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Postpositivism and Educational Research
Authors: Burbules Nicholas C. , Phillips D. C.
Published: February 2025

This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples from the educational research and evaluation literature to illustrate the value of a scientific approach. Many educational researchers aspire to carry out rigorous or disciplined inquiry aimed at producing accurate (and generally 'truthful') accounts of educational phenomena and the causal psychological or social processes that lay behind them. However, many recent critics have argued that it is a mistake to believe that research can yield theories, or advance claims that are true, objective, and value-neutral. In other words, that researchers always work within frameworks that embody important (and often questionable) assumptions about values and the nature of human knowledge. This book argues that , while there is much to be learned from recent critiques, traditional scientific values and assumptions are not outmoded. The authors show students how to implement and benefit from the scientific method in ways that take into account recent critiques.
Improving Medical Outcomes
Authors: Leavitt Jessica , Leavitt Fred
Published: February 2025

The problems faced by medical doctors and automobile mechanics are in some ways quite similar—something isn't working right and must be fixed. They must both figure out the cause of malfunctions and determine the appropriate treatments. Yet, the mechanic has no need to worry about an automobile's psyche; the specific mechanical factors are the only ones that come into play. In health care, however, the factors influencing outcomes are broader, more complicated, and colored by the underlying psychological factors of those involved. These factors have profound effects. Doctors are often influenced by patients' description of symptoms, yet information is often incomplete or inaccurate or colored by the patient's own experiences. The doctor's own demeanor may greatly affect outcomes, as can the doctor's ability to interpret the ever-expanding medical literature. These underlying influences are often not acknowledged, and yet they can have far-reaching consequences. Acknowledging these psychological factors and learning how to overcome them are the first steps in improving communications between doctors and patients and to improving diagnosis and treatment. Here, the authors offer strategies for remedying the situation and moving forward to a better understanding of doctor-patient visits and their outcomes.
Envy Theory
Authors: Ninivaggi Frank John
Published: February 2025

Envy arouses questions about fairness and unequal distribution of resources. Scavenging for hidden treasures and exploiting the acquisition of what is perceived to be free also imply underlying envy and greed. Envy, in isolation, can be destructive to psychological processes. Endowments of envy, however, are not as bleak and unsparing as they at first may appear. Envy, recognized and intelligently managed, transforms and may spur admiration, emulation, aspiration, empathy, and developmental advantages. Here, Ninivaggi offers a theory of envy and explores various ideas and concepts related to it. He proposes research paradigms for testability, advances principles and guidelines for pragmatic applications in psychotherapies and psychoeducation, and considers new paths for further discovery.
Understanding Psychosis
Authors: Capps Donald
Published: February 2025

When a loved one is struck with psychosis, people often misunderstand what is happening and why. They may feel helpless or confused or frightened, not knowing what to do with or for the sufferer or how to handle the situation themselves. This book takes a look at psychosis and how it has been handled over the last century or so. Beginning with a definition of psychosis and moving to a consideration of how people who suffer from it were once institutionalized and are now expected to be cared for at home, the author traces the challenges families and communities face, considers the plight of sufferers and what they experience, and offers case examples throughout to illustrate the onset of psychosis, the infringement it makes on personal and professional life, and the toll it takes on sufferers and caregivers alike. Capps covers the magnitude of the problem, the treatment of sufferers, the warning signs, facts and realities of recovery, treatments, prevention, and coping strategies for family members and caregivers. Readers will come away from this work with a better understanding of psychosis in the context in which it occurs, and what to do for themselves and their loved one as they navigate daily life, the mental health system, and family dynamics.
The Complexities of Police Corruption
Authors: Corsianos Marilyn
Published: February 2025

The Complexities of Police Corruption provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gender as it relates to police corruption, crime control, and policing as an institution. Author Marilyn Corsianos examines different forms of corruption, including some behaviors that are generally not recognized as corruption by police departments, such as selective law enforcement, racial profiling, gender bias and other discriminatory police practices against marginalized populations.. The book also explores the role of police culture in preserving and defending misconduct and digs into the thorny question of why significantly fewer women are involved in police corruption.

