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Analisis Pengaruh Ekspor, Impor dan Nilai Tukar Terhadap Cadangan Devisa di Indonesia
Authors: Ramadhan Alghifari Aulia , Fadilla Shalma Nur , Hamdani Dani
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk analisis pengaruh ekspor, impor, dan nilai tukar terhadap cadangan devisa Indonesia pada periode 2017:1–2021:12. Penelitian ini menggunakan data sekunder time series yang berasal dari Badan pusat statistic (BPS) dan Bank Indonesia dari berbagai publikasi. Teknis analisis data pada penelitian ini menggunakan model Vector Error correction model. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa hubungan jangka pendek terjadi pada variabel ekspor yang mempengaruhi cadangan devisa, nilai tukar mempengaruhi cadangan devisa, impor yang mempengaruhi ekspor dan impor yang mempengaruhi impor. Sementara hubungan jangka panjang semua variabel memiliki hubungan jangka panjang atau terjadi kointegrasi.
Pengaruh Kompetensi, Pengalaman Mengajar, dan Kesejahteraan Terhadap Kinerja Guru di SD Namira Medan
Authors: Lubis Rahmayanti , Karnawati Tin Agustina , Handarini Dany M
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh kompetensi guru, pengalaman mengajar, dan kesejahteraan terhadap kinerja guru di SD Namira Medan. Sekolah ini menghadapi tantangan dalam meningkatkan kinerja guru sesuai dengan harapan yayasan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode survei, yang melibatkan 34 guru SD Namira Medan.. Data dikumpulkan melalui kuesioner dan dianalisis menggunakan analisis linier regresi berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kesejahteraan guru berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru sedangkan kompetensi guru dan pengalaman mengajar tidak memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap kinerja guru. Hasil penelitian ini sesui dengan nilai kompetensi (X1), t hitung 1,622 lebih kecil dari t tabel 2,042 dan nilai signifikansi 0,115 lebih besar dari 0,05 maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa tidak terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara kompetensi dan kinerja guru. Pada nilai pengalaman mengajar (X2), t hitung 1,556 lebih kecil dari t tabel 2,042 dan nilai signifikansi 0,130 lebih besar dari 0,05 maka disimpulkan juga bahwa tidak terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara pengalaman mengajar dan kinerja guru sedangkan pada nilai kesejahteraan (X3), t hitung 2,268 lebih dari t tabel 2,042 dan nilai signifikansi 0,031 lebih kecil dari 0,05 maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara kesejahteraan dan kinerja guru.
Pengaruh Media Pembelajaran Kincir Pintar Perkalian Terhadap Kemampuan Berhitung Peserta Didik Kelas IV Sekolah Dasar
Authors: Ulhaq Rahra Ziah , Sitompul Liyandasari , Fantini Lisa , Nuristia Wanda , Sitepu Melyani Sari
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi dengan melihat kemampuan berhitung peserta didik di kelas IV SD Negeri 101761 Bulu Cina. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan berhitung peserta diidk khususnya pada materi perkalian di kelas IV SD Negeri 101761 Bulu Cina. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian kuantitatif. Pengumpulan data dikumpulkan melalui hasil tes berupa pre-test dan post-test yang dilakukan oleh peserta didik kelas IV SD Negeri 101761 Bulu Cina. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan nilai yang signifikan setelah adanya perlakuan variabel x yaitu media pembelajaran kincir pintar pada hasil pos-test peserta didik kelas IV SD Negeri 101761 Bulu Cina.
Pengaruh Kepemimpinan, Motivasi, dan Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Guru Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah Deli Sedang Sumatera Utara
Authors: Panjaitan Mhd Fadhil Azhari , Handoko Yunus , Rachmawati Ike Kusdyah
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini dilakukan di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah, Deli Serdang untuk mengetahui; 1) apakah Kepemimpinan berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah, Deli Serdang. 2) apakah motivasi berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah, Deli Serdang. 3) apakah Lingkungan kerja berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah, Deli Serdang. 4) apakah Kepemimpinan, motivasi dan Lingkungan kerja secara simultan berpengaruh terhadap kinerja guru di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah, Deli Serdang. Data dikumpulkan dari survei lapang menggunakan kuesioner yang dibagi keseluruh guru dengan jumlah 35 orang. Metode penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif dengan metode sampling jenuh digunakan untuk menentukan sampel. Data yang akan dianalisis harus memenuhi uji validitas dan reabilitas serta uji asumsi klasik seperti normalitas, heteroskedasitas, dan multikolinieritas. Metode yang digunakan adalah regresi linear berganda, dengan bantuan software SPSS. Metode pengambilan sampel adalah metode sampling jenuh atau sensus, dimana keseluruhan dari jumlah 35 guru dijadikan sampel pada penelitian ini. Hasil Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa variabel lingkungan kerja, motivasi kerja dan disiplin kerja secara parsial maupun simultan berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja guru di Pesantren Nurul Fadhilah.
Ina Ina Sebagai Tulang Punggung Dalam Membantu Ekonomi Keluarga di Desa Sigaol Simbolon Kecamatan Palipi
Authors: Ningsih Lukita , Simbolon Agatha , Septiyana Dina , Gunawan Pertiwi , Pardede Sion Angelica
Published: February 2025

