bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Strategi Komunikasi Persuasif Pada Anggota Komunitas Senam Zumba Dalam Meningkatkan Jumlah Member Senam
Authors: Hibah Hassan Abdul Wahid H Ashgar
Published: January 2025

The purpose of this study is to determine the communication strategy in increasing members of “Zumba Baraya Geulis Cianjur” to be the best zumba and to find out the type of persuasive communication used by members in recruiting other members. In addition, the zumba gymnastics community. This research uses qualitative methods with a case study approach, data collection through observation, interviews, and documentation. In the data analysis technique used is qualitative descriptive analysis and the validity test is the use of source triangulation. Based on the results of the study, Baraya Geulis Cianjur zumba gymnastics community has included being one of the best zumba gymnastics communities in Cianjur and the persuasive communication strategy used by instructors and members of the Baraya Geulis Cianjur zumba gymnastics community in recruiting members and non-members starts from embracing it first, introducing zumba gymnastics, and after that giving rewards to members and non-members to continue to want to follow zumba gymnastics. It was also found that in order to apply SWOT analysis in increasing the number of members
Inovasi Sistem Penjamin Mutu Internal: Strategi Peningkatan Kualitas Pendidikan SMP SATAP 8 Bulukumba
Authors: Maulidyah Fitriah  , Mardhiah  , Bustan Ramli
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis implementasi Sistem Penjaminan Mutu Internal (SPMI) di SMP SATAP Negeri 8 Bulukumba sebagai strategi peningkatan kualitas pendidikan. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode wawancara, yang melibatkan kepala sekolah, guru, staf administrasi, dan siswa sebagai narasumber utama. Data yang diperoleh mencakup pemetaan mutu, pelaksanaan, serta monitoring dan evaluasi terhadap standar nasional pendidikan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa meskipun SMP SATAP Negeri 8 Bulukumba telah melakukan pemetaan dan evaluasi mutu pendidikan secara berkala, terdapat beberapa tantangan utama yang menghambat optimalisasi implementasi SPMI. Tantangan tersebut meliputi keterbatasan infrastruktur, sumber daya manusia, dan akses teknologi. Strategi yang diusulkan mencakup penguatan kompetensi guru melalui pelatihan intensif, peningkatan infrastruktur dengan pengadaan perangkat teknologi dan Wi-Fi, serta kolaborasi dengan stakeholder untuk mendukung pencapaian mutu pendidikan. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa implementasi SPMI di SMP SATAP Negeri 8 Bulukumba memerlukan perbaikan dan dukungan strategis untuk memastikan pencapaian standar nasional pendidikan secara menyeluruh
Implementasi Sistem Penjaminan Mutu Pendidikan di Madrasah: Tantangan dan Solusi
Authors: Bahri Saiful
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi tantangan yang dihadapi dalam implementasi sistem penjaminan mutu pendidikan di madrasah serta mengidentifikasi solusi yang dapat diterapkan untuk mengatasinya. Latar belakang masalah ini didasarkan pada kenyataan bahwa madrasah memiliki peran penting dalam sistem pendidikan di Indonesia, namun sering menghadapi berbagai hambatan dalam menjaga dan meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kepustakaan, dengan mengumpulkan dan menganalisis literatur yang relevan dari berbagai sumber seperti jurnal, buku, laporan penelitian, dan dokumen kebijakan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa madrasah di Indonesia menghadapi tantangan utama dalam bentuk keterbatasan sumber daya, kompetensi tenaga pendidik yang kurang memadai, manajemen dan kepemimpinan yang lemah, kurikulum yang tidak relevan, serta sistem monitoring dan evaluasi yang lemah. Peran pemerintah dan lembaga terkait sangat penting dalam mendukung peningkatan mutu pendidikan di madrasah melalui kebijakan, pendanaan, dan pelatihan. Selain itu, kolaborasi dengan komunitas juga terbukti efektif dalam menciptakan lingkungan pendidikan yang kondusif. Sistem penjaminan mutu yang efektif diperlukan untuk mengidentifikasi kekuatan dan kelemahan madrasah, mengembangkan kurikulum yang adaptif, dan meningkatkan akuntabilitas kepada pemangku kepentingan
Model Pengembangan Kurikulum Berbasis Nilai-nilai Islam di Sekolah Islam
Authors: Baidawi Imam
Published: January 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji model pengembangan kurikulum berbasis nilai-nilai Islam yang dapat diterapkan di sekolah Islam dan menganalisis dampak penerapannya terhadap hasil belajar siswa, baik dari segi akademik maupun pembentukan karakter. Masalah penelitian ini meliputi identifikasi model-model pengembangan kurikulum yang efektif dan tantangan dalam implementasinya. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah studi kepustakaan, dengan mengumpulkan dan menganalisis berbagai literatur yang relevan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat tiga model utama dalam pengembangan kurikulum berbasis nilai-nilai Islam: model integrasi, model tematik, dan model spiral. Ketiga model ini terbukti efektif dalam mengintegrasikan nilai-nilai Islam dalam proses pembelajaran, meningkatkan prestasi akademik, membentuk karakter siswa, dan meningkatkan motivasi belajar. Namun, implementasi kurikulum ini menghadapi berbagai tantangan, termasuk keterbatasan sumber daya dan kebutuhan akan guru yang kompeten. Beberapa strategi telah diidentifikasi untuk mengatasi tantangan ini, termasuk pengembangan bahan ajar yang sesuai dan pelatihan guru
Implementasi Metode Problem Based Learning untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis Siswa
Authors: Abdul Wafa
Published: January 2025

