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O Acordo de não Persecução Penal como instrumento de efetividade do princípio da proporcionalidade
Authors: Silva Giovana Silveira
Published: February 2024

O presente trabalho analisa a inobservância do princípio da proporcionalidade em abstrato na tutela dos bens jurídicos e propõe o acordo de não persecução penal (ANPP) como solução pragmática para o problema. O ANPP é conceituado e detalhado em suas principais características, além de ser exposto o seu contexto de surgimento e as críticas e elogios tecidos pela doutrina a seu respeito. Os conceitos de bem jurídico formulados por Claus Roxin e Günter Jakobs foram comparados, adotando-se um deles para que se pudesse analisar como o direito penal protege excessivamente alguns bens jurídicos de menor relevância para a vida em sociedade e tutela de forma insuficiente alguns bens de grande valia social. Da análise da legislação penal, observa-se que não só os bens jurídicos são mal sopesados pelo legislador, como também a gravidade da conduta lesiva. A pesquisa também aponta para o conceito do princípio constitucional implícito da proporcionalidade e descreve como ele deveria ser aplicado na seara penal no tocante à cominação das penas. Partindo desse princípio, alguns crimes são comparados em suas sanções abstratas e bens jurídicos protegidos para evidenciar a carência de proporcionalidade no ordenamento jurídico que, por ser uma unidade sistemática, não deveria abrigar, em si, incoerências entre as partes que o compõem. O acordo de não persecução penal, enquanto instituto de política criminal que nasceu da necessidade de otimização do sistema penal, é apontado como instrumento pragmático de correção das desproporções apontadas e, para verificar a aplicabilidade da hipótese sustentada neste trabalho, foram analisados dados quantitativos das propostas de ANPP pelo Ministério Público Federal no ano de 2021. O método utilizado no trabalho foi o hipotético-dedutivo, com a consulta de doutrina, legislação, artigos científicos e dados de aplicação do ANPP fornecidos pelo Ministério Público Federal.
Pacote anticrime
Authors: Carvalho Thaís Diniz Silva de
Published: February 2024

O presente trabalho consiste em uma análise crítica, doutrinária e jurisprudencial da inconstitucionalidade do artigo 492, I do Código de Processo Penal, haja vista as alterações trazidas pela Lei 13.964/2019 consagrada como Pacote Anticrime. Nesse diapasão, serão analisados fatores históricos que interferiram na configuração do sistema punitivo hodierno, assim como, apontados os possíveis contornos penais que corroboraram à reverberação de políticas excessivamente punitivistas que insistentemente relativizam garantias constitucionais. Ainda, será demonstrado que a presunção de inocência não foi observada na alteração trazida pela lei em exame, gerando exceção legal a regra da execução posterior a formação de coisa julgada. Observa-se que as jurisprudências pátrias, muito embora tenham oscilado na última década, também confirmam atualmente a inconstitucionalidade da pena anterior ao trânsito em julgado. Perpassada a análise metodológica bibliográfica e descritiva por meio dos dispositivos legais que permeiam a questão, restou evidenciada a flagrante incongruência da execução em estudo ante um sistema penal acusatório, concluindo pela sensível necessidade de declará-la contrária à garantia da Carta Magna, afastando, via de consequência, sua aplicação no sistema judiciário brasileiro.
Dissolução parcial nas companhias
Authors: Pereira Pedro Henrique França
Published: February 2024

O objeto do presente estudo diz respeito à temática de dissolução parcial nas sociedades por ações, tratando não só dos aspectos gerais do instituto, mas também dos problemas de fundamentação nas principais decisões dos tribunais, em matéria de recesso ou exclusão de sócio, sobretudo quando consideram essencial o reconhecimento do caráter personalíssimo nas relações entre os sócios como critério de legitimidade na aplicação do referido instituto. Faz-se oportuno o esclarecimento sistemático da atual conjuntura concernente ao tema supra, com vistas à sua melhor compreensão, cuja consequência imediata implica na análise crítica do direito societário aplicado ao dissídio in concreto, e no seu desenvolvimento enquanto ramo científico. Para tanto, uma revisão bibliográfica doutrinária, jurisprudencial e legislativa fora realizada, acompanhada de análises críticas e comentários aditivos. Conclui-se pela necessidade de afastamento da utilização da tipicidade demarcada em função do fator de agremiação como elemento que fundamente o atual posicionamento da jurisprudência em sede de dissolução parcial, que deve ser compreendida sob a égide do conceito de fim comum (social).
Hécuba
Authors: Silva Maria de Fátima
Published: February 2024

