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On the Nature of Genocidal Intent
Authors: Campbell Jason J.
Published: February 2025

Campbell offers a conceptual look into the nature of genocidal intent, systematically analyzing the conceptual and logical structures for genocidal intent, and discussing its theoretical foundations. The analysis offers particular insight into the process of operationalizing genocide and mass extermination. The investigation includes discussion of the roles orchestrators play and the systematic development of a genocidal strategy, which requires the intent to purge pre-selected demographic identifiers from the population. Cambell also analyzes in detail the dynamic process of generational conflict, wherein former perpetrators become victims and victims become perpetrators.
The Work of Play
Authors: Nahm Sheena
Published: February 2025

The Work of Play: Child Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea is an ethnography that investigates a child play therapy program as it leaves the United States and takes root in South Korea. At the heart of this book is a group of female therapists figuring out how to make a living in an emerging sector while improving the lives of the children they treat. They grapple with questions about maintaining program fidelity while translating and transforming the program to be socially and culturally relevant. Based on years of research, The Work of Play traces how therapeutic expertise is cultivated by combining instinct with formal training. Readers will follow a group of therapists as they form professional roots in the pediatric mental health landscape of contemporary Seoul and see what life is like at the intersection of stigma and demand.
The Politics of Human Rights Protection
Authors: Black Jan Knippers
Published: February 2025

This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite the appearance of consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse—with its common core in inequality—is expanding at all levels from the petty to the profound. Designed to inform and inspire, this book also provides the analytical and strategic tools needed for the next generation of activists. Jan Knippers Black offers a fundamental reexamination of the basic terms and concepts, legal and institutional foundations, controversies, cleavages, threats and strategies associated with human rights.

Black's perspective is holistic, stressing the relevance of human rights issues to all human needs and endeavors and requiring multidisciplinary analysis. Chapters analyzing connections among political, economic, ecological, and cultural impacts on social and individual well-being are accompanied by case studies highlighting lessons learned from success or failure. This empowering book seeks to promote an "each for all" commitment, breaking through barriers of ignorance and apathy, denial and despair, so that advocates and activists can work to prevent future atrocities.
Older Adult-Led Health Promotion in Urban Communities
Authors: Delgado Melvin
Published: February 2025

The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade. A variety of models have been put forth to achieve the goal of health in these communities but one of the most promising recommendations has been the use of health promotion as a vehicle for reaching and empowering communities of color in both rural and urban America. Older adult-led interventions, as addressed in various sections of this book, is one of the latest and most promising approaches towards health promotion that is grass-roots and community participatory based. Older adult-led health promotion represents an emerging field with tremendous implications for addressing the health needs of marginalized urban older adults in the United States and international.
Confronting Animal Abuse
Authors: Beirne Piers
Published: February 2025

Confronting Animal Abuse presents a powerful examination of the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it. Piers Beirne, a leading scholar in the growing field of green criminology, explores the heated topic of animal abuse in agriculture, science, and sport, as well as what is known, if anything, about the potential for animal assault to lead to inter-human violence. He convincingly shows how from its roots in the Irish plow-fields of 1635 through today, animal-rights legislation has been primarily shaped by human interest and why we must reconsider the terms of human-animal relationships. Beirne argues that if violations of animals' rights are to be taken seriously, then scholars and activists should examine why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and still others as neither criminal nor abusive. Confronting Animal Abuse points to the need for a more inclusive concept of harms to animals, without which the meaning of animal abuse will be overwhelmingly confined to those harms that are regarded as socially unacceptable, one-on-one cases of animal cruelty. Certainly, those cases demand attention. But so, too, do those other and far more numerous institutionalized harms to animals, where abuse is routine, invisible, ubiquitous and often defined as socially acceptable. In this pioneering, pro-animal book Beirne identifies flaws in our traditional understanding of human-animal relationships, and proposes a compelling new approach.
The Immigration Crisis
Authors: Navarro Armando
Published: February 2025

Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, historical, and theoretical examination of the laws, personalities, organizations, events, and demographics that have shaped four centuries of immigration and led to the widespread social crisis that today divides citizens, non-citizens, regions, and political parties. As a prominent activist, Navarro has participated broadly in the Mexican-American community's responses to the problems of immigration and integration, and his book also provides a powerful glimpse into the actual working of Hispanic social movements. In a sobering conclusion, Navarro argues that the immigration crisis is inextricably linked to the globalization of capital and the American economy's dependence on cheap labor.
De Broglie's Armada
Authors: Das Sudipta
Published: February 2025