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui alasan dari ina-ina rumah tangga di desa sigaol simbolon bekerja sebagai petani dan penenun, dan mengetahui peran perempuan dalam intensifikasi membantu ekonomi keluarga. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian adalah kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui wawancara, observasi dan studi pustaka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan alasan perempuan memilih bekerja sebagai petani dan penenun ulos karena keinginan mereka untuk membantu suami dalam memenuhi kebutuhan keluarga terutama kebutuhan Pendidikan. Intensifikasi peran perempuan dalam membantu ekonomi keluarga dalam bertani memakan waktu 10 jam dan menenun minimal 12 jam diluar pekerjaan sebagai ibu rumah tangga yang mengurus anak dan suami. Kontribusi pendapatan perempuan terhadap perekonomian keluarga cukup tinggi hingga mencapai 80 persen dari total pendapatan keluarga.
Strategies to Mitigate Configuration Differences in Software Development: A Rapid Review of Grey Literature
Authors: Nazário Marcos , Bonifácio Rodrigo , De Souza Cleidson , Kamei Fernando , Pinto Gustavo
Published: February 2025

Context: Configuration differences between development and production environments can lead to system failures, data loss, and security vulnerabilities. Practitioners have acknowledged the need to handle these differences. This study aims to provide insights and best practices for mitigating configuration differences between development and production environments in software development through a rapid review (RR) of Grey Literature (GL). Methods: The research method for data collection involves a Rapid Review of the GL. It also employs a thematic analysis to understand the collected data. Results: The study identified nine strategies that help practitioners to mitigate configuration differences between development and production environments, including credentials of access. Examples of these strategies include Automated Deployment Pipeline, Configuration Management Plan (CMP), and PaaS Deployment. We also provide insights into how these strategies contribute to reducing the risk of configuration-related issues and ensuring the smooth and reliable operation of software systems. Additionally, it suggests potential cost-saving methods for mitigating configuration differences. Conclusions: This study emphasizes the importance of understanding the strategies employed to mitigate the risks associated with managing configuration differences in software development projects. By delivering practical guidance and insights, this study has the potential to help IT operations and software development projects to have a deeper comprehension of software configuration management strategies and best practices.
Operas in English
Authors: Griffel Margaret Ross
Published: February 2025

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.
The Forgotten Marlins
Authors: Zygner Sam
Published: February 2025

On April 4, 2012, the former Florida Marlins of Major League Baseball played their first official game under their new name—the Miami Marlins. Many in attendance were unaware, however, that the original Miami Marlins had played in their city more than 50 years earlier. As part of the AAA International League, the 1956 Marlins helped set the stage for major league baseball’s entry into south Florida. During the five years this minor league club played in Miami Stadium, fans were treated to their first taste of high level baseball, with a team made up of battle-hardened veterans and fresh up-and-comers.

The Forgotten Marlins: A Tribute to the 1956-1960 Original Miami Marlins brings to life one of the most colorful and flamboyant teams to ever play in baseball’s minor leagues. During their five years of existence, the Marlins featured prominent personalities such as eccentric manager Pepper Martin, zany Mickey McDermott, maverick promoter Bill Veeck, and Hall-of-Famer Satchel Paige. Although the team was an instant sensation, drawing national attention with their outlandish promotions, success did not always follow. The Forgotten Marlins relives those days in detail and follows the players through their triumphs and tribulations both on and off the diamond.