Quando pensamos, no contexto da Antiguidade Grega, em paradigmas de velhice em versão feminina, a figura mais emblemática é, sem dúvida, Hécuba, a rainha de Troia. Sobre esta figura, a Literatura Grega, no seu conjunto, produziu um retrato que se vai adensando em duas grandes etapas. A visibilidade que lhe é conferida pela épica, tomando por testemunho a Ilíada, é ainda a de uma soberana poderosa, que goza de prestígio junto do marido e dos filhos, e do respeito e simpatia do seu povo, nomeadamente das mulheres que rodeiam a sua vida no palácio. Por sua vez a tragédia fixou-se sobretudo no pós-guerra, dando grande projeção às mulheres de Troia, sobreviventes da guerra para caírem nas mãos do inimigo e se tornarem nas principais vítimas do conflito. Várias dessas mulheres se tornaram padrão da violência da guerra. Mas nenhuma delas reuniu, como Hécuba, o cúmulo do sofrimento feminino: como exemplo de todas as perdas, ápais, ánandros, ápolis (privada de filhos, de marido, de cidade), num momento em que a idade avançada a privava de resistência.
A responsabilidade do delegante por ato de delegado nos órgãos de controle
Authors: Melo Moisés Carvalho de
Published: February 2024

O modelo de administração gerencial acarretou a premente necessidade de desconcentração de responsabilidades da máquina pública, através de delegações de competências, com vistas em se obter eficiência. Entretanto, a ausência de balizas claras na legislação e na jurisprudência geraram insegurança jurídica aos gestores públicos, o que passou a ser parte do chamado “direito administrativo do medo”, com o consequente engessamento do progresso preconizado pelo novo modelo gerencial. Muitos gestores foram responsabilizados pelo só fato de terem delegado competências, sem terem de fato concorrido, ainda que culposamente, com práticas ilícitas. As alterações promovidas na Lei de Introdução às Normas do Direito Brasileiro pela Lei Federal 13.655/2018, regulamentadas pelo Decreto Federal  9.830/2019, trouxeram à jurisprudência dos órgãos de controle parâmetros muito mais claros de responsabilização dos agentes públicos delegantes por atos de seus delegados. Foi possível evidenciar uma elogiosa evolução nos julgados que passaram a garantir segurança jurídica a partir das figuras do erro grosseio, da culpa in vigilando  e da culpa in eligendo, de modo a garantir punibilidade adequada e razoável apenas a quem de fato tiver parcela de responsabilidade por práticas ilícitas e danosas ao interesse público. A culpa in vigilando, cuja configuração passou a exigir dolo ou erro grosso – definido como aquele manifesto, evidente e inescusável com culpa grave -, foi delineada como omissão no dever de fiscalização dos atos do agente delegado pelo agente delegante. Por sua vez, a culpa in eligendo restou caracterizada como escolha de pessoas inapropriadas e despreparadas para a excecução de determinada tarefa através da delegação de competência.
O impacto da consciência na liberação das drogas e na culpabilidade
Authors: Ferreira Hadassa Franklin , Oliveira Pedro Lucca de Andrade
Published: February 2024

O presente artigo aborda a alteração da consciência causada pelas drogas. Espera-se demonstrar a conexão que existe entre percepção, sentidos, raciocínio e substâncias entorpecentes.  Ver-se-á, ainda, a relação com o aspecto jurídico, na medida em que o ser humano possui consciência que o torna responsável por suas ações, uma vez que possui capacidade de se auto analisar. Daí a culpabilidade, depende de três elementos simultâneos: o potencial da consciência antijurídica; a exigibilidade de conduta diversa; e a imputabilidade (ou capacidade do sujeito). Deste modo, quando o agente encontra-se em um estado de consciência alterada, ele deve ser responsabilizado por suas ações? Assim, é necessário que o Estado comprove a culpabilidade do agente, constitucionalmente presumido inocente. Dito isso, não será imputado crime ou pena sem que a conduta criminosa seja reprovada em um juízo de culpa lato sensu. A teoria da culpabilidade auxilia o Direito Penal a responsabilizar de forma adequada o indivíduo que comete o ilícito. Salienta-se, desta feita, a importância do debate sobre a ilicitude das drogas, tendo em vista que o seu consumo afeta não somente o indivíduo que a consome, como se pretende, mas toda a vida em sociedade.
Habeas corpus preventivo
Authors: Laver Camila Monelli
Published: February 2024

