bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Neo-Alpine fault controlled crustal blocks dynamics recorded by distribution of the Internal Western Carpathian Neogene basins and core mountains
Authors:   Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia, Marko František
Published: February 2025

In the Miocene epoch, the crust of eastward escaping Carpathian units was segmented by faults to independently moving tectonic blocks. Contemporaneously with invasion of the Carpathian units to the subducting oceanic embayment situated in the North European platform, syntectonic sedimentation took place on these moving tectonic blocks. The Neogene basins of the Internal Western Carpathians (IWC) reflect basin basement movement activity and can be from the point of view of their position in the orogen, basement dynamics and tectonic style divided to three geodynamic types: i) Large Middle Miocene-Pliocene back-arc, thermal-subsidence basins related to the mantle upwelling, ii) Early-Middle Miocene inter-arc fault-controlled basins, or their rotated and tilted remnants situated inside the Carpathian Shear Corridor (CSC) – a boundary strike-slip shear zone of extruded IWC crustal segment; iii) tectonically separated parts of disintegrated Internal Western Carpathian Early Miocene-Pliocene molasse basin, situated within strongly deformed peri-Klippen and Klippen zone, representing strike-slip tectonic interface between mutually rotated Internal and External Western Carpathian domains. The crustal block dynamics is reflected simultaneously in the core mountains distribution. The youngest core mountains (AFT age 9–22 Ma) are geneticaly related to and situated inside the CSC, which was interrupted by northward shifted tectonic block, explaining the outstanding position of the Malá Fatra Mts.
Kualitas Climate-Related Disclosures atas Rekomendasi TCFD pada Perusahaan Multinasional Periode 2020-2022
Authors: Limtaroli Cindy , Meiden Carmel
Published: February 2025

The phenomenon of climate change has attracted world attention, as related cases, such as greenwashing, have been carried out by various entities in the world. TCFD is present to provide guidelines for disclosing risks and opportunities, providing stakeholders with information regarding strategy, the carbon emissions in the sector and the company's financial system. The purpose of this research is to analyze the quality of company’s climate-related disclosures and provide comparison between sectors and countries. The objects of research are banking and mining sector companies from China, the United States, and Canada which issue climate-related disclosures for the 2020-2022 period. Data is analyzed using content analysis method and quantitative and qualitative scoring. The research show that quality of “average-high” results, with governance category ranked first quantitatively while metrics and targets category qualitatively. Comparison between countries in order from highest to lowest value is the United States, Canada and finally China. The banking sector shows higher quality of climate-related disclosures than the mining sector.
Revisiting Unemployment in Indonesia: Error Correction Model (ECM) Analysis
Authors: Widyarta I Kadek Purna , Samosir Cecilia Putri Dianti , Aysyah Putri , Kartiasih Fitri
Published: February 2025

The rise in population in Indonesia has led to the emergence of a very pressing problem, namely the unemployment rate. Indonesia is currently ranked second in ASEAN as the country with the highest unemployment rate. It has become a serious problem due to the negative impact of such increases in crime, declining economic output, increasing poverty, rising numbers of demonstrators, and rising death rates, especially the rise in suicide rates among men. The rise in unemployment is caused by many factors, one of which is the economy. Some economic variables will experience a high rise in the next few years to ensure the impact tested using the Error Correction Model (ECM) method. This study looks at the influence of macroeconomic variables such as foreign direct investment, PDB, government expenditure, exchange rates, and imports on the unemployment rate in Indonesia from 1986 to 2022. The results show that there is both long-term and short-term influence, with the variable that has the most significant influence being foreign direct investments. It needs the attention of the government in determining policies and handling them to address the problem of unemployment in Indonesia.
Efforts to Improve the Economy of the Ambulu District Community Through the PNM Ulamm Institution in Financial Management
Authors: Safrizal Safrizal , Ningrum Kristina Ayu , Purwanti Yuniasih , Nasihin Ihsan
Published: February 2025