This study represents the first published translation and analysis of an intriguing scheme of invasion of the British Isles that formed the foundation of all later invasion plans drawn up in the ivory towers of French diplomacy. References to invasion plans—made by Spain in the Spanish Armada (1585-98), or by the French Directory (1795-99) against Ireland and England in the later 1790s, or those of Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), or 'Operation Sea Lion,' the German plan of invasion during the Nazi era—have been based on published information of earlier plans, at the heart of which was De Broglie's grand project.
Leadership in Organizations
Authors: Bertocci David I.
Published: February 2025

Leadership in Organizations is the first in a series of three books written primarily for distance-learning students in online undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on management, leadership, and organizational development. This first book introduces concepts, theories, and principles of leadership across a broad spectrum and is intended for students in online courses on leadership, management, and business. A signature theme of the book is the distinction between leadership and management. This book presents a real-world view to help students learn to recognize the dynamics of leadership theory in operation so that they can begin to apply these principles to situations in their work environments.
Blood on Their Hands
Authors: Redd Forrest P.
Published: February 2025

In Blood on Their Hands, author Forrest Redd unravels the past eight years of the Bush Administration in an attempt to prove why George W. Bush should be convicted of inciting an illegal war. Fueled by the outcome of the 2004 election, Redd demonstrates how the right-leaning media pundits assisted Bush in misleading the public and why the American people share the responsibility of Bush's disappointing, dangerous presidency. In reevaluating the way the American people handled the Bush Administration, Redd transfers the blame for eight years of failures and atrocities from Bush squarely to the shoulders of the American voters. Redd also includes chapters on the Supreme Court's role in determining the 2000 election, a side-by-side comparison of Kerry and Bush in the 2004 election, and a reaction to the proposed change brought about by the 2008 election. Ultimately, Blood on Their Hands is a call to the nation to come together and practice common sense, strive for enlightenment, and exercise decency, tolerance, and compassion.
Head Games
Authors: Okembe-RA Imani Nikitah
Published: February 2025

Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process. It examines a family therapy program being run by a major public university, tied to the criminal justice system and the educational establishment, aiming to reform perceived 'dysfunctionality' in homes of the 'patients (subjects).' What follows is a tragic comedy of errors in which theory and practice normed in one sociocultural context is applied, or more appropriately, misapplied. This book questions whether we have come as far as we think in the US in terms of calibrating our mental health systems for multicultural sensitivity and perhaps suggests there are limits to how much we can engage in cross-cultural therapy. The book uses an Africa-centered theoretical framework to tease out these systemic incongruities and will hopefully provide guidance for counselors, researchers, and those more generally interested in programmatic evaluation research across cultural lines. The title, Head Games, is an apt metaphor for the manipulation of the program by all of its participants for the purpose of reifying or resisting its inherent definitions of abnormality.
African Mathematics
Authors: Bangura Abdul Karim
Published: February 2025

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area. These issues include attitudes, curriculum development, educational change, academic achievement, standardized and other tests, performance factors, student characteristics, cross-cultural differences and studies, literacy, native speakers, social class and differences, equal education, teaching methods, knowledge level, educational guidelines and policies, transitional schools, comparative education, other subjects such as physics and social studies, surveys, talent, educational research, teacher education and qualifications, academic standards, teacher effectiveness, lesson plans and modules, teacher characteristics, instructional materials, program effectiveness, program evaluation, African culture, African history, Black studies, class activities, educational games, number systems, cognitive ability, foreign influence, and fundamental concepts. What unifies the chapters in this book can appear rather banal, but many mathematical insights are so obvious and so fundamental that they are difficult to absorb, appreciate, and express with fresh clarity. Some of the more basic insights are isolated by accounts of investigators who have earned their contemporaries' respect.