Com a insistente omissão da União em regulamentar o plantio, a produção e o transporte da cannabis para fins medicinais, o Superior Tribunal de Justiça firmou o entendimento do cabimento de habeas corpus preventivo em tutelar o direito fundamental à saúde de pacientes que cultivam a cannabis para o tratamento de suas enfermidades e ou doenças, diante das fracassadas tentativas de melhora clínica com os medicamentos convencionais. Inicialmente, a compreensão da Corte Superior era pelo não cabimento deste remédio constitucional por entender que a competência desta matéria pertencia à esfera cível e administrativa. No entanto, a celeuma que se arrasta há alguns anos sobre o poder-dever da União em regulamentar o parágrafo único do artigo 2º da Lei 11.343/2006 (Sistema Nacional de Políticas Públicas sobre Drogas – Sisnad), em razão da divergência do Ministério da Saúde e da ANVISA ao não definirem suas competências nesta regulamentação, bem como as reiteradas impetrações de pedidos de salvos-condutos, fizeram com que o Superior Tribunal de Justiça firmasse nova jurisprudência no sentido de preservar a autocontenção judicial na seara penal. Assim, a impetração do habeas corpus é a medida adequada para afastar a tipicidade penal em relação a conduta de plantar cannabis para fins medicinais, desde que comprovada a necessidade médica do tratamento, evitando-se, assim, criminalizar pessoas que estão em busca do seu direito fundamental à saúde e onerá-las com a burocracia e o alto custo do medicamento, possibilitando que os próprios pacientes ou seus responsáveis cultivem e produzam artesanalmente os medicamentos à base de cannabis sem sofrerem risco de constrangimento e liberdade.
Etarismo Estrutural Feminino e a importância das políticas públicas de enfrentamento ao preconceito contra a mulher idosa no Brasil
Authors: Lopes Lidiane Moura , Holanda Jeovânia Maria Cavalcante
Published: February 2024

O tema proposto nos leva à análise de dois fatores de discriminação: a idade e a condição de mulher, trazendo um estudo que perpassa pela noção de interseccionalidade, termo que pressupõe a incidência de mais de um fator de opressão, causador de exclusão. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é contribuir para a proposição de políticas públicas de enfretamento ao preconceito contra a mulher idosa, em razão da idade. A delimitação do tema na mulher idosa, se deve ao fato de que estatisticamente, os estudos apontam que a mulher é vítima do etarismo em proporções maiores que os homens, ao mesmo tempo que constitui um percentual também maior de pessoas que alcançam a terceira idade. A abordagem apresentada será feita de acordo com os instrumentos internacionais de proteção da mulher idosa, que nortearam sob o manto maior da dignidade da pessoa humana, a própria Constituição Federal de 1988, assim como dos microssistemas protetivos, com esteio principalmente, no Estatuto do Idoso e na Lei 11.340, de 2006, conhecida como “Lei Maria da Penha”, quando esse preconceito se exterioriza numa forma de violência praticada contra a mulher idosa, no âmbito das suas relações domésticas e familiares. Neste ensejo, abordaremos também algumas questões práticas, como a dúvida sobre as atribuições da Delegacia Especializada de combate à violência doméstica e familiar contra a mulher e a Delegacia Especializada do idoso, quando a vítima é uma mulher idosa e sofre a violência no âmbito doméstico ou familiar. O estudo de casos julgados pelos Tribunais brasileiros e internacionais, em especial, os que foram decididos pela Comissão ou pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos, também auxiliarão na elaboração das possíveis contribuições na elaboração de políticas públicas. A pesquisa é de natureza dedutiva-indutiva, realizada através de uma revisão sistemática da literatura, com o emprego da abordagem qualitativa e da técnica de análise de conteúdo para leitura dos dados a apresentados.
O processo de envelhecimento e as redes de sociabilidade lésbica na cidade de Belo Horizonte entre os anos 1970 e 2000
Authors: Souza Janice Aparecida de , Chacham Alessandra
Published: February 2024

Este artigo destaca a importância das redes de apoio e dos laços sociais para lésbicas idosas, examinando como essas conexões sociais impactam positivamente a qualidade de vida e ajudam a superar desafios relacionados à saúde, solidão e discriminação. O estudo se baseia em dados e relatos coletados de 21 lésbicas com mais de 60 anos, que faziam parte de diferentes grupos, como o Vila Sésamo na juventude e a atual Confraria na velhice. As histórias dessas mulheres demonstram a importância dos vínculos de amizade em sua saúde e bem-estar, especialmente quando comparadas com entrevistadas mais isoladas socialmente. Além do grupo Vila Sésamo e da Confraria, o artigo menciona outros dois grupos de mulheres nascidas entre as décadas de 1930 e 1960, proprietárias de bares e frequentadoras de espaços homossexuais em Belo Horizonte. Embora o foco principal seja nas experiências das "confreiras", os relatos dos outros grupos são usados para comparação. A pesquisa utiliza entrevistas em profundidade e a técnica de snowball para selecionar as participantes, e foram conduzidas até atingir a saturação de informações. Em suas conclusões, o artigo enfatiza a importância dos laços sociais e das redes de apoio para a saúde e o bem-estar das lésbicas idosas, fornecendo uma visão valiosa das experiências dessas mulheres ao longo de suas vidas. Isso contribui para uma compreensão mais abrangente e diversa do envelhecimento e aponta para a importância de incluir as experiências e necessidades das lésbicas idosas na discussão sobre envelhecimento e bem-estar, destacando a voz dessa comunidade.
Organizational Capital and New Ventures' Early Internationalization. The Case of Polish IT/ICT Start-Ups
Authors: Bigos Krystian Bigos
Published: February 2024

