 percent casualty rate. None faltered. In every major European invasion of the war they led the way. They landed their gliders ahead of the troops who stormed Omaha Beach, and sometimes miles ahead of the paratroopers bound for the far side of the Rhine River in Germany itself. From there, they had to hold their positions. They delivered medical teams, supplies and gasoline to troops surrounded in the Battle of the Bulge, ahead even of Patton's famous supply truck convoy. These all-volunteer glider pilots played a pivotal role in liberating the West from tyranny, from the day the Allies invaded Occupied Europe to the day Germany finally surrendered. Yet the story of these anonymous heroes is virtually unknown. Here it is told in full – a story which epitomizes courage and sacrifice.
Forged in War
Authors: Galeotti Mark
Published: December 2024

A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine.

Putin retains his stranglehold on his position in Russia despite an almost ruinous invasion of Ukraine. The answer as tohowandwhycan be found in Russian history. With no naturally defensible borders, and environmental factors constraining its economy, Russia has been pitched against the pre-eminent military powers of the age across the centuries, and often at a technological disadvantage. To respond to these challenges, it has had to sit heavily on the backs of its people, and so war – and the need to be able to fight it – has shaped its evolution, from tsars to commissars and presidents.

The national identity has been forged in the furnace of war. From the medieval kingdom of Rus battling against a Scandinavian princes and Mongol emperors, to its own empire-building conflicts in 19th-century Asia, to the formative wars of the 20th century which saw Russia pitch from Tsarist empire to communist state and defender against Nazism, all these conflicts stained the lands of Russia red with blood. A weak post-Cold War Russia then turned to Putin, who created a new mood for martial triumphalism which led directly to the Ukrainian war.

Packed with contemporary accounts,Forged in Warstrips away the myth to give an insider’s view on Russia’s past and present.
TV’s American Dream
Authors: Selznick Barbara
Published: December 2024

TV's American Dreamexamines how the U.S. television industry in the 2010s pursued audiences whose ideas about hope, fairness, work, and economic class were shaped by the Great Recession.

While Americans navigated the trauma of the economic meltdown, the television industry faced growing pressure stemming from new program distribution and viewing methods, increasingly fragmented audiences, shifts in methods of advertising, and regulatory changes. To cut through the clutter of television content to appeal to elusive viewers, television programming reimagined some of the traditional representations of the American Dream and continued to bolster others.

Exploring shows on different platforms from legacy networks to Netflix, Selznick takes a deep dive into representations of the American Dream on television. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular strategy mobilized in the second decade of the new century to speak to audiences about their expectations for and concerns about the Dream. Bringing together research on industrial practices with an examination of sociocultural context,TV's American Dream demonstrates how interconnected forces give rise to the television programs that reinforce and redefine audiences’ ideas about the world in which they live.
Rule of Law in Singapore
Authors: Thio Li-ann
Published: December 2024

This book examines the operation of the rule of law in the non-liberal democracy of Singapore.

The rule of law in Singapore has been both lauded for anchoring efficient and effective government and lambasted for being procedural and statist. 21st-century Singapore has experienced modest political liberalisation, manifesting a paternal democracy where the governor-governed relationship is evolving, from a ‘father knows best’ paternalistic mindset to a more consultative approach to governance, where dialogue rather than diktat is the norm in a post-deferential era.

The Singapore case study helps pluralise the rule of law as a universal principle which moderates power, and may be variously implemented. The book examines the reception of the rule of law within the Singapore legal order, and how it interacts with constitutional principles like the separation of powers and democracy in the design of constitutional institutions and forging of structural and rights-oriented judicial review. It considers how the rule of law, contoured by legal communitarianism, sustains a managed democracy in relation to legislation governing internal security, public assemblies, religious harmony and online falsehoods. It questions whether the chilling of political speech by strict laws on political defamation and contempt of court has been significantly defrosted by important developments which seek ordered liberty through a more calibrated form of review.

Lucid and engaging, this book will be of interest to researchers working in constitutional law.
Rule of Law in Germany
Authors: Birkenkötter Hannah , Burchardt Dana
Published: December 2024

The rule of law, or Rechtsstaatsprinzip, is one of Germany’s oldest constitutional principles and forms part of Germany’s constitutional self-understanding.This book critically examines to what extent this key constitutional principle has translated into a reality for all.

The book provides a comprehensive insight into rule of law experiences and discourses in Germany. It explores Germany’s long rule of law tradition and highlights where the German state has fallen short of its rule of law promise, using historical and contemporary examples. It also shows that Germany’s rule of law experience is tightly interwoven with European and international rule of law debates. By integrating historical, socio-legal and doctrinal perspectives, the book provides a nuanced account of a foundational principle in German constitutional thought.

