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Festivalisasi Keagamaan dalam Tradisi Pawai Takbir Keliling pada Masyarakat Desa Keruak dalam Menyambut Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1444 Hijriyah
Authors: Utami Pur Purni
Published: December 2024

Takbir keliliing merupakan kegiatan yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat Desa Keruak dalam menyambut Hari Raya Idul Fitri. Takbir kelililng merupakan tradisi yang dilestarikan oleh setiap umat Islam yang ada di Indonesia, termasuk masyarakat Desa Keruak. Perkembangan zaman dan kemajuan teknologi memberikan pengaruh yang besar terhadap kreatifitas dan inovasi yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat Desa Keruak dalam membuat perlengkapan atau miniatur yang digunakan dalam kegiatan pawai takbir keliling. Kajian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif, diamana data primer dalam kajian ini peneliti peroleh melalui observasi dan wawancara dengan narasumber pokok. Adapun data sekunder dalam kajian ini peneliti peroleh melalui foto dan video yang peneliti kumpulkan, serta buku, jurnal dan artikel yang relevan dengan kajian ini. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pada masyarakat Desa Keruak kegiatan takbir keliling sudah mengalami pergeseran makna. Dimana pada zaman dahulu, tradisi takbir keliling yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat dengan suasana keagamaan dan khidmat, justru mengalami perubahan dizaman modern ini dimana dalam kegiatan pawai takbiiran tersebut masyarakat memamerkan berbagaimacam miniatur-miniatur yang dibuat oleh masyarakat dan pemuda serta sebagai ajang adu fashion agamais yang modern. Dimana kemajuan zaman dan teknologi memberikan pengaruh besar bagi masyarakat Desa Keruak dan melalui kegiatan pawai takbir keliling masyarakat dapat mengekspresikan dirinya.
EDUCADORAS DA INFÂNCIA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA LINGUAGEM MATEMÁTICA NO TERRITÓRIO DAS CRIANÇAS DE ZERO A TRÊS ANOS
Authors: Ciríaco Klinger Teodoro , Wrigell José , Matioli Vivian Bianca Inácio
Published: December 2024

We analyzed written narratives (reports of experiences) from educators of babies and very young children (zero to three years old). The objective of the work, the result of the research we developed, lies in understanding the dynamics of pedagogical work with mathematical language based on the analysis of narratives from a collaborative group. To this end, with a qualitative approach, we focus our efforts on describing and analyzing the written reflection of teachers' reports when experiencing contexts of mathematical exploration. The theoretical framework discusses aspects of child care, post-LDB, conceptualizes the Early Childhood Education curriculum, as well as presenting the expected and possible mathematical notions when working in this area of knowledge, intentionally, in the space-time of the daycare center. The results indicate that: 1) mathematical language can and should be worked with babies and very young children in routine situations; 2) the narratives demonstrate the possibility of self-reflection regarding the proposed pedagogical experience; and 3) performance indicators were identified, in pedagogical practice, of how to explore senses of magnitudes and measurements, resolution of unconventional problems and spatial issues. Thus, the contribution of this article implies recognition of the need for teaching professionalization of educators who work directly in the field of Brazilian Early Childhood Education, with emphasis on processes in which care and education are integrated as binomials in the area.
Workflow CellHeap: Portabilidade e Reprodutibilidade
Authors: Plaza Gabriel , Castro Maria Clicia
Published: December 2024

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The Politics of Punk
Authors: Ensminger David A.
Published: December 2024

Punk rock has long been equated with the ever-shifting concepts of dissent, disruption, and counter-cultural activities. As a result, since its 1970s and 1980s incarnations, when bands in Britain—from The Clash and Sex Pistols to Angelic Upstarts, U.K. Subs, and Crass—offered alternative political convictions and subversive lifestyle choices, the media has often deemed punk a threat. Bands like Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, and Millions of Dead Cops followed suit in America, pushing similar boundaries as the music mutated into a harsher “hardcore” style that branched deep into suburban enclaves. Those antagonisms and ideals were, in turn, translated by another wave of bands—from Fugazi to Anti-Flag—whose commitment to community building was as pronounced as their taut, explosive tunes.