The aim of this research is to provide an overview of how influential PNM ULaMM is in improving the economy of Ambulu sub-district. The Micro Capital Services Unit (ULaMM) is a service from PT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM) which was formed by the government with the aims and objectives of empowering micro and small businesses. One of them is in Ambulu District which needs capital for business, and existing micro-entrepreneurs to develop their businesses. This research aims to describe efforts to improve micro businesses in the area of financial management. The research results show that through this activity, the community experiences increased financial capacity, business growth and overall economic prosperity. Therefore, this research provides an important contribution to understanding the role of microfinance institutions in supporting efforts to improve the community economy at the local level. The implications of these findings can be a reference for related parties, including other micro institutions, to develop more effective strategies in improving the economic welfare of communities in similar areas. To obtain financing from the PNM ULaMM institution, the community does not need to be complicated by the requirements they have to fulfill as with banking institutions
Juridical Review of the Issuance of Police Clearance Certificates (SKCK) Using National Health Insurance (JKN) Based on Police Regulation Number 6 of 2023
Authors: Prasasta Ni Putu Nadya Guna Artha , Sihotang Erikson , Arjawa Anak Agung Gde Putra
Published: February 2025

The application of the National Health Insurance (JKN) membership requirement in the process of issuing a Certificate of Good Conduct (SKCK) has resulted in various problems, especially for those who are not registered as members. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the JKN membership requirement in the SKCK issuance process and identify the obstacles faced by the community. This study used a normative research method with legal analysis based on applicable regulations. The data used includes primary and secondary legal materials. The results showed that the regulation requiring JKN membership is contrary to the applicable law, namely Law Number 25 of 2009 concerning Public Services. This requirement creates obstacles in accessing public services that should be inclusive. This study examines the various challenges faced by the community in meeting these requirements and assesses their compliance with the principles of good public service. Policies that require JKN membership as a condition for issuing a Certificate of Good Conduct (SKCK) should be reviewed because they create barriers to accessing public services. Recommendations are made to remove these requirements in order to improve the inclusiveness and efficiency of public services.
Cancer-related care for rural and remote populations in Canada: A scoping review
Authors: Galica Jacqueline , Alsius Agnès , Sahi Sania , Holmes Jessica , Kerr Hanna , Bildfell Kirsten , Patton Laura , SInasac Claudia , Ross-White Amanda , Crawford Joanne
Published: February 2025

Background: Synthesizing unique barriers to cancer-related care among rural and remote populations would be useful to inform future research and health service priorities. To fill this gap, the overall goal of this review is to synthesize the cancer literature about those living in rural and remote locations in Canada.

Methods: Using JBI scoping review methods, we extracted the following: definition of rural or remote; phase of cancer care continuum (screening, diagnosis, treatment/care, post-treatment, outcomes); province(s) and/or territory(ies) of the sample; and cancer diagnosis(es).

Results: Within the 45 studies, definitions of rural and remote varied widely. The treatment/care phase was most often reflected (n = 18) followed by screening (n = 12). All provinces were represented and data from the Yukon Territory was lacking. Breast and colorectal cancer diagnoses were most common (n = 20 and n = 18, respectively) and most studies (n = 31) used quantitative designs.

Conclusion: Review results illuminate the state of cancer-related research of rural and remote populations across Canada and highlight implications for further examination.
Desenvolvimento de um Sistema Computacional para Conversação sobre a Política de Assistência Estudantil do IFCE
Authors: Fernandes Leonardo de Almeida , Silveira Francisca Raquel de Vasconcelos
Published: February 2025

Este trabalho aborda o desenvolvimento de um chatbot com objetivo de ajudar a comunidade acadêmica sobre a assistência estudantil do IFCE, visando atender os discentes beneficiados pelos auxı́lios estudantis. Para a implementação, realizou-se pesquisas identificando dúvidas quanto aos auxı́lios estudantis do IFCE. O chatbot foi desenvolvido utilizando as ferramentas Dialogflow e Make e diponibilizado nas plataformas de Telegram e Whatsapp. Logo após, o chatbot foi disponibilizado para avaliação, usando-se questionários estruturados na System Usability Scale (SUS). Após a análise das avaliações, o chatbot mostrou-se eficiente e com nı́vel de satisfação positivo quanto às necessidades dos estudantes e dúvidas sobre a assistência estudantil.
Persistência Poliglota: o armazenamento de dados e suas possibilidades
Authors: Martins Lucas Souza Silveira , Florão da Silva João Vítor , Scherer Adriana Paula Zamin
Published: February 2025