Dedicated chapters explore the history and doctrine of the rule of law, challenges to the rule of law in today’s Germany, the rule of law experience in the former German Democratic Republic and in the context of reunification, the relationship of the German rule of law practice with the rule of law on the European and international level, and the rule of law in times of crisis. This includes challenges to the rule of law through anti-terrorism measures, as well as the more recent COVID-19 pandemic and the so-called migration crisis, but also how the rule of law has been discursively (mis-)used in those situations. In concluding, the book highlights digitalisation as a challenge to the future of the rule of law in Germany.
Constitutional Courts and Judicial Review
Authors: Grimm Dieter
Published: December 2024

This collection of essays from Dieter Grimm, Germany’s most renowned constitutional scholar, shines a light on the jurisprudence of the German Constitutional Court and constitutional adjudication in general.

Established in 1951, the court has become a blueprint for new courts ever since and its jurisprudence, particularly in the field of fundamental rights, has influenced the decisions of judges throughout the world.

After the seismic constitutional changes of the years 1989–90 in Germany and beyond, many countries adopted new democratic constitutions and established constitutional courts in order to make their constitutions effective. Today, many of these courts are under attack both politically and intellectually.

In this book, Grimm considers some of the fundamental questions under academic scrutiny today: are constitutional courts political or legal institutions? Is judicial review a political or a legal activity? Is it a threat to, or a condition, of democracy? Should these courts be abolished or strengthened? Is a rational interpretation of constitutional law possible?

The essays provide answers to these questions and describe how constitutional courts work if they properly fulfill their function of enforcing the constitution. A special emphasis is put on the importance of constitutional interpretation: something, the author argues, that most critics of constitutional adjudication neglect.
Regulating Innovation in the Digital Age
Authors: Divissenko Nikita
Published: December 2024

This book examines the role, impact, and limitations of regulation as a tool for shaping innovative markets.

It contends that the current supply-centred approach is suboptimal in the context of digital innovation and proposes a blueprint for a more demand-conscious approach to regulation. The focus on the demand-side is prompted by the evolving role of consumers within the innovation process in the digital and data-driven economy, the regulatory implications of which are underexplored in legal scholarship.

The book features in-depth case studies of the most recent regulatory initiatives in the EU, including Open Banking, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the AI Act. It dismantles innovative regulatory instruments, and critically examines their underlying assumptions from an innovation perspective. The new demand-based approach informs the design and use of supply-side market-centred tools, behaviourally-informed demand-side instruments, and technological regulation, by introducing a coherent set of demand-centred considerations.

The book offers a regulatory toolbox recalibrated for the digital age and serves as a practical guide for academics, policymakers, regulators, and legal practitioners seeking to understand and engage with the regulation of innovative markets.
Musical Genre
Authors: Krogh Mads
Published: December 2024

From recent decades’ digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale.

Proliferating genre catalogs in the context of digital platforms and the conjunction of genre with notions of, for example, mood and activity are among the consequences, which challenge prevailing scene-based and identificational understandings in musical genre studies. This book answers to this challenge. Centering on the concepts of musico-generic assemblage and abstraction, it offers new perspectives on musical genre fit for current times but with the potential for also reconsidering historical cases.
Revolution of Indian Parallel Cinema in the Global South (1968–1995)
Authors: Ahmed Omar
Published: December 2024

Drawing from over a decade of research and writings, this book takes you on an epic journey through the history of Indian Parallel Cinema (1968 – 1995).

India, the late 1960s. Something was in the air. A film manifesto penned by passionate cinephiles called for a new cinema. An exciting generation of iconoclastic filmmakers were on the march, the first to graduate from the newly incarnated Film and Television Institute of India, seizing the moment to forge one of the first major post-colonial film movements. What emerged was an unprecedented level of creativity, merging international influences with experimental, indigenous styles, and creating an aesthetic and thematic rupture, and that ultimately led to new ways of making films. But it is a story that has rarely been told, inextricably absent from the parochial, Euro-centric and linear histories of film. This is the story of Indian Parallel Cinema.

From auteurs like Mani Kaul and John Abraham to Smita Patil and Om Puri,The Revolution of Indian Parallel Cinema in the Global Southexplores the origins, evolution, demise and legacy of a film movement that produced a pantheon of innovative filmmakers, in excess of two hundred films and a distinctly regional identity in which film societies, state funding and political insurgency were catalysts for a defiant, radical dialogue, much of it anti-establishment, that broke all the rules. Most importantly, this publication considers the ways in which Parallel Cinema narrated a new ‘history from below’, using a range of case studies that includesUski Roti,Mirch MasalaandAmma Ariyan.
Clean's Boodle Boodle Boodle
Authors: Stahl Geoff
Published: December 2024

In this critical appraisal of The Clean's landmark release,Boodle Boodle Boodle, Geoff Stahl explores how it impacted the emergence of a new DIY scene alongside a retrospective on the role The Clean played in shaping New Zealand’s independent music industry.