Penerapan Problem Based Learning (PBL) telah diakui sebagai salah satu metode pembelajaran yang efektif dalam meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa, terutama di tingkat pendidikan menengah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas PBL dalam mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa melalui eksplorasi masalah nyata. Menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus, penelitian ini melibatkan siswa dan guru dalam pengumpulan data melalui observasi partisipatif, wawancara mendalam, dan analisis dokumen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penerapan PBL secara signifikan meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam mengidentifikasi masalah, menganalisis informasi, dan menyusun solusi logis. Selain itu, keterlibatan aktif siswa dalam diskusi kelompok meningkat hingga lebih dari 85%, menunjukkan bahwa PBL menciptakan lingkungan belajar yang kolaboratif dan relevan dengan kehidupan nyata mereka. Dari perspektif guru, PBL memberikan fleksibilitas untuk mengeksplorasi pendekatan inovatif, meskipun memerlukan pelatihan lebih lanjut dalam merancang skenario pembelajaran yang efektif. Penelitian ini menegaskan bahwa PBL adalah metode pembelajaran yang relevan untuk meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan abad ke-21 dengan memberikan pengalaman belajar yang bermakna bagi siswa dan mendukung pengembangan profesional guru.
Przetwarzanie danych osobowych przez dostawców usług online. Glosa do wyroku Trybunału Sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej z dnia 19 października 2016 r., sygn. C-582/14
Authors: Piątek Tadeusz
Published: January 2025

Wniosek o wydanie orzeczenia w trybie prejudycjalnym został złożony przez niemiecki Federalny Trybunał Sprawiedliwości (dalej: Bundesgerichtshof) i dotyczy wykładni art. 2 lit. a i art. 7 lit. f dyrektywy 95/46/WE Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady z dnia 24 października 1995 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w zakresie przetwarzania danych osobowych i swobodnego przepływu tych danych (Dz.U. 1995, L 281, s. 31) (dalej: dyrektywa). Problem powstał na tle sporu pomiędzy Patrickiem Breyerem a Republiką Federalną Niemiec w przedmiocie rejestrowania i przechowywania przez państwo adresu protokołu internetowego (dalej: adres IP) Patricka Breyera (dalej: użytkownik) podczas przeglądania przez niego wielu stron internetowych niemieckich służb federalnych.
100 dni obowiązywania ustawy o przewadze kontraktowej
Authors:   Radca prawny, Adamczewski Piotr ,   dyrektor Delegatury Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów w Bydgoszczy
Published: January 2025

W artykule omówiono pierwsze sto dni obowiązywania ustawy z dnia 15 grudnia 2016 r. o przeciwdziałaniu nieuczciwemu wykorzystywaniu przewagi kontraktowej w obrocie produktami rolnymi i spożywczymi. Autor przedstawił prowadzone przez Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów postępowania związane z wykorzystywaniem przewagi kontraktowej, a także zastosowanie innych instrumentów znajdujących się w kompetencji organu. Następnie rozwinął zagadnienie współdziałania Prezesa UOKiK z innymi podmiotami w zakresie zarówno spraw rozpoznawanych przez organ, jak i możliwego procesu legislacyjnego. Kolejną kwestią analizowaną przez autora było propagowanie przepisów ustawy o przewadze kontraktowej i aktualne problemy związane z jej stosowaniem. Autor wskazał, że aktualnie priorytetowe jest właściwe określenie pojęcia interesu publicznego na potrzeby przedmiotowej ustawy oraz otwarte podejście do definicji praktyk naruszających tę ustawę z należytym uwzględnieniem analiz ekonomicznych. W wyniku tej analizy autor doszedł do wniosku, że pomimo bardzo krótkiego okresu obowiązywania ustawy o przewadze kontraktowej doszło do szeregu działań związanych z realizacją jej przepisów, ale wciąż większość pojawiających się w niej pojęć wymaga rozwinięcia poprzez działalność orzeczniczą organu i sądów, a także twórczą doktryny prawa.
Emotions Matter in Learning: The Development of a Training Package for Teachers in Higher Education
Authors: Irving-Walton Joanne , Newton Douglas P. , Newton Lynn D.
Published: January 2025