O crescimento exponencial da geração de dados pelas organizações resulta na necessidade de persisti-los de modo a garantir sua integridade, consistência e disponibilidade. Em um cenário de crescente complexidade dos dados a serem armazenados, o modelo relacional não mais atende os requisitos de armazenamento em plenitude e para atender a estas novas demandas, os bancos NoSQL surgem como alternativa. Neste contexto, a Persistência Poliglota se apresenta como uma estratégia para lidar com a diversidade de dados e requisitos das aplicações modernas. A partir desta multiplicidade de abordagens para o cenário de armazenamento de dados, emerge a pergunta norteadora deste trabalho: como auxiliar na escolha do modelo mais adequado? Para tanto, realizou-se uma revisão da literatura que analisa os modelos de bancos de dados relacionais e NoSQL, destacando as vantagens e desvantagens de cada um, baseados em um modelo de persistência poliglota. O estudo produziu um arcabouço teórico como forma de auxiliar na decisão do modelo mais adequado para cada situação de armazenamento.
After Multiculturalism
Authors: Welsh John F.
Published: February 2025

After Multiculturalism: The Discourse on Race and the Dialectics of Liberty provides a unique critique of multiculturalist thought in social theory and public policy from an individualist perspective. Contemporary academic and policy discourse on race and racism in the United States is dominated by collectivist social theories that are founded on the idea that the only meaningful challenges to racism are those that foster collective social identities and seek to influence and direct the use of state power in the interest of particular racial and ethnic groups. Multiculturalism is the prevailing incarnation of anti-racist thought that informs and mediates political process and organizational life in the United States. The multicultural discourse on race has become tribalist, anti-western, anti-market, and statist. After Multiculturalism challenges the notion that collectivist and statist ideologies 'own' racism as an educational and public policy issue. Welsh demonstrates that individualist philosophies entail critiques of racism that follow directly from their anti-collectivist and anti-statist foundations. He argues that multiculturalism is unlikely to promote the types of social action and changes essential to overcoming racism and that the individualist and libertarian ideas discussed in the book make important contributions toward the realization of a world free of racial domination. To this end, the ideas of Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Benjamin, Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Max Stirner and contemporary libertarian scholars are discussed to the lay the foundation for a critique of multiculturalism. The book explores the concepts of post-ethnicity and transracialism as individualist and libertarian expressions of a society 'after multiculturalism.' Welsh's discussions of transracialism and post-ethnicity constitute unique and important contributions to social thought. This book will hold great interest for scholars and students concerned with race, ethnicity, political theory, or individualist thought, as well as scholars and students of the history of ideas.
Persistence Through Time in Spinoza
Authors: Waller Jason
Published: February 2025

This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in Spinoza. The author argues for three major interpretive claims. First, that Spinoza is committed to an eternalist theory of time whereby all things (whether they seem to be past, present, or future) are equally real. Second, that a mode’s conatus or essence is a self-maintaining activity (not an inertial force or disposition.) Third, that modes persist through time in Spinoza’s metaphysics by having temporal parts (that is, different parts at different times.) If the author is correct, then a significant reinterpretation of Spinoza’s modal metaphysics is required. The book also puts Spinoza into dialogue with some recent work in analytic metaphysics.
Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement
Authors: Frega Roberto
Published: February 2025

Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we should deal with it. In so doing it strikes a middle path between troublesome dualisms such as those of realism and relativism, rationality and imagination, power and justification. To do so, the book draws on the resources of the pragmatist tradition, claiming that this tradition offers solutions that have for the most part been neglected by the contemporary debate. To prove this claim, the book provides a large account of debates within this tradition and engages its best solutions with contemporary philosophical theories such as perfectionism, critical theory, moral realism, and liberalism. The question of the nature of disagreement is addressed both at the general theoretical level and more specifically with reference to moral and political forms of disagreement. At the more general level, the book proposes a theory of practical rationality based upon the notion of rationality as inquiry. At the second, more specific, level, it aims to show that this conception can solve timely problems that relates to the nature of moral and political reasoning.
Overcoming America / America Overcoming
Authors: Rowe Stephen C.
Published: February 2025