Including rarely-heard stories about baseball icon Satchel Paige’s years in Miami, and containing interviews between the author and several of the surviving ballplayers, this bookis a unique and comprehensive account of a truly original baseball team. The Forgotten Marlins is an entertaining and engaging read for all baseball fans and historians.
Arms and Oil
Authors: McNaugher Thomas L.
Published: February 2025

In 1979, after a decade of enormous increases in the price of oil, U.S. influence in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region declined sharply. Early in the year the Iranian revolution replaced the shah, the principal pro-American leader in the region, with rulers hostile to the United States and to its remaining friends around the Gulf. In December Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan, bringing the Soviets closer to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean. In the United States these events spurred the announcement of the Carter Doctrine and the creation of a new military command to handle Gulf crises. Yet the United States established no new fighting forces, and U.S. friends around the Gulf proved less willing than the shah of Iran to host a U.S. military presence. Thus debate has continued about whether and how the United States can secure important interests in the Gulf region.

In this book Thomas L. McNaugher offers a military strategy that integrates U.S. forces into the security framework that already exists in the region. He suggests that the United States should encourage Jordan, Pakistan, Great Britain, and others to continue their historical involvement in Gulf security, especially in such areas as internal security where U.S. forces are no better equipped than theirs and where U.S. participation may undermine the legitimacy of local rulers. In turn, the United States should focus on protecting the oil-rich states of the Arabian peninsula from external attack and on deterring further Soviet encroachment in the region. These missions demand an increase in the agility, rather than the size, of U.S. forces. But the more important requirement, McNaugher argues, is for skillfully blending U.S. military strategy into a diplomacy that exploits, rather than needlessly upsets, regional security mechanisms.
Global Linkages
Authors: McKibbin Warwick J. , Sachs Jeffrey D.
Published: February 2025

With the rapid deterioration of the U.S. trade balance in the 1980s, the United States was forced to finance deficits by borrowing heavily from the rest of the world. In doing so, the United States went from being the world's largest creditor country to the world's largest debtor, while Japan and West Germany experienced a rise in trade surpluses. Such a shift in international trade flows has had profound effects on the world economy. McKibbin and Sachs address a range of issues involving macroeconomic imbalances in the world economy. Through the use of a new simulation model of the world economy they explore how policy actions undertaken in one country affect the trade flows and macroeconomic patterns among the other counties. The authors show that key macroeconomic features of the 1980s can be explained by shifts in monetary and fiscal policies in the major economies and by supply shocks due to changes in oil prices. In addition to showing how the global macroeconomic experience can be understood, they focus on a number of current policy issues, including the reduction of global trade imbalances, the consequences of U.S. fiscal consolidation, the effects of an oil price shock, the implications for the U.S. economy of increases in Japanese and German fiscal spending, the effects of targeting exchange rates among the major currencies, and the gains of increased coordination of macroeconomic politics among the major economies. In several cases, their conclusions are shown to be quite different from those that form the basis of many conventional views. The authors also analyze the importance of interaction between policymakers in industrial economies and conclude by reemphasizing the need for U.S. politicians and policy experts to recognize that macroeconomic results in the U.S. now depend heavily on events abroad.
Keeping College Affordable
Authors: McPherson Michael S. , Schapiro Morton Owen
Published: February 2025

As Congress debates the reauthorization of the basic federal student aid legislation, and as governors and state legislators cope with increasingly severe budgetary problems of their own, the issues of preserving college opportunity and sharing the burden of college costs are particularly critical and timely. This book assesses the role of government subsidies for higher educationespecially but not exclusively federal student aidin keeping college affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds. The authors examine the effects of student aid policies of the last twenty years. They address several vital questions, including: Has federal student aid encouraged the enrollment and broadened the educational choices of disadvantaged students? Has it made higher education institutions more secure and educationally more effectiveor has it raised costs and prices as schools try to capture additional aid? Has federal student aid made the distribution of higher education's benefits, and the sharing of costs, fairer? And what are the likely trends in patterns of college affordability?

Drawing on their analysis, the authors highlight some of the principal dimensions of policy choice on which the debate has focused, as well as some that have been relatively neglected. Building upon their conclusion that student aid works, they propose reforms that would bolster the role of income-tested aid in the overall student financing picture. McPherson and Schapiro recommend a number of incremental reforms that could improve the effectiveness of existing federal aid programs and present a proposal to replace a substantial fraction of state-operating subsidies to colleges and universities with expanded federal aid.
A New Concept of Cooperative Security
Authors: Carter Ashton B. , Perry William J. , Steinbruner John D.
Published: February 2025

At the moment, the revision of security policy and the formation of a new consensus to support it are still at an early stage of development. The idea of comprehensive security cooperation among the major military establishments to form an inclusive international security arrangement has been only barely acknowledged and is only partially developed. The basic principle of cooperation has been proclaimed in general terms in the Paris Charter issued in November of 1990. Important implementing provisions have been embodied in the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks (START), Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaties. Except for the regulation of U.S. and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) strategic forces, however, these arrangements apply only to the European theater and even there have not been systematically developed. The formation of a new security order requires that cooperative theaters of military engagement be systematically developed. Clearly that exercise will stretch the minds of all those whose thinking about security has been premised on confrontational methods.

Nonetheless, such a stretching is unavoidable. The new security problems are driven by powerful forces, reshaping the entire international context. They impose starkly different requirements. They will deflect even the impressive momentum of U.S. military traditions. The eventual outcome is uncertain. It turns upon political debates yet to be held, consensus judgements yet to form, and events and their implications yet to unfold. Fundamental reconceptualization of security policy is a necessary step in the right direction, and it is important to get on with it. Getting on with it means defining the new concept of cooperative security, identifying the trends that motivate it, outlining its implications for practical policy action, and acknowledging its constraints. These tasks are the purpose of this essay.
The First War on Terrorism
Authors: Wills David C.
Published: February 2025

The events of September 11, 2001 brought terrorism to the forefront, but Al-Qaeda is not the first group to try using political violence against the United States to make Washington change its policies. In the 1980s terrorism was rampant; from Latin America to Europe and the Middle East, a host of groups demanded changes in American foreign policy and were willing to bomb, assassinate, kidnap, and hijack to pressure the government to act. The First War on Terrorism examines the response of the Reagan Administration to the political violence it confronted during the 1980s. David Wills takes the reader inside the negotiations over how to respond to terrorist acts and shows how the Reagan Administration's decision making process was a crucial obstacle to formulating a consistent and effective terrorism policy. Compelling and enlightening, The First War on Terrorism serves as a powerful guide to what should be emulated, and avoided, from America's previous battles with shady foes.
Mental Disability and the Death Penalty
Authors: Perlin Michael L.
Published: February 2025

There is no question that the death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving defendants with mental disabilities. There is clear, systemic bias at all stages of the prosecution and the sentencing process – in determining who is competent to be executed, in the assessment of mitigation evidence, in the ways that counsel is assigned, in the ways that jury determinations are often contaminated by stereotyped preconceptions of persons with mental disabilities, in the ways that cynical expert testimony reflects a propensity on the part of some experts to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends. These questions are shockingly ignored at all levels of the criminal justice system, and by society in general.  Here, Michael Perlin explores the relationship between mental disabilities and the death penalty and explains why and how this state of affairs has come to be, to explore why it is necessary to identify the factors that have contributed to this scandalous and shameful policy morass, to highlight the series of policy choices that need immediate remediation, and to offer some suggestions that might meaningfully ameliorate the situation. Using real cases to illustrate the ways in which the persons with mental disabilities are unable to receive fair treatment during death penalty trials, he demonstrates the depth of the problem and the way it’s been institutionalized so as to be an accepted part of our system. He calls for a new approach, and greater attention to the issues that have gone overlooked for so long. 
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court
Authors: del Carmen Rolando V. , Hemmens Craig
Published: February 2025