Emotions and the intellect interact and affect the quality of learning significantly, for better or for worse. This is often ignored or seen as irrelevant for teaching practices. A training package for teachers of older students was constructed to support kinds of practice which took emotions into account in planning and the classroom. In the spirit of design research intended to solve a practical problem, the package went through several iterations, each being informed by user evaluations of the preceding iteration. The outcome was a tool to support professional development. Notably and as useful, the process provided insights about diverse students’ and teachers’ attributes, variation in contexts, package adaptation to accommodate these, and areas of further research.
Non-Teaching Stakeholders’ Experiences with Inclusive Education in a Private School in Jamaica
Authors: Anderson Leachman Kishi
Published: January 2025

The literature is sparse on understanding the experiences of stakeholders with inclusive education in the Caribbean. Using a qualitative single case study, this study explores the lived experiences with inclusive education of non-teaching stakeholders (principal, dean of discipline, guidance counsellor, parents, and educational assistants) in a private school in Jamaica. Data was collected using individual interviews, focus group discussions and secondary data. Thematic analysis was used to interpret and present findings. Key findings revealed supportive school leadership, inconsistent teacher competence and pedagogy, controversies with educational assistants, and parental denial as barriers that undermine inclusivity. Leadership support that goes beyond the principal to include the school board of directors was highlighted as an important consideration. The study provides other implications and recommendations for the inclusive classroom in the Jamaican educational milieu. Although the findings are specific to this case, they can be transferred and applied to inclusive education in other contexts regionally and globally to inform inclusive practices and considerations.
Dreaming Possibilities: Reshaping Imaginaries with Feminism and Social Change
Authors: Liberti Federica
Published: January 2025

By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical conversations to rethink spaces and practices that allow community care, and conditions that include authenticity, resonance, reflection, and freedom. Engaging in the arts, aesthetics, and creative practices can contribute to a sense of hope, agency, and possibility with the potential to provide avenues for creative expression and innovation. Sharing narratives of possibility and engagement with the arts can promote community connections. This article highlights the way artistic practices contributed to the creation of a dynamic and inclusive creative landscape that challenges established norms while encouraging creative and critical thinking.
Examining the Relationship Between Climate Change, Energy Consumption, and the Financial System: The Case of E7 Countries
Authors: Duran Naime İrem , Demirkale Özge
Published: January 2025

This study aims to investigate the correlation among climate change, energy consumption, and the financial system, using the E7 countries as a case study. The E7 comprises emerging economies including Brazil, China, India, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Mexico, which are the primary focus of this research. The research delves into the factors impacting CO2 emissions over the long term, spanning from 1992 to 2020. Results reveal a positive correlation between economic growth and fossil fuel usage with CO2 emissions, while a negative correlation is identified between CO2 emissions and variables such as renewable energy consumption, temperature changes, and capital investments. The study underscores the significance of sustainability and environmental policies for the E7 nations. Recommendations include increasing investments in renewable energy sources, encouraging the adoption of carbon-neutral transportation technologies, and supporting initiatives for forest conservation and afforestation. In conclusion, this study provides valuable insights into the relationship between climate change, energy consumption, and the financial system within E7 countries, offering policy recommendations for achieving sustainability.
Climate Conversations: An Intergenerational Artistic Exploration with Family
Authors: Craven Julia A.
Published: January 2025