In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of this current and potentially fatal malaise: join other societies which are also struggling to move beyond the modern and consciously reappropriate those elements of tradition which have to do with cultivation of the mature human being. To avoid fundamentalism, Rowe discusses how this reappropriation must be undertaken in dialogue with those who also have come to recognize the unsustainable quality of the modern lifeway, and who have been able to live beyond the nihilistic wish to tear it down. This book supports the call for an emerging global ethic and spirituality, providing resources of articulation and interpretation that allow for an ongoing dialogue between traditional and modern values—both worthy and problematic in their own ways—through which reliable policy and healthy living become possible.
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
Authors: Pierce Andrew J.
Published: February 2025

Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation for a conception of identity politics that avoids many of its usual pitfalls. The focus throughout is on racial identity, which provides a test case for the theory. That is, it investigates what it would mean for racial identities to be self-ascribed rather than imposed, establishing the possible role racial identity might play in a just society. The book thus makes a unique contribution to both the field of critical theory, which has been woefully silent on issues of race, and to race theory, which often either presumes that a just society would be a raceless society, or focuses primarily on understanding existing racial inequalities, in the manner typical of so-called “non-ideal theory.”
Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels from the Southern Cone
Authors: Cordeiro Rosa Debora
Published: February 2025

The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It examines how trauma and memory have profound effects on shaping the identity of these Jewish characters who have to forge a new identity as they begin to interact with the Latin American societies of their newly adopted homes. The first three novels present stories narrated by the first generation of immigrants who arrived in Latin American lands escaping pogroms in Russia, and the increasing persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe, in the decades prior to World War II. The fourth novel analyses the identity conflicts experienced by a second generation Latin American born Jew who questions his Jewish, questions of assimilation and integration in to his society. The last novel closes this study with the existential crisis experienced by a perfectly assimilated non-religious Jew, who enquires about his Jewishness and compares himself to other Jews around him.
Beyond Mechanism
Authors: Henning Brian G. , Scarfe Adam
Published: February 2025

It has been said that new discoveries and developments in the human, social, and natural sciences hang “in the air” (Bowler, 1983; 2008) prior to their consummation. While neo-Darwinist biology has been powerfully served by its mechanistic metaphysic and a reductionist methodology in which living organisms are considered machines, many of the chapters in this volume place this paradigm into question. Pairing scientists and philosophers together, this volume explores what might be termed “the New Frontiers” of biology, namely contemporary areas of research that appear to call an updating, a supplementation, or a relaxation of some of the main tenets of the Modern Synthesis. Such areas of investigation include: Emergence Theory, Systems Biology, Biosemiotics, Homeostasis, Symbiogenesis, Niche Construction, the Theory of Organic Selection (also known as “the Baldwin Effect”), Self-Organization and Teleodynamics, as well as Epigenetics. Most of the chapters in this book offer critical reflections on the neo-Darwinist outlook and work to promote a novel synthesis that is open to a greater degree of inclusivity as well as to a more holistic orientation in the biological sciences.
The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen
Authors: Richey Sean
Published: February 2025

Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why people vote, how NGO’s become successful in developing nations, and much more. Yet an in-depth analysis of the social basis of the rationality is missing. To fill this void, The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen provides the first empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. Through new lab experiments and survey data, this book shows that decision-making in groups promotes more rational choices and better citizenship. Thus, advice and learning derived from social network contacts are shown to be the basis of decision-making for the rational citizen.
The First R
Authors: Feagin Joe R. , Van Ausdale Debra
Published: February 2025

This study looks into how children learn about the 'first R'—race—and challenges the current assumptions with case-study examples from three child-care centers.