Throughout the book, excerpts from interviews with 32 former police offers illustrate the complex ways that gender construction is connected to police corruption and shows how policing as an institution creates corruption risks. The Complexities of Police Corruption is a challenging and insightful book about the intersections between gender and corruption.
Beyond Agreement
Authors: Steinkerchner Scott
Published: February 2025

Beyond Agreement addresses the thorny question of how to make interreligious dialogue productive when the religious differences are so large that finding common ground seems unlikely. The book offers a way to think about interreligious dialogue that allows people to stay committed to their own truth as they have come to know it while being open to learning from other religions. It then outlines a way for Christian theologians to enter into a profitable dialogue with the beliefs and traditions of other religions by presenting practical steps to follow in order to keep the dialogue productive and respectful of similarities and differences among religions.
Rights for Victims of Crime
Authors: Waller Irvin
Published: February 2025

When the victims of injustice lose faith in their justice system, the crime they've endured cuts only deeper, adding insult to injury. The time has come to face the truth that most victims of crime will not have their needs met and often won't experience our systems of justice as just. This short book makes its readers experts in advocating rights for victims of crime. It empowers taxpayers, voters and (potential) victims of crime to make the case to rebalance justice and support victims. Written for the millions of victims of crime and their friends and families, it helps to transform an antiquated system of criminal and civil justice into a modern system that is just and fair, shifting from neglect to respect and support. While some laws in the USA and elsewhere do support victims by providing assistance, compensation, and protection from the accused, this book also sheds a harsh light upon their inadequate implementation. Police services must catch crooks but make victims their client. Courts must balance rights for defendants and victims. Services for women, children and elderly victims must be adequately funded. Restitution from offenders must be ordered and collected, not overlooked. Fair compensation from the state must change from a secret to a given. The prevention of victimization must be the budget priority not mass incarceration. Despite the speeches and the United Nations norms, governments still leave most victims of crime without basic information, support, and assistance, let alone respect and remedies in courts. If you are not yet one of those victims of crime, social responsibility requires you to ensure that your country's systems of justice are fair to those who are and for them, this book provides an answer.
The New CEOs
Authors: Zweigenhaft Richard L. , Domhoff G. William
Published: February 2025

The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly. As recently as fifteen years ago, there had only been three women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and no African Americans. By now there have been more than 100 women, African American, Latino, and Asian-American CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff look at these “new CEOs” closely. Weaving compelling interview excerpts with new research, the book traces how these new CEOs came to power, questions whether they differ from white male Fortune 500 CEOs in meaningful ways, asks whether the companies that hired them differ from other companies, and discusses what we can learn about power in America from the emergence of these new CEOs. As Americans continue to debate corporate compensation, glass ceilings, and colorblind relationships, The New CEOs shares information critical to understanding our current situation and looks toward the future in our increasingly globalized world. The paperback edition of The New CEOs features a new Introduction and an updated comprehensive list of new CEOs to date.
Professional Development Schools
Authors: Breault Rick , Breault Donna Adair
Published: February 2025

Professional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from the Field provides a comprehensive analysis of PDS research that can aid PDS stakeholders in designing and sustaining meaningful research in their partnerships. Breault and Breault used an extensive qualitative meta-synthesis to examine the research over the past 20 years. Their comprehensive review of 300 studies provides a.deep understanding of the challenges and potential within PDSs. The authors offer analysis regarding key elements of PDSs and highlight strong studies including a large-scale, multi-site study and studies using mixed methods and action research effectively. They also highlight exemplary studies showing how pilot studies are effective ways to research new partnerships, how theory can lead to greater abstraction, and how metaphor can clarify complex relationships. This book is an essential resource for all stakeholders involved in professional development schools.
Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Authors: Kendall Virginia M. , Funk T. Markus
Published: February 2025

Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simply, the growing, increasingly-organized epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated response.

The aim of this book is to bring some fresh thinking to this complicated area of the law, and to help erase some of its counterproductive mythology. The book provides the first comprehensive, practical introduction to the history and present-day reality of child sexual exploitation, as well as to the interconnected web of domestic and transnational federal laws and law enforcement efforts launched in response thereto. It is written from the distinctive perspective of those who have spent their careers in the trenches investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating these intricate and commonly emotional cases. Relying on real-world examples, the authors offer proscriptive and descriptive practical advice and reform proposals aimed at those involved at all levels in this difficult area. Serving as a “first-line” resource for clear, practical thinking on the range of complex, and often misunderstood, investigative, prosecutorial, and rehabilitative issues surrounding child exploitation cases, this work is a must-have for anyone with interest in the protection of children from sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Learning to Lead
Authors: Davis James P.
Published: February 2025