This cross-generational study explores perceptions of climate change through interviews and visual art from three generations: the author, their grandparents, and their aunt. Guided by questions such as “Whose responsibility is it to address climate change?” and “How has climate change affected you?,” the interviews were used to create three art pieces that explore different aspects of climate change. The first art piece, titled “Eco-Anxiety,” visually represents the author's anxiety about climate change through the detangling of hair in their hands that "pull" at relevant climate news articles in the background. The second piece, “Beauty’s in the Eye of the Beholder,” features the author's grandmother holding a flower, reflecting the older generation’s desire to hold onto an idealized view of nature. “Flowers in July,” the final piece, features the author's aunt handing a flower to their cousin, symbolizing the passing on of environmental problems to a new generation. Color (or lack thereof) in each piece represents hope and optimism for the future. This project highlights the personal nature of climate change and the intergenerational impact of environmental problems.
Assessing the balance between excitation and inhibition in chronic pain through the aperiodic component of EEG
Authors: Gil Avila Cristina , May Elisabeth S , Bott Felix S , Tiemann Laura , Hohn Vanessa , Heitmann Henrik , Zebhauser Paul Theo , Gross Joachim , Ploner Markus
Published: January 2025

Chronic pain is a prevalent and debilitating condition whose neural mechanisms are incompletely understood. An imbalance of cerebral excitation and inhibition (E/I), particularly in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), is believed to represent a crucial mechanism in the development and maintenance of chronic pain. Thus, identifying a non-invasive, scalable marker of E/I could provide valuable insights into the neural mechanisms of chronic pain and aid in developing clinically useful biomarkers. Recently, the aperiodic component of the electroencephalography (EEG) power spectrum has been proposed to represent a non-invasive proxy for E/I. We, therefore, assessed the aperiodic component in the mPFC of resting-state EEG recordings in 149 people with chronic pain and 115 healthy participants. We found robust evidence against differences in the aperiodic component in the mPFC between people with chronic pain and healthy participants, and no correlation between the aperiodic component and pain intensity. These findings were consistent across different subtypes of chronic pain and were similarly found in a whole-brain analysis. Their robustness was supported by preregistration and multiverse analyses across many different methodological choices. Together, our results suggest that the EEG aperiodic component does not differentiate between people with chronic pain and healthy individuals. These findings and the rigorous methodological approach can guide future studies investigating non-invasive, scalable markers of cerebral dysfunction in people with chronic pain and beyond.
Sir2 and Fun30 regulate ribosomal DNA replication timing via MCM helicase positioning and nucleosome occupancy
Authors: Lichauco Carmina , Foss Eric J , Gatbonton-Schwager Tonibelle , Athow Nelson F , Lofts Brandon , Acob Robin , Taylor Erin , Marquez James J , Lao Uyen , Miles Shawna , Bedalov Antonio
Published: January 2025

The association between late replication timing and low transcription rates in eukaryotic heterochromatin is well known, yet the specific mechanisms underlying this link remain uncertain. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the histone deacetylase Sir2 is required for both transcriptional silencing and late replication at the repetitive ribosomal DNA (rDNA) arrays. We have previously reported that in the absence of SIR2, a de-repressed RNA PolII repositions MCM replicative helicases from their loading site at the ribosomal origin, where they abut well-positioned, high-occupancy nucleosomes, to an adjacent region with lower nucleosome occupancy. By developing a method that can distinguish activation of closely spaced MCM complexes, here we show that the displaced MCMs at rDNA origins have increased firing propensity compared to the nondisplaced MCMs. Furthermore, we found that both activation of the repositioned MCMs and low occupancy of the adjacent nucleosomes critically depend on the chromatin remodeling activity of FUN30. Our study elucidates the mechanism by which Sir2 delays replication timing, and it demonstrates, for the first time, that activation of a specific replication origin in vivo relies on the nucleosome context shaped by a single chromatin remodeler.
Fuzzy multi-objective optimization model to design a sustainable closed-loop manufacturing system
Authors: Kousar Sajida , Alvi Asma , Kausar Nasreen , Garg Harish , Kadry Seifedine , Kim Jungeun
Published: January 2025

Republicans and Democrats practically everywhere have been demonstrating concerns about environmental conservation to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) since the turn of the century. To promote fuel (energy) savings and a reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in several enterprises, actions have been taken based on the concepts described. This study proposes an environmentally friendly manufacturing system designed to minimize environmental impacts. Specifically, it aims to develop a sustainable manufacturing process that accounts for energy consumption and CO2 emissions from direct and indirect energy sources. A multi-objective mathematical model has been formulated, incorporating financial and environmental constraints, to minimize overall costs, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions within the manufacturing framework. The input model parameters for real-world situations are generally unpredictable, so a fuzzy multi-objective model will be developed as a way to handle it. The validity of the proposed ecological industrial design will be tested using a scenario-based approach. Results demonstrate the high reliability, applicability, and effectiveness of the proposed network when analyzed using the developed techniques.
Clément Janequin
Authors: Norsen Rolf
Published: January 2025

Clément Janequin's spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteenth-century Europe, and earned him lasting success with vocal ensembles and audiences around the world.Clément Janequin was the musical poster boy for the Valois kings of France, a bestseller for the fledgling sixteenth-century music-printing industry and, notwithstanding his status as an ordained priest, a major supplier of hymn-style harmonizations of Huguenot melodies. Ever since the sixteenth century, vocal ensembles have embraced his barking dogs, chirping birds, and thundering horse hoofs, and then moved beyond the bird and battle songs to a repertory rich in lyric beauty and Rabelaisian wit.

This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin's revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation (including the first known hymn-style harmonization of what became known as Old One Hundredth). It traces his early life in Bordeaux, Luçon, Auch, and Angers during the period when Pierre Attaingnant made Janequin a central name in early French music publishing, and subsequently the composer's transition to Paris, where, as the first composer to make the attempt, he put his revenues from music printing (from the firms of Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard) at the core of his economic-survival strategy. Recounted with both scholarly detail and Janequinian humor, the volume includes an extensive selection of musical examples.
State, Law and Gender
Authors: Roy Shreya
Published: January 2025

A critical analysis of marriage law in India from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century

In State, Law and Gender, Shreya Roy highlights how Indian law has been implicated in women's subordination. It explores the ideological expectations that underpin women's legal regulation, as well as the traditions in which law subjugates women - the multifaceted and elusive ways wherein law validates profoundly gender-based suppositions, relationships, and characters. The book demonstrates that the correlation of moral precepts and legal norms is associated with the broader history of the age of marriage of girls in India, and it has also shown how history includes diverse alternatives to understanding and addressing the problem of child marriages that do not rely on liberal legal frameworks.

The book critically analyzes and evaluates the social and legislative history of the period focusing particularly on three significant pieces of legislation - Act III of 1872, the Age of Consent Act of 1891, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. It traces the history of the legal changes related to the age of marriage in India after Independence, and links this issue with the present-day concern and the Government's initiative for raising the age of marriage of girls.
Scottish Castles
Authors: Pettifer Adrian
Published: January 2025

Gazetteer of over 500 hundred surviving Scottish Castles.

Discover the castles of Scotland, from early "motte and bailey" earthworks and impressive walled enclosures to the many tower houses that dot the landscape. Castles were built in increasing numbers from the 14th to the 17th century, as residences for the Scottish nobility. Some are still proudly occupied; others are well-maintained ruins; many others slowly decay in fields and farmyards.

Here, Adrian Pettifer provides a brief account of every Scottish castle to survive in a reasonable state of preservation, including such iconic sites as Edinburgh, Glamis and Cawdor. Each of the more than five hundred main entries provides a brief history and description of a castle, followed by advice on accessibility, sources for further reading and cross-references to related sites. An introduction supplies the historical background, while a glossary covers all aspects of Scottish castles in some detail. Ordnance Survey references are given in the index.
Plantation Slavery, Jamaica and Absentee Ownership
Authors: Maguire Richard C.
Published: January 2025

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate.

While the Atlantic plantation economy covered vast areas of the globe and saw the largest forced movement of people in human history, any global history is the sum of myriad local stories. This book recounts one of them. It is the story of a Norfolk family, the Burtons, who owned the Chiswick sugar estate on the island of Jamaica. The family inherited the estate in 1788 and for fifty-eight years ran it from Norfolk and Suffolk as 'absentee' landlords.
Drawing on new archival research in Britain, the United States and Jamaica, this book makes an important intervention to our understanding of key debates in the economic history of plantation slavery: the decline of the planter class, the importance of British abolitionism, the way in which plantations were operated, the mechanics of absentee ownership, and, importantly, the lives of the enslaved people whose exploitation sustained the entire system. Although the story of Chiswick's enslaved workers before the late 1820s is difficult to reconstruct, its traces can be gleaned from the accounting records and letters of the estate's owners. Their story illuminates the economic data and managerial letters and reveals that Chiswick's workers were crucial in shaping the history of the estate. From the 1830s the workers' activity became central, as they responded to emancipation by gradually asserting their rights. In the end, it was the action of the formerly enslaved workers that made the Burtons' continuing ownership of the Chiswick estate economically unviable. While the wider context of abolition made this possible, it was the response of these workers, including strike actions, which decided the fate of the absentee-owned Chiswick sugar estate.