Parents and teachers will find this remarkable study reveals that the answer to how children learn about race might be more startling than could be imagined.
Renewal
Authors: Hill Robert B.
Published: February 2025

This collection of short essays, sermons, lectures, reviews, analyses, and poems is offered as a means to provoke thought, inspire imagination, and encourage conversation about the future of the church. Church renewal awaits a renewed synergy of theology, homily, and energy. Together, thought, word, and deed offer us much as we face an unforeseen future. There is much for which to be thankful, and much to be excited about as the church moves forward into the twenty-first century. A healthy future of stimulated learning, excellent leadership, and lay ministry_thought, word, and deed!_may be coming toward us.
Conceptions of Happiness
Authors: Götz Ignacio L.
Published: February 2025

Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people answer according to their own conception of happiness. Their conception may differ from that of the interrogator, who may not be unaware of this fact. People may also deem themselves happy differently at different times in their lives, depending upon their circumstances and on their own estimate of themselves. Therefore, to think that there is just one meaning of happiness spanning a lifetime does not correspond to the facts of life as we know and experience them. This book presents many views of happiness as espoused by their original founders and developers.
Noble Cause Corruption, the Banality of Evil, and the Threat to American Democracy, 1950-2008
Authors: DiJoseph John
Published: February 2025

Noble Cause Corruption, the Banality of Evil, and the Threat to American Democracy, 1950-2008 is a probe of the mindset of American government officials, from presidents of the United States on down, who decided that necessity required that the American democracy had to be defended by actions and policies that were contrary to the traditional ideals of the democracy. The emphasis is on the activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. The probe relies for its historical data on well-recognized, previously published reports and histories. The probe is unique in that it focuses on the mindset of the individuals involved. The analysis of the mindset ranges from Aristotle, the latest research of mental health professionals, to the insights of thinkers Edmund Burke, Reinhold Niebuhr, Friedrich Meinecke, and George Kennan. The conclusions reached are disturbing: the defense of the democracy has been a failure and the mindset of the officials has continued to the present day and does not bode well for the future of the democracy.
God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion
Authors: Harcum E. Rae
Published: February 2025

The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others. Mental health does not refer to the absence of mental disturbance, but rather to feelings of happiness and well-being. This message represents an integration of psychological and religious thinking, both of which say that personal peace and happiness come to those who devote their lives to serving others, instead of those who focus their lives on a search for personal pleasure. This proposition is supported by rigorous psychological research showing that people who believe in a loving and supportive God do, in fact, enjoy better mental health. This thesis is also supported by the insightful advice of many experts and commentators on social problems, and by specific quotations from the Bible. So, smile if you truly believe your religion.
Co-Whites
Authors: Aniagolu Emeka
Published: February 2025

Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the present day. The work explores how white American women, in their search and struggle for gender equality in the United States, related to three principal streams in America's socioeconomic and political history: white supremacy, women of color-especially African American women, and the freedom and civil rights struggle for racial equality. The United States has irreversibly become a multiracial and multicultural democracy and white supremacy has become untenable; however, Aniagolu concludes that white American women collaborated with white American men as 'Co-Whites' or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. Well-researched and lucidly written, the work makes intellectually and historically coherent a subject matter often muttered in small circles and that takes the form of scholarly 'civil wars' inside 'Women's Studies' between white American and African American women scholars and schools of thought. The work grapples with a serious issue in light of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, offering insightful explanations certain to evoke lively debate in university classrooms, amongst professorial colleagues, and in the general public.
Incidental Psychotherapy Within Christian Relationships
Authors: Harcum E. Rae
Published: February 2025

Incidental Psychotherapy within Christian Relationships points out the close similarity between the loving connections of Christians and therapeutic relationships between psychotherapists and clients. Thus, a simple Christian connection has an incidental therapeutic value for a troubled friend. This book continuously emphasizes that a Christian connection is never forged for the purpose of restoring mental health, but to obey the Christian mandate to love. The Christian connection, as a therapeutic alliance, merely provides a personal preparatory stage for possible later improvement. It does not apply in any way to the use of professional therapeutic techniques. The book discusses the nature of psychotherapy, the nature of 'cures,' and the credentials of qualified psychotherapists. Chapters focus on the nature of Christian connection and ways to improve it.
Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching
Authors: Bonner Emily P.
Published: February 2025

Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The book aims to contribute to the limited literature base in this area in mathematics education. The discussions in the book center on the ideals of culturally responsive teaching (CRT), and seek to build understanding of this concept in the context of mathematics. Further, the story of Gloria Jean Merriex speaks to the importance of historical influences on teaching practice. Her story is couched in sociopolitical realities of the American educational system, and is discussed as such. Cultural incongruities that exist in classrooms and contribute to the black-white achievement gap, particularly in mathematics, are also discussed.
Dangerous Liaisons
Authors: Moscovici Claudia
Published: February 2025

What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don’t advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable “mask of sanity,” they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.
For-Get
Authors: Bucciferro Claudia
Published: February 2025

The election of Michelle Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, brought to the public sphere topics such as gender, inequality, and the legacy of seventeen years of military rule. Former dictator Augusto Pinochet instructed Chileans to “for-get” and move on, but this is complicated because individual and collective identities are anchored in memory and articulated through discourse. What happens to a nation and its people when the obliged referent of their recent history is one that hardly anyone wants to address? This book reveals the incongruity between what current media say about Chilean identity and what most people experience, showing the tensions that prevail within a society that is also quickly changing due to globalization. The author engages with the old dichotomy between agency and structure, proposing a new model for understanding identity from an intercultural perspective.
Wild Socialism
Authors: Comack Martin
Published: February 2025

Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout Germany, and was without precedent in either the theory or practice of the Social Democratic party and the trade unions allied to it.

These workers councils were most highly developed in Berlin, within its particular industrial, political, and cultural milieu. The Berlin Shop Stewards group provided a hard core of militant revolutionaries within the movement, many of whose adherents were more moderate or ambiguous in their views. Externally, the councilists faced a hostile Social Democratic-trade union bureaucracy who characterized council rule as “wilde Sozialismus,” a reconstituted and repressive state power, and a revolutionary rival in the rise of German Bolshevism. This work considers the experience of the Berlin councils as alternative institutions outside of traditional union, party, and governmental structures.
Behind the Iron Curtain
Authors: Byford Jeffrey M.
Published: February 2025

Behind the Iron Curtain: A Teacher’s Guide to East Germany and Cold War Activities discusses teaching Cold War activities through an East German perspective. The book is comprised of eight chapters that examine various pedagogical approaches and historical background associated with East Germany’s role throughout the Cold War. Topics in this book include multiple methods of differentiated instruction, the beginnings of East Germany, the creation of the Ministry for State Security, the Berlin Wall, youth and education, a planned economy, life and society of East Germans, and the events that led to the fall of communism. The heart of this book includes eighteen lessons associated with life behind the Iron Curtain.
Drawing Life
Authors: Cottle Thomas J.
Published: February 2025

In Drawing Life, Thomas J. Cottle examines the ways people interpret their life experiences and construct meanings for the events they have encountered. In this manner, they discover their various identities and the essence of what we call the self. In reading the sixteen life studies contained in this volume, we encounter both inner reflections as well the power of culture to shape the meanings people give to their circumstances and the events that befall them. The stories also reflect the role of human relationships and social institutions in defining our personal identities and sense of justice. What makes us unique, therefore, is the personal story we tell as it reveals our constructions of the world and of ourselves. The stories recounted in Drawing Life illuminate not only our past, but also our perceptions of the present and our imaginings of the future. In this way, they become anthologies of our life experiences.
Reclaiming Our Brains Without Losing Our Minds
Authors: Wiehl Inga
Published: February 2025

Reclaiming Our Brains without Losing Our Minds relates the story of a group of women in the mid-sized town of Yakima, Washington, who form a reading group in dedicated pursuit of “the best that has been thought and said” in literature. Over the course of twenty-nine years, the women hone their minds, exchange ideas, and discover a sense of closeness and community that extends beyond the page. Featuring detailed accounts of the recruitment process, strategies for meetings, and the methods of choosing the featured texts, this book is a vital tool for anyone interested in starting a reading group or rekindling a love of literature.
Divided Dynamism
Authors: Metzler John J.
Published: February 2025