In The Politics of Punk, David Ensminger probes the conscience of punk by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. He paints a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the ongoing activism and outreach inherent in punk. Creating a people’s history of punk’s social, cultural, aesthetic, and political features, the book features original interviews with members of Dead Kennedys, Dead Boys, MDC, Channel 3, Snap-Her, Scream, Minutemen, TSOL, the Avengers, Blowdryers, and many more. Ensminger highlights punk money’s influence on philanthropy and community involvement and paints a contextualized picture of how punk critiqued dominant culture by channeling support and media coverage for a wide array of humanitarian programs for gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, environmental and health research, and other causes.
Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
Authors: Doyle, II Thomas E. , Gorman Robert F. , Mihalkanin Edward S.
Published: December 2024

The Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations, Third Edition defines the core concepts of human rights and humanitarian law. It relates the major international legal agreements related to human rights and names the diverse intergovernmental organizations which are responsible for implementing and maintaining these legal declarations, charters, conventions, or treaties. It also names and describes the several international non-governmental organizations which lobby states and international organizations with respect to human rights, which carry out programs of humanitarian assistance or relief, and which have played such a significant role in the evolution of human rights and humanitarianism in the modern era. Finally, it features the names and biographical accounts of major figures in the history of human rights and humanitarianism, along with figures that are active today on these issues.

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on human rights concepts, major pieces of international law on human rights and humanitarian issues, major intergovernmental bodies responsible for implementing international laws on human rights and humanitarian issues, major international non-governmental organizations whose work focuses on human rights and humanitarian issues, and the names of important historical and contemporary figures who have contributed to the establishment and progress of human rights and humanitarianism.. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Human Rights.
Historical Dictionary of Nepal
Authors: Shrestha Nanda R. , Bhattarai Keshav
Published: December 2024

Nepal is a living example of contrasts and contradictions.It is a country that was born in medieval times, grew up in the 16th century, and now finds itself engulfed in the high-tech gadgets and material marvels of the 21st century. Nepal has its share of problem which include inadequate economic development and social infrastructure, poverty and corruption, plus worsening pollution, but now it finally has relative peace and quiet after a hasty Maoist uprising. Indeed, it has passed through several democratic elections, and finally seems to be getting on the right track.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Nepal contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Nepal.
Decide to Lead
Authors: Herrmann Mary B.
Published: December 2024

Decide to Lead explores decision-making and all its complexity. Decision-making is, and has always been at the heart and soul of leadership activity. Leaders are responsible and held accountable for the decisions that are made within the organization, whether they personally make them or not. Enhanced with resources and questions for further reflection, Decide to Lead examines decision-making through the lens of a leader. The book addresses what leaders know: knowledge of self, knowledge of others, and knowledge of one’s community and context; how leaders think, with a focus on cognitive systems and the forces that influence decision-making; and what leaders do to set up the conditions for effective decision-making in their organizations. This includes leader actions such as building capacity, designing a decision friendly organizational architecture and effectively employing decision-making models and processes.
Common Core
Authors: Saine Paula
Published: December 2024

Common Core is an instructive book that enhances classroom teacher knowledge-base of global and multicultural literature texts, which as a result, deepens student appreciation for cultures around the world. Through use of technology and multicultural literature, Dr. Saine fires up the imagination of students, as she transports them to other cultures, countries and regions of the world. It is a highly nuanced text that builds bridges across cultures while meeting English Language Arts (ELA) standards. The text is likely to make a lasting contribution to this mostly neglected area of student cultural awareness and development.
Your Brain on Ink
Authors: Adams Kathleen , Ross Deborah
Published: December 2024

A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator’s guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.
Distilling Chinese Education into 8 Concepts
Authors: Wong Ovid K.
Published: December 2024

This book seeks to better understand the intricate elements of Chinese education compared to American education thus helping educators and policy makers to craft win-win decisions in the education encounter of the dragon and the eagle. Many educators are pulling their hair trying to understand how to work well with new Chinese immigrant students and their parents. To get the job done, one has to go beyond the superficial language translation to understanding the culture that shapes the base foundations of learning and thinking.
Learning from Latino Role Models
Authors: Campos David
Published: December 2024

Learning from Latino Role Models provides teachers with instructional resources that can be easily used in classroom settings so that they are culturally responsive to their Latino students. The book has two parts:

Part I offers 20 sets of activities designed around Latino role models, and aims to help students learn how Latinos offer unique contributions to this nation. It is expected that these resources can help Latino schoolchildren find inspiration to realize their own goals. Part II offers 20 sets of activities around select picture books that reflect the Latino community and cultural heritage.