RICHARD C. MAGUIRE is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of History, UEA. He is the author of Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833 (Boydell Press, 2021).
Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor
Authors: Near John R
Published: January 2025

The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.

Widor's Toccata is the most famous organ piece composed in the past three hundred years—since Bach's ubiquitous Toccata in D Minor. Linked inseparably with the organ through his ten seminal organ symphonies and legendary sixty-four years as organist at Saint-Sulpice, Widor drew crowds of doting admirers from all walks of life around himself and Cavaillé-Coll's great organ of one hundred stops. It is apparent throughout these "Autobiographical Recollections" that Widor was well-connected, moving with ease among the intelligentsia, presidents, politicians, royalty, nobility, patrons, and artists. A keen observer and a man of sophistication and extraordinary erudition, Widor was an all-embracing musician and notable historical figure who led an active life beyond his famous organ gallery. As permanent secretary of the Academy of Fine-Arts, he was the cultural ambassador of France for more than twenty years. Few musicians of any era have had a broader experience, wider sphere of influence, and greater number of significant and varied accomplishments.

Preceded by a comprehensive Preface, these "Autobiographical Recollections," narrated in the last months of Widor's life, are translated into English for the first time, meticulously edited, and profusely annotated. The persons, political details, and historical events that Widor spoke of with great fluency are identified in notes that give the reader a full understanding of the narrative. Several appendixes and a trove of hitherto unpublished photos illuminate the text.
Intimate Relations
Authors: Weder Christine
Published: January 2025

A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968

In the late 1960s and early '70s, sexuality and the arts entered into a remarkably intimate and mutually beneficial relationship: on one hand, scientific theories of sexuality and their pop-psychological counterparts incorporated elaborate reflections on art movements and literary texts, since artistic media were understood as crucial to the project of inventing radically new modes of human living and loving. On the other hand, the aesthetic ambitions that informed new conceptions of sexuality had their mirror image in the varying forms of sexual obsession that characterized contemporary aesthetic theories. Approaches as diverse as those of Theodor W. Adorno, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Leslie A. Fiedler, Peter Gorsen, and Herbert and Ludwig Marcuse all contributed to a dramatic eroticization of the arts.

Christine Weder's interdisciplinary study explores this largely neglected relationship, providing a dual insight into an era of profound transformation: she demonstrates how and why the engagement with art and literature was essential to the programmatic theories of the new Eros. At the same time, she offers a fresh historical perspective on aesthetics around 1968. Whereas aesthetic developments in the late sixties have conventionally been conceived in terms of politicization, Weder demonstrates that the sexualization of the arts was no less profound, and in doing so contributes to a fundamental reframing of this tumultuous period.
The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918
Authors: Partridge,Préneuf,Lambert Colin,Jean de,Andrew
Published: January 2025

Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel.

The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and Anglo-French diplomacy, but this has not always been highlighted sufficiently even though Britain and France were at war for most of the period 1689-1815. This book considers a wide range of maritime subjects where the role of the Channel Islands has been significant, such as intelligence gathering, piracy and privateering, and naval strategy and control of the Channel. It also examines topics in relation to the Channel Islands specifically, such as surveying and hydrography, fortifications, trade and Channel Islands societies. It charts changes over time, including the impact of technological changes, from the wars of Louis XIV and William III, through the many Anglo-French wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and includes planning for wars which were anticipated but avoided. Throughout the issues are discussed from the perspectives of Britain, France and the Channel Islands themselves, equal weight being given to all three perspectives. Andrew Lambert is Professor of War Studies at King's College, London and one of Britain's foremost maritime and naval historians. Colin Partridge is a former consultant to the States of Guernsey's 'Fortress Guernsey' programme for the restoration and interpretation of Guernsey's fortifications. Jean de Préneuf is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lille and Head of the Research, Teaching and Studies Unit at the Historical Branch of the French Ministry of Defence at Vincennes.
Music, Medicine and Religion at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Rome
Authors: Barker Naomi J.
Published: January 2025

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious movements.

This book explores connections between the physical care of the sick based on the study of medicine, concepts of healing founded on religious thought, and the practice of music at the Ospedale di Santo Spirito (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Rome. The hospital was a unique institution that was regulated by the Roman Catholic Church but simultaneously reflected the significant shifts in scientific thought emerging during the period that coincided with post-Tridentine reforms in the church.