The Clean’s 1981 EP catalysed independent music in Aotearoa/New Zealand and defined what became known as the “Dunedin Sound”. At the time, The Clean were seen as ambassadors for a burgeoning independent music culture in Aotearoa, drawing on the DIY spirit of punk and post-punk centred around Dunedin, on New Zealand’s South Island. Geoff Stahl considers the influence and legacy of the EP and band on indie music in New Zealand and elsewhere. Examining the myth of the “Dunedin Sound” associated with The Clean, the EP, and Flying Nun Records, he details how this myth emerged, its repudiation by many of the artists it presumes to cover, and its complicated persistence in the contemporary New Zealand imaginary.
John Cale's Paris 1919
Authors: Doyle Mark
Published: December 2024

John Cale’s enigmatic masterpiece,Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever.It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was at a crossroads. The white-hot rage of his Velvet Underground days was nearly spent; now he was living in Los Angeles, working for a record company and making music when time allowed. He needed to lay to rest some ghosts, but he couldn’t do that without scaring up others.Paris 1919was the result.

In this vivid, wide-ranging book, Mark Doyle hunts down the ghosts haunting Cale’s most enduring solo album. There are the ghosts of New York – of the Velvets, Nico, and Warhol – that he smuggled into Los Angeles in his luggage. There is the ghost of Dylan Thomas, a fellow Welshman who haunts not justParis 1919but much of Cale’s life and art. There are the ghosts of history, of a failed peace and the artists who sought the truth in dreams. And there are the ghosts of Christmas, surprising visitors who bring a nostalgic warmth and a touch of wintry dread. With erudition and wit, Doyle offers new ways to listen to an old album whose mysteries will never fully be resolved.
Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2
Authors: Bhattacharjee Anirudha , Rao Chandrashekhar
Published: December 2024

A history of Hindi film music recounted from a list of 50 of Lata Mangeshakar's songs that she chose as her favorites.

Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers was known as "the Nightingale of India." For her albumMy Favourites, Vol. 2, Lata chooses 50 songs as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of over 5,000. This book covers an expanse of nearly forty years, connecting you to the real-life events behind the songs, going back to when music listening in India was limited to the radio, the 78 RPM shellac, the occasional visit to the cinema, and later, the vinyl records, cassettes, and the 30 minutesChitrahaaron television every week.
Periods
Authors: Giambalvo Cristina R.
Published: December 2024

Periods are a fact of life for roughly half the population, yet discussions of the menstrual cycle are often shrouded in confusion and embarrassment.

Part of theQ&A Health Guidesseries, this book offers a broad introduction to the menstrual cycle—what it is; why it exists and how it changes over time; what’s normal; when you may want to see a doctor; and which products, medications, and activities can make “that time of the month” a more pleasant experience.Periods: Your Questions Answeredaddresses more than 30 menstruation-related topics in a way that is engaging and accessible to young readers. Biology and physiology are explained in easy-to-understand language and blended seamlessly with scientifically backed recommendations readers can use in their own lives.

Augmenting the main text, a collection of 5 case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The common misconceptions section at the beginning of the volume dispels 5 long-standing myths about the menstrual cycle, directing readers to additional information in the text. The glossary defines terms that may be unfamiliar to readers, while the directory of resources curates a list of the most useful books, websites, and other materials. Finally, whether they’re looking for more information about this subject or any other health-related topic, readers can turn to the Guide to Health Literacy section for practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the Internet.
Ethiopian Americans
Authors: Selassie I W. Gabriel
Published: December 2024

Explore the history, culture, and lived experiences of Ethiopian Americans in the USA. Ethiopia, in East Africa, is the second most populated country in Africa, home to over 125 million inhabitants. For centuries, many Ethiopians had little exposure to the outside world, and even less to Americans. However, that started to change in the 1970s. In 1974, a military-backed government deposed Emperor Haile Selassie I, and many Ethiopians emigrated to the West. Today, large populations of Ethiopian Americans live in cities such as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. This book offers an accessible and detailed glimpse into their everyday lives. It includes an overview of Ethiopian art, media, and cuisine, biographies of accomplished Ethiopian Americans, and a revealing look into the ongoing struggle for equality and representation that many Ethiopian Americans experience.
Dolores Huerta
Authors: Tellez April
Published: December 2024

A comprehensive exploration of Dolores Huerta's contributions to U.S. labor history and her life's work of advocating for systematically disadvantaged and marginalized groups.

An iconic figure in American civil rights and one of the most influential labor rights activists of the 20th century, Huerta overcame great odds to make enduring contributions to social justice and advocacy, particularly for farm workers and the Latino community. Organized chronologically, this volume offers the opportunity for readers to better understand Huerta's life. From her early beginnings in California's central valley, to her influential leadership on the United Farm Workers (UFW) union, to her work educating on women's issues and advocating for Latino representation in politics, readers will explore the many efforts that made Huerta's influence enduring. Beyond a biography, this book places Huerta center stage in the context of American history, looking closely at the Chicano civil rights movement in California; social restrictions, disenfranchisement, and various forms of segregation in 1950's and 1960's America; historical labor strikes and boycotts; key legislation and political figures active in labor rights, and more. Huerta is one of the great contributors to American history, labor history, women’s history, and the history of activism, social justice, and human rights. Here, her story is told in a way that captures the full span of her life and achievements.