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The Mac Giolla Phádraig Laighean
Authors: Fitzpatrick Mike
Published: February 2025

Until recently, the dominant Mac Giolla Phádraig narrative had the surname associated only with the Barony of Upper Ossory, with ancient origins in medieval Osraí (Kingdom of Ossory). Yet, it has now been demonstrated, mainly via sixteenth-and seventeenth century Fiants and Patent Rolls of Ireland, that there was a Clann Mac Giolla Phádraig Dál gCais present in Clár (County Clare) in the sixteenth century, having been domiciled there since the thirteenth century.

Also, by interrogation of sixteenth-and seventeenth century Fiants and Patent Rolls, it is shown here that Mac Giolla Phádraig resident in Laighean (Leinster) counties had no association with the family of Upper Ossory. Notable from the early sixteenth century are the Mac Giolla Phádraig of Cill Dara (County Kildare), who were once possessed of several discrete territories, including one that bore their name, and at least one castle, evidencing extended kinship, i.e., clanship. Yet, with the demise of the Kildare FitzGeralds ca. 1537, there came an upheaval for the clann.

In the years after the rebellion of ‘Silken’ Thomas FitzGerald, Mac Giolla Phádraig are found in association with the infamous ‘Keating Kern’, due to their prior common service with the Earls of Kildare. But after the ninth Earl’s attainment, Mac Giolla Phádraig were expelled from their Cill Dara territories. Yet, those Mac Giolla Phádraig re-established themselves – and their network grew. By the 1550s, they had become well-connected with the Uí Tuathail (O’Toole), Uí Broinn (O’Byrne), Caomhánach (Kavanagh), and other notable clanns of the day, of Ceatharlach (County Carlow), Cill Mhantáin (County Wicklow), and Loch Garman (County Wexford). The relationships with Laighean clanns expanded throughout the rest of the sixteenth century while the association with Keatings faded. Significantly, Mac Giolla Phádraig came to hold lands at Cúirt an Phaoraigh (Powerscourt) until they were dispossessed in the early seventeenth century.

This article follows the Mac Giolla Phádraig Laighean from the sixteenth century and identifies their descendants today. Now bearing the surname Fitzpatrick, they belong to an ancient kindred group identified by the surname-specific Y-DNA haplotype R1b-Z255 … BY2849. Today, these Fitzpatricks reside all over the globe. But true to their ‘Irish Sea’ Y-DNA modality, i.e., R-Z255, many also live all along Ireland’s east, from Aontroim (County Antrim) to Cill Mhantáin, and some families are still domiciled near their ancestor’s sixteenth and seventeenth century territories. This speaks to the diversity of Clann Mac Giolla Phádraig Laighean, their distinct kindred identities among their individual septs, and the long endurance of their surname.
StuAlly: A Web Application for Pune Student Hub
Authors: Mrs Ashwini Shirke  , Sagar Jadhav  , Om Swami  , Janhavi More  , Vaishnavi Matkar
Published: February 2025

This paper presents the design and implementation of StuAlly, a web application tailored to address the accommodation, food, and academic support needs of students in Pune. The platform focuses on four major student-centric localities: Akurdi, Nigdi, Hinjewadi, and Deccan. StuAlly integrates features like location-specific listings, reviews, ratings, interactive maps, and booking options to create a streamlined experience for students. This paper details the application's architecture, benefits, and potential for scalability. Early user feedback highlights the platform's value in simplifying the search process and fostering community engagement among students.
Emotion Recognition Systems: A Study on Models and Accuracy
Authors: Mr. Kevin Darji
Published: February 2025

Emotion recognition technology has rapidly evolved, finding applications in human-computer interaction, mental health assessment, and social robotics. These systems aim to interpret human emotions using various modalities such as facial expressions, voice tone, and physiological signals. This research focuses on developing and optimizing machine learning models for emotion recognition. By leveraging hyperparameter tuning techniques like GridSearchCV, we aim to identify the most effective model based on accuracy and performance metrics. Furthermore, cross-validation techniques are used to assess the models' generalization capabilities on test datasets. Our findings highlight the factors contributing to the best-performing model and the limitations of less effective models. Ultimately, this research advances emotion recognition technology, paving the way for practical real-world applications
A Study on Mobile Marketing and its Impact on Consumer Buying Behaviour
Authors: Kancham Sai Charan
Published: February 2025