The volume discusses the hospital's foundation, architecture and links with the papacy. It also reflects on the then acceptable "ways of knowing" informed by religious concerns and medical traditions. The tripartite relationship between religion, medicine and music within the institution was complex. At times they existed side-by-side, at others they intersected. Drawing on extensive archival research such as financial records, decrees, records of apostolic visits and inventories as well as surviving musical sources (printed and manuscript), the book makes connections between intellectual beliefs about music and actual musical practices. It explores the early use of music as therapy and investigates the musical ideals and practices of the monastic regime which ran the hospital. In a wider sense, the book shows how music operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, and how it underwent change over time in response to broader cultural and religious movements.
The Spanish Hermes and Wisdom Traditions in Medieval Iberia
Authors: Alegre Juan Udaondo
Published: January 2025

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of medieval Mediterranean cultural exchange

Hermes Trismegistus, a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek Hermes (god of interpretative wisdom) and the Egyptian Thoth (god of wisdom) was considered by many in the medieval world as the father of culture. Between c. 300 BCE - c. 1200 CE various treatises were attributed to the legendary sage, becoming known as the Hermetica - a combination of diverse philosophical and spiritual systems, addressing subjects such as alchemy, magic, and astrology.

The Hermetica circulated widely, with premodern translations in Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Arabic, and other Eastern languages. Whilst these iterations have been thoroughly researched, little attention has been paid to the Castilian Hermes, the first rendition of the wisdom traditions of Hermes Trismegistus in a Romance language. This book follows the ways in which Hermetic knowledge was brought to the Iberian Peninsula, showing how Hermes became the philosophical and spiritual inspiration for Christian, Arabic, and Jewish scholars there.

Udaondo Alegre unveils the pivotal role of King Alfonso X ("the Learned") of Castile (1252-84) in creating this Spanish Hermes. Through the meticulous tracing of source texts and literary influences, the author explores the myriad ways in which Hermes crossed religious and linguistic boundaries to embody a composite intellectual identity, emblematic of medieval Spain's multicultural ethos. Alfonso's court is revealed as the site for a unique convergence of translation and interpretation that shaped a distinctly "Hispanic" Hermes.
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho
Authors: Conz Christopher
Published: January 2025

Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South.Both place-based environmental history and global intellectual history, this book explores the politics of environment, agriculture, poverty, development, and science in Lesotho. Drawing on diverse experiences with this landlocked, mountainous nation, and based on bilingual archival and oral history research in Sesotho and English, the book examines how Basotho intellectuals, farmers, migrant workers, chiefs, experts, and politicians formed vernacular ideas of tsoelopele (progress) amid the structural violence of colonialism and capitalism in southern Africa. Rather than a unidirectional flow of 'enlightened' knowledge from Europe to Africa, the study shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge, from ancestral agricultural practices to colonial soil science and from African American missionaries to African nationalists in Ghana. Basotho ideas about tsoelopele, it is argued, informed the many political, social, and environmental innovations that enabled survival within a sea of white supremacy and that underpin approaches to development in independent Lesotho. Throughout, the book shows how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South.
The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts
Authors: Grønlie Siân E.
Published: January 2025

Demonstrates the essential nature of biblical translation and adaptation to Old-Norse-Icelandic literature.
The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison between these two literatures is rarely made, and biblical translations in Old Norse-Icelandic have been neglected as a focus of literary study. This book aims to redress this neglect. It shows how the likeness between biblical narrative and saga narrative has shaped the reception of the Old Testament in medieval Iceland, even through multiple layers of translation and exegesis.

It draws on a wide variety of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, world histories, encyclopaedic works, and the biblical translations collectively known as Stjórn, to explore how medieval Icelanders engaged with Old Testament narrative in the light of their own vernacular tradition of storytelling. And above all, it argues that the medieval Icelanders understood and recognised in these well-known biblical stories a narrative art that was strikingly akin to their own.
Meinrad Schütter
Authors: Stoecklin Ute
Published: January 2025

Meinrad Schütter is one of the most intriguing of recent Swiss composers. His music offers a highly personal synthesis of 20th-century European modernisms, from Hindemith to Bartók, Stravinsky, Berg and beyond.

Meinrad Schütter (1910-2006) is one of the most intriguing of recent Swiss composers. He was born in Chur in the Swiss Alps, studied at the Zurich Conservatoire, attended Paul Hindemith's classes at Zurich University, and enjoyed early support from the conductor Hermann Scherchen. Schütter's wayward attitude towards authority resulted in his debarment from the Swiss Musicians' Association and its manifold opportunities for advancement, but avid study and a thirst to acquaint himself with the latest trends led to his developing an idiosyncratic style, initially Neo-Classical but later featuring elements of serialism and even aleatory.

After retirement, Schütter enjoyed a remarkable Indian summer, bringing forth several dozen songs, chamber and orchestral works. Many have now been recorded, garnering enthusiastic reviews. This book is the first in English to examine his life and music.
The British Country House Revival
Authors: Cowell Ben
Published: January 2025

British country houses have experienced a renaissance since the early 1970s. A new accord is needed today, recognising the increasingly contested contribution of country houses to British cultural life.

Fifty years ago, the future for country houses in Britain looked bleak. The Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition The Destruction of the Country House, which opened in October 1974, charted the loss of over a thousand country houses in the preceding century. The makers of the exhibition warned that history could be "about to repeat itself" because of the threats besetting mansion properties, principally from higher taxation. Houses faced the prospect of having to be stripped of their collections and sold for use as offices, hotels, or hospitals, with their parks and gardens turned into golf clubs. Government might afford to save just a handful of the most significant of these places, working in tandem with charities such as the National Trust. The rest would be consigned to history.

This book traces the history of country houses in Britain, from the Destruction exhibition to the present day. The wave of country house losses anticipated in 1974 never actually happened. Instead, over the next five decades Britain's country houses experienced a renaissance. Fiscal rules changed in the mid-1970s to make it easier for owners to hold on to their assets. Economic improvements in the 1980s and 1990s allowed many houses and estates to develop profitable commercial businesses. All of this was achieved only after dedicated campaigning from heritage organisations in support of the country house cause. The book argues that a new accord is needed today, to recognise and value the ongoing, if increasingly contested, contribution of country houses to British life and culture in the twenty-first century.
Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera
Authors: Huebner Steven
Published: January 2025

A long-needed and up-to-date overview of the syntax and principles that make Verdi's operas so effective and so beloved today.Verdi's art emerged from a rich array of dramatic and musical practices operative in the Italy of his day. Drawing the reader into his creative world, this study (translated from the French original by the author himself) begins where Verdi began when it came time to set notes to paper: the libretto. Designed for the non-Italophone reader, Steven Huebner's Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera explains key principles of Italian poetry that shaped his music. From there, Huebner outlines the various musical textures available to the composer, including an exploration of the characteristics of recitative and aria. Working outward, subsequent chapters explore the syntax of Verdi's melodic writing and the larger-level forms that he used. A concluding chapter considers ways of conceiving musical unity in his operas.
Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi
Authors: Schmidt Mario
Published: January 2025

Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure.

Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes.

Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity.

This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.
Music, Morality and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Authors: Watt Paul
Published: January 2025

A pioneering work which delves into and reveals the links between music, moral instruction and social reform.This book discusses the role of music in programmes of personal improvement and social reform in nineteenth-century Britain. The pursuit of morality through music was designed not just to improve personal and communal character but to affect social change and transformation. The book examines the musical education of children, women and men through a variety of literature published for various educational settings including mechanics' institutes. It also considers the role of music in narratives of social programs and community-building projects that sought to promote utility, well-being and freedom from the strictures of Christianity as the dominant moral and cultural force.

The first book to connect the threads between music, moral instruction and social reform across the educational life cycle in nineteenth-century Britain, it shows how these threads are found in unlikely places, such as games, manners books, economics treatises and short stories. It deftly illustrates the links between everyday life, popular culture and discourses of morality and social reform of the period.
Picturing Divinity in John Donne's Writings
Authors: Stirling Kirsten
Published: January 2025

A new approach to the visual arts in the work of John DonneThe five known portraits of John Donne and the many artworks bequeathed in his will bear witness to his interest in painting. His interest in art is also evident in his writings, with poems and sermons including many references to pictures and engravings, painters and sculptors. However, Donne never used his familiarity with painterly techniques to produce a simple ekphrasis or description in his writings. This book offers a new approach to Donne's rich and nuanced presentation of the visual arts in his writing, arguing that even his explicit allusions to pictures are less concrete than they may first appear.

Although Donne was familiar with contemporary treatises on art, many of his most compelling references to paintings and painterly techniques come from his reading of theology, including works by Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther.These previously unidentified sources for Donne's painterly imagery help us to understand how the plastic arts become his tool to reveal the limits of representation, and thus to point beyond the material realm towards the unrepresentable and unknowable divine.

This study provides new insights on some of his best-known poems, both secular and religious, and extends our appreciation of John Donne as an artist constantly exploring the limits of his own practice as a poet - and preacher - as he confronts the relationship between the human and the divine.

On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC.