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Twenty Years Monitoring the Brazil Current Along the NOAA AX97 High-Density XBT Transect
Authors:   Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Ferreira Tayanne , Marangoni Paula , Cirano Mauro , Paiva Afonso , Cruz Samantha , Freitas Pedro , Goes Marlos , Mata Maurício
Published: February 2025

The NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) AX97 High Density eXpendable Bathy­Thermo­graph (XBT) transect constitutes the longest sustained monitoring system of the Brazil Current (BC), having so far provided two decades of observational data. The BC plays an important role in oceanic variability and related processes, as it significantly influences regional and global climate dynamics. The BC is also the main pathway by which subtropical waters are carried to high latitudes. The AX97 data integration into assimilation schemes enhances the accuracy of short-term ocean predictions and long-term reanalyses, benefiting global forecasting centers by improving ocean models at regional, basin, and global scales. Moreover, the AX97 data contribute to global datasets used to quantify ocean heat content, and they are pivotal in assessing high-resolution ocean forecast systems and Earth system models, including those employed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This bimonthly sampling effort, a collaboration between Brazilian universities, the Brazilian Navy, and NOAA/AOML, successfully completed 100 cruises between August 2004 and August 2024, deploying 4,704 XBTs along the transect from Rio de Janeiro to Trindade Island near 22°S. Here, we analyze the BC’s structure and variability over the period 2004–2023, examining its behavior under extreme warm and cold oceanic conditions, including positive and negative anomalies in sea surface height and temperature.
Transznyelvűség magyar irodalmi kontextusban
Authors: Toldi Éva
Published: February 2025

A transznacionális mozgásokat a 20. század végén, de különösen a 21. század elején transzkulturális áthelyeződések követik. A transzkulturális jelenségek velejárója pedig egyre gyakrabban a transznyelvűség. Nagy nemzeti irodalmak esetében egyre kevésbé megy ritkaságszámba, hogy a társadalmi mobilitás kényszerű vagy önként vállalt térbeli kimozdítottsága következtében az alkotók nem elsőként megtanult nyelvükön írnak, hanem új környezetük nyelvén. A migráció folyamata a magyar társadalmat is érintette. Ám amíg a magyar irodalom utóbbi évtizedeiben a deterritorializáció jelenségével szembe találta magát, a helyváltoztató írók rendre tematizálták beilleszkedésük körülményeit, addig a migrációt, a dolgok természetéből adódóan, nem kellett követnie olyan mértékű és jellegű transzlingválásnak, ami egy idegen nyelv megtanulását tette volna szükségessé. Az előadás kitekint a transzlingválás elméleti megközelítésének sokféleségére, és példákat hoz a transzlingválás magyar irodalmi megnyilvánulásaira
A mozgásban levés mint transzkulturális poétika
Authors: Roguska-Németh Magdalena
Published: February 2025

A transzkulturális irodalom, ami a legáltalánosabb definíció szerint olyan szövegekre vonatkozik, amelyek túllépnek egy egységként kezelt kultúra határain, és arra reflektálnak, ami a kulturális határtérben található, egyik kulcstoposza a „mozgásban levés”. A szereplőik utaznak, vándorolnak, menekülnek, vannak közöttük turisták, (e/i)migránsok, számkivetettek, csavargók és nomádok. Az „utazási kérdések” azonban általában csak témaként jelennek meg. Jelen tanulmány a többkultúrájú identitással rendelkezű, angolul író David Szalay Turbulence című művének értelmezésére vállakozik. Az első, elméleti rész többek között olyan szerzők megállapításaira tér ki, mint Rosi Braidotti, Zygmunt Bauman és Christian Trepte, míg a második egy szövegelemzést mutat be, amelynek célja annak bemutatása, hogy a mozgásban levés nemcsak témája, hanem poétikája is lehet egy szövegnek. Továbbá, a tanulmány záró szakaszában olyan transzkulturális szövegek is említésre kerülnek, amelyek Szalay művéhez hasonlóan alkalmazzák az utazás poétikáját.
Zwischen Fremdbestimmung und Autonomie
Authors: Mehre Silke
Published: February 2025

Politische Entscheidungen beeinflussen die Handlungsfähigkeit von Organisationen in der Sozialwirtschaft und gefährden zunehmend ihre Unabhängigkeit. Wie können sozialwirtschaftliche Akteure in einem fremdbestimmten Umfeld ihre Autonomie bewahren und fördern? Welche Ansätze und Strategien können helfen, langfristig unabhängige und resiliente Strukturen zu etablieren?
Klimawandel – Transformation vermitteln und gestalten
Authors: Vilain Michael , Lembke Steffen
Published: February 2025