Over the last few decades, modes of communication have taken on a totally new interpretation with the introduction of mobile phones but a merger came through the introduction of middle- income consumers in India that saw the industry booming. The usage of mobile marketing was able to bridge the gap left by conventional advertising methods by making use of personal smart devices in marketing, ad campaigns, promotions, and brand building.
Companies through Mobile marketing can connect to their customers in an unprecedented manner without the limitations of time and distance causing a major paradigm shift in the corporate world. This leads us to the research question as to how mobile marketing steers customers in terms of their purchasing decisions This paper attempts to put forth these questions by looking into mobile advertising. The research conducted has a sample size of 100 customers all of who have their residence in Tirupati city. In terms of customer interaction with mobile devices, a semblance of positive correlation exists.
The Mediating Effect of Job Crafting and the Moderating Effect of Interactional Justice in the Relationship Between Perceived Overqualification and Innovative Behavior
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, Wang Yiqing , Park JaeChun
Published: February 2025

This study is based on self-regulation theory, it verifies the impact of Perceived Overqualification on the relationship between Innovative Behavior, as well as the mediating effect of Job Crafting and the moderating effect of Interactive Fairness. 373 employees of Chinese companies were verified the regression analysis for the mediating effect and moderation effect by using spss27, the results are as follows：First, Perceived Overqualification of the members, has a significant positive impact on Innovative Behaviour；Secondly, the members believe that Perceived Overqualification has a significant positive impact on Job Crafting；Thirdly, mediating effect of job crafting is shown in the relationship between the Perceived Overqualification and the Innovation Behavior, in the other words, Perceived Overqualification directly affects Innovative Behavior, and also indirectly affects Innovative Behavior through Job Crafting; Fourthly,Interactive Fairness plays a moderating role in the relationship between Perceived Overqualification and Innovative Behavior. In other words, the positive impact of Perceived Overqualification on the Innovative Behavior in the group with high Interactive Fairness is stronger than that in the group with low Interactive Fairness. Based on these findings, we present the implications and limitations of this study and future research directions.
Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Group Study Educational Model Based on Flipped Learning
Authors:   The Korean Career·Entrepreneurship & Business Association, Yoo SooKyung , Jang Ji-woong
Published: February 2025

This study empirically analyzed the impact of an educational model combining flipped learning and collaborative group study on learners' academic achievement, self-directed learning attitudes, academic self-efficacy, learning engagement, and learning presence in IT vocational education. The study targeted a Python programming course for 15 weeks in the Department of Computer Engineering, where a flipped learning-based collaborative group study model was designed and implemented to observe its effects on learners. The participants included 20 second-year undergraduate students, and changes in self-directed learning attitudes, academic self-efficacy, learning engagement, and learning presence were analyzed through pre- and post-tests and academic growth indices.
The results revealed that flipped learning and collaborative group study significantly improved learners' self-directed learning attitudes and academic self-efficacy, induced positive changes in learning engagement and learning presence, and effectively enhanced academic growth indices. Specifically, learners prepared theoretical concepts in advance through flipped learning and actively engaged in peer interaction and programming practices through collaborative group study, strengthening their problem-solving and collaborative skills.
These findings demonstrate that flipped learning and collaborative group study serve as effective learner-centered teaching methods suitable for IT vocational education. Furthermore, they suggest that this approach positively influences learners in developing essential competencies such as self-directed learning, collaboration, and creative problem-solving, which are critical for future professional environments.
Additionally, this study highlights that the combined model of flipped learning and collaborative group study complements traditional lecture-based teaching methods and maximizes learning outcomes. It also indicates the applicability of this learner-centered teaching model in diverse fields such as engineering, healthcare, and the arts, providing practical strategies to enhance the quality of education. The findings serve as valuable foundational data for the development and implementation of innovative teaching methods aimed at fostering educational excellence.
Reimaging the Magdalene
Authors: Jolley Siobhán
Published: February 2025

This book offers a new, intersectional feminist approach to utilising and interpreting the visual reception of Mary Magdalene.Through employment of Liberative Reception Criticism, which develops traditional reception theory in line with liberative hermeneutics, via the insights of intersectionality as critical theory, Siobhan Jolley provides a novel means of analysing how women, and particularly the Magdalene, are imaged in Christian tradition.

Knowledge of both the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene and her cultural reception continue to be dominated by long-discredited ideas about her life and sexuality, which bear the hallmarks of their development under patriarchy. Through close study of relevant biblical texts and extracanonical accounts, and a comprehensive survey of the Magdalene’s presentation in the Italian art of the Counter-Reformation, Jolley demonstrates that the patriarchal portrayal of the Magdalene as a sexualised penitent and mournful witness to the resurrection is sustained by its mythic attachment to biblical text. Rather than adopting the same tropes uncritically, we are invited to look again at artworks and related texts in order to explore what happens when the influence of patriarchy is actively and intersectionally resisted. Ultimately, the Magdalene is transformed from a reductive and patriarchally mythologised figure to a multidimensional character, who is relatable and liberative as an exemplar.
Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom
Authors: Suriano Ambra
Published: February 2025

Ambra Suriano analyses the narrator’s techniques, exploring the influence of the readers’ understanding and playing with their interpretative freedom in recounting particular episodes in the Book of Genesis.She argues that a synchronic analysis of the text uncovers a series of binary oppositions that characterise the narrative world of Mamre and Sodom.