Winner of the 2012 Cecil B. Currey Book Award.
Nigeria
Authors: Hagher Iyorwuese
Published: February 2025

Nigeria: After the Nightmare is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the country’s thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state.
Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities
Authors: Davis Carmel
Published: February 2025

Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities assesses two mainstays of international relations, balance of power and balance of threat, using the case of US balancing against the Soviet Union in the later Cold War. It also proposes balance of military capabilities, which uses offense-defense theory to argue that countries balance against the ability of others to conquer or compel them.

Power, Threat, or Military Capabilities finds that the US was more powerful than the Soviet Union so US behavior is not explained by balance of power. The US did not perceive the Soviet Union as likely to initiate war or to run risks that might lead to war so US behavior is not explained by balance of threat. This book determines that the US was concerned about its ability to defend Europe and the Persian Gulf so US behavior is explained by balance of military capabilities.
The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future
Authors: Rivers Theodore John
Published: February 2025

In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion. Rivers draws upon his expertise in the fields of medieval and religious history to discuss how the promotion of Christianity and monasticism in the Middle Ages began a process that has lent religious undertones to the way in which we interact with modern technology. Rivers ultimately suggests that the growing presence of technology makes it a likely candidate for the next religious form, competing with all the major religions in place today.
Subjective Morals
Authors: Sapontzis Steve F.
Published: February 2025

Is morality a good thing? Is moral relativism a bad thing? Traditionally, moral philosophers have presumed that the answers to both questions must be yes. In today’s world, however, many moralists feel obligated to ban gay marriage or censor whatever they deem offensive, and others feel morality commands them to bomb abortion clinics and fly planes into buildings. Unfortunately, it has become all too common for such true believers to use moral values to justify their often destructive behavior. Today’s moral zealotry leaves the value of morality questionable and makes traditional moral philosophy feel pale and irrelevant. Subjective Morals breaks with tradition to provide a careful analysis of moral values and the goods and evils they produce. This work explores the subjective and objective bases of moral values and details the kinds of truth and justification of which they are and are not capable. After analyzing the concepts and categories that structure our moral practice, Sapontzis concludes with recommendations for how we may enjoy the benefits of moral values while minimizing their evils.
A Letter from Christ
Authors: McRoberts Kerry D.
Published: February 2025

Our nation is politically, ideologically, and socially polarized to the point of breaking; confusion dominates every layer of our culture. The church in America is “a letter from Christ” (2 Cor. 3:3), written to our politically cynical, socially insecure, and spiritually skeptical culture. Before the Gospel may become clear in our “post-everything” culture, we must make truth real in our hearts. The purpose of this book is to (1) redefine dualistic frames in the minds of contemporary Christians that separate the “saved” from the advent of God’s healing reign on Earth; (2) relate Christian compassion to a post-secular America; and (3) propose a redefinition of the Christian controlling narrative. Such a revised narrative will light the way for our “restless hearts” so that we, as a nation, may return from exile to restoration and rejoice in the sovereign reign of God in Christ.
Cinemulacrum
Authors: Sultanik Aaron
Published: February 2025

Cinemulacrum, a conflation of “cinema,” the art of the Hollywood film, and simulacrum, a reality counterfeit, was coined to designate contemporary media culture. This period is distinguished by the advent of digital film/video, an ideology of fantasy as the central narrative of movies and television, and a ruling audience demographic of the young adult. A pre-cinemulacrum era (1960-1980) and Age of Cinemulacrum (1980 to the present day) are demarcated to examine the fall—and rise—of classical Hollywood and the hegemony of television in a media dyad of movies and television.

Cinemulacrum argues that the convergence of technology, ideology, and audience represent the primary factors surrounding the social immediacy of movies and television, and that video, fantasy, and the young adult have replaced film, realism, and the family as the outstanding attributes of contemporary media culture.

A contemporary vision of media culture emerges in the 1980s. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg lead a populist new wave, combining technological modernity with a retro sensibility grounded both in B-movie melodramas and the genteel, domesticated television sit-coms of the 1950s. Television, however, gains an unrivaled authority through the spinoff production model and the expanded resources of cable with its 24/7 news, sports, and movies.

Advocating a new or alternate history of movies and television, the author assesses critical trends from America's hybrid media culture. The pre-cinemulacrum era is unraveled through an “apocrypha of violence”—a cycle of conflicting portrayals of movie violence and heroism in Bonnie and Clyde, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and Rocky. The Age of Cinemulacrum is then characterized by the ‘making of simulacra’—the proliferating nature of movie sequels, prequels, and “special editions”—and by television's multi-generational young adult demographic of The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons.