Der Klimawandel stellt neue und herausfordernde Aufträge an die Freie Wohlfahrtspflege, die die Konsequenzen des Kimawandels gestalten und vermitteln muss, um so eine sozialökologische Transformation einzuleiten.
Parents and Schools Together
Authors: Wachel Kelly
Published: February 2025

Parents and Schools Together shows administrators, teachers, and parents how to work together to produce high achieving students in urban school districts. We all know that in this fast-paced world of standards and commitments, it’s easy to forget what schools and parents are all about. There are things that schools can do to show parents the way to raise successful students. Parents have to help in order for schools to be high performing. Schools, especially schools of poverty and low achievement, have to have parent help if they are going to make it. Parents can’t use the excuse that they don’t know what to do or I’m not going to do that anymore. When schools enlist the help of parents, schools can begin to harness the full effect of all adults tag teaming together to raise students up to the levels they are capable of. Parents and School Together shows that it’s not just the school’s job to raise kids and it’s not just the parent’s job to raise kids. It takes both working together to raise successful students and kids.
Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today
Authors: Kohler-Evans Patricia , Dowd Barnes Candice
Published: February 2025

Over the past two decades, and perhaps even before the “No Child Left Behind Act,” policy makers and others have managed to drain civility, compassion, and courage from everyday classroom instruction. We have grown to become an educational system that is almost solely focused on academics at the expense of teaching to the whole child. Civility, Compassion, and Courage in Schools Today argues that civility, compassion and courage are absolutely essential to foster good citizenship—to encourage and motivate students to action—to take on the perspectives of others, and to see how they can become productive members in an ever changing global community. Using the authors’ “Model of Influence,” a four level hierarchy, they suggest that students can be taught to be more civil, compassionate, and courageous, even when facing adversity, and can move from developing a consciousness about these attributes into embracing influence and taking bold action. This book provides numerous examples as well as lesson plans designed to assist all educators to infuse their instruction with these critical attributes.
The Limits of Marriage
Authors: Lee Gary R.
Published: February 2025

This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to explain the “retreat from marriage” blame it on culture change involving a devaluation of marriage, and/or on ignorance of the benefits of marriage among the unmarried population. In turn, because unmarried adults and single-parent families are poorer than others, poverty and its associated problems are attributed to the failure to marry.

The argument presented here is that the declining marriage rate is due to the deteriorating position of workers, particularly men, in the American economy. Not only have jobs disappeared and wages decreased, especially for the less-educated, but existing jobs have become more precarious. Less-educated workers can’t count on having jobs in the future, and can’t count on earning enough to support families if they have jobs because their wages have stagnated. In this economic environment, the flexibility to change partners becomes a survival strategy for the economically marginalized population, which has been increasing in size for the past four decades. Arrangements such as cohabitation allow for this flexibility; marriage does not.

This argument implies that marriage is not a realistic choice for many Americans. In fact, it is a choice that many people don’t actually have. Marriages between economically marginal men and women would not eventuate in the benefits that middle-class people experience when they marry, and would eliminate an option they may need to survive in the face of unrelenting poverty. We won’t convince these people that marriage would improve their lives, because in most cases it wouldn’t be true. To return the marriage rate to its pre-1970 level, we need to address the economic factors that have caused the decline.
Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the Hervay Affair Of 1904
Authors: Rose Alison
Published: February 2025

This book examines the antisemitism that flourished outside of Vienna, in Austrian provinces such as Styria, Carinthia, Vorarlberg, Upper Austria, and Tyrol, focusing in particular on gender bias and its relationship to antisemitism. The 1904 arrest and bigamy trial of Frau von Hervay, the Jewish wife of District Captain Franz von Hervay of a Styrian provincial town (Mürzzuschlag), is closely examined to shed light on the relationship between Jews and non-Jews and attitudes towards women and sexuality in the small cities and towns of the Austrian provinces. The case demonstrates that antisemitism influenced popular perceptions of Jews and women at the local level and that it targeted women as well as men. This bookprovides an in-depth study of an episode of Austrian history that had a significant impact on the development of Austrian law; the role of religious institutions; perceptions of Jews, women, and sexuality; conceptions of Austrian bureaucracy and the need for reform; and the relationship between the provinces and the Viennese center. It also provides insight into the public interest generated by sensations such as arrests, suicides, crimes, and trials and the way the press of that time reported on them.
Crowdsourcing the Law
Authors: Banner Francine
Published: February 2025