The activities are designed to help children come to identify with the stories’ controlling themes as they address Latino culture, history, values, and experiences. In all, the instructional sets are complete with questions that motivate critical thinking; activity ideas that reinforce the meaning or the intended message of the story; and vocabulary to enhance students’ communication skills. Additionally, each set comes with corresponding worksheets for the students to complete.
The Violin, How it Works
Authors: Pagliaro Michael J.
Published: December 2024

The Violin, How it Works is designed to enrich the learning experience of students who are using a traditional violin method lesson book. Method books only teach one how to play an instrument. This Supplemental Handbook teaches everything else about the instrument, including:

1. the parts of the violin and how they work

2. how to care for a violin outfit

3. how to plan a practice session

4. what items (accessories) are needed to help one play the violin.

5. how violins are made

6. the history of the violin

7. how violin bows are made

8. the history of violin bows

The book also contains a dictionary for violin terms and a comprehensive index to facilitate topic location.

With this book included in a curriculum, a student will also have greater insight into the violin’s relationship to the viola, cello, and double bass with which they will be working. Being exposed to this expanded enrichment will result in a well-rounded musician in place of one who can just play an instrument.
Online Predators, An Internet Insurgency
Authors: Lee Jeffrey A.
Published: December 2024

In Online Predators: An Internet Insurgency, Jeffrey A. Lee brings his ten plus years’ experience in the fight against online child exploitation to bear in an easy to follow guide for all with a stake in the life of a child. This book equips parents, guardians, extended family, educational professionals with practical strategies to help keep kids safe in a technology connected world. Instead of focusing on ever changing technology, Lee proposes a key fundamental change in the fight against online predation—develop an insatiable curiosity about their child’s online life, then get in the front lines and stay there.
Making a Difference
Authors: Mette Ian M. , Cormier Dwayne Ray , Oliveras Yanira
Published: December 2024

In a contemporary sense, the United States education system has become a cultural and political battleground. The US has witnessed a surge in racially motivated violence, restrictions on women's reproductive rights, and xenophobic policies. The most alarming development is the institutionalization of white supremacist ideologies that suppress the teaching of accurate histories of our racially stratified society. The US continues to grapple with social domination based on various sociocultural identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, identity, ability, and other lived experiences.

This book aims to equip educators with a framework for providing instructional leadership that ensures culturally responsive instruction. Changing what is taught, how it is taught, and who it is intended for is one of the most effective ways of contributing to a more progressive, equitable, and inclusive society. This requires instructional leaders to become equity leaders who mitigate harmful educational practices from prepackaged curricula and teacher evaluation systems. Through an intentionally diverse team of educators, schools can observe, measure, and support teachers to become culturally responsive instructors through formative feedback structures. It is through the practice of culturally responsive instructional supervision that schools can transform from systems of oppression into systems of opportunity.
Toward Self-Directed Learning in the Secondary Classroom
Authors: Powell Erik N.
Published: December 2024

Toward Self-Directed Learning in the Secondary Classroom explores the challenges teachers have faced and continue to face in a pandemic and post-pandemic context while attempting to implement self-directed learning in the secondary classroom. Drawing on contemporary research from around the world as well as candid interviews with educators in Canada and the United States, this book addresses both the challenges and successes teachers have experienced while attempting to guide students toward self-directedness.
Catholic Literature and Film
Authors: Enright Nancy
Published: December 2024

Catholic Literature and Film: Incarnational Love and Suffering is meant to be considered as a work of literary criticism, not film adaptation studies. In it, the author explores six literary works dealing with Catholic themes and the film versions of these works. The discussion of the films is at the service of analyzing the texts. Underlying all the discussions is an incarnational, sacramental view of the texts, which links to my interpretation of the film versions of them. Catholic and actually any Christian interpretation of literature or film or any other art form is rooted in an iconic and sacramental understanding of imagery as a means of conveying the sacred. Catholic spirituality lends itself to this sort of approach, as it is deeply rooted in the ability to see sacred things through physical means. A key sub-theme is romantic love in connection with salvation, which Charles Williams, one of the “Inklings” (the group of British writers, including J.R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, who met and discussed literature and theology), calls “the theology of romantic love,” as well as the sub-themes of redemptive suffering, and grace. My interest in the book is not an analysis of cinematography, per se, but on the films as vehicles for religious ideas.