The author concludes his study with an annotated timeline—“The Seven Ages of Cinemulacrum”—listing the history-making movies and television programs in contemporary media culture.
Oh, It's Like CSI...
Authors: Dukes-Robinson Tharinia , Esmail Ashraf
Published: February 2025

“Oh, it’s like CSI…”: A Qualitative Study of Job Satisfaction Experiences of Forensic Scientists goes beyond the glamorous portrayals of CSI professionals on television to highlight the real sources of job satisfaction among forensic scientists. Drawing on interviews with current forensic scientists, this book concludes that forensic scientists experience the most satisfaction in helping victims, the community, and society at large.
The Contradictions of Jazz
Authors: Rinzler Paul
Published: February 2025

In The Contradictions of Jazz, Paul Rinzler takes a new approach to jazz aesthetics and theory by exploring four pairs of opposites present in jazz: individualism and interconnectedness, assertion and openness, freedom and responsibility, and creativity and tradition. By themselves, these eight values speak volumes about the meaning of jazz and its significance. Understanding how these opposites coexist in jazz leads to an exploration of the connections linking jazz with the experiential and existential, which contrast with the connections between composition and science. Rinzler explains the various concepts, including either/or and dialectic thinking, and then examines the pairs of opposites individually, describing their position and presence in jazz. He then demonstrates how the larger meaning of these contradictory opposites depends on ideas from the philosophies of phenomenology and existentialism. Rinzler considers the opposites inherent in the product and process of jazz, as well as mistakes and the challenge of perfection, presenting these values in light of the contradictions inherent in jazz. With a full bibliography and an index, The Contradictions of Jazz is a fascinating read for fans and scholars of jazz history and aesthetics.
Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Intelligence
Authors: Kahana Ephraim , Suwaed Muhammad
Published: February 2025

Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry, proportionately larger and more extensive than in most other regions. The Historical Dictionary of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as the biographies of key players, this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.
Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature
Authors: Grange William
Published: February 2025

Some authors strongly criticized attempts to rebuild a German literary culture in the aftermath of World War II, while others actively committed themselves to 'dealing with the German past.' There are writers in Austria and Switzerland that find other contradictions of contemporary life troubling, while some find them funny or even worth celebrating. German postwar literature has, in the minds of some observers, developed a kind of split personality. In view of the traumatic monstrosities of the previous century that development may seem logical to some. The Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature is devoted to modern literature produced in the German language, whether from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or writers using German in other countries. This volume covers an extensive period of time, beginning in 1945 at what was called 'zero hour' for German literature and proceeds into the 21st century, concluding in 2008. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, such as Nobel Prize-winners Heinrich Bsll, GYnter Grass, Elias Canetti, Elfriede Jelinek, and W. G. Sebald. There are also entries on individual works, genres, movements, literary styles, and forms.
The a to Z of French Cinema
Authors: Oscherwitz Dayna , Higgins MaryEllen
Published: February 2025

It can be argued that cinema was created in France by Louis Lumi_re in 1895 with the invention of the cinZmatographe, the first true motion-picture camera and projector. While there were other cameras and devices invented earlier that were capable of projecting intermittent motion of images, the cinZmatographe was the first device capable of recording and externally projecting images in such a way as to convey motion. Early films such as Lumi_re's La Sortie de l'usine, a minute-long film of workers leaving the Lumi_re factory, captured the imagination of the nation and quickly inspired the likes of Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy, and Charles PathZ. Through the years, French cinema has been responsible for producing some of the world's best directors_Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Fran_ois Truffaut, and Louis Malle_and actors_Charles Boyer, Catherine Deneuve, GZrard Depardieu, and Audrey Tautou. The A to Z of French Cinema covers the history of French film from the silent era to the present in a concise and up to date volume detailing the development of French cinema and major theoretical and cultural issues related to it. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, photographs, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on many of the major actors, directors, films, movements, producers, and studios associated with French cinema. Going beyond mere biographical information, entries also discuss the impact and significance of each individual, film, movement, or studio included. This detailed, scholarly analysis of the development of film in France is useful to both the novice and the expert alike.
The a to Z of the Shakers
Authors: Paterwic Stephen J.
Published: February 2025