In any episode of the popular television show Law and Order, questions of police procedure in collecting evidence often arise. Was a search legal? Was the evidence obtained lawfully? Did the police follow the rules in pursuing their case? While the show depicts fictional cases and scenarios, police procedure with regard to search and seizure is a real and significant issue in the criminal justice system today. The subject of many Supreme Court decisions, they seriously impact the way police pursue their investigations, the way prosecutors proceed with their cases, and the way defense attorneys defend their clients. This book answers these questions and explains these decisions in accessible and easy to follow language. Each chapter explores a separate case or series of cases involving the application of the Fourth Amendment to current police investigatory practices or prosecutorial conduct of the criminal trial. The police-related cases involve topics such as searches of suspects (both prior and incident to arrest), pretext stops, the knock-and-announce rule, interrogation procedures, and the parameters of an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy. The prosecutor-related cases involve topics such as jury selection, the right to counsel, and sentencing. This important overview serves as an introduction to the realities and practicalities of police investigation and the functioning of the criminal justice system when search and seizure becomes an issue.
Ricoeur, Identity and Early Childhood
Authors: Farquhar Sandy
Published: February 2025

Early childhood education in Western society has come under increasing scrutiny by governments that see early education as an important factor in economic growth and development. Thus, social traditions in the field are increasingly giving way to an intensified focus on marketization and regulation, but with a corresponding diminishing concern for ethics and social participation. Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, Sandy Farquhar analyzes the problematic way in which we become who we are and the discourse that surrounds that learning. The book explores the ethical basis of identity formation in early childhood education and seeks fresh alternatives to commonly accepted perspectives on social policy, education, and the nature of our 'selves.' Farquhar uses Aotearoa New Zealand bicultural curriculum and policy context as examples for developing the theme of curriculum as a contest of ideas and a powerful form of resistance. Promoting the importance of narrative in understanding identity formation, the book elaborates on contemporary themes of difference, ethics, and social justice, calling for a revitalized sense of liberalism and social democracy.
Diabetes and You
Authors: Ali Naheed
Published: February 2025

Today, there are more than 23 million diabetics in the United States and with that number expected to rise drastically over the next decade the nation is faced with a health crisis of epidemic proportions. For those personally afflicted by this debilitating disease the everyday challenges can often seem overwhelming. In Diabetes and You, Dr. Naheed Ali offers both hope and empowerment to these sufferers and their families. Using the latest findings in clinical and physician studies, this book helps diabetics to successfully combat this disease and its symptoms on a number of fronts. Ali offers not only a hopeful perspective but also new and practical ways to confront and live with this condition.

The full scope of diabetes-from its causes to its prevention and from the newest methods of treatment to the effects of diet and mental heath-is introduced in simple, non-technical language accessible to all readers. Diabetes and You is both state-of-the-art and user friendly, and emphasizes a whole body approach to this increasingly common, high-profile disease. As a physician and medical lecturer with a long association within the health care industry, Ali presents detailed advice to make coping with diabetes much simpler and easier than ever before. The reader is introduced to groundbreaking information on the risk factors associated with diabetes, the signs and symptoms, the different types of the disease, and how it can crop up in juvenile health. Diabetes and You will motivate diabetics to fight their condition in new and effective ways.
The Myths of Standardized Tests
Authors: Harris Phillip , Smith Bruce M. , Harris Joan
Published: February 2025

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of what these opinion leaders say-and the public believes-about standardized testing just isn't so. However, few members of the general public, not even concerned parents, have the time or the background to keep up with the latest findings of testing experts, psychometricians, and researchers. That's where The Myths of Standardized Tests comes in. In simple, accessible language, Harris, Smith, and Harris spell out the assumptions underlying standardized tests and point out what's true about them and what's just plain mythical. But they not only debunk common assumptions; they propose better ways to judge the success of our schools. They also offer readers suggestions for ways they can help reduce the burden of tests on their children. Appendixes offer readers contact information and suggestions for actions they can take to become part of the solution to the problem of overusing and misusing standardized tests.
Last Season of Innocence
Authors: Brooks Victor
Published: February 2025

Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. These are the young people who read Seventeen and Mad, watched more television than their older siblings, and tended to listen to 45 rpm singles or "mono" LPs rather than the more sophisticated stereo albums of their older siblings. Substantial numbers of these teens could and did join political protests, but they also engaged in a more personal daily struggle with school dress codes and parental intrusion on social life. In a nation where a third of the population was under nineteen, they were hardly invisible, but their experience seems to have been marginalized by the twenty-somethings who largely redefined the meaning of the youth culture and took center stage in doing so. Brooks offers a unique account of the much-chronicled 1960s by examining the experiences of these preteens and teenagers.
Reinventing Diversity
Authors: Ross Howard J.
Published: February 2025