What makes this approach unique is that it doesn’t deal with only faith and film, as Peter Frazer does very well in his book Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film, for example; it also goes beyond the realm of strict literary criticism in its tackling of how religiously oriented works of literature are affected by the transformation into film.
Cryptodemocracy
Authors: Allen Darcy W.E. , Berg Chris , Lane Aaron M.
Published: December 2024

A cryptodemocracy is cryptographically-secured collective choice infrastructure on which individuals coordinate their voting property rights. Drawing on economic and political theory, a cryptodemocracy is a more fluid and emergent form of collective choice. This book examines these theoretical characteristics before exploring specific applications of a cryptodemocracy in labor bargaining and corporate governance. The analysis of the characteristics of a more emergent and contractual democratic process has implications for a wide range of collective choice.
No Middle Ground
Authors: Murphy Erin L.
Published: December 2024

In No Middle Ground: Anti-Imperialists and Ethical Witnessing During the Philippine-American War, Erin L. Murphy argues that activists in the Anti-Imperialist movement against the Philippine-American War, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the experience of imperialist violence as it was expressed by marginalized anti-imperialists. Murphy explores how the perspectives of marginalized anti-imperialists like white women, black women and men, and Filipino/as, led Anti-Imperialist League leaders, who were predominantly white men of some prominence, to evolve their activism from focusing on defending the U.S. Constitution through electoral politics and the legality of U.S. Empire to exposing the imperialist violence committed by the U. S. military as crimes against fundamental human rights. Activists believed that advocating for human rights held true to the principles in the U.S. Constitution while U.S. Empire only dismembered it. Murphy further analyzes the ways in which Anti-Imperialist League leaders and supporters began forming other organizations based on the principles of advocating for human rights and liberty, such as the National Association for Colored People, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, National Consumers League, American Civil Liberties Union, and the Ethical Society.
Rethinking the Anthropology of Love and Tourism
Authors: Singh Sagar
Published: December 2024

In Rethinking the Anthropology of Love and Tourism, Sagar Singh draws on anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, religious studies, literature, and the study of mysticism, among other disciplines, to arrive at an understanding of love that is free from theoretical biases. Utilizing data from South Asia, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, Singh newly defines tourism, tourism anthropology, tourism studies, and ecotourism. This book is an indispensable guide to all involved and interested in tourism.

For more information, check out A Conversation with Sagar Singh: Rethinking the Anthropology of Love and Tourism.
Balanced Wonder
Authors: Pedersen Jan B. W.
Published: December 2024

In Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder and argues in a scholarly yet accessible way that the experience of wonder, when balanced, serves as a strong contributor to human flourishing. Along the way, Pedersen describes seven properties of wonder and shows how wonder it is distinct from other altered states, including awe, horror, the sublime, curiosity, amazement, admiration, and astonishment.

Examining the contribution of both emotion and imagination in the experience of wonder--—filtered through the Neo-Aristotelian work of philosophers Douglas Rasmussen, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Martha Nussbaum--—Pedersen also makes it clear that wonder may contribute to human flourishing in various ways, such as the widening of perception, extension of moral scope or sensitivity, a wondrous afterglow, openness, humility, an imaginative attitude, reverence, and gratitude. Importantly, for wonder to act as a strong contributor to human flourishing one needs to wonder at the right thing, in the right amount, in at the right time, in the right way, and for the right purpose.
Amor Mundi and Overcoming Modern World Alienation
Authors: Pack Justin
Published: December 2024

Love in many premodern cultures extended to and permeated the world or even the cosmos, but love in contemporary consumerist society tends to be sexualized, romanticized, and individualized. As a result, ancient visions of ethical love are difficult for moderns to comprehend, especially those rooted in premodern Western thought, or Native American thinkers that describe a love of the natural world that would help us live more responsibly on the Earth.