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, followed Mother Ann Lee to the United States in 1774 when life in England became difficult. In the United States, they established several colonies whose governing principals included celibacy and agrarian communal living. Even at its peak, however, Shakerism claimed only about 4,500 members. Today, except for one active community in Sabbathday, Maine, the great Shaker villages are diminished, but the Shakers left an enduring impact on the religion and culture of the United States. The A to Z of the Shakers relates the history of this fascinating group through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on Shaker communities, industries, individual families, and important people. Every definition, biography, and point of history was submitted to the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake for their review before it was included for publication. As such, the voice of the contemporary Shakers is found in the dictionary, and they have given it their unequivocal endorsement.
The a to Z of Environmentalism
Authors: Dauvergne Peter
Published: February 2025

Environmentalism involves hundreds of international environmental groups, thousands of national groups, and tens of thousands of local ones. It also includes hundreds of international agreements, hundreds of national environmental agencies, and countless environmental sections in other organizations—from those in multinational corporations to ones in regional and international organizations. Such environmental concepts as sustainable development, the precautionary principle, corporate social responsibility, and eco-labeling percolate from all of these sources. Every year, new ideas, refinements, policies, institutions, markets, and problems continue to enter into environmental debates and discourses, making it nearly impossible to keep abreast of the changes constantly taking place.

The A to Z of Environmentalism is a paperback edition of the Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism. It strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim of producing an inclusive, wide-ranging, and global history of environmentalism. This goal is accomplished through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries.
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature
Authors: Ying Li-hua
Published: February 2025

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Bohuslav Martinu
Authors: Rybka F. James
Published: February 2025

Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orchestral works. For 12 years (1941-1953), he lived in America, during which he enjoyed a brilliant reputation, and his works were played by nearly all the major orchestras. Yet today, his works are rarely performed.

In Bohuslav Martinu: The Compulsion to Compose, F. James Rybka provides a documented explanation for Martinu's amazing output: he had Asperger syndrome. Indeed, Martinu is believed to be the first composer ever to be documented, albeit retrospectively, with an autistic spectrum disorder. In this unique biography, Rybka follows Martinu's life from his birth in Policka, Bohemia to his composition studies with Albert Roussel, his escape from Nazis, and his rise as an internationally recognized composer with premieres of his works in Boston, Prague, London, and Basel.

As Rybka explains how the dynamics of Asperger Syndrome affected the composer's work, readers will more fully appreciate Martinu's accomplishments and legacy. Containing important letters and photographs, this book will inspire and inform those impacted by autism but will also be of interest to music scholars and students alike.
James M. Cain
Authors: Madden David , Mecholsky Kristopher
Published: February 2025

James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, and legacy. An updated and expanded edition of two of David Madden's scholarly works on Cain, this new book improves upon the previous works by collecting the most essential writing on Cain by Madden into one volume. In addition to melding existing material, this work contains updated and new material, including fresh commentaries on later books, such as Rainbow's End, Cloud Nine, and The Enchanted Isle, as well as later film adaptations, including Butterfly. It also responds to 40 years' worth of criticism on Cain and reevaluates his influence.

Providing an overview of all of Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book also describes Cain's impact on and importance in 20th-century culture, film in particular. In addition to a biographical summary and thematic outline of Cain's nearly 50-year career, Madden and Mecholsky examine how Cain's works explore the nightmare consequences of the persistent American dream. Finally, Madden and Mecholsky consider Cain's technical innovations of the novel and survey the major film adaptations of Cain's novels.

With its significant in-depth analysis and a foreword by Edgar-award winning author Max Allan Collins, this volume will be of interest to Cain scholars as well as anyone interested in 20th century American literature and film.
Gelassenheit gegenüber dem Tod
Authors: Mölkner Wolfgang , Gröschner Rolf
Published: February 2025

Life is finite and the fear of the end is human. Not suppressing this human fear, but accepting it, can lead to the serenity in the face of death that is the subject of a philosophical dialogue between the two authors in this book. They discuss prominent philosophical positions that are suitable for facing death calmly. The basis is formed by Socratic ‘not knowing’, Epicurus' “peace of mind” and the hope of an afterlife. Via Feuerbach's criticism of Kant's postulate of the ‘immortality of the soul’, the discussion moves on to Heidegger's ‘running ahead’ towards death and Améry's ‘laying hands on oneself’. Overall, serenity in the face of death means making peace with the finiteness of all life.
Queere Charaktere in US-amerikanischen TV-Medien
Authors: Wiermann Isabelle
Published: February 2025