Beginning with a summary of the context of Genesis 18-19, Suriano traces the boundaries and narrative coherence of the text, considering each episode as part of a single story and divided into five scenes, which can be further split into narrative units. Within each scene and narrative unit, Suriano considers the dynamics between the narrator and the reader, amongst the characters, between the narrator and the characters and between the reader and the characters, highlighting how they interact with each other and with the narrative world they are programmed for. She proposes that knowledge is the main topic of the narrative, to which all the characters concur; knowledge of the divine and human world, leading to awareness and the critical ability to distinguish between good and evil, and to choose which to follow.
Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity
Authors: Słodkowski Piotr
Published: February 2025

Modernist painter, socialist realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde, Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism.Yet his legacy in the development of European modernism is rarely acknowledged. In this book, inspired by the 2021 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Piotr Slodkowski demonstrates that the work of Streng disrupts established notions of 20th-century Polish art, connecting local Polish art history with wider 20th-century artistic movements and styles.

Traversing the 1920s Académie Moderne, hubs of creativity in interwar Poland, Nazi concentration camps, and the Polish People’s Republic under Soviet influence, this book reveals the changing artistic phenomena of Poland between the 1920s and 1950s, illustrating how Streng drew on his Jewish-Polish identity and the legacy of genocide in his work. Rather than deferring to the French Avant Garde, Slodkowski sheds light on regional expressions of modernism and emphasises the complexity of identity and creativity in 20th-century Poland. In doing so, this book brings Streng out of the shadows and into wider considerations of modernist European art and its development.

Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity makes an inspiring contribution to ongoing debates over geographies of knowledge of East Central European art. The book deals specifically with the Polish-Jewish modernist painter Henryk Streng (1898–1960), who was active in interwar Lwów and postwar Warsaw. As a Holocaust survivor whose life and work were marked by the effects of two totalitarianisms (Nazism and Stalinism), Streng offers a paradigmatic case for rethinking art in this part of Europe. Nevertheless, Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity is not a monograph devoted exclusively to Streng’s work and social context. Rather, with panoramic breadth, it takes stock of aesthetic trends that held weight in East Central Europe before, during, and after the Second World War, namely: modernist art and its local adaptations, socially engaged art, and cultural identity (and specifically, Polish-Jewish identity). The book provides detailed insight into a unique understanding of modernism, social engagement, and Polish-Jewish identity in the Central European avant garde. Through an analysis of Streng’s art that accounts for his personal experience and subjective position, the book identifies moments and episodes that exceed the parameters of Western art historical discourse. Polish Modernism and Jewish Identity offers alternatives to the reduction of art of the East European “peripheries” to derivative imitations of paradigms handed down from Western “centers.”
Witness Literature
Authors: Salgado Minoli
Published: February 2025

This is the first critical monograph to explore and delineatethe emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony from the Global South.

Witness Literatureexamines writing from three sites of exceptional violence and fluid justice: the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence in Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey/Türkiye, the UK and beyond. Drawing on the intersecting fields of literary analysis, biopolitics, testimony studies, trauma theory and postcolonial studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an important intervention in Western readings of trauma.

Ambitious in cultural and conceptual reach,Witness Literatureinvokes a wide range of texts from within the nations studied and from diasporic writers. These include: eyewitness accounts and survivor stories gathered inChildren of Cambodia's Killing Fields;memoirs and autobiographies like François Bizot’sThe Gate,Loung Ung'sFirst They Killed My Fatherand Ajith Boyagoda's re-told memoir,A Long Watch;Sanam Maher’s biography of the internet star Qandeel Baloch that exposes the truth technologies of the media; pseudonymous work that reconfigures the authorising identity of the witness; novels by diasporic writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Vaddey Ratner, Madeleine Thien and Anuk Arudpragasam;the posthumously published editorial of an assassinated journalist who anticipated his death;fabricated testimony and fictive reconstructions of real events including Shehan Karunatilaka’s phantasmagoric novel,The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; and such works as Elif Shafak'sHonour, Salman Rushdie'sShameandShalimar the Clown.

Offering a compelling and surprising analysis of the representation of life under the threat, Minoli Salgado exposes how the mixed cultural allegiances of the border witness mark a double agency that challenges multiple orthodoxies and shows how testimonial work from the Global South maps new moral communities by opening up alternative ways of reading truth, subjectivity, healing and justice.
What's the Good of Education?
Authors: Dunne Joseph
Published: February 2025

In this book Joseph Dunne exposes the damage done by obsession with measurableoutcomes in schools and universities.He argues for an education that respects the interpersonal fabric of learning and teaching, and that takes account of difficulties in late modern societies regarding childhood, citizenship, the relative prestige accorded to different kinds of knowledge, and the forging by individuals of a coherent identity across a whole life-course. To ask about good education, he claims, is necessarily to pose the larger question of the human good. Central to the book is a concern to elucidate the kind of practices that can best help persons to pursue this good, a concern that deepens through reflection in the final chapters on the challenges and fulfilments opened by the spiritual dimension of human life. Making his case in a series of inter-related essays, Dunne draws on his decades-long experience in teacher-education, informed by a reading of classical Greek philosophy and of several recent thinkers – including Raimond Gaita, Alasdair MacIntyre, Iris Murdoch and Charles Taylor – who are key conversation partners throughout.
Daoist Phenomenology
Authors: Goulding Jay
Published: February 2025

Jay Goulding’sDaoist Phenomenologyrepresents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen.

Illustrating styles of reading complex texts from Europe and East Asia, Goulding moves away from horizontal reading of simple comparisons on a single plain to vertical reading as a deep dive of ideas into ancient worlds.

Vertical Reading is hermeneutic strategy that captures the depth of connection between phenomenology and Daoism, especially Heidegger and classical Daoists Laozi and Zhuangzi. His method reveals Daoist implications of Dogen’s Zen and draws on writing and ideas from popular culture including Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, George Lucas’ Star Wars universe and martial artist Bruce Lee.

Original and wide-ranging, Goulding’s interconnected approach to phenomenology and Daoism enhances and promotes further intercultural dialogues between two great traditions in world philosophies.
Start-Up Century
Authors: Wise James
Published: February 2025

A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups – and how it’s changing the world of work.

Does it feel like everyone you know is thinking about starting a business? That’s because they are. In the last few years new businesses have been launched in record numbers, with more of us than ever deciding to go it alone or become entrepreneurs.

Fuelled by new technologies like artificial intelligence and automation, this trend is only just beginning, with traditional firms due to be automated in the same way that farms and factories were in the last few decades.

Start-Up Century explains why this shift is happening, and what it will mean to live in a world where most of us are self-employed, or work in small entrepreneurial endeavours. It details the entrepreneurial frontiers ahead of us, the opportunities to be seized, and products to be built in fields as diverse as robotics to healthcare, energy and construction. And it covers the many challenges that this new way of working presents, setting out ideas and policies to help us close the digital divide, make education relevant again, make our public services more innovative and inspire a new generation to build the solutions the world needs.

In the face of rapid changes to the way we work and the technologies available to us, Start-Up Century sets out an overwhelmingly positive view of how individuals and start-ups, not corporates, will solve the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Authored by James Wise, the venture capitalist and technology commentator, Start-Up Century is packed with personal tales and interviews with everyone from teenage side-hustlers to the CEOs of multi-billion-dollar successes. This is a book for every aspiring entrepreneur, and anyone interested in the policy changes needed to support them.
You've Got This
Authors: Freeman Rhea
Published: February 2025

'A must-read for anyone looking to do big things, and refusing to give up in the face of these obstacles.'SARA DAVIES, Entrepreneur and TV Personality

An essential and encouraging guide to growing your small business, achieving your goals and overcoming obstacles along the way.

Growing a small business can be tough. Those big shiny goals seem miles away and without a clear strategy on how to get there, those dreams can remain just that. Add a side of imposter syndrome and a lack of resources, and it’s all too easy to remain stagnant, give up, or play small.

Rhea Freeman provides a clear blueprint for how to set and achieve goals in simple steps, asking the important questions and providing you with your own personal coach. Written by an experienced small business mentor and a two times TEDx speaker,You’ve Got Thisis grounded in real business owners’ unfiltered success stories and is interwoven with expert insights from a selection of global brands, including Wild, Neom Organics, Snag Tights and more.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional looking to refresh your goals, or dreaming of starting your own side hustle, this book will guide you in creating your own effective plan to supercharge your small business and ensure that your goals become a reality.
USN Submarine vs IJN Aircraft Carrier
Authors: Lardas Mark
Published: February 2025

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

Before World War II the world’s navies envisioned the submarine as a tool to hunt and kill cruisers and capital ships (aircraft carriers and battleships). Instead, they became best known for their abilities as commerce raiders. Yet hunting capital ships remained an important auxiliary role for the US submarine force in World War II. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside carefully chosen archive illustrations, this absorbing study focuses on five revealing battles between US submarines and Japanese aircraft carriers during 1942–44.

At first, a combination of factors – bad torpedoes, poor US tactics, and plain bad luck – foiled every US submarine attack on a Japanese capital ship in 1942 and 1943. But over the space of six months in 1944 – from June through November of that year – US submarines sank three of Japan’s largest aircraft carriers as well as a battleship. Thereafter, Japanese capital ships clung to port or sheltered waters beyond the reach of submarines.

In this book, Mark Lardas explains how the technologies and procedures employed by both sides helped to determine the victor in five revealing clashes, from the battle of Midway in June 1942 to the sinking ofShinano, the largest warship sunk by a submarine, in November 1944.
Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket 1944
Authors: Forczyk Robert
Published: February 2025

A detailed exploration of a critical month-long battle, which set the stage for German strategic-level defeats on both the Eastern and Western fronts.

In February 1944, 1st Panzer Army (under Generaloberst Hube) played a major role in the relief operation that saved part of the German forces trapped in the Korsun Pocket. However, the losses suffered in that effort left Hube’s forces materially weakened, exhausted and with vulnerable flanks. Unexpectedly, Zhukov’s 1st Ukrainian Front and Konev’s 2nd Ukrainian Front attacked on 4 March, conducting a huge pincer operation against 1st Panzer Army. Within three weeks, Hube’s 200,000-strong army was isolated, with its back to the Dniester River. The destruction of Hube’s army would doubtless precipitate a rapid German collapse on the Eastern Front – two months before the Allied invasion of France.

In this work, Eastern Front expert Robert Forczyk presents a superbly illustrated examination of the initial Soviet encirclement operation, Hube’s full-scale breakout operation to save his army, and the relief operation by 2nd SS-Panzer Corps (redeployed from the West) in April 1944. Although Hube’s army managed to escape Zhukov’s trap, it lost most of its equipment and was no longer fully combat capable. The German Army in the East had been seriously weakened, and the amount of German armour deployed in the West to counter any Allied landings in France had simultaneously been reduced.
Mediterranean Sweep
Authors: Cleaver Thomas McKelvey
Published: February 2025

Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF’s tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II.

With the defeat of the Germans and Italians on Sicily in mid-July 1943, the focus of the war in the air shifted toward the battle for the Italian mainland itself. This campaign took place in the context of the coming invasion of northwest Europe, with many of the best units from the North African and Sicilian campaigns withdrawn to prepare for the new front, while those units that remained had a lower priority for replacements of men and material.

Despite these difficulties, the air war in the Italian campaign is a study in the successful application of tactical air power.Mediterranean Sweepdescribes how USAAF forces, alongside Free French, Italian Co-Belligerent, British and Commonwealth units, and even a squadron of the Brazilian Air Force, took the war to the Axis in both the fighter-bomber war and OperationBingo, the successful bombing campaign to withhold supplies from the German forces fighting on the Gothic Line.

Building on the story of the USAAF in North Africa and over Sicily told in his previous workTurning The Tide, renowned aviation expert Tom Cleaver uses a wide range of first-hand accounts from American, Allied, German, and Italian pilots and other aircrew to bring to life the bitter struggle in the skies over Italy from mid-1943 through to the end of World War II.
From Trenton to Yorktown
Authors: Maass John R.
Published: February 2025

Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary, this sweeping narrative is an astute exploration of the five critical military events that changed the outcome of the Revolutionary war.

For eight grueling years, American and British military forces struggled in a bloody war over colonial independence. This conflict also ensnared Native American warriors and the armies and navies of France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, and several German principalities. From frozen Canada to tropical Florida and as far west as the Mississippi River, the Revolutionary War included hundreds of campaigns, battles, and skirmishes on land and sea in which soldiers and sailors fought and died for causes, crowns, and comrades.

In this masterful, yet accessible narrative of America’s fight for liberty, John R. Maass identifies the five decisive events that secured independence for the 13 hard-pressed but determined colonies. These include not only the obvious military victories such as Trenton, Princeton, and Yorktown but also the leadership and reforms that ensured Washington’s forces were capable of enduring the harsh conditions of the winter of 1778. Similarly, King Louis XVI’s decision to supply Continental troops during the Saratoga Campaign with desperately needed soldiers, arms, money, and fleets is also detailed as a key factor.

These turning points, not all of them triumphs on the battlefield, delivered a victory for the new United States. By challenging conventional interpretations of what ensures victory in warfare,From Trenton to Yorktownoffers a fresh perspective on the Revolutionary War.
Convoy PQ-17 1942
Authors: Konstam Angus
Published: February 2025

A gripping account of the most famous convoy operation of the war, which marked a high-water mark for the German naval campaign in the Arctic.

The Arctic was a vital conduit for transporting supplies directly from Great Britain to Russia. The British Home Fleet was tasked with protecting these convoys, which passed within range of the German bases in Norway. By 1942, the Germans had reinforced their air and naval forces, stationing a powerful naval surface group there centred around the battleshipTirpitz.

Convoy PQ-17 was set to be the last convoy to sail until the autumn of 1942, and was a particularly large one, involving 35 merchant ships, over half of which were American. When it departed Reykjavik on 27 June, bound for Archangel, the Germans were ready and waiting. The convoy was the first large joint Anglo-American naval operation under British command.

Here, expert naval historian Angus Konstam documents the withdrawal of the Allied close escort to intercept the German raiders, and the devastating attacks on the scattered merchant ships by German aircraft and U-boats. Maps and diagrams plot the passage and fate of the convoy elements, and stunning artworks bring to life key moments of their efforts to escape. In the end, 24 Allied ships were sunk, and only ten merchant ships and four auxiliaries reached the port of Archangel. PQ-17 would prove to be the worst convoy loss of World War II, and the most controversial.
Royal Navy Grand Fleet 1914–18
Authors: Konstam Angus
Published: February 2025

World War Iwas Britain’slast moment as the world’s naval superpower, anditsGrand Fleet wasthenthe most powerfuleverseen. Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting power.

At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy’s forces were amalgamated into a single entity, the Grand Fleet, and stationed in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The Grand Fleet was the largest amalgamation of modern naval power the world had seen, with over 30 dreadnought battleships or battlecruisers, and a plethora of cruisers and destroyers. In 1917 it was reinforced further by a powerful American squadron.

In this book, based on extensive primary source research, naval expert Angus Konstam assesses the Grand Fleet’s ships, technology, organization, command and intelligence, and how it fought. While ship-for-ship its German counterparts were better designed, as a combined fleet Admiral Jellicoe’s armada was unstoppable. It took part in several clashes with its German foe during the war, but it was only at the Battle of Jutland, in 1916, that Jellicoe finally had the chance to destroy the enemy.

Although the High Seas Fleet deftly avoided the trap laid for it, the Grand Fleet's economic blockade then really began to bite, which led to Germany’s surrender in November 1918. Packed with battle diagrams, spectacular artwork, and archive photos, this book is an essential guide to the last time the Royal Navy would be indisputably the world’s most powerful.
Partisan Warfare in Greece 1941–44
Authors: Athanassiou Phoebus
Published: February 2025

This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941–44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.

Italy’s failed invasion of Greece in 1940–41 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in spring 1941 being extended into Greece, and, after the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May, the division of the country under German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and Army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but at home resistance organizations of differing political character soon sprang up, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greece’s rugged terrain and limited communications.

The strongest resistance force was the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front (EAM) with its partisan Greek Popular Army (ELAS). Agents of the Western Allied powers had only brief success in mediating cooperation between the mutually hostile EAM/ELAS, and the National Republican Greek League (EDES) with its EOEA. Foreshadowing the Greek Civil War that would follow liberation, ELAS and EOEA clashed, in the background to their separate operations against the Axis occupiers.

Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Phoebus Athanassiou charts the development of the fighting in occupied Greece: a struggle as ferocious as that fought in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.
Step Up, Step Back
Authors: Johnson Elsbeth
Published: February 2025

Many strategic change efforts fail. And virtually all of them are harder than they need to be. Why is this? And what can we do to make change more likely to stick?

Dr. Elsbeth Johnson, a former equity analyst and London Business School Professor now teaching at MIT, has spent a decade researching how to deliver strategic change in practice. Based on asking managers what they needed from leaders, rather than just asking leaders what they did, her resultingStep Up, Step Backapproach challenges some of our most fundamental beliefs about how to lead change – and indeed, about what we even consider to be 'leadership'.

TheStep Up, Step Backapproach suggests leaders need to step up and do more than they typically do in the early stages of the change – in specific ways and at specific times; and then step back and do less than they typically do in the later stages of the change – again, in specific ways, at specific times. The result is not only change that sticks, but empowered, motivated managers who can get on with delivering change, without needing ongoing input or cover from leaders. Using real-world examples of how to apply the science in practice,Step Up, Step Backgives you a roadmap for how to deliver strategic change in your organization.
Human Rights and Corruption in Brazil
Authors: Delgado Lucas
Published: February 2025

This book identifies 2 polarising concepts used by Brazilian mainstream sociology to explain the formation and identity of Brazil as a society: corruption and human rights.