Leadership is an activity that not only manifests itself in formal positions, but also bubbles up in various places within an organization. Perhaps given the importance of leadership to any endeavor, the literature on this topic has burgeoned. Yet among these titles, Learning to Lead stands out as one of the best texts available on leadership for college and university administrators. Critical skills such as managing people, resolving conflict, and making rational (and legal) decisions are explored within the context of the campus. The book also addresses the needs of those who facilitate leadership workshops, serve as mentors to potential leaders, and teach courses on higher education leadership and administration. While presenting all sides of key issues, the author calls for the reader to define his or her own position through a series of provocative reflection questions in each chapter. Thus the book invites interaction and teaches administrators not what to think about leadership, but how to think about it.
When Sons and Daughters Marry
Authors: Merrill Deborah M.
Published: February 2025

Marriage is an important transition in the life of any adult who marries. But often when a son or daughter gets married, their relationships with their natal families changes. It is often said that a 'daughter is a daughter all of her life, but a son is a son 'til he takes him a wife.' This book examines how marriage changes relationships between adult children and their parents and how this differs for sons versus daughters. Merrill considers the process by which men 'get pulled into' their wives' families and the ways in which men are sometimes more connected to their wives' families following marriage than to their own families. But what is it about a relationship with a son that changes when he marries? And why do daughters tend to stay closer? Why do mothers experience greater difficulty in negotiating relationships with married sons than with married daughters? Why do daughters tend to stay closer and maintain stronger ties to their natal families than sons do? This book answers these questions and offers advice for mothers on how to maintain strong ties with their children when they marry, negotiate relationships that may be fraught with new challenges, and accept changes when they happen. Sharing firsthand accounts from mothers, sons, and daughters, the author sheds new light on this neglected topic.
The Organ Donor Experience
Authors: Bramstedt Katrina A.
Published: February 2025

With a current US need of over 115,000 organs one would think that Good Samaritan donors would be welcomed with open arms by transplant centers and society in general; however, this is often not the case. Tell someone that you have donated an organ to a stranger and the reaction is likely to be one of astonishment and disbelief. Some doctors even consider people who offer their organs to strangers crazy. Why would anyone do that? Who are these people so committed to helping others-strangers-that they would undergo surgery, discomfort, and disruption of their lives? This book profiles donors who have offered their organs to strangers and helps readers understand the meanings behind their donations. For the donor, altruism should always be the primary motivation, though other motivations often come into play. Often, there are also subconscious reasons for performing this great act of kindness. The Organ Donor Experience gives living anonymous organ donors of kidneys, liver lobes, and lung lobes the opportunity to tell their stories as they understand them, and for others to understand the motivations and the meaning of true altruism.
No Angel in the Classroom
Authors: Fisher Berenice Malka
Published: February 2025

No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching through Feminist Discourse presents a theoretically complex yet down-to-earth and personal account of feminist teaching in higher education. Starting with a nuanced interpretation of consciousness-raising, longtime feminist educator Berenice Malka Fisher develops her philosophy of feminist teaching as a form of political discourse. Through reflection on a series of candid classroom stories, she analyzes knotty problems faced by academics and activists. What counts as knowledge in discussion of feminist issues? Can teachers exercise authority without being authoritarian? What is the role of caring in political deliberation? Should safety be considered when students and teachers address volatile topics? How can feminist and other teachers committed to social justice give serious attention to the intersections of gender, race, and sexual orientation? This groundbreaking book is intended for the beginning and veteran teachers and others concerned with the contribution of education to extending social justice. Fisher's work offers a pedagogical vision that inspires both passion and critical thinking.
Paths to Making a Difference
Authors: Lawrence Paul R. , Abramson Mark A.
Published: February 2025

To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings of a two year's study of top political appointees in the Obama administration.

The participants—deputy secretaries and agency heads—provide case studies of how each approaches the management challenges and achieves the mission of their organization. Full of behind-the-scenes insights and practical advice from government political executives on how they face management challenges in real time, Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government offers indispensable insights to current and prospective political appointees and everyone interested in understanding how leaders work to make government agencies more effective.
My Life in Jewish Renewal
Authors: Schachter-Shalomi Zalman
Published: February 2025

This powerful memoir chronicles the life of one of America’s most celebrated rabbis—Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, or “Reb Zalman” as he is fondly known to friends and followers. The book traces his life from a youth in the shadow of the Nazis through the tumultuous 1960s in America to his position as a renowned religious leader today.