This volume retrieves the significant narratives of love of the world and the concomitant ethical ramifications of those visions and argues that our age of science and technology has destroyed the ancient, living cosmos of previous visions and replaced it with a mechanical universe. This shift has resulted in various forms of destruction, diminishment, and forgetfulness. Overcoming modern world alienation requires recovering a sense of what it means to love the world and changing our practices to reflect our interconnection with it and our interdependency on it.
The Ethics of Animal Beauty
Authors: Vice Samantha
Published: December 2024

The Ethics of Animal Beauty provides a novel account of the aesthetics of animals and explores the ethical implications of recognizing and admiring their beauty. Samantha Vice argues that animation, the aesthetic property of being an individual with a subjective perspective on the world, is fundamental to any meaningful appreciation of animal beauty. If we properly appreciate animation, we are called on to respond to animals with respect, care, gratitude and wonder. Applying this idea to contemporary practices such as trophy hunting and taxidermy and to our lived relationships with (domestic) companion animals, Vice argues that the appreciation of animal beauty carries profound ethical consequences for our relations to our fellow creatures. This perspective bears on questions of animal rights and ecocritical debates, while also contributing to key discussions in aesthetics and its relation to moral imperatives.
The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space
Authors: Birns Nicholas
Published: December 2024

This book examines literary representations of hyperlocal spaces that subvert the idea of grounded and organic spatial identities. Figures such as the pond, the scientific particle, and Wedgwood creamware often go unnoticed, but they exemplify important shifts in culture and aesthetics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space argues that these objects, as well as locations such as alcoves in remote shires, city inns, and mountain retreats, were portrayed by writers in the late eighteenth and early-to-mid nineteenth centuries as gambits that challenged cultural hegemonies. It shows that the hyperlocal space or object, though particular, reaches beyond itself, affording an elasticity that can allow those things that seem beneath notice to reveal broader cultural significance.
Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process
Authors: Flores Henry
Published: December 2024

Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process traces the process by which race and racism are infused into the public policy process. This book provides a definition and short history of racism with a discussion of how individuals learn and absorb racial ideas and how these ideas become essential elements of the public policy process. Discussion of the three policy areas, gun control, immigration and voting rights, provide new insights into the relationship between decisional and individual belief structures and the decisional process.
Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations
Authors: West Nigel
Published: December 2024

With the recent declassification of secret documents new light has been shed on old mysteries. For example, we now know that what might be termed the "JFK assassination conspiracy industry" was deliberately fueled and manipulated by the KGB so as to distract the CIA and undermine confidence in successive U.S. administrations. Also, new evidence continues to emerge of Vladimir Putin’s commitment to the extra-judicial elimination of "extremists" overseas, as legitimized by the Duma in July 2006. Controversially, the legislation included a definition of “extremists” as "those slandering the individual occupying the post of president of the Russian Federation”.

The Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations contains a chronology, an introduction, and appendixes. The encyclopedia section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on assassinations, intelligence agencies, politics and foreign relations.
How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen
Authors: Taylor, PhD Jim
Published: December 2024

Few of us go through life without experiencing some sort of crisis, whether health, financial, relationship, career, or personal safety. Crises happen and they are often out of our control. But the one thing we can control is how we respond to them. Yet, our natural instincts often hinder us as we confront today’s crises that are complex, amorphous, and not readily solvable. Changing our reaction to a crisis is an immense challenge, yet with powerful lessons provided in these pages, anyone can turn crises into opportunities for reflection, positive action, and growth. .

A crisis mentality can overwhelm you when bad things happen. Turning crises into opportunitiesempowers you to overcome the darkness that can engulf you in troubled times and allow you to seek the light that can guide you through hard times. Exploring the essential psychological, emotional, and interpersonal factors that most impact your reaction to a crisis, Jim Taylor provides you with deep insights and practical tools that help you move from a crisis mentality of fear, pessimism, and panic that controls you to an opportunity mindset of calm, confidence, and courage that you control in a crisis. He offers compelling examples, both recent and historical, well-known and unfamiliar, to bring these issues to life. Illustrations from government, large and small business, and ordinary people will highlight who responded well and who did not. Break free from the crisis mentality and embrace an opportunity mindset with nine strategies that will not only help you to survive, but actually thrive, when bad things happen.
The Noise in Noise
Authors: Prado Casanova Miguel
Published: December 2024

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise’s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different “contextures” of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits the capacity of global-scale coordination and the design of robust, adaptable social systems, we need to review the way in which we can harness uncertainty, randomness, and noise.