How have stereotypes and censorship shaped public acceptance of queer identities? Isabelle Wiermann analyses the portrayal of LGBTQIA+ characters in US films and series, including Disney classics, and compares this with society's perception of queerness. In a three-part analysis, the author examines the historical context, the relationship between queerness and criminality, and the phenomenon of queercoding. Using the Vito Russo Test as an analytical tool, the author takes a close look at queercoded characters and shows which social norms resonate in their portrayal. The work offers valuable insights into the significance of queer visibility and the power of narrative.
Das Recht parteipolitischer Kommunikation
Authors: Potthast Keno C.
Published: February 2025

Under what circumstances does the communication of political parties on social media platforms turn into unlawful influencing and manipulation? Keno C. Potthast explores these questions in his dissertation “Das Recht parteipolitischer Kommunikation” (The Law of “Political-Party-Communication”) and has developed guidelines for legislators to use as a basis for regulatory action. Potthast focuses on the technical-distributive dimension of communication, refers to studies from the communication sciences and looks in particular at the phenomena of microtargeting, astroturfing and social bots.
A relação de José Saramago com os dicionários
Authors: Machado José Barbosa
Published: February 2025

José Saramago integra nas suas obras uma série de comentários acerca dos dicionários que ele consultava no seu trabalho de escrita sempre que tinha uma dúvida sobre uma palavra ou expressão que pretendia utilizar. Os dicionários funcionam como autoridade lexicográfica e semântica. Expressões como "afirmam os dicionários" (Ensaio sobre a Lucidez), "diz o dicionário" (O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis; Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia), "diz-me o dicionário" (Deste Mundo e do Outro), "está no dicionário" (Deste Mundo e do Outro), "encontram-se nos dicionários" (O Homem Duplicado), "Segundo os dicionários" (A Bagagem do Viajante), "um dia foi ver no dicionário se a palavra existia" (A Jangada de Pedra), etc. provam isso mesmo. No conto infantil A Maior Flor do Mundo (2001), Saramago chega a recomendar às crianças para irem ao dicionário: "Agora vão começar a aparecer algumas palavras difíceis, mas, quem não souber, deve ir ver no dicionário ou perguntar ao professor". A grande novidade a respeito dos dicionários é que, ao contrário de outros escritores, que se servem deles sem darem disso notícia no texto que escrevem, Saramago diz abertamente que os utiliza e até discute e comenta o que neles encontra. Será objetivo deste estudo identificar nas obras de Saramago as passagens com referência direta aos dicionários e comprovar o interesse do autor pelas questões de lexicografia e semântica da língua portuguesa.
PERIOD ANALYSIS OF 3 ECLIPSING BINARY STARS WITH TESS DATA
Authors: Dzygunenko A. , Tvardovskyi D.
Published: February 2025