Often controversial for his attraction to cultural mavericks and religious rebels, Reb Zalman’s colorful lifetime includes a striking cast of characters across faith traditions, including Timothy Leary, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, and more. The book traces Reb Zalman’s work creating the vibrant Jewish Renewal movement that emphasizes spiritual experience and continues to touch Jews around the world today. Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with anecdotes from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the life story of this beloved leader for the first time.

Reb Zalman often illustrates his talks with stories from his life, and My Life in Jewish Renewal brings together the complete life story of this beloved leader for the first time.
The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World
Authors: Fuller Gary
Published: February 2025

Gary Fuller’s entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful country requires citizens to keep guns in their homes? what continent contains at least 75 percent of the world’s fresh water? and why aren't New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia the capitals of their respective states? An inveterate traveler and geographer extraordinaire, Fuller provides extensive background, clear illustrations, and thorough explanations for each intriguing question, carefully grounding the text in practical geographic concepts. Both enjoyable and enlightening, this book challenges today’s global generation to truly get to know their world.
The New Senior Woman
Authors: Fleisher Barbara M. , Reese Thelma
Published: February 2025

As people live longer and better lives, both women and men may look forward to many years in retirement. But living well in retirement depends on a variety of decisions people make as they prepare for and enter this new chapter of life and living. This book is for and about women approaching and experiencing life in their senior years. This largest and fastest-growing part of the population is living in a manner very different from our mothers, whose roles in life were much more predictable and circumscribed than ours. Today’s senior women live longer, are healthier, better educated, more involved in the world, and more active than the women who preceded us. Figuring out these uncharted years without role models or guideposts can be challenging, but, here, the authors gather the stories of today’s senior women, who have jumped hurdles, answered questions, and made decisions they never saw their mothers make.

Through these stories, readers will find fellowship and guidance, wisdom and acknowledgment of the challenges (and triumphs) that lie ahead. Culled from women in their sixties and beyond, and from a variety of backgrounds and current living situations, the stories reveal the realities of life for retirement-age women, and demonstrate the dreams, joys, concerns, and fears that come along with this phase of life. They address questions about living arrangements, adult children, loss of a spouse or partner, relationships and friendships, part time work, social connections, health concerns, and more. Facing these new situations with class, dignity, sass, and smarts, these women reveal the various ways today’s senior women can live and love her retirement years.
Restoring U. S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy
Authors:   The CSIS Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States
Published: February 2025

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The decline of the U.S. nuclear energy industry could be much more rapid than policy makers and stakeholders anticipate. China, India, Russia, and others plan on adding nuclear technology to their mix, furthering the spread of nuclear materials around the globe. U.S. companies must meet a significant share of this demand for nuclear technology, but U.S. firms are currently at a competitive disadvantage due to restrictive and otherwise unsupportive export policies. Without a strong commercial presence in new markets, America’s ability to influence nonproliferation policies and nuclear safety behaviors worldwide is bound to diminish. The United States cannot afford to become irrelevant in a new nuclear age.
Imperial Subjects As Global Citizens
Authors: Lincicome Mark
Published: February 2025

Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument put forward by education officials, conservative politicians, and their supporters in the academy and the business world that history offers no guide for addressing the educational challenges that face contemporary Japan. Combining diachronic and synchronic approaches, Lincicome analyzes repeated attempts throughout the twentieth century to Ointernationalize educationO (/kyoiku no kokusaika/) in Japan. This comparison reveals important similarities that transcend educational policy to encompass Japanese conceptions of individual, national, and international identity; relations between the individual, the nation, the state, and the international community; and the type of education best suited to negotiating multiple identities among the next generation of Japanese subject-citizens.
State Criminality
Authors: Rothe Dawn L.
Published: February 2025

State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regions claimed the lives of tens of millions and rendered many more homeless, imprisoned, and psychologically and physically damaged. Despite the gravity of crimes committed by states and political leaders, until recently these harms have been understudied relative to conventional street crimes in the field of criminology. Over the past two decades, a growing number of criminologists have conducted rigorous research on state crime and have tried to disseminate it widely including attempts to develop courses that specifically address crimes of the state. Referencing a broad range of cases of state crime and international institutions of control, State Criminality provides a general framework and survey-style discussion of the field for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and serves as a useful general reference point for scholars of state crime.
Grounds for Agreement
Authors: Talbot John M.
Published: February 2025