This philosophical work is informed by many different fields of contemporary science in order to assess and highlight the problems of the metascientific and ideological foundations of diverse projects of prediction and control of uncertainty. This conveys an analysis of how contemporary prediction technologies are dramatically transforming our relationship with the future and with uncertainty in a great number of our social structures.
Chances for Democracy in Europe
Authors: Bordás Mária
Published: December 2024

At the turn of Twenty-First Century, no one could have believed that by a decade later, the prime minister of Hungary would roughly declare his political and government system as an illiberal democracy. Chances for Democracy in Europe: The New Wave of Illiberalism in Post-Communist Countries explores the scenarios of building illiberal democracy as followed by Putin in Russia, then how it spread in the post-Communist Europe. It will be showing how a full-born illiberal democracy has unfolded in Hungary since 2010, during the last four Orbán governments, and the similarities it shares with the Russian illiberal state. If the Treaty of Maastricht, that laid down democratic principles of the European Union, has the sufficient political and legal tools to enforce them, when they are not respected by the member states. While the EU failed in this effort with Hungary, it seems to be successful of a sort in Poland and Slovenia. The author analyses why developed Western European countries with long traditions of democratic traditions and values, have been resistant to illiberalism, and remained strong liberal democracies, but what about the countries without long traditions of democratic values?
The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons
Authors: Mielczarek Natalia
Published: December 2024

The Trump Presidency in Editorial Cartoons engages with close to one thousand editorial cartoons to analyze the visual representations of President Donald Trump and his responses to six news events during his term in office. Natalia Mielczarek traces the mechanisms through which the drawings construct the president’s image and their potential rhetorical consequences for interpretation. Through this analysis, Mielczarek argues that the right-leaning cartoons largely erase the president’s likeness from their plotlines, acting as a shield against accountability for Trump. Left-leaning cartoons, on the other hand, tend to clone the president and exaggerate his image in most of their stories, often functioning as tools of symbolic censure and punishment. Through these de- and re-contextualization tactics that make President Trump either largely absent or hyper-present in the narrative, the cartoons construct inadvertent rhetorical paradoxes and coalesce around ideological heroes and villains. This result, Mielczarek posits, more closely resembles partisan propaganda, rather than political commentary and social critique. Scholars of communication, political science, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.
Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom
Authors: Barrett Lee C.
Published: December 2024

Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship exhibits two different trajectories concerning the relation of responsible human agency to sovereign divine agency: one trajectory stresses free human striving, while the other trajectory emphasizes the dominance of divine agency. The first theme led to the view of Kierkegaard as the champion of autonomous existential “leaps,” while the second led to the construal of Kierkegaard as a devout Lutheran who trusted absolutely in God’s gracious governance. Lee C. Barrett argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant’s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life, making use of literary strategies to foster the different passions and dispositions that are associated with the themes of human responsibility and divine governance. Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy offers an incisive account of what makes Kierkegaard’s conception of theology as a matter of edification rather than speculation so distinctive and enduringly worthwhile.
W.H. Auden at Work
Authors: Levitin Alexis
Published: December 2024

W.H. Auden at Work: The Craft of Revision explores revision in the poetry of W.H. Auden, focusing on Auden’s early sonnet sequences, “A Voyage,” and “Sonnets from China.” It enumerates in great detail the substantial changes Auden made to those sequences over the course of thirty years. Auden’s observations are an amalgam of abstract philosophizing on the nature of humanity, its restlessness and tendency to create conflict, as well as a meticulous catalogue of sensory details garnered from his observations and interviews. Alexis Levitin and Joshua Kulseth place the original versions of the poems alongside their revisions, and thoroughly dissecting the changes which were wrought, commenting upon each in terms of grammar and syntax—leaving the narrativistic changes relatively untouched.
Hizbullah
Authors: Khashan Hilal
Published: December 2024