The paper evaluates the phenomenon of early internationalization from the resource-competence-based theory viewpoint. At the same time, the conclusions are based on primary research results conducted on 220 Polish start-ups. Our study only confirmed that the start-ups’ organizational culture, based on employees’ financial support in acquiring new knowledge, and the start-up’s planned international strategy play a crucial role in IT/ICT start-ups’ early internationalization. Our study primarily contributed to the scientific discussion of start-up organizational capital and its role in the process of early internationalization. In the managerial field, our research implication for practitioners is that they should primarily focus on creating the right conditions for their employees to develop knowledge, which can consequently strengthen strategy creation processes.
Exploring Careers in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
Authors: Tsado Lucy K. , Osgood Robert
Published: February 2024

Exploring Careers in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics is a one-stop shop for students and advisors, providing information about education, certifications, and tools to guide them in making career decisions within the field.

Cybersecurity is a fairly new academic discipline and with the continued rise in cyberattacks, the need for technological and non-technological skills in responding to criminal digital behavior, as well as the requirement to respond, investigate, gather and preserve evidence is growing. Exploring Careers in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics is designed to help students and professionals navigate the unique opportunity that a career in digital forensics and cybersecurity provides. From undergraduate degrees, job hunting and networking, to certifications and mid-career transitions, this book is a useful tool to students, advisors, and professionals alike. Lucy Tsado and Robert Osgood help students and school administrators understand the opportunity that exists in the cybersecurity and digital forensics field, provide guidance for students and professionals out there looking for alternatives through degrees, and offer solutions to close the cybersecurity skills gap through student recruiting and retention in the field.
Caravaggio
Authors: Zirpolo Lilian H.
Published: February 2024

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s life was turbulent and short. He was only in his late thirties when he died and yet he managed to achieve tremendous artistic success. A native of Caravaggio, near Milan, he was born in 1571 and moved to Rome after training with Simone Peterzano, a pupil of Titian. In the papal city, his talent was recognized by the influential collector and art connoisseur Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who promoted his art. Within a few years Caravaggio became one of the most sought-after painters in Italy and abroad. His style was so striking and unique that artists from all over adopted it as their own.

Caravaggio: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works focuses on his life, his works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of his life, a cross-referenced dictionary section contains entries on his individual paintings, public commissions his patrons, his followers, and the techniques he used in rendering his works.
The Crisis in America's Criminal Courts
Authors: Kelly William R.
Published: February 2024

The Crisis in America’s Criminal Courts highlights a variety of problems that judges, prosecutors, and public defenders face within a criminal justice system that is ineffective, unfair, and extraordinarily expensive. While many argue, and author, William R. Kelly, agrees, that crushing caseloads and court dockets certainly qualify as a crisis, Kelly suggests there is a much greater crisis in the courts that results in profound downstream effects on criminal justice performance and outcomes. It sounds simple, but the greatest risk faced by the justice system is the lack of time, expertise, and resources for effective decision-making. In this book, Kelly proposes a variety of evidence-based reforms that, as a start, provide the key decision-makers with professional clinical experts to accurately assess and advice regarding mitigating the circumstances that bring individuals into the courts.

We must rebalance. We need incarceration for those who are too dangerous or violent or who are habitual offenders. For most of the rest, we need to manage risk, but very importantly, it is time to get serious about behavioral change.

We need to change the culture of the courthouse and reorient how we think about crime and punishment.
Revisiting the Nomadic Subject
Authors: Tamboukou Maria
Published: February 2024

This book follows the stories of forcefully displaced women and raises the question of whether we can still use the figuration of the nomadic subject in feminist theories and politics. This question is examined in the light of the ongoing global crises of mobility and severe border practices. In recounting their stories migrant and refugee women appear in the world as ‘who they are’ — unique and unrepeatable human beings —and not as ‘what they are’ —objectified ‘refugees’, ‘victims’ or ‘stateless subjects’.

Women’s stories leave traces of their will to rewrite their exclusion from oppressive regimes, defend their choice of civil and patriarchal disobedience, grasp their passage, claim their right to have rights and affirm their determination for new beginnings. What emerges from the encounter between theoretical abstractions and women’s lived experiences is the need to decolonize feminist theories and make cartographies of mobility assemblages, wherein nomadism is a component of entangled relations and not a category or a figuration of a subject position.

These stories that have now been collected, transcribed and analysed; they have created a rich archive of uprooted women’s experiences and have brought forward a wide range of new ideas that will be presented and discussed in the book:

Decolonizing feminist theory

Mobility assemblages and geographies of nomadism

The art of listening to fragmented narratives and the labour of translation

Crossing borders and inhabiting borderlands

Radical solitude and radical hope

Feminist genealogies of labour under conditions of forced displacement

The force of political narratives through the figure of Antigone?

Education for hope

Imagining the non-nomad

4 narrated stories will also be presented in full interwoven in the theoretical discussions of the book, thus opening up a dialogic space between theoretical reflections and diffractions, and narratives of lived experiences.
The Brain on Youth Sports
Authors: Stamm Julie M.
Published: February 2024

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Dispels the myths surrounding head impacts in youth sports and empowers parents to make informed decisions about sports participation.

“They’re just little kids, they don’t hit that hard or that much.” “Girls soccer is the most dangerous sport.” “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy only happens to former NFL players.” “Youth sports are safer than ever.” These are all myths propagated with the goal of maintaining the status quo in youth sports, which can subject young, rapidly maturing brains to hundreds of impacts each season. In this book, Julie Stamm dissects the issue of repetitive brain trauma in youth sports and their health consequences, explaining the science behind concussions, CTE, and subconcussive impacts written in an easy-to-understand approach, so you can be a well-informed consumer and decision maker. It’s not all about concussions. Those repetitive impacts that happen on every play in football or with every header in soccer can damage the brain, too. The consequences can be even worse for a child’s developing brain. Stamm counters the myths, bad arguments, and propaganda surrounding the youth sports industry. This book also provides guidance for those deciding whether or not their child should play sports with a high risk of repetitive brain trauma as well as for those hoping to make youth sports truly as safe as possible for young athletes.

Stamm, a former three-sport athlete herself, understands the many wonderful benefits that come from playing youth sports and believes all children should have the opportunity to play sports without the risk of long-term consequences. No athlete has to sustain hundreds of impacts and repetitive brain trauma in order to gain the benefits of sports. This work is a must-read before you suit up your child for another practice or send your team out for another game.
Marrying Outside Your Tradition
Authors: Schaper Donna
Published: February 2024

As membership in traditional churches or religious institutions plummets, the meaning of marriage is changing rapidly. Interfaith marriages are on the rise, creating new challenges from wedding planning to childraising. People of faith are marrying nonreligious people. Many question the institution of marriage itself. At a time when those identifying as spiritual but not religious is on the rise, Pastor Donna Schaper provides a roadmap to help readers to understand this continuing transition of marriage after both culture and religion are no longer of one voice about its meaning.
Native American Archaeology in the Parks
Authors: Feder Kenneth L.
Published: February 2024

Historian Wallace Stegner characterized America’s National Park system as “the best idea we ever had.” One can quibble with that, but, indeed, it was a pretty good idea! This book specifically is a guide and a celebration of 30 of those national parks, national historical parks, and national monuments that, each in its own way, reveals the histories and cultures of America’s first inhabitants, the Native Americans.

Its pages will take you to:

great mounds in Ohio where the dead were laid to rest in sumptuous splendor 2,000 years ago

a place in Iowa where 1,000 years ago, Native Americans sculpted earth into the forms of giant bears and birds

a quarry in Minnesota where Native People have, for hundreds of years, extracted blood-red stone for their ceremonial pipes

the remains of a village in North Dakota visited by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s and the home of their guide Sacagewea

truly breathtaking, more than 700-year-old cliff dwellings in Arizona and Colorado, that will astonish you in their ethereal beauty and architectural ingenuity

phantasmagorical images of 7-foot-tall, wide-eyed spirit beings in Utah painted more than 1,000 years ago

And many more.

All of these sites have in common the fact that, at the insistence of Native and non-Native people, men and women, the federal government of the United States set them aside as places to preserve, study, and revere as part of the American story no matter where your ancestors came from, how they got here, or how long ago. Read this book and visit the historically sacred sites enshrined in our national parks, national historical parks, and national monuments, places that reveal the creativity and genius of the Native People of North America.

With 180 color photographs and complete visitor information, this is a wonderful guide to Native American archaeology in our national parks and monuments.
America's Game in the Wild-Card Era
Authors: Soderholm-Difatte Bryan
Published: February 2024

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

"Baseball fans actively following the sport in the 1990s and 2000s will greatly appreciate this fantastic book and its detailed insight." —Library Journal

Major League Baseball has had a long and storied history, but perhaps no era has been as competitive and unpredictable as the past 25 years, with an expanded postseason making for an unexpected and entertaining end to each season.

In America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era: From Strike to Pandemic, Bryan Soderholm-Difatte provides a compelling examination of Major League Baseball since the 1994 players’ strike. He reveals how the last quarter century has been the most dynamic in MLB history and argues that bringing wild-card teams and the division-series round into the postseason mix have fundamentally changed how dynasties should be perceived. Following the major storylines for all 30 teams, along with the division races and state of dynasties over the past 25 years, America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era is a captivating look into a new age of baseball.

America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era, together with Soderholm-Difatte’s America’s Game, Tumultuous Times in America’s Game, and The Reshaping of America’s Game, form the author’s complete, definitive history of Major League Baseball.
Beyond the Bake Sale
Authors: Simek Jamie
Published: February 2024

If food is nourishment to a person, money is sustenance for most nonprofit organizations. Yet many small organizations rely on one-off efforts and get-rich events in place of real fundraising strategies. Just because an organization is small, or volunteer-run, or located in a rural area, does not mean its leaders can’t professionalize their fundraising, establish effective processes, and build genuine relationships that will lead to the ultimate goal: people giving to people.

Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History Organizations meets organizations where they are, cutting through all of the assumptions and mumbo-jumbo, taking professional fundraising strategies and scaling them to an accessible level. Designed specifically for small cultural heritage organizations, this book is written with their unique challenges in mind. From caring for objects-based collections to succeeding with minimal (or no) permanent staff to grant writing for those who’ve never written grants, this book is for local history organization leaders doing critical work to care for our shared history.

Complete with explanations, examples, and thought-provoking questions, this book challenges local history leaders to brainstorm, communicate, experiment, and plan. Blank worksheets encourage readers to put ideas down in writing and establish processes to build upon. Whether read cover to cover or used as a reference text for specific topics, users will find material that begins with a broad overview before narrowing to focus on tips and tactics that will help grassroots fundraisers feel more comfortable, confident and confident in their efforts.

Above all else, this book is grounded in the idea that fundraising is an intentional, people-focused process built on genuine, personal relationships. This philosophy should be as accessible to leaders at small cultural heritage organizations as to anyone else doing important nonprofit work in their communities.
The Teen Library Internship Handbook
Authors: Tuccillo Diane P.
Published: February 2024

Teen library internships are becoming increasingly common in both school and public libraries.

Librarians seeking guidance on how to launch or grow their teen internships will find help in this practical handbook. They will discover:

Rationales and helpful advice for providing support and funding for meaningful internship opportunities.

Shining examples that can be emulated and adapted in other library settings that comprise the book’s central focus.

Testimonials by interns, librarians and library staff, and other adults who have worked with employed teens that will enhance points, give insights, and generate enthusiasm.

Step-by-step plans for creating tailor-made teen library internship handbooks that can be used by teen interns, library staff, and others who are taking part in training, evaluating, and teamwork during internships in each unique setting.

Advice on how to gain feedback and assess outcomes to make internships more relevant and valuable.

Ways and means to adapt internship experiences during times of pandemics or other emergencies.

A path to promoting innovative youth participation that will help teens to meaningfully develop knowledge and skills for their futures while encouraging them to become dedicated library users and supporters into adulthood.

By providing this new way of encouraging youth participation, libraries can help teens to meaningfully develop knowledge and skills for their futures while encouraging them to become dedicated library users and supporters into adulthood.
Forged in War
Authors: Lankes R. David
Published: February 2024

"[I]deal for readers seeking a more comprehensive look at information dissemination technology, its context, and its impact on the way in which we now live." Library Journal, Starred Review

Many of what we think of as Information Age tools and media — computers, cell phones, the internet, encryption, and more — evolved directly out of modern warfare. These tools started with World War I (which began not with arms, but with England cutting off underwater cables to Germany and isolating it), accelerated through World War II and the Cold War, and now play a center role in both declared and non-declared conflicts like election interference and cyberbattles.

We buy phones and smart speakers because they are new and unlock great potential. Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa help us do our work and answer that one piece of trivia that bugs us. Yet these devices are data gatherers. They collect, repackage, and monetize our questions, purchases, photographs, web surfing to form a data industry now larger than the oil industry.

Well over 100 years ago the data industry put in place a business model that trades our attention for news and entertainment. That model has evolved into a complex art and science of message targeting and content ownership that has splintered communities while simultaneously concentrating media ownership to a few massive corporations.

Forged in War takes a critical look at the systems we use and how we ended up in a society that values data over personal liberty and commerce over the public good. It tells a compelling and previously story of how our ideas of information and knowledge reflect the century of war that has militarized our worldview.

Author David Lankes’s work has been funded by organizations such as The MacArthur Foundation, The Institute for Library and Museum Services, NASA, The U.S. Department of Education, The U.S. Department of Defense, The National Science Foundation, and The U.S. State Department. This, his latest book will help all of us learn how war has shaped our world and how to begin to create an agenda to stand down weaponized data and a media that seeks to own our personal, even intimate data like one owns a gold mine.
Why Is My Child in Charge?
Authors: Lerner Claire
Published: February 2024

Solve typical toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness and self-control.

Through stories from her practice, Claire Lerner shows parents how making critical mindshifts—seeing their children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. This process puts parents back in the driver’s seat, where they belong and where their children need them to be. These real life stories provide a roadmap for how to tune into the root causes of children’s behavior and how to create and implement strategies that are tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Through these stories, Claire provides a treasure trove of practical solutions that are based in science and which work in real life.

Why Is My Child In Charge? picks up where other books have left parents hanging. Most parenting books offer solutions that sound good on paper but don’t work in practice. They are aspirational rather than achievable, or they offer one-size-fits-all approaches that don’t meet the needs of an individual child. They can compound parents’ feelings of frustration and thus, can be counterproductive. Case by case, Claire unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to solve the most common challenges such as throwing tantrums in public; delaying bedtime for hours; refusing to participate in family mealtimes; and resisting potty training. Employing a relatable story-telling approach, Claire elucidates:

The faulty mindsets that pose obstacles to parents seeing the situation more objectively

The essential mindshifts that enable parents to quickly identify the root causes of the problem

The development of an action plan tailored to each unique child and family

Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how you can develop “win-win” strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected and in-control parents. It will help you be the parent you want to be.
Your Money Mentors
Authors: Robb Russell , Meehan Katharine  Robb
Published: February 2024

"[P]rovides fundamental information and a wealth of resources that readers can use to focus on areas of particular interest." Booklist, Starred Review

Your Money Mentors offers advice for millennials and their parents on how to succeed in the years post college graduation. Co-written by a millennial, and based on the author’s sixty-plus years of experience in finance, the collective advice is full of data, current research, anecdotes, and suggestions regarding mentors, continuing education, internships, careers, starter jobs, setting financial goals, budgeting, and money matters concerning marriage. The book is presented in three parts: Foundations for Success, Careers, and Making Your Money Work.

The book features real-life stories of successful millennials in the traditional working world and those who have joined the “gig” economy, by choice, or otherwise. It considers an American school system that has slowly but surely become woefully inadequate in many parts of the country when it comes to preparing our millennial population to succeed in society. With that in mind, it offers concrete advice to help millennials and the generation coming up behind them excel in their futures. Your Money Mentors is an uplifting guidebook for this generation and beyond.
Creating Great Visitor Experiences
Authors: Colleen Higginbotham Colleen Higginbotham
Published: February 2024

If a museum is trying to improve visitor satisfaction, grow and diversify their audience, or engage with their community, they must focus on the experience visitors have inside the museum. Unfortunately, some people don’t visit museums because they have had a previous negative experience, or they simply don’t feel museums are for people like them. Not only do we need to win back those who we haven’t welcomed properly in the past, we need to be sure we don’t turn off any more potential visitors.

Once you’ve decided to prioritize the visitor experience, you may discover that you don’t have the tools you need to truly implement change for your visitors. An Executive Director may support the concept but doesn’t have the time or specific expertise to implement a new program. A Visitor Services Manager may have been promoted from the front line and has great customer service and coaching skills but doesn’t have experience crafting institutional change.

Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museum Professionals can help these museum professionals design a program that is specific to their institution. Its Table of Contents shows how the book offers a step-by-step guide to doing just that:

Chapter 1: Focus on the Visitor Experience

Chapter 2: Understanding Museum Visitors and the Impact of the Visitor Experience

Chapter 3: Learning About Your Visitors

Chapter 4: Visitor Mapping: Charting Visitor Routes Through Your Institution

Chapter 5: Start with the Basics: Making the Museum Itself Welcoming

Chapter 6: Articulating What Service Means to You

Chapter 7: Determining the Structure of Your Front-Line Team

Chapter 8: Merging Security and Service

Chapter 9: Hiring Your Dream Team

Chapter 10: Training to Develop a Dynamic Service Team

Chapter 11: Building Strong Morale and a Professional Front-Line Team

Chapter 12: Developing a Culture of Service Throughout the Museum

Use this authoritative, practical guide from the American Alliance of Museums to help your museum create great visitor experiences.
Bronko
Authors: Willis Chris
Published: February 2024

The remarkable biography of a small-town athlete who became one of the greatest players in NFL history.

Bronislau “Bronko” Nagurski was a superstar for the NFL in the 1930s and one of the pioneer players of the league. He led the Chicago Bears to success on the gridiron as a larger-than-life personality, helping raise the popularity of the NFL during the Great Depression.

In Bronko: The Legendary Story of the NFL’s Greatest Two-Way Fullback, NFL Films historian Chris Willis tells the remarkable story of how Bronko became an NFL legend. Throughout his nine-year NFL career, Bronko’s name became synonymous with power football. While the new league fought to gain respect and recognition, Bronko immediately captured the attention of sports fans in Chicago and across the country. The bruising fullback could do everything: run, block, tackle, and even throw the occasional pass.

With the complete cooperation of the Nagurski family and unlimited access to personal letters, family scrapbooks, and photos, Bronko is the definitive biography of a true sports pioneer and NFL great.
Splitting Europe
Authors: Sörensen Jens Stilhoff
Published: February 2024

Europe today is deeply divided. Thirty years after the end of the Cold War and the celebratory moment when the wall came down, we are faced with a new Cold War. Russia-Western relations are arguably more dangerous than ever since the Cuban missile crisis. Diplomatic relations are frozen, sanctions installed, the old arms control treaties abandoned, and new nuclear weapons and carriers developed. EU Europe itself is divided. It is not just Brexit, marking the first real break-away from the Union, but also clashes within. From the yellow vests clashes with police in the heart of Paris, to so-called populist movements on the rise in the periphery and across the continent. The Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic) are regularly at odds with the EU core (Brussels and the France-Germany axis) to a degree where the idea of sanctions is invoked. The Western security framework and NATO itself appears to break down, with Turkey, the NATO member with the organisations second largest military numerically, now purchasing Russian weapon systems and seeking strategic relations in Eurasia.

How did it come to this and what happened with the post-Cold War dream? And what has happened to the post world war visions of European integration and security order? What are the critical processes and events that have led us unto this path? This book aims to address and explore these historical problems.
Humanitarians on the Frontier
Authors: Gordon-Gibson Alasdair
Published: February 2024

The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.
Classical Crossroads
Authors: Slatkin Leonard
Published: February 2024

Legendary maestro Leonard Slatkin provides personal insights and offers his ideas to solve the current dilemmas of classical music.

As the new millennium poses some of the greatest challenges to the relevance of the art form, Slatkin reflects on the modern evolution of classical music and presents ways for both music lovers and musicians alike to navigate these uncertain times. Classical Crossroads: The Path Forward for Music in the 21st Century addresses a wide range of relevant and provocative topics such as performance in the era of COVID-19, dwindling audience attendance, the lack of classical music in public education, broken audition systems, technology replacing live concerts, and diversity in the classical music world. While the new millennium has provided great obstacles, Slatkin emphasizes that there are also new opportunities—if there was ever a time for change in classical music, that time is now.
Not All Supermen
Authors: Hanley Tim
Published: February 2024

An eye-opening exploration of the toxic masculinity and sexism that pervades the superhero genre.

Superheroes have been exciting and inspirational cultural icons for decades, dating back to the debut of Superman in the 1930s. The earliest tales have been held up as cornerstones of the genre, looked upon with nostalgic reverence. However, enshrining these tales also enshrines many outdated values that have allowed sexist gender dynamics to thrive.

In Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes, Tim Hanley examines how anger, aggression, and violence became the norm in superhero comics, paired with a disdain for women that the industry has yet to fully move beyond. The sporadic addition of new female heroes over the years proved largely ineffective, the characters often underused and objectified. Hanley also reveals how the genre’s sexism has had real-world implications, with many creators being outed as sexual harassers and bigots, while intolerant fan movements are awash with misogynistic hate speech.

Superheroes can be a force for good, representing truth, justice, and courage, but the industry is laden with excessive baggage. The future of the genre depends on what elements of its past are celebrated and what is left behind. Not All Supermen unravels this complex history and shows how superheroes can become more relevant and inspiring for everyone.
The Great G.O.A.T. Debate
Authors: Volponi Paul
Published: February 2024

Who is the Greatest Of All Time—the G.O.A.T.? This is the question debated constantly between fans for any number of categories. Who is the greatest basketball player of all time? The greatest band? Video game? Sci-fi movie?

In The Great G.O.A.T. Debate: The Best of the Best in Everything from Sports to Science, award-winning young adult author Paul Volponi explores the “greatest of all time” in over twenty-five different categories. Volponi asks the G.O.A.T. question of writers, superheroes, musicians, philosophers, architects, athletes, and more. Alongside icons such as martial artist Bruce Lee, basketball star Maya Moore, and rapper Jay-Z, readers will also discover the diverse talents of inventor Leonardo da Vinci, the artistry of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, and the genius of scientist Marie Curie.

Full of facts, trivia, and mini-arguments, The Great G.O.A.T. Debate is sure to expand readers’ horizons and help answer the ultimate question: “Who is the Greatest Of All Time?”
The Black Athlete Revolt
Authors: Anderson Shaun M.
Published: February 2024

A timely and significant examination of how Black athletes have used their influence to create meaningful change and reform for Black Americans.

In the age of social media, athletes have a powerful influence like never before. Many Black athletes have used that power in positive ways, galvanizing their platforms to create impactful educational opportunities, donate to Black social causes, and raise political awareness on important issues.

In The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter, Shaun M. Anderson examines the Black athlete’s rise in advocating for social justice and how today’s athletes have moved beyond protesting to create substantial change for Black Americans. Anderson reflects on the history and evolution of Black athlete activism, breaking down its importance during the civil rights movement, the commodification of athletes during the 1990s, and how twenty-first century athletes have utilized their wealth and influence to create lasting societal change in the age of #BlackLivesMatter.

With fascinating portraits of notable individuals in the history of Black activism, as well as insights from athletes and allies who discuss the future of athlete activism, The Black Athlete Revolt reveals the ever-evolving and crucial role of Black athletes beyond the world of sports.