As the popularity of coffee and coffee shops has grown worldwide in recent years, so has another trend—globalization, which has greatly affected growers and distributors. This book analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain since World War II. It follows the typical consumer dollar spent on coffee in the developed world and shows how this dollar is divided up among the coffee growers, processors, states, and transnational corporations involved in the chain. By tracing how this division of the coffee dollar has changed over time, Grounds for Agreement demonstrates that the politically regulated world market that prevailed from the 1960s through the 1980s was more fair for coffee growers than is the current, globalized market controlled by the corporations. Talbot explains why fair trade and organic coffees, by themselves, are not adequate to ensure fairness for all coffee growers and he argues that a return to a politically regulated market is the best way to solve the current crisis among coffee growers and producers.
Marxism in the Chinese Revolution
Authors: Dirlik Arif
Published: February 2025

Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and cultural liberation in Communist alternatives to capitalism and the intellectual inspiration to realize their hopes in Marxist theory. The book's historical approach to Marxist theory emphasizes its global relevance while avoiding dogmatic and Eurocentric limitations. These incisive essays range from the origins of socialism in the early twentieth century, through the victory of the Communists in mid-century, to the virtual abandonment by century's end of any pretense to a socialist revolutionary project by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. All that remains of the revolution in historical hindsight are memories of its failures and misdeeds, but Dirlik retains a critical perspective not just toward the past but also toward the ideological hegemonies of the present. Taken together, his writings reaffirm the centrality of the revolution to modern Chinese history. They also illuminate the fundamental importance of Marxism to grasping the flaws of capitalist modernity, despite the fact that in the end the socialist response was unable to transcend the social and ideological horizons of capitalism.
Netporn
Authors: Jacobs Katrien
Published: February 2025

Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Netporn features Web users who question the goals of global commercial porn industries-whether they are engaged in Usenet fringes, video blogging, peer-to-peer distribution, porn art collectives, or decadent amateurism. Emphasizing gender and cultural differences, Jacobs shows how the creative uses of netporn images and services are important ways of exploring or redefining the 'network body' and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society.
Reproducing Racism
Authors: Moore Wendy Leo
Published: February 2025

Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an examination of white privilege and power in two elite United States law schools. Moore examines how racial structures, racialized everyday practices, and racial discourses function in law schools. Utilizing an ethnographic lens, Moore explores the historical construction of elite law schools as institutions that reinforce white privilege and therefore naturalize white political, social, and economic power.
White Man Falling
Authors: Ferber Abby L.
Published: February 2025

Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power.
Ethical School Leadership
Authors: Maxcy Spencer J.
Published: February 2025

Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking. But educators face a dismaying array of moral-ethical challenges from academic dishonesty to sexual harassment every day in our nation's schools. Ethical School Leadership provides a systematic approach to resolving these school-based moral-ethical issues. It offers real world moral-ethical dilemmas, alternate theories of ethical decision-making, and differing philosophies of leadership. Present and future school leaders will find knowledge, dispositions, and performance criteria by which to evaluate case studies of moral-ethical leadership. This book provides provides encouraging, practical thinking about the moral-ethical problems facing our school leaders today and will be of interest to school principals, teachers, school board members, and students of education.
Total Leaders
Authors: Schwahn Chuck J. , Spady William G.
Published: February 2025

Total Leaders puts the minds of the most respected futurist, leadership, and change authorities to work for you in one simple yet dynamic leadership model that will help you strengthen your insights, performance, and effectiveness. The authors, a former superintendent and a national reform leader, spent the past 15 years individually reading and collectively synthesizing more than 100 of the leading futurist and leadership theory books, and relating their findings to the realities of educational leadership today. This book is for you if you: are familiar with all the current leadership theory and would like to have it all put together in one practical model; haven't read much leadership research for some time and would like to catch up on it in an effective and efficient way; want proven strategies for dealing with a challenge to change your organization; are responsible for recruiting and evaluating educational leaders; or want to analyze your leadership performance and plan for future professional growth based upon what works.
A Primer on Mental Disorders
Authors: Allen Thomas E. , Liebman Mayer C. , Park Lee Crandall , Wimmer William C.
Published: February 2025

From four practicing physicians comes this down-to-earth, easy to understand introduction to mental disorders_essentially a 'what is it' book to help identify disorders, understand the ramifications, and assist teachers and families in providing a supportive environment for anyone who suffers from mental disorders. Arranged by broad category (following the DSM-IV-TR, the standard reference for medical professionals), disorders and their treatments are described, along with a list of helpful resources for the classroom, library, and home. Appendixes list important advocacy and support groups, appropriate videos for classroom viewing, and Web sites for further information. This useful tool makes a difficult subject readily accessible to students, teachers, and the general public. A Primer on Mental Disorders belongs in every school and public library and institutions of higher learning, as well as the offices of school counselors and administrators.
The Metropolitan Opera on Record
Authors: Fellers Frederick P.
Published: February 2025

The Metropolitan Opera on Record: A Discography of the Commercial Recordings is a comprehensive listing of all the commercial sound recordings involving the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's leading musical organizations. Over 900 recording sessions are listed chronologically, starting in 1906 and continuing through the last digital recordings conducted by James Levine in 1998. Entries include excerpts and complete recordings from more than 120 operas in various formats, representing more than 380 artists.

The recordings are fully annotated, including the session date and location, the primary source of information, the opera title and composer, matrix number and speed of the recording, the artists performing, the recording company name and number, the format, and the release dates. In addition, Fellers provides a fascinating history of the Met recordings, from the first Leeds & Catlin recordings in the early 1900s to the digital recordings of the 1990s. Additional information on the Opera House String Orchestra and the Radio Broadcasts are included, as well as complete indexes listing the works by composer, title, and artist.
Facility Location
Authors: Benita Amos Nneoma , Bawa Dogo Edafe
Published: February 2025

The location of the production, distribution and storage facilities of organizations, remains one of the most important strategic decision production and operations managers have to make. Minimizing total cost and distance traveled is the fundamental objective in deciding the location of facilities in order to maximize total profit. There are several quantitative methods for solving facility location problems and deciding on the most optimal decision to reach as it regards locating a facility or assigning workers to their most optimal location or tasks. The Linear Assignment model with particular emphasis on the Hungarian and Branch and Bound technique under minimization and maximization situations are deterministic approaches to solving facility location problems and have been discussed in this chapter.
Design and Planning Robust and Competitive Supply Chains
Authors: Matsuno Kotomichi , Weng Jiahua , Hosokawa Noriyuki , Ohno Takahiro
Published: February 2025

In recent years, supply chains in the manufacturing industry have become more and more complicated, and many cases of supply chain disruptions due to natural disasters have been confirmed. It is necessary for manufacturers to build a system that can help them alleviate losses and shorten recovery periods due to supply chain disruptions. Supplier diversification, as well as supplier evaluation and selection, are discussed as risk aversion measures in many papers. However, even if the procurement source has been evaluated enough, there are problems, such as opportunity loss during recovery periods and soaring procurement costs during normal periods. In this chapter, to help Japanese manufacturers to alleviate opportunity loss under component procurement disruption situations and keep cost competitiveness in normal periods, decision-making models of supply chain structure assessment, supplier selection, procurement allocation, and trading contracts are designed and verified.
Capacitated Clustering Models to Real-Life Applications
Authors: J. Negreiros Marcos , Maculan Nelson , W.C. Palhano Augusto , E.F. Muritiba Albert , L.F. Batista Pablo
Published: February 2025

This chapter considers the use of different capacitated clustering problems and models that fits better in real-life applications such as household waste collection, IT teams layout in software factories, wholesales distribution, and staff’s home collection or delivery to/from workplace. Each application is explored in its regular form as it is being developed by contractors and/or users. We consider for each application the aspects of solving the problem by the appropriate mathematical programming model and decision support methodology (using aggregated Geographical Information System and mobile technology) to hold correctly and most precisely the problems and difficulties related to instances in evaluation. The experience on these fields is here revealed in detailed form as the results obtained by using the techniques here explained.
Comparison Chart: Interleukin (IL) Receptor Antagonists for Atopic Dermatitis
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

Comparison Chart: Interleukin (IL) Receptor Antagonists for Atopic Dermatitis
The Application of Behaviorist Theory in Changing FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) Behavior in Generation Z
Authors: Putranto Panji
Published: February 2025

Generation Z is the highest user of social media, compared to other generations such as generation Y, X, and Baby Boomers. Where generation Z uses social media can last for more than two hours a day, of course there is a positive or negative influence depending on the individual responding to the stimulus. One of the impacts is an action called FoMO, Fear of Missing Out. The amount of survey data conducted on 638 teenagers in Indonesia that around 64.6% or 412 teenagers experience FoMO on social media. This study aims to overcome changes in FoMO behavior in Generation Z with the application of behavioristic theory. The research method used is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. The results showed that the behavioristic theory approach focuses on the influence of the environment and external conditions on one's behavior as well as understanding and managing one's own emotions through the approach Focus on yourself, limit the use of social media and gadgets, seek real connections, respect yourself, positive reinforcement, modeling system, desensitization, variable reinforcement, application of stimulus control techniques, and social skills training.
Evaluation of the Policy for the Preparation of the Village Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMDesa) 2020-2025 in Dukuhturi Subdistrict, Tegal Regency (Case Study in Pepedan Village, Dukuhturi Subdistrict, Tegal Regency
Authors: Nahdiyyah Iim Rohimatun , Fitriah Aisatul
Published: February 2025

The village is given the authority to regulate and manage its own affairs, in terms of governance and the interests of the village community. In the administration of village government, a village government is formed, the village head as a village official has the authority, rights, and obligations in leading and implementing the wheels of government assisted by village officials. The Village RPJM is a guideline for the village government in implementing development in the village. The guidelines must reflect the vision and mission of the elected village head and represent the aspirations of the community that are accommodated in the aspirations of the residents through village meetings. The theory used as the focus of this research refers to the indicators/criteria of William N. Dunn's theory in his book entitled Introduction to Public Policy Analysis which includes: effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, equity, responsiveness, and accuracy. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The results of the study show that: the preparation of the RPJMDesa Pepedan is in accordance with PERMENDAGRI No 114 of 2014 there are supporting and inhibiting factors in the preparation of the RPJMDesa, and the steps taken are reviewing existing regulations and coordinating.
Teaching English in the “Science of Reading” Era: We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: For All ELA Teachers, “the Time Is Always Now”
Authors: Thomas P. L.
Published: February 2025

This final article in a special series on the “science of reading” movement contends that secondary ELA teachers should recognize the shared foundations between the movement and censorship efforts.
Diálogos sobre inclusão com Dr. Vinicius Martins Flores
Authors: Baierle Mariana
Published: February 2025

Esta entrevista apresenta um diálogo com o professor e pesquisador Dr. Vinícius Martins Flores, coordenador do curso de Letras na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) desde 2019. Se destaca pela sua dedicação e seriedade no trabalho com processos inclusivos dentro do curso, tanto no acolhimento quanto no acompanhamento de alunos com deficiência, surdos e com diversidades de forma ampla. Suas pesquisas circulam entre educação e linguística, permeando questões terminológicas investigando termos-sinais da Libras utilizados pela comunidade surda LGBTQIA+. Os diálogos aqui apresentados perpassam pautas como: a avaliação de alunos com deficiência e os desafios da formação docente, bem como as investigações realizadas no Grupo de Estudos em Tradução e Terminologia em Libras (GETTLibras/UFRGS).
Narrativas curtas visuais
Authors: Pimentel Carmen , Pimentel Claudia
Published: February 2025

O artigo apresenta uma oficina de criação de narrativas curtas visuais, com o intuito de desenvolver recursos linguísticos que representam dificuldade na aprendizagem da língua portuguesa como segunda língua para surdos (LPL2). Escolheram-se os marcadores temporais, como “Era uma vez”, “No outro dia”, “Até que”, “Na semana seguinte”, por tratar-se de elementos fundamentais constitutivos da narração, e muitas vezes subutilizados na LPL2. Como recursos da produção, usaram-se o storyboard para o esboço do texto narrativo e o aplicativo Stop Motion Studio para animar a produção. As produções dos participantes foram analisadas posteriormente a partir de categorias, tais como tema e soluções fotográficas. Como aporte teórico, recorremos a BNCC (2018), com a habilidade sobre textos narrativos; a Kress e van Leeuwen (2009), sobre a multimodalidade dos textos; e a Strobel (2009), que discorre sobre a cultura e os estudos surdos. Apresentamos análises do material criado pelos participantes na intenção de dar exemplos das soluções encontradas durante a oficina, com destaque para a imaginação e a criatividade. Percebeu-se que trabalhar com narrativas curtas visuais, além de atividade lúdica e prazerosa, contribui para acompreensão das estruturas narrativas da língua portuguesa como L2 para surdos. Observou-se, também, que a necessidade do uso de marcadores temporais foi compreendida pelos participantes, mesmo não tendo sido utilizados na totalidade das produções, mas representados pelas imagens.
Concepções docentes
Authors: Felicio Martin Ludiéli , Merlin Deganutti de Barros Eliana
Published: February 2025

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar concepções de professores-cursistas – em formação inicial e continuada – sobre metodologias ativas. A partir de estudos teóricos sobre metodologias ativas e novos multiletramentos, foi elaborada e desenvolvida uma sequência virtual de formação docente, tendo como foco o ensino da leitura e produção de textos por meio de metodologias ativas. As implementações foram realizadas a distância e o contexto da intervenção didática foi o ambiente virtual de aprendizagem da Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná – UENP e o Google Meet. Os participantes foram voluntários, docentes e graduandos de Língua Portuguesa. Para atingir o objetivo deste estudo, trazemos a análise das respostas dos cursistas a um questionário diagnóstico aplicado na modalidade virtual assíncrona, no início do segundo curso. A pesquisa parte de uma abordagem qualitativa, de cunho interventivo, fundamentada na pesquisa-ação. A metodologia de análise é instrumentalizada pelas categorias de Bulea (2010) de Segmentos de Orientação temática (SOT) e Segmentos de Tratamento Temático (STT). Os resultados mostram que os professores-cursistas, na sua maioria, já possuíam uma boa base conceitual sobre metodologias ativas.
Multiplicity results for critical fractional Ambrosetti-Prodi type system with nonlinearities interacting with the spectrum
Authors: Caqui Eduardo H. , Lima Sandra M. de S. , Pereira Fábio R.
Published: February 2025

We study the existence of solutions for  Ambrosetti-Prodi type systems involving the fractional Laplacian operator, and having nonlinearities reaching critical growth and interacting  in some sense with the spectrum of the operator.   
For more information see https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2025/19/abstr.html
Obituary | Joseph E. Koles, 1926 - 2021
Authors: Golemis Dean
Published: February 2025

Joseph E. Koles, an eminent microscopist and microchemist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL), died of a heart attack on Feb. 12, 2021 in White Oak, MD. He was 94.
PENGARUH PERSEPSI MAHASISWA, PERTIMBANGAN PASAR KERJA, DAN NILAI SOSIAL TERHADAP PEMILIHAN KARIR MENJADI AKUNTAN (STUDI KASUS MAHASISWA AKUNTANSI ANGKATAN 2020 DAN 2021 DI UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH KUPANG)
Authors: Setiawang Moh Resa , Sulaiman  , Suryaningsi
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh persepsi mahasiswa, pertimbangan pasar kerja, dan nilai sosial terhadap pemilihan karir menjadi akuntan pada mahasiswa akuntansi angkatan 2020 dan 2021 di Universitas Muhammadiyah Kupang. Metode Penelitian yang digunakan adalah peneltiian kuantitatif dengan metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuesioner yang disebarkan kepada mahasiswa akuntansi dari kedua angkatan tersebut. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan teknik regresi linier berganda. Variabel Persepsi Mahasiswa memiliki nilai T hitung sebesar 2,700 > T tabel sebesar 1,666 dengan nilai Sig. 0,000 < 0,05, Variabel Pertimbangan Pasar Kerja memiliki nilai T hitung sebesar 5,373 > T tabel sebesar 1,666 dengan nilai Sig. 0,000 < 0,05, Variabel Nilai Sosial memiliki nilai T hitung sebesar 3,186  > T tabel sebesar 1,666 dengan nilai Sig. 0,000 < 0,05. Sehingga disimpulkan bahwa ketiga variabel, yaitu persepsi mahasiswa, pertimbangan pasar kerja, dan nilai sosial, memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap pemilihan karir menjadi akuntan. Persepsi mahasiswa tentang profesi akuntan yang positif meningkatkan minat mereka untuk memilih karir ini. Pertimbangan pasar kerja, seperti peluang kerja yang luas dan gaji yang kompetitif, juga memainkan peran penting dalam keputusan karir mahasiswa. Selain itu, nilai sosial yang tinggi terkait profesi akuntan, seperti penghormatan dan status sosial, turut mendorong mahasiswa untuk meniti karir di bidang ini.
Gender Discrimination in The Bible
Authors: Prof. Dr. Annie John
Published: February 2025

Gender Discrimination is a social phenomenon where unfair treatment is meted out to a person based on gender. This inequality is caused due to gender bias or sexism. The treatment may be due to the distinctions with regard to biology, psychology and sociocultural norms. While some of the distinctions are empirically grounded others are social constructs. Gender roles can further lead to unequal treatment. Violence against women is a kind of gender discrimination and can limit their access to education, job opportunities and other facilities thereby perpetuating the cycle of gender inequality.