Diversity in business and other organizations has been a goal for more than a quarter of a century, yet companies struggle to create an inclusive work place. In Reinventing Diversity, one of America's leading diversity experts explains why most diversity programs fail and how we can make them work. In this inspiring guide, Howard Ross uses interviews, personal stories, statistics, and case studies to show that there is no quick fix, no easy answer. Acceptance needs to become part of the culture of a company, not just a mandated attitude. People still feel alienated because of their race, language, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or culture. Many of these prejudices are unconscious and exclusions unintentional. Only through challenging our own preconceived notions about diversity can we build a productive and collaborative work environment in which all people are included.
The Living Mind
Authors: Winfield Richard Dien
Published: February 2025

As enthusiasm for computational models of the mind has waned and the revolution in neuroscience has progressed, attention in philosophy and cognitive science has shifted toward more biological approaches. The Living Mind establishes that mind cannot be immaterial or reduced to mechanistic or cybernetic processes, but must instead possess a subjectivity embodied in an animal organism. On this basis, the work proceeds to show why mind involves a pre-conscious psyche, a non-discursive consciousness and self-consciousness, and an intelligence overcoming the opposition of consciousness. In so doing, The Living Mind provides a detailed account of the psyche and consciousness, paving the way for conceiving the psychological enabling conditions of rational theory and practice.
The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan
Authors: Diuk Nadia M.
Published: February 2025

In the past twenty years, the countries that used to make up the former Soviet Union have seen plenty of change. There have been revolutions, youth-led protest movements, and other forms of incredible political upheaval. At the center of all of this were young leaders fighting to be heard and clamoring for change. In Nadia Diuk's meticulously researched and insightful book. The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan, she shows how those young leaders have risen up and become a part of the new political system. Using unique public opinion polling data and personal interviews, she explores how the new generation of leaders is shaping the political system and how the young people of today continue to exhort pressure for reform. This book is important to anyone interested in Eastern European studies, political transitions, protest movements, or youth and politics.
Unraveling U. S. Health Care
Authors: Winter Roberta E.
Published: February 2025

Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health care decision making. She makes sense of important health care issues, which are often filtered with political and financial stakeholder bias, confusing the health care consumer. Useful tips, explanatory charts, and statewide scorecards are included throughout to assist readers in choosing the best care they can receive.

More than ever, patients must act as consumers of health care, balancing informed decisions with available resources. Keeping this in mind, Winter also explores other options available to patients, including seeking health care outside the United States, and provides a roadmap for medical tourists to the U.S. In addition, she includes Medicare enrollment tips, and a summary of the 2010 health care reforms and implementation guidelines. Bringing all this data together, this book will serve as a resource and guide for anyone who seeks to receive better care for both everyday issues and major health concerns alike.
The South China Sea in Focus
Authors: Poling Gregory B.
Published: February 2025

Satellite imagery and geospatial analysis tools offer an unprecedented opportunity to harness new technologies in order to help resolve boundary disputes. The South China Sea in Focus: Clarifying the Limits of Maritime Dispute uses these tools to provide a first and necessary step toward tackling the overlapping maritime disputes in the South China Sea: determining which waters are and are not in dispute under international law. The report opens with a set of geographic information system (GIS)–based maps that provide an easily understandable benchmark against which policymakers and academics can judge the claims and actions of the South China Sea claimants. More detailed color maps and methodological information follow for those who want to dig deeper into the claims and the report’s conclusions.
Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent Countries
Authors: Hameed Sadika , Mixon Kathryn
Published: February 2025

The CSIS Working Group on Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent States identifies tools available to the international business community and the U.S. government to assist these countries, as well as the gaps in needed resources. Participants examined cases from Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, and Liberia to glean examples of successes and failures in private-sector development, with the goal of identifying potential roles for host governments and the international private sector. This report presents the results of those discussions.
Changing US Security Strategy
Authors: Cordesman Anthony H.
Published: February 2025

More than a decade into the “war on terrorism,” much of the political debate in the United States is still fixated on the legacy of 9/11. US politics has a partisan fixation on Benghazi, the Boston Marathon bombing, intelligence intercepts, and Guantanamo. Far too much attention still focuses on “terrorism” at a time the United States faces a much broader range of threats from the instability in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Islamic world. Moreover, much of the US debate ignores the fact that the United States has not actually fought a “war on terrorism” over the last decade, as well as the US failures in using military force and civil aid in Afghanistan and Iraq.
God and Mammon and What Was Lost
Authors: Mauriac François
Published: February 2025

Fran_ois Mauriac, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in literature, is one of the most prominent Catholic novelists of the modern era, yet in the English speaking world he is known primarily for only one novel, 1927's ThZr_se Desqueyroux. In this new translation of two other seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel What Was Lost and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay God and Mammon, Raymond N. MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English speaking world. Featuring a scholarly introduction by MacKenzie that provides background on Mauriac's religious and artistic struggles, this new edition will delight scholars of Mauriac as well as contemporary readers previously unfamiliar with his work.
Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom
Authors: Dumm Thomas L.
Published: February 2025

What is freedom? In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought. While Foucault has been widely understood to have characterized the modern era as being opposed to the realization of freedom, Dumm shows how this characterization conflates FoucaultOs genealogy of discipline with his overall view of the practices of being free. Dumm demonstrates how FoucaultOs critical genealogy does not shrink from understanding the ways in which modern subjects are constrained and shaped by forces greater than themselves, but how it instead works through these constraints to provide, not simply a vision of liberation, but a joyous wisdom concerned with showing us, in his words, that we Oare much freer than we feel.O Both as an introduction to Foucault and as an intervention in liberal theory, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom is bound to change how we think about the limits and possibilities of freedom in late modernity.
The Myth of Aristotle's Development and the Betrayal of Metaphysics
Authors: Wehrle Walter E.
Published: February 2025

In this radical reinterpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Walter E. Wehrle demonstrates that developmental theories of Aristotle are based on a faulty assumption: that the fifth chapter of Categories ('substance') is an early theory of metaphysics that Aristotle later abandoned. The ancient commentators unanimously held that the Categories was semantical and not metaphysical, and so there was no conflict between it and the Metaphysics proper. They were right, Wehrle argues: the modern assumption, to the contrary, is based on a medieval mistake and is perpetuated by the anti-metaphysical postures of contemporary philosophy. Furthermore, by using the logico-semantical distinction in Aristotle's works, Wehrle shows just how the principal 'contradictions' in Metaphysics Books VII and VIII can be resolved. The result in an interpretation of Aristotle that challenges mainstream viewpoints, revealing a supreme philosopher in sharp contrast to the developmentalists' version.
Strange Love
Authors: Goodman Robin Truth , Saltman Kenneth J.
Published: February 2025

As Junk Bond felon Michael Milken attempts to transform public education on the model of the HMO, he is hailed in the mainstream press as having "done more to help mankind than Mother Theresa." Even as BP Amoco, a notorious U.S. polluter, is charged with funding and arming paramilitaries in Colombia, it freely distributes science curricula that portrays itself as a loving protector of citizens from a dangerous and 'out of control' nature. These as well as many other examples abound as Professors Robin Truth Goodman and Kenneth J. Saltman take on the corporate educators, media monopolies, and oil companies in their new book Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market. Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so Goodman and Saltman reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy.
Media Bias?
Authors: Adkins Covert Tawnya J. , Wasburn Philo C.
Published: February 2025

Media Bias? addresses the question: To what extent can mainstream news media be characterized as 'conservative' or 'liberal'? The study involves a systematic comparative analysis of the coverage given to major domestic social issues from 1975 to 2000 by two mainstream newsmagazines, Newsweek and Time, and two explicitly partisan publications, the conservative National Review and the liberal Progressive. Working from the idea that some biased accounts of social issues can perform several positive functions for the maintenance and vitality of political democracy, Adkins Covert and Wasburn offer a new methodology for analyzing bias empirically, one that is capable of producing valid and reliable findings. They begin by defining the meaning of 'bias' and discuss possible methods of measuring media bias empirically and systematically. By comparing each publication's coverage on poverty, crime, the environment, and gender-issues in which the line between the conservative and liberal positions are clearly delineated-the authors consider both the positive and negative consequences of media bias and how the bias plays out within a media-conscious democratic society.
Neighborhoods and Crime
Authors: Bursik Robert J. , Grasmick Harold G.
Published: February 2025