This book explores the rise of Hizbullah as a direct consequence of both the Iranian Revolution and the entanglement of Lebanon in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Protracted civil war and overwhelming foreign intervention by Lebanon’s neighbors enabled Hizbullah to emerge as the country’s dominant politico-military force. Hizbullah disabled the Lebanese political system and, in its capacity as Iran’s premier foreign proxy, allowed the Islamic Republic to take the lead in the regional tug of war with Israel. In its quest for achieving a distinguished regional status commensurate with its ambitions, Iran used Hizbullah to abort the Syrian uprising, actively contribute to its burgeoning influence in Iraq, and participate in its propaganda war against Saudi Arabia on a range of issues. The renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran coincided with a worldwide campaign to dry up Hizbullah’s sources of funding and compromised its integrity as a critical provider of patronage to its Lebanese Shi’ite base of support. The emergence of Russia as the real power player in Syria made it extremely difficult for Hizbullah to justify the high human cost it incurred to salvage the regime of Bashar Asad. This book examines the rise of Hizbullah and the marginalization and repression of Shi’ites that made them susceptible to exploitation by their sectarian leaders.
Deviant Destinations
Authors: Jaji Rose
Published: December 2024

In Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration, Rose Jaji critiques and challenges assumptions made about migration between the global North and South. Zimbabwe does not conform to the conventional profile of a destination country, yet it is home to migrants from the global North. Jaji examines the dynamics and contradictions of transnational migration in Zimbabwe, how migrants challenge the migration lexicon in which countries and mobile populations are categorized, and the socioeconomic division of urban space. This book is recommended for students and scholars of migration studies, sociology, anthropology, African studies, and political science.
Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition
Authors: Baer Hans A.
Published: December 2024

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Authors: Town Stephen
Published: December 2024

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).
Single Family Office
Authors: Liebenau Alexander M. B.
Published: December 2024

The work aims to close the research gap in ‘family office research’. It examines how family offices, together with other measures, can contribute to the long-term preservation of complex family wealth, particularly with regard to the intergenerational transfer of wealth. In addition to financial assets, human and social assets are also taken into account. Expert discussions with representatives of family offices and wealthy families identify key issues and challenges. The aim is to use the knowledge gained to make reliable statements on the research questions and to critically analyse possible solutions for asset protection.
Judith Butler
Authors: Schriever Carla
Published: December 2024

This book invites readers to apply the theories of philosopher and activist Judith Butler in social work practice. With a special focus on gender, recognition, vulnerability, and ethics, it makes Butler's complex concepts accessible and offers practical reflection exercises. By linking Butler's work with current social issues like diversity, nonviolence, and ethical responsibility, this book becomes an essential companion for those seeking to view their professional practice through a critical, philosophical lens. Whether as an introduction or as a handbook filled with inspiring exercises, this book offers social workers, educators, and students the opportunity to understand and shape social work from a new, transformative perspective.
Artificial Intelligence Methods for Recognition of Neuromuscular Diseases
Authors: Oghuz Kamala
Published: December 2024

The presented chapter examines using artificial neural networks as a processing tool in medical research. Normal and pathological muscle signals obtained by the electromyography method were selected for study. The main research directions are the recognition of pathological changes in stimulated electromyography through neural networks, the use of artificial intelligence methods in the diagnosis of diseases through electromyographic signals, the decision in the diagnosis of myographic diseases using the modular architecture of the neural network, applying different optimization methods in calculating the error of the neural network for the diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases, using neural networks in the comparative analysis of optimization methods of electromyographic signal classifiers, and classifying electromyographic signals based on a sequential machine learning model using deep learning methods.
Racial Disparities in Labour Market Outcomes between Immigrants and South African-Born Women: Evidence from the 2011 Census
Authors: Souza Emmanuel
Published: December 2024

The chapter examines disparities in women’s labour market outcomes based on race and nativity in South Africa by employing multinomial logit models on the 2011 Census data. Findings highlight labour market disadvantages experienced by black women in South Africa, particularly among foreign-born nationals, highlighting how the intersection between race and nativity impedes the success of black immigrants. Overall, black women predominantly occupy low-skilled occupations, mostly in the informal sector and private households, consequently earning significantly less than their white counterparts. However, as immigrant women spend more time in South Africa, their likelihood of working in private households declines gradually, and their income attainment improves significantly. Furthermore, returns to post-secondary education are higher for black than white women, regardless of their nativity status. The implications of these results are discussed with respect to policy considerations.
Unraveling the Dynamics of Electromagnetic Fields in Legume Crop Cultivation
Authors: María Guzmán Armenteros Tania
Published: December 2024