Divided Dynamism presents a cogent and comprehensive review of the political and unification policies of separated nations. This book relates a brief historical capsule about each divided nation, illustrates the socio/economic dynamic of the divide, and offers a searing and poignant political synthesis for future unification options. Exploring the unique roads to national unity, John J. Metzler studies each individual state and looks at diplomatic relations in their historical context and economic aid as a foreign policy program. He presents each country’s official view of reunification and offers different scenarios for both Korean and Chinese reunification. Divided Dynamism provides an invaluable record of the dynamics of modern politics in the post-Cold War era. The book also explores the lessons learned from Germany’s reunification and what this means for both Korea and China.
Pennsylvania Elections
Authors: Kennedy John J.
Published: February 2025

Pennsylvania Elections provides a systematic and thorough analysis of every statewide election in Pennsylvania since 1950. The five chapters are divided between U.S. Senate elections, gubernatorial contests, statewide row offices, and presidential campaigns. Each of the 106 elections that have taken place since 1950 is analyzed within the context of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth and John J. Kennedy discusses the candidates and issues which have shaped Pennsylvania for more than a half-century. By combining quantitative political science, political history, and political geography, this book will both pique the interest of those interested in the state’s politics and serve as a reference source for future scholars.
Dead'er
Authors: Blenman Roger R.
Published: February 2025

June 13, 1886, in the new city of Vancouver, fifteen-year-old Noble enters the office of the Northwest Timber Company in a hand-me-down suit. He tries to pass for a man fit to work on a logging crew. A spark from a brush fire ignites the wooden building. The office and much of the city are incinerated. Noble too is caught in the fire.

More than a hundred years later, while on vacation in Mexico, Sean Hughes finds a message on the beach. Back in Vancouver, the messages continue and become more ominous. Sean is convinced that his apartment is haunted by malevolent spirits. Mandy, his neighbor, is certain that the messages are a plea for help. Sean and Mandy’s determination to decipher the messages leads to questions of trust and betrayal, loneliness and forgiveness. The answers they find will challenge them to believe that hope can outlast death.
Dogma's Primrose Path
Authors: Martinez John L.
Published: February 2025

Dogma’s Primrose Path addresses how the perpetual presence of ignorance, poverty, and war throughout the world is accepted by most people as an inevitable consequence of human life given man’s incurably evil, greedy, and violent nature. John L. Martinez argues that this almost universal acceptance is itself a dogmatically learned and programmed condition. This book suggests that human beings need to discard their dogmatic straightjackets and begin to thrive upon reason, logic, perception, and experience in order to live together fruitfully and peaceably.
Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary
Authors: Valerie Miké Valerie Miké
Published: February 2025

Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe. It emerged from the revival of the institution founded by Adolph Kolping, a contemporary of Karl Marx in Germany, to seek a Christian solution to the worker crisis brought on by the Industrial Revolution. The Hungarian plan envisioned a strong middle class of independent entrepreneurs and an economic system between Marxism and the monopolistic capitalism then dominant in Europe. It was reaching maturity when halted by Germany’s invasion of Hungary in 1944 and then destroyed by subsequent Soviet occupation and Communist rule. The story is told through the life of its national leader, John Madl-Miké, whose experiences enabled him later in the United States to make original observations on American capitalism with vital support for the anti-Communist cause. Book includes a 16-page photospread of historical illustrations.
Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
Authors: Garrett Benjamin C. , Hart John
Published: February 2025