This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.
On Brokeback Mountain
Authors: Patterson Eric
Published: February 2025

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from gay and lesbian/queer studies, American studies, social history, film history, and literary history, but avoids specialized theoretical language in order to be accessible to the many people interested in the story and the film. Original, interdisciplinary, and engaging, On Brokeback Mountain is intended to be not only useful to academic specialists but also accessible and readable for any interested, educated reader. The two versions of Brokeback Mountain are significant for taking readers and audiences inside the perspectives of men who love men, showing what physical and emotional passion, and hostility toward that passion, may be like for them. The story and the film help in understanding the many men who love men and who don't fit stereotypes of gay men or participate in the gay/queer worlds of urban/academic communities, especially men in rural areas and in working class contexts. This book examines the presentation of friendship, sex, and love between men in Brokeback Mountain, as well as the depiction of homophobia and its effects on men who love men and their families. It relates the story and the film to the literary tradition of the homoerotic pastoral, the literary/movie tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story.
Philosophic Values and World Citizenship
Authors: Carter Jacoby Adeshei , Harris Leonard
Published: February 2025

In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke—the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa—is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection compare and contrast Locke's views on values, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and American and world citizenship with philosophers and leading cultural figures ranging from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, James Farmer, William James, John Dewey, José Vasconcelos, Hans G. Gadamer, Fredrick Nietzsche, Horace Kallen, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) to the cultural and political figure of Barack Obama.

This important collection of essays eruditely presents Locke's views on moral, emotional, and aesthetic values; the principle of tolerance in managing value conflict; and his rhetorical style, which conveyed his views of cultural reciprocity and tolerance in the service of the values of citizenship and cosmopolitanism.

For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations define new and controversial terrain.
Stagecraft and Statecraft
Authors: Schill Dan
Published: February 2025

Media events are a central communication tactic used by political communicators in political campaigns and in governmental affairs. Each president has an advance staff that creates mediagenic events to influence the news media, generate coverage and excitement, construct favorable political images, and persuade voters. Advance men and women are visual speechwriters who focus not only on what the politician says, but also on how the candidate looks and the visual message communicated by the event. This timely and groundbreaking work examines media events and advance in political communication by exploring: (1) how media events are conceived and staged, (2) the role of advance in an overall communication strategy, (3) how media events holistically function to generate a rhetorical impact, and (4) the implications of politically communicating by media event. This book gives readers the tools and background necessary to both analyze and understand media events and to create their own. Media events and advance are a significant element of political communication that has not been systematically or comprehensively studied, and Schill's innovative work ably fills this major gap in the literature.
Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity
Authors: Bernstein Basil
Published: February 2025

This book, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein’s code theory, presents a lucid account of the most recent developments of this code theory and, importantly, shows the close relation between this development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise. Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity addresses the central issue of Bernstein’s research project: are there any general principles underlying the transformation of knowledge into pedagogic communication? In Bernstein’s view, we have studied only pedagogic messages and their institutional and ideological base. We have not studied the nature of the relay which makes messages possible. The discussion of this research forms part II of this book, where Bernstein makes explicit the methodology of the research and, in particular, the crucial significance of languages of description.

This new edition of Bernstein's classic book is updated with three new chapters: on discourse, on official knowledge and identities, and a wide ranging interview with Joseph Solomon. The new edition, published as Volume Five in his Class, Codes, and Control Series, builds on the continuing tradition of Bernstein's highly influential work on class, education, language, and society.
Fight for the Bay
Authors: Ernst Howard R.
Published: February 2025

In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy of compromise over confrontation and that has fueling a 'political dead zone' where political leaders posture but fail to make the hard decisions needed to achieve real improvement in the Bay's health. While blunt in his evaluation of past and present failures to restore the Bay, Ernst believes that there is still time to turn the restoration effort around and sets out new 'dark green' strategies to do so. In the concluding chapter, five long-time bay activists provide first-person accounts of their battles and hopes for the future. Hailed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as 'a must read for anyone concerned about environmental protection,' this challenging book provides a wake-up call for everyone concerned about the future of the Chesapeake Bay and other ecological treasures through out America.
How the Other Half Dies
Authors: George Susan
Published: February 2025

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