We studied three eclipsing binary systems: TIC 199716496, TIC 414764074, and TIC 435447013, using TESS space telescope photometric data. We classified the first and the third stars as Algol-type variables and the second star as W Ursae Majoris. We calculated the periods and initial epochs for all three objects and later corrected them using O-C curve analysis. Further investigation revealed a significant reflection effect in TIC 435447013, and possible star spots in TIC 414764074. Moreover, TIC 199716496 appeared to have strange semiregular period changes. These findings enhance our understanding of binary systems despite raising even more questions about the nature of observed features of variable stars.
Pengaruh Media Sosial Terhadap Perilaku dan Motivasi Belajar Siswa pada Pembelajaran Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam di MTS Al-Khaeriyah Murante Kec. Suli Kab. Luwu
Authors: Nurjannah Triimaniah , Andi Arif Pamessangi  , M Zuljalal Al hamdany
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini membahas tentang pengaruh media sosial terhadap perilaku dan motivasi belajar siswa pada pembelajaran sejarah kebudayaan islam di madrasah Tsanawiyah Al-Khaeriyah Murante kecamatan, Suli Kabupaten Luwu. fokus penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh dari media sosial terhadap perilaku dan motivasi belajar siswa kelas VIII di MTs Al-Khaeriyah Murante. Adapun jenis penelitian yang digunakan ialah dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasinya meliputi seluruh siswa kelas VIII, pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik sampel jenuh yaitu semua populasi dijadikan sebagai sampel dan didapatkan sebanyak 32 siswa. Data diperoleh menggunakan angket, kemudian data dianalisis menggunakan analisis regresi sederhana. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa terdapat pengaruh negatif signifikan media sosial (X) terhadap perilaku (Y1) dan motivasi belajar siswa (Y2) dibuktikan dengan nilai signifikansi uji hipotesis variabel perilaku belajar (0.00 < 0,05) dan variabel motivasi belajar siswa (0,01 < 0,05), Nilai Thitung yang negatif (-4.076 dan - 3.517), menunjukkan adanya hubungan negatif antara penggunaan media sosial dengan perilaku dan motivasi belajar siswa. Semakin tinggi penggunaan media sosial, semakin rendah perilaku dan motivasi belajar siswa pada mata pelajaran sejarah kebudayaan islam. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan media sosial yang kurang bijak dan berlebihan dapat berakibat negatif terhadap perilaku dan motivasi belajar siswa. Hal ini perlu menjadi perhatian bagi orang tua, guru, dan pihak sekolah untuk meningkatkan pengawasan dan edukasi tentang penggunaan media sosial yang bertanggung jawab. Pengaruh variabel media sosial (X) terhadap perilaku belajar (Y1) sebesar 35.6% dan pengaruh variabel media sosial (X) terhadap motivasi belajar (Y2) sebesar 29,2% sisanya dipengaruhi oleh faktor lain yang tidak diteliti dalam penelitian ini.
Analysis of Spatial Knowledge Construction Based on Ethnomathematics in Junior High School Student
Authors: Mutia Rada Irma , Kamid Kamid , Sabil Husni
Published: February 2025

Mathematics is a science that has an important role in dealing with various problems in everyday life. It includes spatial abilities because it involves the ability of students to manipulate objects related to space. However, students' spatial abilities in geometry material are still relatively weak. This study aims to analyze and describe the construction of students' spatial knowledge based on ethnomathematics. This research is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. Data collection techniques in this study include information absorption sheets (reading), tests, and interviews. Data were analyzed using data reduction techniques, presentation, and conclusion drawing. The results showed that S1 could meet the five indicators of spatial ability, where S1 organized his knowledge based on assimilation and accommodation. Furthermore, S2 can meet five indicators of spatial ability and organize his knowledge by assimilation. While S3 only fulfills three indicators of spatial ability, this is due to a lack of accuracy and haste in answering questions. This study's findings show that learning associated with culture can improve students' mathematical abilities in spatial terms.
Development of tutors' professional competencies through online platforms: opportunities and challenges
Authors: Nepiypa Nataliia
Published: February 2025

The study is dedicated to analyzing the effectiveness of modern online platforms in forming professional tutor communities in higher education institutions in Ukraine. Special attention is given to the impact of digital tools on the development of tutors' professional competencies, including communication, analytical, and pedagogical skills, as well as the exploration of innovative opportunities for using technology to enhance the educational process. A structured approach to creating professional tutor communities through modern digital technologies is proposed. The key tutoring competencies necessary for ensuring quality student support in distance education have been identified, such as the ability to organize independent learning activities, maintain student motivation, provide personalized feedback, and foster the development of soft skills. It is demonstrated that the use of interactive online tools can improve both individual and group learning effectiveness. The study highlights several challenges, including decreased student motivation, limitations in emotional contact, and the need to maintain psychological and emotional well-being in distance learning. To address these issues, the creation of a national platform for tutor development is recommended, which would facilitate the dissemination of best international educational practices and enhance the competitiveness of Ukrainian higher education institutions on a global level. The positive impact of online platforms on the development of tutors' professional competencies, the improvement of educational support quality, and the formation of sustainable professional communities is analyzed. Online tutoring has proven to be an effective tool for supporting students by allowing the educational process to be adapted to the needs of each learner.
Distance learning: addressing the challenges of digital educational environments in teacher methodology training
Authors: Каrtashova Liubov
Published: February 2025

The article shows ways to solve the problem of forming a digital educational environment for methodical training of teachers in the conditions of distance learning. Aspects of actualization of the problem are presented: heterogeneity of digital competences of teachers, selection of digital tools, psychological adaptation of teachers to the conditions of distance learning, social challenges and inequality of access to education. It is shown that the transition to distance learning in the digital environment requires not only new approaches to teaching, but also a careful selection of digital tools (platforms, systems, electronic educational resources in general) that take into account the interactivity and adaptability of digital technologies. Scientific works related to the role of the digital educational environment of the educational institution and methodical training of teachers in the conditions of distance learning are analyzed. Based on this, it is emphasized that distance learning should be seen as a challenge and an opportunity. The need to use the toolkit of free resources in the formation of a digital educational environment is emphasized (the list is given in the work table). Attention is focused on the ways of constructing a digital educational environment and one of the variants of the algorithm for its construction is proposed. The integration of software investments from developers into the process of forming a digital educational environment is a vivid example of approaches to the modernization of the educational process. The approaches that can be applied are described: synergistic approach (based on the idea of interaction of various components of the system to achieve maximum efficiency); competence approach (aimed at forming the necessary digital competences among teachers); resource-saving (implies the rational use of available resources, including free electronic digital tools in order to minimize the cost of creating and maintaining the environment); integrative approach, which consists in mutual complementation of various aspects of methodical training of teachers.
Systemic resilience: an ecofacilitative perspective (on the example of parent-child relationships)
Authors: Lushyn Pavlo , Sukhenko Yana
Published: February 2025

The article presents a theoretical substantiation of the ecofacilitative view of resilience as a basic property of open dynamic systems through the integration of systemic, dialectical, and ecofacilitative approaches. The evolution of scientific views from understanding resilience as an individual characteristic to its interpretation as a systemic property is analyzed. Three forms of resilience manifestation (preventive, spontaneous, postventive) are characterized, reflecting the dialectical nature of its development in the relationship system. An ecological matrix for analyzing resilience manifestations is proposed for the first time, showing the relationship between context, form of resilience manifestation, relationship type, focus of ecofacilitative support, and expected outcomes. Using parent-child relationships as an example, the possibilities of applying the matrix for analyzing various social systems are demonstrated. The principles of ecopsychological facilitation as an integrative practice are substantiated, providing a foundation for developing psychological assistance programs and serving as a tool for diagnosing and supporting resilience in various contexts. The presented ecopsychological perspective in understanding systems development emphasizes the temporary nature of both negative and positive states, the value of crisis and transitional periods, and support for the natural rhythm of open systems development. The research gains particular relevance in the context of war in Ukraine, where parent-child relationships face unprecedented challenges and demonstrate various forms of resilience manifestation, creating a unique context for verifying the proposed theoretical model.
Smartphone Authentication Based on 3D Touch Sensor and Finger Locations on Touchscreens via Decision-Making Techniques
Authors: Shuwandy Moceheb Lazam , Alsharida Rawan Adel Fawzi , Hammood Maytham M
Published: February 2025

Smartphone authentication systems must balance security and user convenience, which is a persistent challenge in the digital realm. Traditional biometrics, such as fingerprints and facial recognition, face vulnerabilities to spoofing and environmental conditions, limiting reliability. This study introduces a novel approach by integrating three-dimensional (3D) touch sensors with finger location data for authentication. The goal is to develop a system that improves accuracy while minimizing false positives and negatives, leveraging touch pressure and spatial interaction as unique biometric identifiers. Data from 20 participants, including pressure levels, spatial coordinates, and timestamps, were analysed using Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) models. The results showed that combining pressure sensitivity with spatial data significantly improved performance, achieving an F1- score of 0.83 and an accuracy of 83%. The system demonstrated balanced precision (0.84) and recall (0.83), effectively reducing false positives and negatives. Robustness was confirmed through cross-validation tests, which validated the consistency across datasets and real-time usability scenarios. This study establishes a foundation for secure, user-friendly smartphone authentication, highlighting the potential of 3D touch technology in addressing current biometric system limitations. This approach opens avenues for further research in mobile security, integrating multimodal biometric data with advanced machine learning techniques.