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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Supply Chain Optimization
Authors: Kelly Alma
Published: August 2024

Purpose: The general objective of the study was to investigate the impact of Artificial Intelligence on supply chain optimization.
Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing resources hence it is often considered a low cost technique as compared to field research, as the main cost is involved in executive’s time, telephone charges and directories. Thus, the study relied on already published studies, reports and statistics. This secondary data was easily accessed through the online journals and library.
Findings: The findings reveal that there exists a contextual and methodological gap relating to the impact of Artificial Intelligence on supply chain optimization. Preliminary empirical review revealed that AI significantly improved various aspects of supply chain management, including forecasting, inventory management, logistics, and risk management. It was found that AI technologies enhanced operational efficiency by providing more accurate demand predictions, optimizing logistics operations, and improving risk management capabilities. Additionally, AI contributed to greater sustainability in supply chains by reducing resource waste and supporting environmental goals, thus demonstrating its critical role in modernizing and optimizing supply chain practices.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Resource-Based View (RBV) and Dynamic Capabilities Theory may be used to anchor future studies on Artificial Intelligence. The study recommended that future research should focus on developing theoretical models that integrate AI with traditional supply chain theories and that companies should adopt AI-driven tools for improved supply chain performance. It suggested that policymakers create guidelines for ethical AI use and data management to ensure responsible implementation. Additionally, it was recommended that collaboration between academia, industry, and technology providers be fostered to share best practices and address sector-specific needs. Lastly, it was advised that the long-term impacts and adaptability of AI technologies be evaluated to ensure their continued effectiveness and relevance.
COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY AS AN ADJUNCT TO SURGICAL PERIODONTAL TREATMENT APPROACH IN STAGE II OR III WITH GRADE B OR C PERIODONTITIS – A CLINICAL STUDY
Authors: Khajuria Arru
Published: August 2024

BACKGROUND: Periodontal therapy aims to eliminate the etiological factorswhich plays a primary role in the initiation and progression of disease. Photodynamic therapy is an advanced technique which involves three components; photosensitizer agent (Indocyanine green dye), source of light (LASER) and oxygen.
Machine Learning based Framework for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
Authors: Vishwakarma Ajeet Kumar
Published: August 2024

A brain tumor is a type of cancer that can be life-threatening or significantly impair quality of life. Deep learning techniques enable more efficient identification and treatment of tumors. Brain MRI images are utilized in various ways to detect malignancies, with deep learning methods outperforming others.
Phenomenon of Suicide in Confucian Treatise
Authors: Блажкина Анастасия Юрьевна
Published: August 2024

В данной статье рассматриваются воззрения раннеконфуцианских философов на феномен суицида. В центре исследования находится конфуцианский трактат «Кун-цзы цзя юй». Суицид в конфуцианстве считался приемлемым способом защиты достоинства и добродетели, но в тоже время конфуцианские интеллектуалы не рассматривали самоубийство в качестве лучшего способа достижения нравственного идеала, никакие личные эгоистические причины (даже физическая деградация, инвалидность, тяжелая болезнь) не могли быть оправданием суицида. Только стремление к общественному благу и тяга к гармоничному развитию Поднебесной в ряде случаев предполагали практику самоубийства. Хотя разработанные конфуцианскими философами этические принципы, в которых нивелировалась личная выгода, постулировалось почтение подданных по отношению к государю и послушание младших по отношению к старшим, исключали позитивную оценку суицида. Но в тоже время, отступление от добродетели для благородного мужа, хуже смерти (трактат «Ли цзи»), поэтому в ряде случаев, суицид является не только морально приемлемым, но и, морально возвышенным. Согласно конфуцианской этической доктрине, биологическая жизнь может быть принесена в жертву для защиты высших ценностей, поэтому иногда самоубийство оправдано и необходимо, для осуществления защиты этих ценностей. Конфуцианская традиция разработала довольно сложную систему воззрений касательно феномена суицида.

