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End-Timers
Authors: Ballard Martin
Published: November 2023

This fascinating history surveys apocalyptic religion through time, setting it within a political and social context.

End-Timers: Three Thousand Years of Waiting for Judgment Day examines the high and low points of millennial expectation across the centuries. It shows how and why such beliefs first developed in antiquity, and it explores how end-timers influenced events as varied as the persecutions of Hellenistic ruler Antiochus Epiphanes and Roman Emperor Nero, the Crusades, the settlement of North America, and the 20th-century debacles at Jonestown and Waco.

Suggesting that anyone who wishes to understand the Middle East today needs to penetrate the background of modern fundamentalism within the three Semitic religions, the author illuminates the part played by Christian Zionists in promoting the return of the Jews to the "promised land" and the resulting formation of the state of Israel, as well as subsequent fundamentalist reactions within both Judaism and Islam. He also follows the birth of the "Christian Right" in 19th-century Britain and its development and growing influence in the United States. Finally, the book examines how religious end-timers confront the four horsemen of the 21st-century apocalypse: world population increase, depletion of natural resources, advanced weaponry, and global warming.
Faces around the World
Authors: DeMello Margo
Published: November 2023

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A—Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities.

In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.
A Finger in Lincoln’s Brain
Authors: Abel E. Lawrence
Published: November 2023

This intriguing book examines Lincoln's assassination from a behavioral and medical sciences perspective, providing new insights into everything from ballistics and forensics to the medical intervention to save his life, the autopsy results, his compromised embalming, and the final odyssey of his bodily remains.

In this book, E. Lawrence Abel sheds much-needed light on the fascinating details surrounding the death of Abraham Lincoln, including John Wilkes Booth's illness that turned him into an assassin, the medical treatment the president is alleged to have received after he was shot, and the significance of his funeral for the American public. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the science behind the assassination, a discussion of the medical care Lincoln received at the time he was shot and the treatment he would have received if he were shot today, and the impact of his death on his contemporaries and the American public.

The book examines Lincoln's fatalism and his unbridled ambition in terms of empirical psychological science rather than the fanciful psychoanalytical explanations that often characterize Lincoln psychohistories. The medical chapters challenge the long-standing description of Lincoln's last hours and examine the debate about whether Lincoln's doctors inadvertently doomed him.
Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World
Authors: Seal Graham , White Kim Kennedy
Published: November 2023

This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar.

Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales.

Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.
Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers
Authors: Graebner Norman A. , Burns Richard Dean , Siracusa Joseph M.
Published: November 2023

This concise diplomatic history of the Confederation era is the first new work on the topic in a generation. In its pages, three distinguished diplomatic historians offer a realist interpretation of the way in which the Founding Fathers conducted foreign affairs, refreshing our collective memory about their priorities and their values.
Fracking
Authors: Newton David E.
Published: November 2023

The use of fracking is a tremendously important technology for the recovery of oil and gas, but the advantages and costs of fracking remain controversial. This book examines the issues and social, economic, political, and legal aspects of fracking in the United States.

Hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells—known commonly as “fracking”—has been in use in the United States for more than half a century. In recent years, however, massive expansion of shale gas fracturing across the nation has put fracking in the public eye. Is fracking a “win win” like its proponents say, or are there significant costs and dangers associated with the use of this energy production technology?

This book examines fracking from all angles, addressing the promise of the United States becoming energy independent through the use of the process to tap the massive amounts of natural gas and oil available as well as the host of problems associated with fracking—groundwater contamination and increased seismic activity, just to mention two—that raise questions about the long-term feasibility of the process as a source of natural gas.

The first part of the book provides a historical background of the topic; a review of technical information about fracking; and a detailed discussion of the social, economic, political, legal, and other aspects of the current fracking controversy. The second part of the book provides a host of resources for readers seeking to learn even more in-depth information about the topic, supplying a chronology, glossary, annotated bibliography, and profiles of important individuals and organizations. Written specifically for students and young adults, the content is accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge regarding fracking.
GMO Food
Authors: Newton David E.
Published: November 2023

Providing an exhaustive background on the history of genetically modified organism (GMO) crops and foods as well as the controversies surrounding these products, this book allows readers to develop their own particular viewpoint on the production and use of GMO substances.

Genetic engineering has long been used to impart desirable characteristics to food plants in order to improve crop yield, pest resistance, and herbicide tolerance. Genetic modification of foods, however, has created a storm of controversy everywhere in the world—including the United States. What are the benefits of and risks involved with genetically modified organisms (GMO) and crops? What powerful industry pressures have extended the sale and use of GMO foods and crops globally? And how should consumer food products that involve GM ingredients be labeled? GMO Food: A Reference Handbook addresses these questions and the complex issues involved, allowing readers to fully understand why genetically modified organisms represent one of the most important issues in the 21st century.