While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snapchat, and a host of other social media platforms suggests that we are not shy about expressing our opinions online. Debates that just a few years ago would have taken place in real life have been relocated online; allowing eager commenters to share their thoughts on guilt or innocence with legions of virtual strangers. Crowdsourcing the Law explores how everyday participants interpret and apply law in the influential online court of public opinion. Engaging a multidisciplinary, case study approach, the book analyzes social media comments about public figures such as Bill Cosby, Brock Turner, and Harvey Weinstein to address ambitious questions like: How are rape myths being challenged, reinforced, and reinvented on social media? What is the promise and peril of the #MeToo movement for transforming the law? And can due process be afforded in the face of an increasingly powerful virtual jury?
Puerto Rico
Authors: Gautier Luis
Published: February 2025

Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationship between the US and Puerto Rico arguably plays a fundamental role in this crisis. With these in mind and given the imposition of the Financial Oversight Management Board by the US government, this book presents policy recommendations to help Puerto Rico achieve sustainable development. A set of partial equilibrium models are employed to study important industrial policy options and trade issues. This book also discusses the potential role of market-based environmental policies as well as issues of income convergence. The method of analysis to study the Puerto Rico–US relationship presented in this book is entirely new to the literature and the analysis of market-based environmental policy. The overarching result is that it is in the best interest of Puerto Rico and the US to set economic policies consistent with an equilibrium characterized by political independence (i.e., national sovereignty) for Puerto Rico. The potential for sustainable economic growth and development is latent in Puerto Rico’s economy. But for factors of production to be used effectively and efficiently, Puerto Rico’s economy requires access to international markets at sufficiently lower transaction costs, a condition consistent primarily in an equilibrium characterized by political independence. Access to international markets at sufficiently lower costs would help, inter alia, restore market credibility, regain access to credit markets at bearable costs and achieve important efficiency gains. This book argues that international trade ought to be at the center of development and growth policy. Importantly, it argues on the grounds of efficiency that not only is it in the best interest of the US to help Puerto Rico move gradually towards an equilibrium consistent with political independence, but that a statehood-like equilibrium is inefficient, particularly if a higher degree of access to global markets is at the center of policy formulation. I hope the discussion presented in this book signifies an important contribution to the policy debate in order to address Puerto Rico’s economic challenges.
Ecologies of Participation
Authors: Cabot Zayin
Published: February 2025

In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation offers a methodology whereby we can face our shared planetary predicament. It is grounded in process philosophy, and asserts the importance of a new ontology of agency. It traces the importance of Lévy-Bruhl and Lévi-Strauss’s early work, while offering new insight into the ontological turn in anthropology. This book sets out to destabilize modern reductionist trends toward scientific materialism, without falling into postmodern cultural constructivism. It does not assume the givenness of nature or culture. By advancing a multi-ontology approach, this work offers robust interventions into decolonial and critical studies. Cabot takes contemporary scholarship in new and exciting directions—offering an unstable ground from which to examine our shared worlds, both human and other. Throughout the last chapters of the book, these threads are illuminated through a detailed ethics of comparison and participation.
Mystic Moderns
Authors: Thrall James H.
Published: February 2025

Mystic Moderns examines the responses of three British authors—Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), May Sinclair (1863–1946), and Mary Webb (1881–1927)—to the emerging modernity of the long early twentieth-century moment encompassing the First World War. As they explored divergent but overlapping understandings of what mystical experience might be, these authors rejected claims that modernity’s celebration of the secular and rational left no place for the mystical; rather, they countered, sensitivity to a greater reality could both establish and validate personal agency, and was integral to their identities as modern women. Their preoccupations with the dynamism of human connection drew on prevailing ideas of “vital energy” or “life force” developed by Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson in ways that channeled modernity’s erotic energy of change. By using their fiction to describe new, self-authenticating forms of mysticism separate from either the prevailing orthodoxy of establishment Christianity or the extreme heterodoxy of their era’s enthusiasm for paranormal experimentation, they also contributed to the rise of a generic concept of “spirituality.” Mystic Moderns thus offers historical perspective on contemporary claims for self-constructed, non-institutional spiritual experience associated with the claim “I’m spiritual, not religious.”

Working as they did within the shadow of the First World War, Underhill, Sinclair, and Webb were, in the end, attempting to determine what might be of authentic value for a modern age marked by ubiquitous death. While not themselves utopian authors, each was touched by her era’s complicated hunger for the best of all possible worlds. Their constructions of how an individual should be and act in the midst of modernity thus simultaneously projected visions of what that modernity itself should become.
Historical Dictionary of Malaysia
Authors: Keat Gin Ooi
Published: February 2025

Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at home, although Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and nearly everyone speaks English. There is also a mixture of religions, with Islam predominating among the Malays and others, Hinduism and Sikhism among the Indians, mainly Daoism and Confucianism among the Chinese, but also some Christians as well as older indigenous beliefs in certain places.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Malaysia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 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 Malaysia.
Caribbean Women and Their Art
Authors: Snodgrass Mary Ellen
Published: February 2025

Overlooked in the history of artistic endeavors are the contributions of female writers, painters, and crafters of the Caribbean. The creative works by women from the Caribbean proves to be as remarkable as the women themselves.

In Caribbean Women and Their Art: An Encyclopedia, Mary Ellen Snodgrass explores the rich history of women’s creative expression by examining the crafts and skill of over 70 female originators in the West Indies, from the familiar islands—Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico—to the obscurity of Roatan, Curaçao, Guanaja, and Indian Key. Focusing particularly on artistic style during the arrival of Europeans among the West Indies, the importance of cultural exchange, and the preservation of history, this book captures a wide variety of artistic accomplishment, including

Folk music, acting, and dance

Herbalism and food writing

Sculpture, pottery, and adobe construction

Travel writing, translations, and storytelling

Individual talents highlighted in this volume include dancer Katherine Dunham, storyteller Louise Bennett-Coverley, paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, dramatist Maryse Condé, herbalist and memoirist Mary Jane Seacole, ballerina and choreographer Alicia Alonso, and athor Elsie Clews Parsons.

Each entry includes a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as further readings on the female artists and their respective crafts. This text also defines and provides examples of technical terms such as ramada, slip, hematite, patois, and mola. With its informative entries and extensive examinations of artistic talent, Caribbean Women and Their Art: An Encyclopedia is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in learning about some of the most influential and talented women in the arts.
Different Baby, Different Story
Authors: O'Leary Joann , Parker Lynnda , Murphy Margaret M. , Warland Jane
Published: February 2025

Pregnancy after prenatal or infant loss can be a lonely and frightening time, but through stories of both pain and healing, the authors show how to navigate the exciting but choppy waters of a subsequent pregnancy.

The loss of a pregnancy or newborn infant changes the meaning of pregnancy, birth, and parenting forever. Increased parental fear and anxiety, and continuing grief for the deceased baby, can impact subsequent pregnancies in unexpected ways. Parents who are unsupported in pregnancy after loss are may be more at risk of experiencing anxiety, depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and difficulty in attaching to a new baby.

Different Baby Different Story explores the range of emotions, thoughts, and physical experiences of parents who have gone on to subsequent pregnancies. Including stories from mothers, fathers, other children, and extended family members, this poignant and moving work will help readers through their own feelings and give voice to those who may have felt unheard or unsupported in the past. With practical advice on self-advocacy, the book helps expectant parents gain insights as to how others learned to work with health care professionals, mental health professionals, and their own families and friends and coworkers. For expectant mothers, their partners, their families and their friends, this work supports the range of experiences and encourages readers on a path to healing.
Historical Dictionary of Buddhism
Authors: Olson Carl
Published: February 2025

Moving beyond the original bodhi tree where the historical Buddha attained enlightenment, Buddhism spread throughout Asia and in more recent history has become ubiquitous in America and other Western nations as it marches into the status of a major global religion. During its history westward, it has changed, adapted to new cultures, and offered spiritual help to those looking for answers to the problems of life. Buddhism is studied in institutions of higher education, practice by many people worldwide, and its literature is translated in numerous languages.