This article examines the views of early Confucian philosophers on the phenomenon of suicide. At the center of the study is the Confucian treatise "Kong-zi jia yu". Suicide in Confucianism was considered an acceptable way to protect dignity and virtue, but at the same time Confucian intellectuals did not consider suicide as the best way to achieve a moral ideal, no personal selfish reasons (even physical degradation, disability, severe illness, etc.) could be an excuse for suicide. Only the desire for the common good and the desire for the harmonious development of the country in some cases suggested the practice of suicide. Although the ethical principles developed by Confucian philosophers, in which personal benefit was leveled, the respect of subjects towards the sovereign and the obedience of the younger to the elders were postulated, they excluded a positive assessment of suicide. But if you follow these principles, the deviation from virtue for a noble husband is worse than death (the treatise "Li ji"), therefore, in some cases, suicide is not only morally acceptable, but also morally sublime. According to Confucian ethical doctrine, biological life can be sacrificed to protect higher values, so sometimes suicide is justified and necessary to protect these values. Confucian tradition has developed a rather complex system of views regarding the phenomenon of suicide.
The Tradition and Its Falsification in the First Scroll of the
Authors: Ионов Алексей Юрьевич
Published: August 2024

В статье рассматривается актуальная проблема в изучении даосского трактата «Тай пин цзин» - фальсификация его первого свитка. Именно благодаря более поздним интерпретациям первого свитка, философское содержание древнего текста эпохи Хань воспринималось неоднозначно. Новейшие исследования китайских ученых позволяют увидеть подлинную традицию даосского источника более детально. В статье представлены наиболее важные упоминания о «Тай пин цзине» в китайских библиографических сочинениях, приводится перечень книг, энциклопедий, толковых словарей, цитирующих фрагменты этого трактата. Помимо сведений о передаче «Тай пин цзина» на протяжении столетий представителями даосской традиции, в работе дается оценка понятию тай пин , ключевого для культуры Китая. Целью изучения устоявшихся в китайской культуре вариантов употребления термина тай пин является установление надежных ориентиров для более глубокого постижения смысла содержания свитков трактата.

The article deals with an important problem in the process of the analyses of the Taoist treatise Tai Рing Jing, i.e. the problem of the falsifications of its first variant. Due to the later inadequate interpretations of the text of the Han period, its philosophic content was perceived ambiguously. The recent studies of the Chinese scientists enable us to comprehend in more detail the real traditions of this Taoist source. The paper contains the list of the most important references to Tai Ping Jing in Chinese bibliographies, as well as of the books, encyclopedias, and explanatory dictionaries quoting its fragments. In addition to the information on the transmission of Tai Ping Jing over the centuries by the representatives of the Taoist tradition, it analyzes the tai ping key concept of the Chinese culture. The purpose of studying the well-established variants of the use of this term is to find out the reliable guidelines for a deeper understanding of the meaning of the concept in various scrolls.
Mythological Beliefs about Serpent Women in Chinese Sources of the 8th-10th Centuries
Authors: Старостина Аглая Борисовна
Published: August 2024

При относительном богатстве сведений о демонологии в раннесредневековых китайских текстах в них единичны упоминания о таких распространённых впоследствии и в фольклоре, и в литературе мифологических персонажах, как способные принимать женский облик злонамеренные змеи-оборотни. До III в. не находится упоминаний ни о каких змеях-оборотнях вообще, а злонамеренные змеи-оборотни, превращающиеся в женщин, появляются только к VIII в. В статье перечислены контексты, в которых в период с VIII по X вв. появляются эти мифологические персонажи, и разобраны некоторые связанные с ними мотивы. Схожие офиоморфные демоны встречаются в иранских эпических преданиях, а также как минимум в одной буддийской легенде, бытовавшей в Хотане в VII в. Учитывая интенсивные культурные контакты между Китаем эпохи Тан (618-907) и иранскими народами, а также особенности географического распределения упоминаний об этих персонажах в китайских текстах и контексты этих упоминаний, можно предположить заимствование данного персонажа. В статье рассмотрены способы, с помощью которых пришедший извне персонаж был адаптирован к локальным традициям.

Despite the relative abundance of information concerning demonology in early medieval Chinese texts, there are few mentions of malicious shape-shifting serpents capable of assuming female form. Until the third century. there is no mention of any shape-shifting snakes at all, and female malicious shape-shifting snakes can be found only by the eighth century. The article lists the contexts in which these mythological characters appear in the period from the eighth to tenth centuries and points out some of the motives associated with them. Similar ophiomorphic demons are found in Iranian epic traditions, as well as in at least one Buddhist legend that existed in Khotan in the seventh century. Given the intense cultural contacts between China of the Tang era (618-907) and the Iranian peoples, as well as the peculiarities of the geographical distribution of references to these characters in Chinese texts and the contexts of these references, it can be assumed that this character was borrowed. The article discusses how a foreign demonological character had been adapted to local traditions. Keywords : Chinese mythology, medieval folklore, demonology, cross-cultural contacts
On the Key Concepts of the Shinchō-kō Ki Chronicle Narrative
Authors: Полхов Святослав Александрович
Published: August 2024

В статье рассматриваются ключевые понятия, на которых основан нарратив хроники «Синтё:-ко: ки» («Записи о князе Нобунага»), ценного источника по истории Японии конца Средневековья - начала Раннего Нового времени. Показывается, что создатель «Записей» О:та Гю:ити считает военные победы и возвышение Нобунага с одной стороны предопределёнными провидением ( тэндо: - Путём Неба), наделившим удачливостью ( кахо: ) властителя Японии, а с другой стороны обусловленными милостью и покровительством Будд и богов ( мё:га ) в силу его добродетельности и благих деяний. В приложении к статье содержится комментированный перевод фрагмента так называемого «Начального свитка» хроники «Синтё:-ко: ки» на русский язык.

The article discusses the key concepts which define the narrative of Shinchō-kō ki chronicle, a valuable source on the history of Japan in the late Middle Ages - early Early Modern period. It is shown that the creator of Shinchō-kō ki Ōta Gyu̅ichi considers the military victories and the rise of Nobunaga, on the one hand, to be predetermined by providence ( tendō - The Way of Heaven) which endowed the ruler of Japan with good luck ( kahō ), and on the other hand, due to the grace and patron of the Buddhas and gods ( myōga ) who rewarded him for his virtues and good deeds . The appendix to the article provides a translation of a fragment of Shukan , initial part of Shinchō-kō ki into Russian with a commentary.
(Im)pertinências na formação indisciplinar de professores
Authors: Tuchapesk da Silva Michela , Tamayo Carolina , Souza Elizabeth Gomes
Published: August 2024

Esta comunicação apresenta alguns resultados parciais da pesquisa intitulada “A opção decolonial em Educação Matemática: problematizando a formação inicial de professores” é financiada pela chamada de projetos universais CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT nº 18/2021 (2022-2025) orientado pela pergunta: O que pode a opção decolonial nos cursos de formação de professores [que ensinam Matemática]? O objetivo principal que orienta este projeto interinstitucional é tensionar os modos de organização disciplinar do currículo na formação de professores [que ensinam Matemática] a partir da problematização de práticas socioculturais[matemáticas] não hegemônicas. Metodologicamente os movimentos dos pesquisadores são sincrônicos, porém estes problematizam o desencantamento epistêmico aos conceitos modernos e eurocentrados, enraizados nas categorias de conceitos gregos e latinos e nas experiências e subjetividades formadas dessas bases, por diferentes caminhos, seja por meio da terapia desconstrucionista ou a Cartografia. As repostas à pergunta principal do projeto são oriundas das produções dos participantes de um curso de extensão e de disciplinas de pós-graduação ministradas pelas autoras do texto. Os resultados parciais apontam para a potência transgressiva da opção decolonial na formação inicial de professores.
O jogo como atribuição da Educação Física: uma revisão de literatura em periódicos brasileiros
Authors: Ghidetti Filipe Ferreira , Marques Rodrigues Renata
Published: August 2024

A BNCC estabeleceu competências para garantir aprendizagens essenciais na educação básica: entre essas, institui que tratar o jogo como conteúdo significa ir além de tratá-lo como meio para atingir um fim externo. Considerando este marco na legislação, o presente trabalho parte do interesse em analisar a produção atual do campo da Educação Física (EF) sobre o tema do jogo com intuito de identificar a produção de trabalhos que promovam a reflexão sobre o mesmo como conteúdo (fim em si mesmo). Realizou uma triagem nos principais periódicos da EF brasileiros, identificando 75 artigos no período de 2011 a 2022. Constatou-se que a maioria dos trabalhos debatem a utilização do jogo como um meio para atingir um objetivo externo, o que tende para a sua funcionalização. Esta constatação levou ao movimento de análise que aporta uma discussão sobre o jogo como conteúdo da EF, a partir da psicologia sócio-interacionista, ressaltando-se a necessidade de mais trabalhos que tratem das potencialidades formativas do jogo em si.
Hypogene speleogenesis in carbonates by cooling hydrothermal flow: The case of Mt. Berenike caves, Israel
Authors: Roded Roi , Langford Boaz , Aharonov Einat , Szymczak Piotr , Ullman Micka , Yaaran Shemesh , Lazar Boaz , Frumkin Amos
Published: August 2024

The Berenike hypogenic cave system near Lake Kinneret, Israel, provides a valuable case study for investigating the recently proposed Confined-Cooling-Flow (CCF) speleogenesis model. Field and speleological surveys, along with existing research, are used to provide a thorough analysis. The CCF model relies on a simple thermo-hydro-chemical scenario, involving the rise of CO2-rich hydrothermal fluids discharging into a confined layer. The cooling of these CO2-rich fluids turns them into aggressive solutions due to the inverse relation between temperature and solubility of carbonates (retrograde solubility). Previous geochemical and numerical analyses of the CCF model predict localized and persistent dissolution and speleogenesis on short geologic timescales and reproduce common characteristics of hypogene cave morphology. The present study examines speleogenesis in Berenike by correlating it spatially and temporally with the geologic history and hydrogeology of the region and refers to the cave location and appearance in the rock section. The relatively clear and preserved morphologic features at various scales allow for further insights. Particularly, the CCF model can explain enigmatic field observations, such as the location of the largest passages at some distance away from the feeder. It also accounts for the formation of intricate maze-like networks in soluble rock successions and confined conditions, not explained by other models. Finally, this study suggests that the CCF model has broader applicability in understanding the formation of numerous large hypogenic karst and maze cave systems that are globally widespread.
Turkey’s Violent Formation
Authors: Kieser Hans-Lukas
Published: August 2024

The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe’s diplomacy and appeasement. Yet the currents that gave rise to the defining events of the period – ultranationalism, imperial proto-fascism, and pan-Islamism – have yet to be definitively integrated into historiography.

The case studies in this book reappraise key events, concepts, and individuals in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. Divided into four parts, the book first examines squandered opportunities for democratic reform of the multi-ethnic empire, as well as the emergence of extreme politico-religious ideology in the late Ottoman period. It then examines the continuity of these currents in Kemalist Turkey in case studies including anti-Kurdish campaigns and biographical studies of key actors, insiders, and ideologues such as Ziya Gökalp, Cavid Bey, Riza Nur, and Mahmut Bozkurt. The final part of the book explores the legacy of Turkey’s violent formation vis-à-vis its relations with wartime ally Germany in the context particularly of the Armenian genocide.

Together, the chapters in this book emphasise the legacy of foundational violence which marked the formation of authoritarian modern Turkey, while highlighting the need for new, inclusive democratic social contracts.
Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria
Authors: Sarah Christiane-Marie Abu
Published: August 2024

Alongside the diplomatic struggles of the early Cold War, European politicians worked to shape emotions about the postwar order—advocating fear of communism and hope for postwar recovery. In this context, the French Empire in North Africa emerged as one important emotional battleground, where Algerian nationalists and anti-colonial campaigners challenged French narratives about imperial pride and native hysteria.

During the Algerian War (1954–1962), emotions thus became a pivotal part of the independence struggle. Accordingly,Decolonizing Emotionstracks affective politics during the revolution, focusing on members of the Front de libération nationale (FLN), Combattants de la libération (CDL), and Jeune Résistance. Delving into the manifestos, poetry, and personal diaries of anti-colonial activists, the book reveals a rich world of transgressive sentiments, emotional exile, and affective border-crossings.

The stories that surface show how Algerians used biopower to combat an affective regime that refused native populations the right to be angry. The book further chronicles how Europeans complicated ideas of humanitarian pity and confronted the French production of political apathy. It is a history that holds modern relevance, speaking to contemporary debates over race relations and national pride, the pathologizing of Muslim emotions, and the contested process of how myths die (demythologization).
Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence
Authors: Falzon Christopher
Published: August 2024

In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics.

In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of transcendence as a philosophical concept, starting with the radical notion of transcendence that was introduced by Plato, and which reappears in various forms in subsequent thinkers from the Stoics to Descartes, and from Kant to Sartre. He argues that Foucault’s critique of the transcendent subject of humanism is a rejection not of transcendence per se but of radical transcendence in its distinctively modern form. As such, he shows how Foucault’s conceptualisation of transcendence as finite enables a picture of the human being as neither fully determined nor a creature of infinite possibilities, but as both subject and object, affected by but also able to affect the world.

With the notion of finite transcendence Falzon captures the essence of Foucault’s unique philosophy and provides a new insight into his contribution to ethics. Demonstrating its contemporary relevance,Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendencefurther explores the potential application of Foucault’s approach to the current ecological crisis.
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play
Authors: Benzie Rebecca
Published: August 2024

When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing of the history play has been the preserve of the white male.This book provides a vital feminist intervention into the dramaturgy of history plays, investigating work produced at major British theatres from 2000 to the present, written by a generation of innovative women playwrights.

This much-needed study explores the use of history – specifically Elizabethan, Restoration, Victorian and early 20th century – in contemporary playwriting in order to interrogate the gender politics of this work. Within the framework of contemporary feminism – including the pivotal #MeToo movement – the book looks at post-2000s feminist drama that somehow represents the past.

Through delving into the recurring tropes and their politics in the light of current feminist debate, the author helps us grasp how these plays essentially re-imagine gender politics. Plays that are considered includeEmilia(Morgan Lloyd Malcolm),Swive [Elizabeth](Ella Hickson),An August Bank Holiday Lark(Deborah McAndrew),The Empress(Tanika Gupta),Red Velvet(Lolita Chakrabarti),Scuttlers(Rona Munro),I, Joan(Charlie Josephine),Blue StockingsandNell Gwynn(Jessica Swale), and the musicalSix(Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss).
The Gallery at Cleveland House
Authors: Richter Anne Nellis
Published: August 2024

In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings to the public.A ticket to the gallery’s Wednesday afternoon openings was a sought-after prize, granting access to the collection and the house’s dazzling interior in the company of artists, celebrities, and Britain’s elite. This book explores the gallery's interior through the lens of its abundant material culture, including paintings in gilded frames, furniture, silver oil lamps, flower arrangements, and the numerous printed catalogues and guidebooks that made the gallery visible to those who might never cross its threshold.

Through detailed analysis of these objects and a wide range of other visual, material, textual and archival sources, the book presents the gallery at Cleveland House as a methodological case study on how the display of art in the 19th century was shaped by notions about public and private space, domesticity, and the role art galleries played in the formation of national culture. In doing so, the book also explains how and why magnificent private galleries and the artworks and objects they contained gripped the public imagination during a critical period of political and cultural transformation during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

Combining historical, cultural and material analysis, the book will make essential reading for researchers in British art in the Regency period, museum studies, collecting studies, social history, and the histories of interior decoration and design in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Psychoanalytic Sociology
Authors: Rousselle Duane
Published: August 2024

Singularities are lonely social groups; lonely in their relation to other singularities and so, lacking in a language shared with one another. With this isolation comes certainty and thus their strangeness is no longer constitutive, no longer repressed, but becomes elevated to a mode of social organization. It is not that there is something strange within our social worlds but rather that our social world has itself become strange.

This strain of thinking is explored by Rousselle in this book, who offers a new theory of the social bond that accounts for recent developments in the cultural logic of capitalism and paradoxically centers the ‘singularity’. Each chapter offers a different and compelling perspective on broader phenomenons and notions of estrangement within the civilization and rogue state, the master-slave dialectic, and the status of knowledge in the era of singularities.

With enriched dialogues between Lacanian, Marxist theory and theoretical sociology as well as illustrative contemporary examples,Psychoanalytic Sociologyargues that our current social crises are exemplified by the way in which social groups project their own inhumanity onto others. Uncompromising and aggressive wars, ‘foreign agents,’ and ‘cancel culture,’ are all features of the era of singularities: there is no recourse to judicial procedures, international treaties, marriage contracts, or ethics committees. The war between singularities runs very deep, and it exists at every scale (e.g., interpersonal, institutional, and cultural). This book navigates this strange new social world, invents a language capable of articulating it, and attempts to discover a way out of its most profound crisis.
Apocalyptic Patience
Authors: Shanks Andrew
Published: August 2024

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress.

Shanks engages with the philosophy of Jan Patocka; specifically, hisHeretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, which culminate in the concept of the ‘solidarity of the shaken’. Such solidarity is quite simply that which empowers the most radically thoughtful openness to others, embattled against even the most repressive closure; a solidarity without any other essential qualification.

Split into three distinct parts, Shanks begins by discussing Patocka’s philosophico-centric grand narrative, and drawing wider reference to the pre-philosophic origins of Abrahamic religious tradition. This is followed by an exploration of mystical theology, Christian and Islamic; of its decay into ‘mysticism’, and its influence on Christian and Jewish gnostic traditions. The final third presents a discussion on ethical phenomenology. Analysing the proponents of a ‘pathos of shakenness’ such as Kierkegaard, Levinas, Løgstrup, he juxtaposes 19th-century thinkers such as Arendt and Hegel with Heidegger and Strauss as he moves through the century, and eventually to the rise of secular public conscience movement.
Soviet Spectatorship
Authors: Goff Samuel
Published: August 2024

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed?

Soviet Spectatorshipanswers these questions through an in depth exploration of Soviet physical culture and its on screen representations from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Second World War. Samuel Goff identifies the three fundamental ‘structures of looking’ — surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship — that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject.

Close readings of understudied films such asHappy Finish(1934),The Laurels of Miss Ellen Gray(1935) andA Strict Young Man(1936), are contextualised through a theoretical analysis of the relationship between subjectivity and the body. In doing so, Goff traces the evolution of a specific Soviet 'look', examining perspectives on Soviet aesthetics and theories of body and mind, uncovering continuities within Soviet visual cultures in a period usually understood in terms of discontinuity and rupture.

Soviet Spectatorship explores Soviet physical culture and its representation in cinema, painting, and photography from 1921-1939. Bringing together the study of physical and visual culture, it traces the evolution of ‘spectatorship’ as a specifically Soviet form of the ‘gaze’ that offers new perspectives on Soviet thinking on psychology, aesthetics, gender, and violence. This book reveals interwar Soviet visual culture as a realm of bodily observation and critique, uncovering continuities of theory and practice between avant-garde culture and Stalinism. Soviet Spectatorship asks: what distinguished the Soviet look? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? This book identifies three fundamental ‘structures of looking’ — surveillance, aesthetics, and spectatorship — that shaped representations of the embodied Soviet subject. Soviet Spectatorship expands our understanding of physical culture as an object of study and an analytical category, accounting for its complexity as a social and aesthetic phenomenon and revealing for the first time its significance for scholars of Soviet subjectivity. By reading physical culture alongside and through visual culture, it offers an innovative, multimedia, and multi-disciplinary study of spectatorship in early Soviet culture that decentres dominant understandings of subject formation through a focus on visuality.
Writing Matters
Authors: Whitehouse Ruth
Published: August 2024

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings.This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur.

The first writing in Italy was not a local invention, but was introduced by the Phoenicians and Greeks in the 9th–8th centuries BCE. It was taken up by number of indigenous communities over the subsequent centuries to write their own languages, before these were eventually submerged by the spread of Latin.

In a series of theoretical, methodological and interpretative essays, Ruth Whitehouse explores what can be learned about how writing was used by these communities and what it meant to them. The bodies of data considered relate to Venetic and Raetic (the northeast), Lepontic (the northwest), Messapic (the southeast) and Etruscan (west central Italy, extending also into Campania in the south and the Po plain in the north). While not a comprehensive survey, there are enough different groups to allow a comparative approach to be adopted. Analysis of the datasets is able to reveal the similarities and differences between them, as well as identify features that were widespread in 1st-millennium-BCE Italy and others that were more idiosyncratic and specific to particular cultural groups. Placing materiality at the centre of study allows a reconsideration of the roles writing played in the lives of the individuals and groups who occupied Italy in the 1st millennium BCE.
Gastrofascism and Empire
Authors: Cinotto Simone
Published: August 2024

Food stood at the centre of Mussolini’s attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa.Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming Ethiopia into Italy’s granary to establish self-sufficiency, demographic expansion and strengthen Italy’s international political position. While these plans failed, the extensive food exchanges and culinary hybridizations between Ethiopian and Italian food cultures thrived, and resulted in the creation of an Ethiopian-Italian cuisine, a taste of Empire at the margins.

In studying food in short-lived Italian East Africa,Gastrofascism and Empirebreaks significant new ground in our understanding of the workings of empire in the circulation of bodies, foodways, and global practices of dependence and colonialism, as well as the decolonizing practices of indigenous food and African anticolonial resistance. In East Africa, Fascist Italy brought older imperial models of global food to a hypermodern level in all its political, technoscientific, environmental, and nutritional aspects. This larger story of food sovereignty—entered in racist, mass settler colonialism—is dramatically different from the plantation and trade colonialisms of other empires and has never been comprehensively told.

Using an original decolonizing food studies approach and an unprecedented variety of unexplored Ethiopian and Italian sources, Cinotto describes the different meanings of different foods for different people at different points of the imperial food chain. Exploring the subjectivities, agencies and emotions of Ethiopian and Italian men and women, it goes beyond simple colonizer/colonized binaries and offers a nuanced picture of lived, multisensorial experiences with food and empire.
Wilde Sau Nightfighters
Authors: Streetly Martin
Published: August 2024

An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations ofWilde Saufighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich.

In July 1943, theNachtjagdverband’s defence of Germany from the RAF’s increasingly effective night bombing campaign was nearly brought to a standstill. ‘Window’ – strips of paper with aluminium foil covering one side – had been introduced, dropped by bombers to jam German radar. Fortunately for the Luftwaffe, theWilde Sauconcept of defending point targets using single-engined fighters was already in existence, and would become the cornerstone of the night defence of Germany during the summer and autumn of 1943.

In this new study, Martin Streetly details the origins, tactics and implementation ofWilde Sau, exploring its successes and failures through the experiences of pilots who flew Bf 109s, Fw 190s and Me 262s into combat against Lancaster and Halifax heavy bombers. First-hand accounts ofWilde Saumissions are brought to life through archival photographs and newly commissioned artworks of some of the most iconic German fighters of World War 2.
Bloomsbury Professional Inheritance Tax 2024/25
Authors: McLaughlin Mark , Erwood Chris , Wünschmann-Lyall Iris
Published: August 2024

Offering a practical overview of income tax in the UK from one of the UK’s leading practitioners, Income Tax 2023/24 covers day-to-day issues frequently encountered by tax advisors, including those dealing with the legislation related to devolved taxes in Scotland and Wales.

This new edition has been updated throughout for 2023/24 income tax rates and allowances introduced by Finance (No.2) Act and the Budget (Scotland) Act 2023. The commentary is clearly structured with ‘signposts’ at the beginning of each chapter to summarise key topics and ‘focus points’ throughout to highlight the important issues, as well as numerous worked examples to demonstrate how to apply the main principles in practice.
Leadership as Service
Authors: Farnsworth Kent A.
Published: August 2024

Farnsworth argues that an imbalance of power exists in higher education that favors internal self-interests over student development and public service, an imbalance that has eroded the rigor and efficacy of the undergraduate curriculum. If higher education is to serve all who must benefit from its programs and services, presidents and senior administrators must restore this balance, and must effectively represent the interests of students and society as a whole. This book offers critical information for faculty and administrators alike,Leadership as Servicereframes an agenda for higher education, challenging presidents to give voice to those who are now underserved, and restore the primacy of teaching and learning within the academy.

This provocative and readable discussion of leadership in higher education argues that leadership is essentially an act of service; that the more responsible the leadership position, the greater the responsibility to serve. Weaving together the Servant Leadership philosophy of Robert Greenleaf with the management principles of Mary Parker Follett, Kent Farnsworth, presents a model for 21st- century educational leadership that calls upon college administrators to see themselves as servants first. He argues that the voices and interests of many of education's key stakeholders--students, employers, and society as a whole--have been marginalized by a consolidation of power in the faculty, requiring a bold new approach to leadership that refocuses service to these important, but underrepresented constituents.

Farnsworth argues that college and universities have yielded too much power to special interests within the academy. The result has been a shift in resources to elaborate facilities and overblown graduate and research agendas, eroding the rigor and integrity of the undergraduate curriculum.Leadership as Serviceoutlines a new, service-driven agenda of higher education and describes the characteristics of those who will successfully lead in the new century.
Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms
Authors: Roberts Robert North , Hammond Scott John , Sulfaro Valerie A.
Published: August 2024

The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and events surrounding all American presidential elections, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaign of 2008.

Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms: The Complete Encyclopediais an easy-to-use reference work designed to encourage students and anyone interested in democratic politics to undertake a greater understanding of this complex aspect of American political life.

The three-volume work covers each presidential campaign in depth, examining a large number of related issues ranging from the use of social media in modern presidential campaigns to negative campaign ads and key slogans used in every presidential campaign. Volume One contains entries offering specific and focused information on issues, trends, factors, slogans, strategies, and other more detailed elements of presidential campaigning from the first stirrings of the American democratic process to the first decade of the 21st century. Volumes Two and Three provide chronological accounts of every presidential campaign since the ratification of the Constitution through the campaign of 2008, with Volume Two covering the campaign of 1788–89 to the campaign of 1908, and Volume Three covering the campaign of 1912 to the campaign of 2008.
Sacred Texts Interpreted
Authors: Olson Carl
Published: August 2024

Covering the major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—as well as selected Eastern religions and Bahá'í, Zoroastrianism, and Mormonism, this cross-cultural book offers excerpts of sacred texts and interprets passages to enable a deeper understanding of these religious writings.

Sacred Texts Interpreted: Religious Documents Explainedgives readers the opportunity to examine—directly—the primary sources of different religions and to better understand these texts through expert commentary on selected passages. The interpretative material investigates the nature of sacred texts along with the relationship between sacred scripture and canon, and it explains why these sacred texts have enduring significance and influence. The author provides suggestions on how to read a sacred text before turning to the textual selections from 13 religious traditions arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Bahá'í religion and ending with Zoroastrianism.

Each chapter is devoted to the primary textual sources of a particular religious tradition and is prefaced by an introduction to the literature that places it within its historical and cultural heritage. The emphasis for each religion is on its foundational scriptures that are often considered sacred by its adherents. Readers will gain a much greater appreciation of how powerful religious texts have always been across human culture and throughout millennia—and of how religious thought and ideology have shaped daily life, built civilizations, inspired art and literature, and incited wars and violence.
Strategies for Building a Web 2.0 Learning Environment
Authors: Tu Chih-Hsiun
Published: August 2024

Imagine replacing your current online Learning Management System (LMS) with social media and Web 2.0 tools! This book provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide for making the most of the online learning environment.

The integration of Web 2.0 tools into an online learning environment requires more than just connecting technology: it involves a paradigm shift from "online learning" to "open network learning."Strategies for Building a Web 2.0 Learning Environmentprovides a comprehensive and effective guide for teachers and trainers interested in integrating the concept of Personal Learning Environment (PLE) and Open (or Social) Network Learning Environment (ONLE) into any learning environment that utilizes online instruction. Rather than focusing on esoteric theory, the book offers a design model, practical guidelines, and sample activities that are based on current, well-grounded frameworks as well as the author's extensive online teaching experiences and personal research. Classroom teachers, school administrators, online learning researchers, corporate trainers, and corporate administrators will find that the innovative ideas set forth in this book are accompanied by practical guidelines for implementation.
Survival Tactics
Authors: Sun Ted
Published: August 2024

By any measure, the movement toward entrepreneurship is increasing each year; data from the Small Business Administration indicates that there are over 5 million small businesses in operation in the United States. And while many resources provide practical information to guide the entrepreneur or small business owner through the challenges of establishing, managing, and growing their business, few tackle the more personal side of entrepreneurship in a rigorous fashion.

According to a recent Gallup poll, seven out of ten high school students report that they want to start and run their own business. Every year, five million Americans launch their own ventures, according to the Small Business Administration. By any measure, the movement toward entrepreneurship is increasing each year. While many resources provide practical information to guide the entrepreneur or small business owner through the challenges of establishing, managing, and growing their business, few tackle the more personal side of entrepreneurship in a rigorous fashion. As Ted Sun argues, countless people are entering entrepreneurship in one form or another. Most have no clue how to be one.
Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East
Authors: Rabil Robert G.
Published: August 2024

Ever since Syria won its independence from France in 1946, it has been a crucial player in Middle Eastern politics. Over the years, relations between the United States and Syria have fluctuated as Washington has tried to balance its commitment to Israel's security with its support for Arab regimes in order to protect vital and strategic interests in the Arab world. The Arab-Israeli conflict is, however. no longer the only focal point of the relationship. Now, terrorism has entered the fray. On the State Department's terrorism list since 1979, Syria became even more persona non grata as far as Washington was concerned when Damascus vocally opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The American war in Iraq, occupation, and promotion of democracy throughout the Middle East pose a strong challenge to the Syrian regime. The new Syrian leadership, in power only since 2000, faces immense challenges—protecting Syria's regional status and surviving internal and external threats. Against this background, Syria and the United States have set themselves on a collision course over terrorism, arms proliferation, Lebanon, the Middle East peace process, and Iraq. Syria is, nevertheless, extremely important to the United States, because it can be a force for either stability or instability in an extremely volatile region.

Recent events have put the spotlight on Syria's policies and actions. After the assassination of a Lebanese politician, protests in Lebanon led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops. While the withdrawal averted an immediate threat of bloodshed, the Bush administration accused Syria of being a source of instability in the Middle East, with Secretary of State Rice charging that Syria was still active in Lebanon and was supporting foreign terrorists fueling the insurgency in Iraq. The U.S.-Syrian relationship is of critical importance to the United States' efforts to promote democracy throughout the Middle East. At the same time, the United States has been pressuring Syria to clamp down on terrorism within its own borders. Rabil provides a history of the modern U.S.-Syrian relationship, putting the latest events in the context of this contemporary history, and placing the relationship in the context of Middle Eastern politics.
Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)
Authors: Mann Barbara Alice , Johansen Bruce E.
Published: August 2024

A comprehensive reference work on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), containing over 200 entries covering Haudenosaunee history, present-day issues, and contributions to general North American culture. Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) is the name the Iroquois use for their confederacy (Iroquois is the name given them by the French). This encyclopedia surveys the histories of the six constituent nations of the confederacy (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora, adopted about 1725). Several entries also trace ways in which the practices of the Iroquois have filtered into general North American society.