The book provides clear, factual information and background on the history of genetically modified crops and foods, covering topics such as the historic methods of plant and animal modification (such as cross-breeding) and important discoveries in genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and related fields; the social, political, philosophical, and economic issues that have arisen with these scientific advances; and the laws and regulations that have resulted from the range of attitudes about GMO foods. The book also supplies additional resources for readers performing extensive research in an annotated bibliography of books, articles, reports, and web pages.
Hamas
Authors: Jefferis Jennifer
Published: November 2023

Structured around key elements at the regional, political, institutional, and personal levels of analysis, this is a complete and forward-leaning view of Hamas that provides a deep and detailed examination of the history, ideology, political prospects, and regional opportunities of an often poorly understood organization that is redefining 21st-century terrorism.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has long been an influential player in the tumultuous Middle East, but as the region’s instability grows, so does the importance and potential influence of this organization. The fact that the Hamas of today defies most of the traditional categorizations of both terrorist organizations and political parties makes the group an ideal study on how states in the Middle East are likely to continue to change. This book offers a clear picture of how Hamas fits into a dramatically evolving region, enabling readers to see how Hamas itself has evolved ideologically, militarily, and politically as well as how it will continue to shape and be shaped by the broader Middle East region.

Author Jennifer Jefferis, PhD, provides the first comprehensive consideration of Hamas in the context of the post-Arab Spring climate, the rise of ISIS, and the consequential emerging politics of the region, presenting information that is highly detailed yet written to be accessible to all audiences whether or not they have previous knowledge of the organization. The book provides coverage of Hamas’s current relationship with Israel and its impact on the Palestinian territories while focusing on the significance of the organization’s role in the broader region—particularly critical in light of the recent political uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria.
Hate Groups
Authors: Newton David E.
Published: November 2023

Hate Groups: A Reference Handbook offers answers to essential questions about hate groups in a way that is accessible to students and general readers interested in this important topic.

Hate Groups: A Reference Handbook covers the topic of hate groups from the earliest pages of human history to the present day. Chapters One and Two provide a historical background of the topic and a review of current problems, controversies, and solutions. The remainder of the book consists of chapters that aid readers in continuing their research on the topic, such as an extended annotated bibliography, a chronology, a glossary, lists of noteworthy individuals and organizations in the field, and important data and documents. The variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays about hate groups, a historical timeline, and useful terms in the field, differentiates this book from others of its kind. It is intended for readers of high school through the community college level, along with adult readers who may be interested in the topic.
Healthy Foods
Authors: Goldstein Myrna Chandler , Goldstein Mark A.
Published: November 2023

This book presents research findings about 50 foods that are commonly touted as healthy and educates readers about the medical problems they purportedly alleviate or help prevent.

It is always in the best interest of those who market foods to make grandiose claims regarding their nutritional value, regardless of whether actual scientific proof exists to support such a claim. Even diligent and educated consumers often have difficulty discerning facts from mere theory or pure marketing hype.

As the incidence of childhood obesity in the United States continues to increase at an alarming rate and food costs skyrocket, this book arrives at a perfect time for health-conscious consumers, providing an authoritative reference for anyone looking to make wise eating decisions at home, work, school, or in restaurants. Healthy Foods: Fact versus Fiction is the result of a collaborative effort between a medical doctor and an award-winning journalist and author on nutrition. This book provides actual research findings to shed light on the true benefits of the most popular health foods—and in some cases, debunk misconceptions surrounding certain foods.
Hezbollah
Authors: Worrall James , Mabon Simon , Clubb Gordon
Published: November 2023

This detailed analysis follows the rise and evolution of Hezbollah from an Islamic resistance movement to its role as a governing force in Lebanon, exploring the group's impact on the security and power dynamics in the Middle East.

This is the first book of its kind to offer a comprehensive study of Hezbollah, providing an overview of the organization's key personalities, events, and structures over the past three decades. Inspired by the latest terrorism research and contemporary developments in the Middle East, the book reflects upon Hezbollah's religious foundations and its present role as a player in Middle East relations.

Chapters place Hezbollah within the Middle East security environment, analyzing the rise of the Party of God within the context of Iranian-inspired Shi'a activism, examining the ideological underpinnings of the movement, and addressing its dominant political position post Arab Spring. This authoritative volume introduces the party's full range of activities, including resistance, propaganda, organized crime, and educational facilities. The content highlights Hezbollah's role as a social welfare provider—specifically, the types of aid given, the source of financing for the endeavor, and the challenge this role presents to the Lebanese state.
Hidden Religion
Authors: Issitt Micah , Main Carlyn
Published: November 2023

Covering secret societies, mysterious ancient traditions, and the often-mistaken history of the world's religious symbols, this book takes readers on a tour through the fascinating world of religious symbolism and reveals the most mysterious and misunderstood facets of religion.

Hidden Religion: The Greatest Mysteries and Symbols of the World's Religious Beliefs not only explores the history and origins of widely recognizable symbols, like the Christian cross and the Star of David, but also introduces readers to more obscure symbols from religious traditions around the world—even defunct ones like those of the ancient Aztec and Mayan societies. In addition, the book discusses the "religious secrets" found in the major religions, including secret societies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.

Containing more than 170 entries, the encyclopedia is organized by religious category, such as Abrahamic, East Asian, and African Diasporic religions, then alphabetically within each category. Each entry is prefaced with a short introduction that explains where and when the religious tradition originated and describes the religion today. This information is followed by an analysis of the historical development and use of symbols along with an explanation of connections between symbols used by different religions, such as shared astrological symbolism in the form of moon, sun, or star motifs.
How the Drug War Ruins American Lives
Authors: Benavie Arthur
Published: November 2023

This book reveals the disturbing truth about how the escalation of the War on Drugs over the past 30 years has eroded the human and property rights of Americansâwhile doing little to stop drug trafficking or use.

Unique in its perspective, this eye-opening book looks at the drug war as a rights issue and concludes that Americans' civil liberties are clearly being violated. The volume proceeds from two premises: that over the past 30 years, America's War on Drugs has done more harm than good; and that if the United States is going to reform the criminal justice system, the public must understand that this "war" is empowered by the profits it provides to law enforcement and other groups.

A central factor causing the upsurge in the drug war, the author explains, is the fact that laws were passed in the 1980s that allowed law enforcement to profit from seizing property based on scanty evidence and without criminal charges. His meticulous research has revealed that this "policing for profit" is responsible for a variety of assaults on civil liberties, including mass incarceration, SWAT teams, and random drug sweeps. A second factor that infects every aspect of the War on Drugs is racismâthe widespread stereotyping of drug traffickers as African Americans and Latinos. These issues and more are explored in this book that lays bare what the media largely ignores.
Intelligence Collection
Authors: Hall Wayne Michael , Citrenbaum Gary
Published: November 2023

This book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundation of effective modern intelligence collectionâthe strategies required to support intelligence analysis of the modern, complex operational environments of today's military conflicts or competitive civilian situations such as business.

Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the traditional methodology of collecting intelligence on these elusive, adapting foes operating as complex adaptive systems (CAS)âadversaries that excel in today's complex contexts.

Intelligence Collection: How To Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments proposes substantive improvements in the way the U.S. national security system collects intelligence and supports intelligence analysis. The work draws on the groundbreaking work of a diverge group of theorists ranging from Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu to M. Mitchell Waldrop, General David Petraeus, and Orson Scott Card, communicating a unifying theory and ontology of thought for how America's intelligence collection professionals must learn to collect data as our country faces elusive, determined, and smart adversaries in nonlinear, dynamic environments. The new ideas presented will help the nation's intelligence collection specialists to amass a formidable, cumulative intelligence power, regardless of the level of war or the type of operational environment.
Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy
Authors: Ghanim David
Published: November 2023

This book examines Iraq since 2003 and argues that a new democratic Iraq cannot be grounded on destructive politics of victimization, narrow nationalism, sectarian confessionalism, and a consensual, power-sharing political arrangement.

This book provides an in-depth analysis from an Iraqi perspective on the political development in Iraq since 2003, thereby filling a gap that currently exists in the discussion of this embattled nation. Within its pages, author David Ghanim scrutinizes the many contradictions of the new experience in Iraq and exposes the myth of a "new democratic Iraq."

By providing a unflinching look at the dysfunctional nature of democracy in Iraq, the centrality of violence in Iraqi society and politics, and the deterioration of the rights and treatment of minorities and women in Iraq, Iraq's Dysfunctional Democracy exposes how the New Iraq after the nearly decade-long involvement of the United States is becoming a republic of corruption. Complex issues such as ethnic federalism, ethno-sectarian elections, politics of victimization, deceptive legitimacy, and the effects of de-Ba'athification are covered in detail, serving to illuminate the multilayered obstacles to stabilizing Iraq—a country that serves as the linchpin for the security of the Middle East as well as the rest of the world.
Jim Crow
Authors: Brown Nikki , Stentiford Barry M.
Published: November 2023

This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow.

Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much of the nation. Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic sheds new light on how the systematic denigration of African Americans after slavery—known collectively as "Jim Crow"—was established, maintained, and eventually dismantled.