Historical Dictionary of Buddhism, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as complex theological concepts, significant practices, and basic writings and texts. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Buddhism.
Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5
Authors: Cook Frank D. , Glynn Harley
Published: February 2025

Learn the basics of recording, editing, and mixing audio using Cubase Elements, Artist, or Pro. Experience the software used worldwide by musicians, producers, engineers, mixers, and audio professionals. Filled with tips and insights, Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5 will get you working fast. With this book and the included media files, you’ll get the practical, hands-on exposure you need. We cover everything from setting up your computer to the fundamentals of audio production, including:

Basic Digital Audio Workstation operations and audio hardware options

Principles of sound production and microphone use

Essential Cubase concepts and operations

MIDI fundamentals for playing and performing with virtual instruments

Multi-track recording

Plug-in use and signal processing techniques

Mixing your project and using automation

Outputting your final mixdown

Cubase software is very powerful, yet fun and easy to use. Everything you learn here will apply to all editions of Cubase (Elements, Artist, and Pro), so you can easily upgrade in the future no matter where you are starting today. Take the first step now, with Audio Production Basics with Cubase 10.5.
Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen
Authors: Harris Jocelyn
Published: February 2025

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous desire to become another Sun King. For Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Austen may draw on the actress Dorothy Jordan, mistress of the pro-slavery Duke of Clarence, while her West Indian heiress in Sanditon may allude to Sara Baartman, who was exhibited in Paris and London as “The Hottentot Venus,” and adopted as a test case by the abolitionists. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, this new book by Jocelyn Harris contributes significantly to the growing literature about Austen’s worldiness by presenting a highly particularized web of facts, people, texts, and issues vital to her historical moment.
Entangled Terrains and Identities in Cuba
Authors: McKercher Asa , Krull Catherine
Published: February 2025

Entangled Terrains: Empire, Identity, and Memories of Guantánamo explores the challenges and conflicts of life in the transnational spaces between Cuba and the United States by examining the lived experiences of Alberto Jones, a first-generation black Cuban who worked at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Asa McKercher and Catherine Krull take readers on a journey through Jones’s life as he crossed the entangled political, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries, both in Cuba and living as a black Cuban in central Florida. McKercher and Krull argue that Jones’s story encapsulates the reality of recent Caribbean and Cuban experiences as they deconstruct the events of his life to reveal the broader cultural and social implications of identity, boundaries, and belonging throughout Caribbean and Cuban history.
The Weight of Whiteness
Authors: Bailey Alison
Published: February 2025

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits of whiteness and its attendant privileges, however, make it difficult for white people to feel the damage. White people are more comfortable thinking about white supremacy in terms of what privilege does for them, rather than feeling what it does to them. The first half of the book focuses on the overexposed side of white privilege, the side that works to make the invisible and intangible structures of power more visible and tangible. Bailey discusses the importance of understanding privileges intersectionally, the ignorance-preserving habits of “white talk,” and how privilege and ignorance circulate in educational settings. The second part invites white readers to explore the underexposed side of white dominance, the weightless side that they would rather not feel. The final chapters are powerfully autobiographical. Bailey engages readers with a deeply personal account of what it means to hold space with the painful weight of whiteness in her own life. She also offers a moving account of medicinal genealogies, which helps to engage the weight she inherits from her settler colonial ancestors. The book illustrates how the gravitational pull of white ignorance and comfort are stronger than the clean pain required for collective liberation. The stakes are high: Failure to hold the weight of whiteness ensures that white people will continue to blow the weight of historical trauma through communities of color.
Precolonial African Material Culture
Authors: Farrar V. Tarikhu
Published: February 2025

The idea of an inherent backwardness of technology and material culture in early sub-Saharan Africa is a persistent and tenacious myth in the scholarly and popular imagination. Due to the emergence of the field of African studies and the upsurge in historical and archaeological research, in recent decades the stridency of this myth has weakened, and the overtly racist content of arguments mustered in its defense have tended to disappear. But more important are transformations in social, political, and cultural consciousness, which have worked to reshape conceptualizations of African peoples, their histories, and their cultures. Precolonial African Material Culture offers a thorough challenge to the myth of technological backwardness. V. Tarikhu Farrar revisits the early technology of sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by recent research and reconsiders long-possessed primary historical sources. He then explores the ways that indigenous African technologies have influenced the world beyond the African continent.
Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites
Authors: Park Sung-Choon
Published: February 2025

By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the United States, this book registers and traces these transnational figures as racialized transnational elites and illuminates the intersectionality and reconfiguration of race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Using in-depth interviews with Korean international students in New York City and Koreans in South Korea as a case study, this book argues that racialized transnational elites are embedded in racial and ethnic dynamics in the United States as well as in class and nationalist conflicts with non-migrant co-ethnics in the sending country. Sung-Choon Park further argues that strategic responses to the local, social dynamics shape transnational practices such as diaspora-building, transfer of knowledge, conversion of cultural capital, and cross-border communication about race, causing heterogeneous social consequences in both societies.
The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development
Authors: Okonta Ike
Published: February 2025

The Failure of Leadership in Africa’s Development examines the dominant scholarly theories about the cause of Africa’s underdevelopment and argues that none of the traditionally invoked causes—an alleged black racial inferiority, the colonial and neo-colonial expropriation of Africa, purported natural defects in Africa’s geography—is plausible as the explanation of the main cause of the continent’s underdevelopment. Rather, the book argues that the chief cause of the continent’s lag is the failure of leadership of Africa’s ruling classes. This failure of leadership, the book shows, is most evident in the historically traceable indifference of a long succession of Africa’s ruling classes to the scientific and technological advances that were emerging from Europe and Asia during the most critical periods of Africa’s history. It was this indifference, the book argues, that set the stage for the subsequent conquest, expropriation, and technological stagnation of Africa. The book recommends a blueprint for the continent’s future development.
Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese
Authors: Watanabe Kazuha
Published: February 2025

Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese, which until now had not been examined using the tools of contemporary linguistic theory. Kazuha Watanabe analyzes syntactic distribution of the temporal suffixes in the Man'yōshū, an eighth-century poetry collection, and compares the results with data from well-attested languages. The author then integrates the semantic property of each suffix into the overall synchronic tense-aspect system of Old Japanese. Watanabe further compares the reconstructed system with the distributions of the same suffixes in Early Modern Japanese using Genji Monogatari, an eleventh-century novel, in order to provide further support for the synchronic analysis of Old Japanese. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional analyses, which identify the meanings of the temporal suffixes based on contextual information. In addition, previous analyses have produced a uniform analysis covering the entire 700-year period from Old to Early Modern Japanese. Instead, Watanabe proposes that Old Japanese had a temporal system distinct from the later period.
Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie
Authors: Bell Stephen J.
Published: February 2025

Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie examines Salman Rushdie’s major works for the ways that they consistently affirm the power of memory to construct a concrete, rooted identity for characters and nation-states despite the prerogative of migrants to translate themselves into new creations through a dismissal of the weight of the past. Stephen J. Bell conducts an in-depth, comprehensive postcolonial and postmodern of Rushdie’s ideas as expressed through his work. If “exile is a dream of glorious return,” as one of his characters reflects in The Satanic Verses, few diasporic writers living today rival Rushdie for the singular inspiration he draws from memories of home and the past. So vital is the idea of home and belonging to Rushdie that, notwithstanding the frequent charges of his critics that he represents no more than a disconnected cosmopolitan, Bell would categorize Rushdie's position as one of “centripetal migrancy" (with centrum--“center”--and petere--“to seek”--forming the idea of a constant quest for the center). Rushdie thus qualifies as the quintessential “centripetal migrant,” whose slippery critical location is balanced Janus-faced between the future and the past.
The Revival of China's Entrepreneurial Class in Historical-Comparative Perspective
Authors: Drake Michael
Published: February 2025

The Revival of China's Entrepreneurial Class in Historical-Comparative Perspective: Prospects for a New Chinese Liberalism examines the evolution of China’s entrepreneurial class and prospects for entrepreneurial-driven political institutional change. Michael Drake posits that decades of economic reforms and social transformation have illuminated a fundamental contradiction in contemporary China—a rule-by-law closed political system governing over an emergent entrepreneurial class requiring property protection—that requires resolution. Drake argues that the Chinese Communist Party has one of two choices: crush the entrepreneurial class, and with it, economic growth and the party’s legitimacy, or cede to the entrepreneurs’ demands for the rule of law and political representation. Drake’s research shows the rise of liberal qualities—rationality, autonomy, property-law interests, political awareness, and political agency—among China’s emergent entrepreneurial class. As such, Drake argues that this liberal trajectory, in conjunction with a lack of viable alternatives for the party, will translate into a new Chinese liberalism, and ultimately, political change.
Chinese-Western Comparative Metaphysics and Epistemology
Authors: Lu Mingjun
Published: February 2025

Chinese-Western Comparative Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Topical Approach features a comparative analysis of the fundamental metaphysical assumptions and their epistemological implications in Chinese and Western philosophy. Adopting the methodology of topical comparison that seeks to correlate two or multiple approaches to the same set of questions raised by a single topic or issue, Mingjun Lu argues for commensurability in Chinese and Western metaphysics of both Nature and the mind, and in the epistemology of knowledge dictated by these two fundamental hypotheses of the first principle or primary cause. Lu explores this philosophical commensurability through a comparative analysis of the canonical works written by Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, and Leibniz on the Western side, and by Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Lu Jiuyuan, Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming on the Chinese side. The parallels and analogues revealed by the comparative lens, Lu proposes, bring to light a coherent and well-developed Chinese metaphysical and epistemological system that corresponds closely to that in the West. By inventing such new categories as cosmo-substantial metaphysics, consonant epistemology, natural hermeneutics, and onto-mind reading to reconceptualize Chinese and Western philosophy, Lu suggests alternative and more commensurable grounds of comparison.
Pink Hats and Ballots
Authors: Rose Lydia , Bartoli Teresa M.
Published: February 2025

The worldwide outcry from protesters of the 2017 Women’s March made clear the connections of many related issues and the powerful connection to ecofeminism. Pink Hats and Ballots: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Women’s Political Activism in the Age of Trump, Coronavirus, and Black Lives Matter provides an enlightening combination of history, federal policy changes, social science research, and ecofeminism to explain the extraordinary rise of women’s political activism and the continued empowerment of minoritized individuals to resist oppression and engage in heightened new levels of political involvement. Environmental justice, racism, and social justice are central in analyzing the events encapsulating American politics between the 2016 and the 2020 Presidential elections culminating in the massive participation in 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is vital reading for those new to activism and explains the connections between current issues and the exploitation of the environment.
Denkbewegungen zur interkulturellen Philosophie
Authors: Wirtz Markus
Published: February 2025

In times of planetary crises and global challenges, intercultural philosophy is more necessary than ever. In 12 chapters, the book shows which prerequisites should be fulfilled for successful intercultural philosophizing and how concrete dialogues between European and East Asian philosophies can be realized in an exemplary manner. The texts in the book are based on thematically linked lectures and essays on intercultural philosophy that the author has written over the last 20 years. Markus Wirtz researches and teaches as a private lecturer in philosophy at the University of Cologne on issues such as practical philosophy, philosophy of religion, intercultural philosophy and posthumanism.
Vertretungsmacht und Verkehrsschutz
Authors: Krapp Hannah
Published: February 2025

In Germany, the commercial register is regarded as a central instrument for third party protection regarding the representation of merchants and trading companies in legal transactions. In the USA, on the other hand, the concept of a public register in which the legal representatives of companies are disclosed for third parties is largely unknown. The study takes this insight as an opportunity to comprehensively examine German and US-American agency law with regard to instruments of third party protection. First the general civil law of both countries is examined, before the special features with regard to the representation of companies are worked out and the different concepts are subjected to a comparative analysis.
Strafrechtliche Geschäftsherrenhaftung im Konzern
Authors: Klose Kathrin
Published: February 2025

The individual corporate criminal liability of a manager of a group parent company may also relate to the prevention of group-related criminal offenses committed by employees of subsidiaries. The thesis examines the legal basis of the individual criminal liability of certain managers in a company and in a group of companies as well as from a comparative law perspective with US law. Whether a duty to prevent corporate crimes exists is to be determined from factual and control-related perspective. Furthermore, the limitation of the scope of the duty to prevent only company or group-related offenses and the possible addressees of the guarantor position in the individual company and group of company are discussed.
International Law and Marine Geoengineering
Authors: Steenkamp Robert C.
Published: February 2025

This book examines international law’s institutional and regulatory responses to marine geoengineering. It examines the obligations on States pursuing these technologies, distinguishing their development from commercial deployment. Focusing on the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international climate change regime, and the law of the sea, the book underscores that the exponential increase in interest in these technologies must be met with a corresponding increase in regulatory oversight. It argues that existing institutional frameworks provide the best foundation for governance and emphasizes the importance of regime interaction to ensure the safe and effective regulation of marine geoengineering.
Analysis of the Highest Altmetrics-scored Articles in Emergency Medicine Journals
Authors: Bayram Başak , Çetin Murat , Limon Önder , Long Brit , Gottlieb Michael
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Alternative metrics (altmetrics) have emerged as invaluable tools for assessing the inﬂuence of scholarly articles. In this study we aimed to evaluate correlations between Altmetric Attention Scores (AAS), and sources and actual citations in articles displaying the highest AAS within emergency medicine (EM) journals. Methods: We conducted an analysis of EM journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) using the Altmetric Explorer tool. We analyzed the journals that received the highest number of mentions, the sources of AAS, the regions most frequently mentioned, and the geographical distribution of mentions. In the subsequent stage of our analysis, we conducted an examination of the 200 top-ranked articles that had received high AAS and were published in SCIE EM journals from January 1, 2013–January 1, 2023. We sought to determine the correlations between the AAS and the citation counts of articles on Google Scholar and the Web of Science (WOS). Results: Of 40,840 research outputs evaluated, there were 510,047 shares across multiple platforms. The AAS were present for 36,719 articles (89.9%), while 10.1% had no score. In the review of the top 200 articles with the highest AAS, the median score was 382.5 (interquartile range 301.3–510.8). Of the research output evaluated, 38% were observational studies, 13% case reports, and 13% reviews/meta-analyses. The most common research topics were emergency department (ED) management and COVID-19. There was no correlation between AAS and WOS citation numbers (rs = −0.041, P = 0.563, 95% conﬁdence interval [CI] −0.175–0.087). There was a weak correlation identiﬁed between WOS citations and mentions on X, and a moderate correlation observed for WOS citations and blog mentions(rs = 0.330, P < .001, 95% CI 0.174 to 0.458; rs2 = 0.109, and rs = 0.452, P < .001, 95% CI 0.320–0.566; and rs2 = 0.204, respectively). However, we found a strong positive correlation between WOS citations and the number of Mendeley readers (rs = 0.873, P < .001, 95% CI 0.82–0.911, rs2 = 0.762). Conclusion: While most articles in EM journals received an AAS, we found no correlation with traditional citation metrics. However, Mendeley readership numbers showed a strong positive correlation with citation counts, suggesting that academic platform engagement may better predict scholarly impact.
Pemanfaatan Reaktor Kontinu dan Katalis Zeolit dalam Konversi Termal Limbah Poliolefin menjadi Bahan Bakar Ramah Lingkungan
Authors: Ali Masri , Ibrahim Masri , Machmud M. Nizar
Published: February 2025

This study investigated the conversion of plastic waste into fuel oil through thermal and catalytic cracking with an innovative reactor. The study analyzed the effect of plastic type (LDPE, HDPE, PP), reactor temperature (400-550°C), and catalyst type (HZSM-5, ZSM-5, Ni-Mo/Zeolite) on the yield and characteristics of liquid products. The experimental results showed that LDPE produced the highest liquid product (78.5%), the optimum temperature was 500°C, and the HZSM-5 catalyst gave the best performance. GC-MS analysis identified the main components of C5-C12 hydrocarbons according to the characteristics of fuel oil. The liquid product had a calorific value of 42.5 MJ/kg and a sulfur content of <10 ppm with an energy efficiency of 65%. The results of the study prove the effectiveness of the innovative reactor in overcoming the problem of plastic waste while producing alternative energy
Effect of Entrepreneurship Development on Employment Generation in Nigeria: A Case Study of Nasarawa State
Authors: Gambo Attahgani Angyu , Akpan Michael , Ogwuche David , Umeokwobi Richard
Published: February 2025

The paper examines how the growth of entrepreneurship affects the generation of employment opportunities in Nasarawa State. Even though entrepreneurship is crucial for generating employment, there are still obstacles in the way of its growth. These include limited support from governmental and non-governmental organizations, difficulty obtaining financing and microcredit, proper training and enlightenment etc. The objective of this paper is to investigate how the growth of entrepreneurship affects the creation of jobs in Lafia, Nasarawa State. The study used a descriptive research design, and the means used for gathering data was a questionnaire given to new entrepreneurs in Lafia, Nasarawa State. A sample size of 375 was determined from a population of 1604 using a Smith (1984) sampling formula; this sample represented the number of questionnaires that were delivered. This findings of the research demonstrated that the creation of jobs in Nasarawa State is significantly impacted by the growth of entrepreneurship. This implies that through entrepreneurship development, self-reliance and employment opportunities have been created in Lafia, Nasarawa State. Through this, youths have been able to develop a way to create value in the society. More so, this study revealed that access to credit (micro credit) has a significant effect on employment creation in the State. Having acquired knowledge on how to manage finance they make sound financial decisions. Lastly, the study showed that the number of new businesses established has a significant effect on employment creation in Nasarawa State. This result implies that youths who apply their entrepreneurship skills and creativity in one nature of business or the other have been able to earn a living out of it in Nasarawa State. This paper thus suggests that the Nasarawa State government should genuinely recognize the relevance of entrepreneurship development and provide an enabling environment. Both the government and institutions should ensure that youths get adequate financial credit (micro-credit).