As the 1988 Constitution is a milestone in the Brazilian transition to democracy and part of a broader movement of Brazil's integration into international law, the impact of international legal regimes on the attainment of human rights and the fight against corruption is analysed to evaluate the state of Brazilian democracy.

The book examines the outcomes of 4 specific international human rights regimes in Brazil, involving rights and policies related to: – the right to food, the fight against hunger, and conditional cash transfer programmes; – the right to health and the public healthcare system; – the right to racial equality and affirmative action in superior education; and – the right to recognition and the protection of Indigenous populations.

This approach is then applied to the examination of the international anti-corruption agenda. It focuses on Brazil’s determination to deal with corruption against the backdrop of its worst democratic crisis of the last 35 years using meticulously researched case studies on the most prominent investigations, includingMensalãoandLava Jato (Car Wash). The book traces back to the origins of the international anti-corruption agenda and key legitimising efforts aimed at aligning the discourses with the developmental, good-governance trends, and delves into its repercussions within the Brazilian context, with a glance at their collateral effects in other parts of the world.

Thus, the core focus of the work revolves around human rights and the fight against corruption, shedding light on how democracy evolves or recedes over time under their influence.
Right to Asylum
Authors: Bossuyt Marc
Published: February 2025

This book provides insight into therealities of, and right to, asylumfrom the frontiers of refugee law, as observed by a key practitioner, academic and policy-maker in the field.

The book combines expert analysis and first-hand testimony. Written by one of the giants in the field, the first Belgian Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons, it blends the professional and the personal, to give a candid, compelling account of how asylum law has developed over the last quarter century. It looks back at some of the key cases of asylum, but also forward, suggesting how Europe might address current challenges such as deportation and regularisation.

All lawyers, practitioners and policy-makers in the field of refugee law and policy will find this required reading.
Telecommunication Laws in Europe
Authors: Conradi Mike , Keogh Christian , Bingham Elizabeth
Published: February 2025

The Seventh Edition covers the new set of EU Directives and the Electronic Communications Code, which will considerably change the legal framework for electronic communications.

Essential reading for all lawyers and non-legal executives involved in telecoms, IT and media, this book will enable the reader to:

- Make valuable comparative analyses with detailed coverage of EU and non-EU countries in a single, accessible source - Ensure that your company’s/clients’ current and future activities do not conflict with the rules outlined in the 2009 EU Regulatory Package - Successfully evaluate opportunities for expansion within the European telecoms industry and potential pitfalls

The 7th edition includes detailed chapters on EU Data Protection and Privacy, EU Competition Law in the Telecommunications Sector, The Law of the International Telecommunication Union and the World Trade Organisation, and Compliance and Risk Management.

Countries covered: EU: Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden. Non EU: UK, Turkey, Ukraine.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's IP and IT online service.
Police Powers in Ireland
Authors: Orange Garnet
Published: February 2025

Police Powers in Irelandcovers everything you need to know about police powers in the context of the investigation of crime, as well as general interactions between the members of An Garda Síochána and the public. This book examines the legal issues that arise, with an emphasis on the practicalities of policing.

Alongside an analysis of up-to-date case law, this book traces the history of the force, its duties and powers, and details the importance of human rights.

TheSecond Editioncovers:

- The significant changes to the law on drawing adverse inferences - The changes which DPP v JC had on the exclusionary rule -Damache v DPP, dealing with the competing interests between state and the accused - Observation, surveillance and phone-tapping - Visual ID (parades, videos, photos)

This is a must-have guide to the duties, powers and history of An Garda Síochána for criminal practitioners, judges and academics; a necessity in any criminal lawyer’s briefcase.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Criminal Law online service.
The Servant
Authors: Sargeant Amy
Published: February 2025

Amy Sargeant's compelling and meticulous study of Joseph Losey's The Servant (1963) sets the film in the context of a long tradition of fictional depictions of the master-servant relationship, from Shakespeare to Cervantes, Henry James, Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse. Sargeant points out that while many of these relationships are played for comic effect, that of the ‘young master’ Tony (James Fox) and his manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) unfolds in a far more sinister manner, with Barrett coming to dominate and humiliate the hapless Tony.