This chapter explores how magnetic fields can revolutionize plant productivity, particularly in legumes, by improving germination, growth, and resilience. It demonstrates how controlled exposure to magnetic fields increases the robustness and vitality of plants and examines how these fields protect legumes from environmental stresses, such as drought and soil salinity, by triggering beneficial molecular and physiological changes. Furthermore, it highlights the potential of magnetic fields to improve the nutritional quality of crops and the efficiency of photosynthesis, advocating their use as key tools to promote organic farming. This comprehensive analysis underscores the transformative potential of magnetic fields in promoting a productive and sustainable agricultural future.
Estimation of Intra-Pulse Modulation Parameters of Wideband LPI Radar Using Cyclostationary Algorithm
Authors: Kumari Chilukuri Raja , Kishore Kakarla Hari , Kakarla Subbarao
Published: December 2024

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar discharges signals over a broad range of frequencies, which is from 3 to 10GHz. One of the important characteristics of UWB radar is low probability of intercept (LPI) capability. The advantages of LPI radar are large bandwidth, low power, and high resolution. It is very difficult to intercept the LPI radar signals by passive receivers since they use special types of waveforms for intra-pulse modulation. Precise estimation of parameters helps to design smart intercept receivers. Cyclostationary (CS) algorithm is good for analysis of periodic like signals. Cyclic spectral correlation density (SCD) function is an important parameter to be computed. From the bifrequency plot of SCD function, the radar parameters are measured. Five types of polyphase codes (Frank, P1-P4 codes) are analyzed. With CS algorithm alone, the parameters are extracted with an error of less than 5% for signals up to –6 dB SNR only. To analyze high noisy signals, the signals are preprocessed first using two denoising filters and then CS algorithm is applied. With this process the same accuracy is obtained for signals up to –12 dB SNR. This work is useful in the war field to protect the weapon system from the enemy.
Adaptation and Psychometric Features of the Korean Medical Academicians Stress Questionnaire for Iranian Medical Academicians
Authors: Gadari Fariba , Amirfakhraei Azita , Kiani Saeid
Published: December 2024

Background: Stress is a major factor affecting the mental health and academic performance of medical academicians, which necessitates the use of valid and reliable tools to measure it within their specific cultural and educational contexts. Given the unique circumstances of Iranian medical academicians, it is essential to adapt and validate the Korean Medical Academicians Stress Questionnaire (KMSSQ) to ensure it accurately captures the stressors they experience. Objectives: This study aimed to adapt and validate the KMSSQ for use among Iranian medical academicians, ensuring its cultural relevance and accuracy in reflecting the unique stressors they face. Methods: This study, focused on psychometric evaluation, included 900 medical academicians selected using stratified sampling from universities in Tehran. Participants completed both the KMSSQ and the occupational stress inventory (OSI). Face validity, content validity, concurrent validity, structural validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability were evaluated using SPSS (version 21) and LISREL (version 8.8). The cut-off point of the questionnaire was determined using the ROC curve. Results: The KMSSQ demonstrated high face, content, and concurrent validity (r = 0.91). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified six factors that explained 60.41% of the variance. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported a six-dimensional construct. The questionnaire exhibited high internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.93) and test-retest reliability (r = 0.91). The cut-off point was set at 120, with a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 85.23%. Conclusions: The KMSSQ is a valid and reliable tool for assessing stress among Iranian medical academicians. It can be used for educational planning and psychological interventions, offering a culturally adapted measure that addresses the unique challenges faced by this group.
Pemodelan Tingkat Inflasi di Sumatra Menggunakan Model Gamma dan Binomial Negatif
Authors: Fajri Khoirul
Published: December 2024

This study models the inflation rate in Sumatra using Generalized Linear Models (GLM) with Gamma and Negative Binomial distributions. The data includes inflation rates, Consumer Price Index (CPI), poverty rates, and employment sectors from the 2019 BPS report. The results show that the Gamma model performs better in predicting inflation compared to the Negative Binomial model, with a lower AIC value and smaller residual deviance. The CPI variable significantly influences inflation, while other variables are not significant.