Written in a manner appropriate for high school and junior high students as well as undergraduate readers, this book examines the period of Jim Crow after slavery that is often overlooked in American history curricula. An introductory essay frames the work and explains the significance and scope of this regrettable period in American history. Written by experts in their fields, the accessible entries will enable readers to understand the long hard road before the inception of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century while also gaining a better understanding of the experiences of minorities in the United States—African Americans, in particular.
Memories of the Enslaved
Authors: Crew Spencer R. , Bunch   III Lonnie G. , Price Clement A.
Published: November 2023

This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.

Today’s students understandably have a hard time imagining what life for slaves more than 150 years ago was like. The best way to communicate what slaves experienced is to hear their words directly. The material in this concise single-volume work illuminates the lives of the last living generation of enslaved people in the United States—former slaves who were interviewed about their experiences in the 1930s. Based on more than 2,000 interviews, the transcriptions of these priceless interviews offer primary sources that tell a diverse and powerful picture of life under slavery.

The book explores seven key topics—childhood, marriage, women, work, emancipation, runaways, and family. Through the examination of these subject areas, the interviews reveal the harsh realities of being a slave, such as how slave women were at the complete mercy of the men who operated the places where they lived, how nearly every enslaved person suffered a beating at some point in their lives, how enslaved families commonly lost relatives through sale, and how enslaved children were taken from their parents to care for the children of slaveholders. The thematic organizational format allows readers to easily access numerous excerpts about a specific topic quickly and enables comparisons between individuals in different locations or with different slaveholders to identify the commonalities and unique characteristics within the system of slavery.
The Microgrid Revolution
Authors: Bhave Mahesh P.
Published: November 2023

What kinds (according to U.S. News & World Report) of clean electricity initiatives—ones that make sense on public policy and business strategy levels—could overcome the hurdles in shifting away from the entrenched electricity and petroleum-based transport industries in the United States? This book explores the tremendous opportunities of the new electricity revolution that looks to threaten the century-old business models of our existing power production infrastructure.

The electricity industry, having been in place for more than 100 years, has established tremendous power and influence. But as solar- and wind-based energy businesses gain small footholds and expand their impact, the incumbent electricity businesses face fundamental challenges that threaten their century-old business models. Will technological advances and the motivation to control climate change finally effect a revolution in the electricity markets? This unique book proposes public policy- and business strategy-level initiatives that could overcome the structural impediments that prevail in the current electricity industries and predicts the important changes to come in the immediate and distant future.

In The Microgrid Revolution: Business Strategies for Next-Generation Electricity, author Mahesh P. Bhave explains the current state of electricity production, identifies its widespread problems, and proposes a specific approach and particular solution to the puzzle of supplying clean energy for the 21st-century world. The introductory chapters lay the groundwork for the author’s provocative thesis, and the concluding chapters elaborate on it with broad implications. By examining the subject material from the perspectives of public policy and regulatory concerns, corporate strategy, industry structure changes, innovation, and climate change as well as from a technological angle, readers from diverse industries and professional backgrounds will be able to understand how the coming electricity revolution is something we all have the power to influence.
Modern China
Authors: Li Xiaobing
Published: November 2023

Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China.

In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years.

Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.
Mummies around the World
Authors: Cardin Matt
Published: November 2023

Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena.

Mortality and death have always fascinated humankind. Civilizations from all over the world have practiced mummification as a means of preserving life after death—a ritual which captures the imagination of scientists, artists, and laypeople alike. This comprehensive encyclopedia focuses on all aspects of mummies: their ancient and modern history; their scientific study; their occurrence around the world; the religious and cultural beliefs surrounding them; and their roles in literary and cinematic entertainment.

Author and horror guru Matt Cardin brings together 130 original articles written by an international roster of leading scientists and scholars to examine the art, science, and religious rituals of mummification throughout history. Through a combination of factual articles and topical essays, this book reviews cultural beliefs about death; the afterlife; and the interment, entombment, and cremation of human corpses in places like Egypt, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. Additionally, the book covers the phenomenon of natural mummification where environmental conditions result in the spontaneous preservation of human and animal remains.
North from Mexico
Authors: McWilliams Carey , Meier Matt S. , García Alma M.
Published: November 2023

This single-volume book provides students, educators, and politicians with an update to the classic Carey McWilliams work North From Mexico. It provides up-to-date information on the Chicano experience and the emergent social dynamics in the United States as a result of Mexican immigration.

Carey McWilliam's North From Mexico, first published in 1948, is a classic survey of Chicano history. Now fully updated by Alma M. García to cover the period from 1990 to the present, McWilliams's quintessential book explores all aspects of Chicano/a experiences in the United States, including employment, family, immigration policy, language issues, and other cultural, political, and social issues. The volume builds on the landmark work and also provides relevant up-to-date content to the 1990 edition revised by Matt S. Meier, which added coverage of the key period in Chicano history from the postwar period through to the late 1980s.

As the largest group of immigrants in the United States, representing more than a quarter of foreign-born individuals in the United States, Mexican immigrants have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the culture and society of the United States as a whole. This freshly updated edition of North from Mexico addresses the changing demographic trends within Mexican immigrant communities and their implications for the country; analyzes key immigration policies such as the Immigration Act of 1990 and California's Proposition 187, with specific emphasis on the political mobilization that has developed within Mexican American immigrant communities; and describes the development of immigration reform as well as community organizations and electoral politics.

The book contains new chapters that examine recent trends in Mexican immigration to the United States and identify the impact on politics and society of Mexican immigrants and later generations of U.S.-born Mexican Americans. The appendices provide readers and researchers with current immigration figures and information regarding today's socieconomic conditions for Mexican Americans.
The Ongoing Columbian Exchange
Authors: Cumo Christopher
Published: November 2023

This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as “traditional” Native American life and culture—living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback, for example—came from the arrival of Europeans. This encyclopedia helps students acquire fundamental information about the Columbian Exchange through approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries on animals, plants, diseases, and items that were exchanged, accompanied by sidebars throughout that provide interesting discussions of key people, companies, and other related topics.

The work begins with an introductory essay that overviews the Columbian exchange and not only addresses its biological and cultural components but also treats it as a political and economic event. The alphabetically organized entries cover topics ranging from the African slave trade, almonds, and alpacas to watermelon, whooping cough, and yellow fever. The encyclopedia also offers a chronology of the major events of the Columbian Exchange as well as 15 transcribed primary source documents that enable students to "look into history directly," including passages about the exchange that focus on the Irish Potato Famine, the slave trade, and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.
Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
Authors: Lehman Christopher P.
Published: November 2023

The book examines how the coalition among the national African American civil rights organizations disintegrated between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the factionalism that splintered the groups from within as well as the federal government's sabotage of the Civil Rights Movement.

Focusing on four major civil rights groups, Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 documents how factions within the movement and sabotage from the federal government led to the gradual splintering of the Civil Rights Movement. Well-known historian Christopher P. Lehman builds his case convincingly, utilizing his original research on the Movement's later years—a period typically overlooked and unexamined in the existing literature on the Movement.

The book identifies how each civil rights group challenged poverty, violence, and discrimination differently from one another and describes how the federal government intentionally undermined civil rights organizations' efforts. It also shows how civil rights activists gravitated to political careers, explains the rising prominence of civil rights speakers to the Movement in the absence of political organizing by civil rights groups, and documents the Movement's influence upon Richard Nixon's presidency.
Assessment of the response to systemic treatment of colorectal liver metastases on cross-sectional imaging – a systematic review
Authors: Morawska Irmina , Cieszanowski Andrzej
Published: November 2023

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world. Nowadays many treatments are available to help control CRC, including surgery, radiation therapy, interventional radiology, and drug treatments. A multidisciplinary approach and the role of radiologists is needed to assist the surgeon in the management thanks to emerging technology and strategies. The Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) has been created to objectify and standardize cancer response assessment. Thus, in this article specific presumptions and practical aspects of evaluating responses according to the RECIST 1.1 are discussed. Furthermore, examples of possible response to systemic treatment of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM), including tumour necrosis, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values, tumour calcification, tumour fibrosis and intratumoural fat deposition observed on cross-sectional imaging, are described. Disappearing liver metastases (DLM) presents a therapeutic dilemma. The optimal management of DLM remains controversial due to the uncertainty of residual microscopic disease and effective long-term outcomes. The article provides an overview of the CRLM phenomenon and current possible assessment methods of the response to systemic treatment.
Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France
Authors: Dyk Garritt
Published: November 2023

“Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are” was the challenge issued by French gastronomist Jean Brillat-Savarin. Champagne is declared a unique emblem of French sophistication and luxury, linked to the myth of its invention by Dom Pérignon. Across the Channel, a cup of sweet tea is recognized as a quintessentially English icon, simultaneously conjuring images of empire, civility, and relentless rain that demands the sustenance and comfort that only tea can provide. How did these tastes develop in the seventeenth century?

Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France: Across the Channel offers a compelling historical narrative of the relationship between food, national identity, and political economy in the early modern period. These mutually influential relationships are revealed through comparative and transnational analyses of effervescent wine, spices and cookbooks, the development of coffeehouses and cafés, and the ‘national sweet tooth’ in England and France.
Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
Authors: Venema Derk , Bost Mélanie , Löhnig Martin , Tamm Ditlev , Millon Clément , Baruch Marc Olivier , Graver Hans Petter , Muller Françoise , Peters Kirsten , Tauchen Jaromír , Artuso Vincent , Grilli Antonio
Published: November 2023

This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of democracy and rule of law? What role was there for international law? How did the courts deal with dismissals, new appointees, new courts, forced German ordinances versus national law? How did judges justify their actions, help citizens, appease the enemy, protest against injustice? Experts from all democracies that were occupied by the Nazis paint vivid pictures of oppression, collaboration, and resistance. The results are interpreted in a socio-legal framework introducing the concept of ‘moral hygiene’ to explain the clash between normative and descriptive approaches in public opinion and scholarship concerning officials’ behaviour in war-time.
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy
Authors: Grant Katrina
Published: November 2023

Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores how the idea of gardens as theatres emerged at the same time as opera was developed in Italian courts around the turn of the seventeenth century. During this period landscape painting emerged as a genre and the aesthetic of designed landscapes and gardens was wholly transformed, which resulted in a reconceptualization of the relationship between humans and landscape. The importance of theatre as a key cultural expression in Italy is widely recognised, but the visual culture of theatre and its relationship to the broader artistic culture is still being untangled. This book argues that the combination of narratives playing out in natural settings (Arcadia, Parnassus, Alcina), the emotional responses elicited by sets and special effects (the apparent magical manipulation of the laws of nature), and, the way that garden theatres were used for displays of power and to enact princely virtue and social order, all contributed to this shifting idea of landscape in the seventeenth century.
Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages
Authors: Seth James
Published: November 2023

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion. Often described reductively in voyaging accounts as having one function, in fact maritime performers served many communicative tasks. Their lives were not only complex, but often contradictory. Though not high-ranking officers, neither were they lower-ranking mariners or sailors. They were influenced by a range of competing cultural practices, having spent time playing on both land and sea, and their roles required them to mediate parties using music, dance, and theatre as powerful forms of nonverbal communication. Their performances transcended and breached boundaries of language, rank, race, religion, and nationality, thereby upsetting conventional practices, improving shipboard and international relations, and ensuring the success of their voyages.
ĐẶC ĐIỂM LÂM SÀNG, CẬN LÂM SÀNG VÀ ĐAU MẠN TÍNH Ở BỆNH NHÂN CAO TUỔI CÓ THOÁI HÓA KHỚP GỐI NGUYÊN PHÁT
Authors: Trần Viết Lực , Nguyễn Thị Thu Hương , Nguyễn Trung Anh , Vũ Thị Thanh Huyền
Published: November 2023

Mục tiêu: Mô tả đặc điểm lâm sàng, cận lâm sàng và đặc điểm đau mạn tính khớp gối ở người cao tuổi có thoái hóa khớp (THK) gối nguyên phát. Đối tượng và phương pháp: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang trên 199 bệnh nhân ³ 60 tuổi được chẩn đoán THK gối nguyên phát theo tiêu chuẩn của ACR 1991 đang điều trị tại Bệnh viện Lão Khoa Trung ương từ tháng 10/2021-08/2022. Kết quả: triệu chứng lâm sàng thường gặp nhất là đau khớp gối mạn tính (84,9%); lạo xạo khớp (39,7%), dấu hiệu bào gỗ (38,7%). Tỉ lệ bệnh nhân THK giai đoạn I, II, III, IV trên Xquang lần lượt là 22,4%; 48%; 23,4% và 2,4%. Kết quả siêu âm có 38,1% bệnh nhân có tràn dịch khớp; 46,2% bệnh nhân có dày màng hoạt dịch; 87,4% bệnh nhân có hình ảnh gai xương. 45% bệnh nhân có thời gian đau mạn tính từ 3-6 tháng, 56,4% đau kéo dài trên 6 tháng. Điểm WOMAC tổng là 31,5 ± 19,9. Điểm VAS trung bình khi nghỉ là: 3,04 ± 1,82; khi đi bộ là: 4,85 ± 2,23 và khi leo cầu thang là: 5,50 ± 2,13. Kết luận: Triệu chứng lâm sàng chính là đau khớp gối, THK gối giai đoạn II-III, có hình ảnh gai xương, dày màng hoạt dịch. Tỷ lệ đau khớp gối mạn tính là 84,9%; đa số kéo dài trên 6 tháng và ảnh hưởng đến hoạt động hàng ngày của bệnh nhân.
THỰC TRẠNG TIÊM VẮC-XIN PHÒNG UNG THƯ CỔ TỬ CUNG CỦA NỮ SINH VIÊN TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC Y DƯỢC, ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI NĂM 2022
Authors: Vũ Ngọc Hà , Nguyễn Thành Trung , Nguyễn Dương Truyền , Nguyễn Quang Tâm , Vũ Thanh Hòa , Mạc Đăng Tuấn
Published: November 2023

Mục tiêu: Xác định tỷ lệ tiêm vắc-xin phòng ung thư cổ tử cung (UTCTC) của nữ sinh viên Trường Đại học Y Dược, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội (ĐHQGHN) năm 2022. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu mô tả cắt ngang được thực hiện trên nữ sinh viên Trường Đại học Y Dược, ĐHQGHN từ tháng 11/2022 đến tháng 01/2023. Kết quả: Trong tổng số 310 nữ sinh viên tham gia, có 107 sinh viên (34,5%) đã tiêm vắc-xin HPV, trong đó có 69 sinh viên (22,3%) đã tiêm đủ 3 liều. Trong số 203 đối tượng chưa tiêm chủng, chỉ có 62,0% chắc chắn thời gian tới sẽ tiêm vắc-xin. Kết luận: Tỷ lệ tiêm vắc-xin phòng UTCTC của nữ sinh viên Trường Đại học Y Dược, ĐHQGHN còn chưa cao. Trong đó, sinh viên chưa tiêm vắc-xin với lí do giá thành cao chiếm tỷ lệ cao nhất. Các buổi tư vấn, ngoại khóa nhằm nâng cao kiến thức về vắc-xin HPV đồng thời nhấn mạnh vai trò và tính an toàn, hiệu quả của vắc-xin có thể thúc đẩy việc tiêm vắc-xin HPV.
SỰ BIẾN ĐỔI CÁC THÔNG SỐ HUYẾT ĐỘNG Ở BỆNH NHÂN BỎNG NẶNG TRONG GIAI ĐOẠN SỐC BỎNG
Authors: Trần Đình Hùng , Ngô Tuấn Hưng
Published: November 2023

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá sự biến đổi các thông số huyết động ở bệnh nhân bỏng nặng trong giai đoạn sốc bỏng. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu tiến cứu trên 45 bệnh nhân bỏng người lớn (16 – 60 tuổi) giai đoạn sốc bỏng, không có bệnh lý nặng trước khi vào viện và chấn thương kết hợp, có diện tích bỏng từ 30% diện tích cơ thể (DTCT) trở lên, nhập viện trong vòng 6 giờ sau bỏng, điều trị nội trú trên 3 ngày tại Khoa Hồi sức Cấp cứu, Bệnh viện Bỏng Quốc gia từ 1/1/2021 đến 31/10/2022. Các thông số huyết động được đo bằng máy USCOM version 2.0 sản xuất 2009 với đầu dò siêu âm Doppler liên tục tần số: 2,2 MHz (sản xuất tại Úc). Kết quả: Tỷ lệ tử vong là 35,56%. Tại thời điểm vào viện, các thông số CO, CI, INO, SV, SVI, SVV và FTc chủ yếu giảm; ngược lại, các thông số SVR và SVRI chủ yếu tăng; SVV và SVR có tương quan thuận, mức độ trung bình với tử vong (p < 0,05). Các thông số huyết động dần về bình thường trong quá trình điều trị. Sau 48 giờ vào viện điều trị, số lượng bệnh nhân có giá trị INO ở nhóm sống về bình thường cao hơn đáng kể so với nhóm tử vong (p < 0,05). Sau 72 giờ vào viện, so với nhóm tử vong, số lượng bệnh nhân có giá trị SV và SVI về bình thường ở nhóm sống nhiều hơn có ý nghĩa (p< 0,05). Kết luận: Tại thời điểm vào viện, các thông số CO, CI, INO, SV, SVI, SVV và FTc chủ yếu giảm. Ngược lại, các thông số SVR và SVRI chủ yếu tăng. Các thông số huyết động cải thiện trong quá trình điều trị.
SỰ HÀI LÒNG CỦA NGƯỜI BỆNH NGOẠI TRÚ TẠI KHOA KHÁM BỆNH, BỆNH VIỆN ĐA KHOA TỈNH TIỀN GIANG
Authors: Ngô Thị Kim Giàu , Tạ Văn Trầm
Published: November 2023

Đặt vấn đề: đánh giá sự hài lòng của người bệnh là một tiêu chí quan trọng trong việc đánh giá chất lượng khám, chữa bệnh tại các cơ sở y tế. Mục tiêu: mô tả tỉ lệ sự hài lòng của người bệnh ngoại trú tại khoa Khám bệnh, Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh tỉnh Tiền Giang năm 2022. Phương pháp: nghiên cứu cắt ngang mô tả, phát vấn trên 229 người bệnh ngoại trú tại khoa Khám bệnh, Bệnh viện Đa khoa tỉnh tỉnh Tiền Giang, từ tháng 7/2022 đến tháng 12/2022. Kết quả: tỉ lệ người bệnh hài lòng chung đạt 81,1%, cao nhất là tỉ lệ hài lòng về thái độ ứng xử và năng lực chuyên môn của nhân viên y tế (86,81%), thấp nhất là cơ sở vật chất và phương tiện phục vụ người bệnh (68,24%). Kết luận: bổ sung nhân lực cho phòng Công tác xã hội, đẩy mạnh tuyên truyền về đăng ký khám bệnh qua tổng đài.
KẾT QUẢ LÂU DÀI ĐIỀU TRỊ TEO HẬU MÔN, RÒ TRỰC TRÀNG NIỆU ĐẠO BẰNG PHẪU THUẬT NỘI SOI KẾT HỢP VỚI ĐƯỜNG SAU TRỰC TRÀNG GIỮ NGUYÊN CƠ THẮT
Authors: Ngô Duy Minh , Nguyễn Thanh Liêm , Phạm Duy Hiền , Trần Anh Quỳnh
Published: November 2023

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá kết quả lâu dài điều trị rò trực tràng - niệu đạo bằng phẫu thuật nội soi kết hợp đường sau trực tràng giữ nguyên cơ thắt. Đối tượng, phương pháp: Tất cả bệnh nhân rò trực tràng -  niệu đạo được phẫu thuật cùng 1 kỹ thuật tại bệnh viện nhi trung ương, thời gian 4/2017 đến 4/2020. Phương pháp nghiên cứu: hồi cứu. Kết quả: 52 bệnh nhân trong đó 25 bệnh nhân rò trực tràng – niệu đạo tiền liệt tuyến, 27 bệnh nhân rò trực tràng – niệu đạo hành. Thời gian phẫu thuật từ 48 đến 80 phút, trung bình 57,8  ± 5,7 phút, không có tai biến trong phẫu thuật hoặc tử vong sau phẫu thuật. Điều trị sau phẫu thuật trung bình 5,1  ± 0,9 ngày, kết quả lâu dài cho thấy tỷ lệ táo bón sau mổ chiếm 13,3%, Són phân chiếm 46,7%, đại tiện tự chủ hoàn toàn chiếm 82,3%. Kết luận: Phẫu thuật nội soi kết hợp sau trực tràng giữ nguyên cơ thắt điều trị bệnh lý rò trực tràng - niệu đạo là phương pháp khả thi, an toàn, theo dõi lâu dài thấy kết quả đại tiện tự chủ chiếm tỷ lệ cao.
NGHIÊN CỨU ĐẶC ĐIỂM LÂM SÀNG, CẬN LÂM SÀNG TRÊN BỆNH NHÂN VẢY NẾN MỦ TẠI BỆNH VIỆN DA LIỄU THÀNH PHỐ CẦN THƠ NĂM 2021-2023
Authors: Nguyễn Lê Bằng , Nguyễn Thị Thùy Trang , Trương Trí Đăng , Nguyễn Trung Kiên
Published: November 2023

Đặt vấn đề: vảy nến mủ là thể lâm sàng hiếm gặp của bệnh vảy nến. Trong đó vảy nến mủ toàn thân có khả năng đe dọa tính mạng và tử vong cao, vì vậy nhận biết sớm và điều trị kịp thời là vô cùng quan trọng. Mục tiêu: mô tả đặc điểm lâm sàng, cận lâm sàng trên bệnh nhân vảy nến mủ tại Bệnh viện Da liễu thành phố Cần Thơ năm 2021-2023. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: nghiên cứu mô tả loạt ca trên 59 bệnh nhân vảy nến mủ tại Bệnh viện Da liễu thành phố Cần Thơ năm 2021-2023. Kết quả: tuổi khởi phát trung bình là 32,77±16,75 tuổi. Trong đó, nhóm ≤40 tuổi chiếm đa số là 69,5%. Vảy nến mủ toàn thân là thể lâm sàng thường gặp nhất, chiếm 100% trong nghiên của chúng tôi. Các triệu chứng lâm sàng kèm theo bao gồm sốt (chiếm 55,9%), tổn thương móng (chiếm 54,2%), lưỡi bản đồ (chiếm 55,2%) và vảy nến khớp (chiếm 13,6%). Các đặc điểm cận lâm sàng ở bệnh nhân vảy nến mủ bao gồm bạch cầu tăng (chiếm 76,3%), tốc độ máu lắng giờ 1, giờ 2 tăng (chiếm 100%), CRP tăng (chiếm 84,7%), AST tăng (chiếm 13,6%), ALT tăng (chiếm 28,8%), albumin giảm (chiếm 62,7%) và canxi giảm (chiếm 69,5%). Kết luận: vảy nến mủ là thể lâm sàng hiếm gặp của vảy nến với biểu hiện lâm sàng đa dạng, thường khởi phát sớm ở lứa tuổi từ 40 tuổi trở xuống, các đặc điểm cận lâm sàng cần chú ý đến như bạch cầu, tốc độ máu lăng, AST, ALT và canxi.