Sargeant's reading pays particular attention to the contribution not only of Losey and Harold Pinter, who adapted the screenplay from Robin Maugham's novella, but also of the cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, designer Richard Macdonald and costume designer Beatrice ‘Bumble’ Dawson. She analyses the performances of Sarah Miles as Barrett's lover Vera and Wendy Craig as Tony's fiancee Susan, as well as those of Fox and Bogarde, and gives careful consideration to how the film uses architectural form, interior design and decoration, and clothing to establish character and relationships. In the context of the collapse of the British Empire, and a beleaguered Establishment beset by spy and sex scandals, the film can be read, Sargeant argues, as a metaphor for the ‘state of the nation’ in the early 1960s.

Finally, Sargeant considers the film's critical and commercial reception in Britain, Europe and the United States - its release, how it was received as one of a number of ‘emigre’ films, and Losey's surprising denial of a homoerotic intent in the Tony-Barrett relationship.

In her new foreword to this edition, Amy Sargeant considers contemporary resonances of the film's depiction of a twisted master-servant relationship in recent TV and cinema including The Crown, Downton Abbey and The Trial of Christine Keeler.
Throne of Blood
Authors: Watson Robert N.
Published: February 2025

Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa’s reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made.

In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan. Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the film’s central tension between individual aspiration and the stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and therefore between free will and determinism.

In his foreword to this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters’ Washizu and his wife Asaji’s blunder in viewing life as a ruthless competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent ‘strongman’ political leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing valued that cannot be monetized.
Youth Activism
Authors: Gordon Hava Rachel
Published: February 2025

This resource provides a wide-ranging survey of the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world.The work places a special focus on prominent youth activists, their organizations, and the causes to which they are determined to make change, including civil rights, environmental issues such as climate change, gender and LGBTQ+ rights, and US military actions and financial investments to which they are opposed. How has youth activism changed over the decades? What are the keys to fostering civic engagement among young people? What tools do young people use now to advance political causes important to them? What impact are they having on political and legal struggles over climate change, immigration, and civil rights? This all-in-one resource answers all those questions and more.
Instruments to assess knowledge about the prevention of pressure ulcers in intensive care units: A scoping review protocol
Authors: Marques Ana , Alves José , Marinheiro Catarina , Coelho Patrícia , Alves Paulo
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Pressure ulcers represent a significant healthcare challenge, impacting quality of life and increasing costs associated with care. Understanding the factors that influence prevention strategies is crucial for improving outcomes. However, gaps in healthcare professionals' knowledge remain a major barrier, underscoring the need for a reliable tool to assess their understanding of pressure ulcer prevention. Objective: To map the existing scientific evidence on instruments designed to evaluate healthcare professionals' knowledge of pressure ulcer prevention in intensive care units. Material and Methods: The methodology outlined by the Joanna Briggs Institute for scoping reviews will be followed. This review will adhere to the PCC (Population, Concept, Context) structure: health care professionals as the population, knowledge assessment instruments for pressure ulcer prevention as the concept, and intensive care units as the context. A comprehensive search will be conducted in electronic databases (CINAHL Complete, MedicLatina, MEDLINE Complete; PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, SciElo, and SCOPUS) and grey literature sources. Titles and abstracts will be independently screened by two reviewers, with any disagreements resolved through discussion or the involvement of a third reviewer. Finally, relevant articles will be analyzed, data will be extracted, and findings will be presented in a narrative format, either as a table or text, according to what best suits the review's objectives.
Antriebsintegrierte Sicherheitsfunktion bis SIL 3: Werkzeugmaschinen ohne Drehzahlgeber sicher betreiben
Authors:   Torsten Blankenburg
Published: February 2025

Rotierende Werkzeuge sind eine besondere Gefahr für Bediener undServicetechniker. Die Maschinenrichtlinie 2006/42/EG stellt einheitlicheAnforderungen an die Sicherheit und den Gesundheitsschutz,die Maschinenhersteller erfüllen müssen. Antriebsintegrierte, sensorloseSicherheitsfunktionen bieten hier kostenoptimierte Safety-Lösungen fürWerkzeug maschinen und Bearbeitungszentren. Ein Antriebs spezialist zeigt,wie ohne Geber Drehfeld und Stillstand sicher überwacht werden können.
El problema de Dios como problema de la realidad
Authors: Membreño ldiáquez Marcos
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 981-996.
Hombre mítico, modernidad y liberación
Authors: Trigo Pedro
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 997-1010.
Retención arbitraria de reos políticos
Authors: R. R. C.
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 1026-1027.
Recensiones
Authors: L. A.  , I. M. B.  , Mascaró J. M.
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 1044-1047.
Mediación y elecciones: la batalla diplomática ; A dos años del movimiento de octubre: discurso del coronel Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez ; Partidos y elecciones ; Represión
Authors: ECA: Estudios Centroamericanos
Published: February 2025

No abstract available.
ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 36, No. 396-397, 1981: 1048-1081.