Human experience with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare has been limited, especially in comparison to conventional forms of warfare. Our experience with nuclear warfare is confined to a period of less than one week during the end of World War II, when the United States successfully used two nuclear weapons against targets in Japan. The course of biological warfare and modern use of biological weapons are difficult to track owing to the difficulty of differentiating deliberate use from natural outbreaks. However, the keen potential of biological weapons in acts of terror was shown in the mass disruption caused in the fall 2001 experience in the U.S. with the release of anthrax through the American postal system. Chemical weapons have been used in a handful of conflicts since their introduction to modern warfare during World War I, most recently during the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980s. Despite this limited experience, NBC warfare continues to exert a certain fascination among states. The Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare covers the development and use of NBC weapons as well as efforts to limit or control the use of these weapons through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, and dictionary entries. Over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries provide a unique selection of terms related to NBC warfare, ranging from basic descriptions of substances used in NBC warfare to details on incidents and episodes where NBC weapons were used. Entries are structured around historical events, persons important to NBC warfare, countries where such weapons have been developed or used, and international treaties and treaty-related organizations.
Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833-1955)
Authors: Longa Ernesto A.
Published: February 2025

In the 19th and 20th centuries, dozens of anarchist publications appeared throughout the United States despite limited financial resources, a pestering and censorial postal department, and persistent harassment, arrest, and imprisonment by the State. Such works energetically advocated a stateless society built upon individual liberty and voluntary cooperation. In Anarchist Periodicals in English Published in the United States (1833-1955): An Annotated Guide, Ernesto A. Longa provides a glimpse into the doctrines of these publications.

This volume highlights the articles, reports, manifestos, and creative works of anarchists and left libertarians who were dedicated to propagandizing against authoritarianism, sham democracy, wage and sex slavery, and race prejudice. In the survey are nearly 100 newspapers produced throughout North America. For each entry, the following information is provided: title, issues examined, subtitle, editor, publication information, including location and frequency of publication, contributors, features and subjects, preceding and succeeding titles and an OCLC number to facilitate the identification of owning libraries via a WorldCat search. Excerpts from a selection of articles are provided to convey both the ideological orientation and rhetorical style of each paper's editors and contributors. Finally, special attention is given to highlighting the scope of anarchist involvement in combating obscenity and labor laws that abridged the right to freely circulate reform papers through the mails, speak on street corners, and assemble in union halls.
Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence
Authors: West Nigel
Published: February 2025

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis. It has become the basis upon which all combat operations are undertaken. It is now widely recognized as an absolutely vital dimension to modern warfare and it has proved to be a vital component in the counter-intelligence war fought between the West and Soviet bloc intelligence agencies.

The Historical Dictionary of Signals Intelligence covers the history of SIGINT through a chronology, an introductory essay, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key personnel, SIGINT technology, intelligence operations, and agencies, as well as the tradecraft and jargon. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Signals Intelligence.
A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV Since 1930
Authors: Van Riper A. Bowdoin
Published: February 2025

Films that dramatize historical events and the lives of historical figures-whether they are intended to educate or to entertain—play a significant role in shaping the public's understanding of the past. In The Hollywood History of Science and Technology, A. Bowdoin Van Riper focuses on the dramatized portrayals of a particular group of historical figures—scientists, engineers, and inventors—that have appeared on American film and television screens. This volume analyzes individual portrayals, the public images of particular scientists and inventors, and the ideas about science and technology that, collectively, they represent. In this first in-depth study of how historic scientists and inventors have been portrayed on screen, Van Riper catalogs nearly 300 separate performances and includes essays on the screen images of more than 80 historic scientists, inventors, engineers, and medical researchers. The individuals covered include Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Dian Fossey, and Bill Gates. Arranged chronologically by the subject's date of birth, entries for each individual explain their major contributions to science and technology, analyze the ways in which they've been portrayed in film and on television, and conclude with a complete list of screen portrayals and a discussion of suggestions for further reading. The Hollywood History of Science and Technology will be of interest to anyone concerned with the depiction of historical events and historical figures in film and television, and to anyone interested in the public understanding of science and technology.
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema
Authors: Hart Kylo-Patrick R.
Published: February 2025

Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don’t Cry, and Brokeback Mountain.

In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of “normalcy,” “deviance,” and “social otherness,” in ways that frequently have real—and sometimes detrimental—effects on actual people.

Covering a range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom Generation, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey, Brokeback Mountain, Transamerica, and Shortbus, this book shows not only how much has changed since the mid-20th century, but also how much has remained the same. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies.