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Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads
Authors: Kawashima Yutaka
Published: February 2025

The postWorld War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future of Japan's foreign policy. In J apanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Yutaka Kawashima clarifies some of the defining parameters of Japan's past foreign policy and examines the challenges it currently faces, including the quagmire on the Korean Peninsula, the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the management of Japan-China relations, and Japan's relation with Southeast Asia. Kawashimawho, as vice minister of foreign affairs, was Japan's highest-ranking foreign service officialcautions Japan against attempts to ensure its own security and well-being outside of an international framework. He believes it is crucial that Japan work with as many like-minded countries as possible to construct a regional and international order based on shared interests and shared values. In an era of globalization, he cautions, such efforts will be crucial to maintaining global world order and ensuring civilized interaction among all states.
Shades of Loneliness
Authors: Stivers Richard
Published: February 2025

To varying degrees, loneliness has us all in its grip. In this incisive and controversial book, Richard Stivers rejects the recent emphasis on genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness. The extreme rationality that governs our institutions and organizations results in abstract and impersonal relationships in much of daily life. Moreover, as common meaning is gradually eroded, our connections to others become vague and tenuous. Our ensuing fear and loneliness, however, can be masked by an outgoing, extroverted personality. In its extreme form, loneliness assumes pathological dimensions in neurosis and schizophrenia. Stivers maintains that even here the causes remain social. The various forms of neuroses and psychoses follow the key contradictions of a technological society. For instance, narcissism and depression reflect the tension between power and meaninglessness that characterizes modern societies. Stivers demonstrates that there is a continuum from the normal 'technological personality' through the various neuroses to full-blown schizophrenia. He argues that all forms of loneliness emanate from the same cause; they likewise share a common dynamic despite their differences. Loneliness, in its many manifestations, seems to be the price we must pay for living in the modern world. Yet nurturing family, friend, and community ties can mitigate its culturally and psychologically disorganizing power. This book is a clarion call for a renewal of moral awareness and custom to combat the fragmentation and depersonalization of our technological civilization.
Teaching 201
Authors: Wilson Linda Henshall
Published: February 2025

As teachers, we see fellow colleagues who are so well organized that they spend little time on the trivialities of teaching. These are the teachers who always seem to have a 'Plan B' if 'Plan A' fails. These colleagues aren't just teachers, they are true professionals. The focus of this book is to help new teachers, alternative certification teachers, and seasoned teachers working in the field to move on the continuum from 'teacher' to 'professional'. A true educational professional is well organized, proactive, and an effective educator and colleague. Teaching 201: Traveling Beyond the Basics, provides guidelines and strategies for success for teacher education candidates or mid-career teachers who have not taken the traditional teacher education courses, and teachers in the field today. It will take the reader far beyond the gauge of survival into the realm of confidence, focus, effectiveness, success, and professionalism. Features: _ A literary road map informs the three target reading groups where to begin reading each chapter. _ Technology Excursion Trips allow the practicing teacher to create the graphic organizer at home tonight and utilize the new concepts tomorrow with his/her students. Detailed step-by-step directions assist the reader through each phase of the process. _ A 'Detour' section at the end of main portion of the book provides tips and suggestions considered 'Best Practice' ideas. _ Contains both scholarly and Internet references. You can use the web addresses to further search for information using your home computer.
The Great Mysteries
Authors: Greeley Andrew
Published: February 2025

The Great Mysteries responds with passion and skill to the growing concerns of spiritual seekers and teachers of the Catholic faith. In radical, refreshing fashion, Greeley explores 12 essential questions of faith and grounds them in human experience. With the skill of a master storyteller and the passion of a deep believer, Greeley contemplates questions at the heart of human life—is there any purpose in my life? Are there any grounds for hope? Why is there evil in the world?—and reveals how the symbols, rituals, teachings and mysteries of Catholicism both shape and respond to these profound uncertainties.
When Caregivers Kill
Authors: Alt Betty L. , Wells Sandra K.
Published: February 2025

From mothers who kill their children in postpartum fugues, to fathers who murder their kids for revenge against an estranged wife, the stories in this book are chilling yet real, and bring home the message that children are vulnerable to violence even in the care of those who should love and protect them the most. Sadly, child murder by parents and caregivers happens more frequently than one might guess, and while each case is different, there are often warning signs that something might be amiss. Signs of physical abuse may precede the ultimate act of murder. A mother's mental state after the birth of a child may signal true distress and the potential for extreme actions. No one can predict with certainty when a parent or other caregiver may snap, but here Alt and Wells examine many cases of child murder to find out what they have in common, how we might prevent such violence, and what more we can do to protect children in potentially explosive situations.
From Immigrants to Americans
Authors: Vigdor Jacob L.
Published: February 2025

Immigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society they way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire laborers, or simply talk to someone they see on the street and cannot communicate with them because the person is an immigrant who has not fully adopted American culture or language. But is this truly a modern phenomenon? In From Immigrants to Americans, Jacob Vigdor offers a direct comparison of the experiences of immigrants in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day. His conclusions are both unexpected and fascinating. Vigdor shows how the varying economic situations immigrants come from has always played an important role in their assimilation. The English language skills of contemporary immigrants are actually quite good compared to the historical average, but those who arrive without knowing English are learning at slower rates. He continues to argue that todayOs immigrants face far fewer OincentivesO to assimilate and offers a set of assimilation friendly policies. From Immigrants to Americans is an important book for anyone interested in immigration, either the history or the modern implications, or who want to understand why todayOs immigrants seem so different from previous generations of immigrants and how much they are the same. Co-published with the Manhattan Institute
Sexual Harassment and Bullying
Authors: Strauss Susan
Published: February 2025

Bullying in schools is often discussed, but sexual harassment in schools, and how it differs from bullying is often overlooked. In fact, though, sexual harassment (committed both by fellow students and school personnel) is more common and yet more easily and quickly dismissed by those involved, though its consequences for the victim can be profound. This book provides parents, teachers, school officials, and others with a framework comparing and contrasting sexual harassment and bullying as they relate to the behavior, laws, and impact on children. The author describes the responsibility of the school district and how parents and other adults can navigate the schools' policies, barriers, and responsibilities. She argues that children should not be subjected to bullying OR sexual harassment, that it is the school's responsibility to make the harassment or bullying stop, and that parents and other caring adults often need to be involved and advocate for the child, even against resistance from those in the school system.

Throughout the book the author uses examples of actual cases that have made it to the courts and have been precedent setting and cases in which she has been involved as an expert witness or as a consultant. Resources for readers are also provided at the end of the book.
Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools
Authors: Pallotta-Chiarolli Maria
Published: February 2025

The first book of its kind internationally, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools explores the experiences of bisexual students, mixed sexual orientation families, and polyamorous families in schools. For the first time, a book foregrounds the voices and experiences of these students and families who are "falling into the gaps" or on the borders of a school's gay/straight divide in anti-homophobia policies and programs, and schools recognizing families as meaning either heterosexual couples, or, increasingly, homosexual couples.

Drawing from interviews and online research with students, parents, and teachers, as well as providing a comprehensive overview and analysis of international educational and health research, and media/popular cultural texts, this book addresses the following:

· what are the problematic and/or empowering experiences and strategies of bisexual students, multisexual and polyamorous families in educational systems ?

· what could schools be doing to promote healthy sexual, emotional and social relationships for bisexual students and multisexual/polyamorous families in school communities?

· what recommendations/implementations do bisexual students and multisexual/polyamorous families suggest in regard to school curriculum, school policies, and student welfare in order to acknowledge and support family diversity in school communities?

In particular, the research findings which are reported in this book show that "border sexualities" and "border families" use three types of strategies:

· passing or normalization and assimilation in school settings;

· bordering or negotiation and navigation between the private world of home and public world of school; and

· polluting or non-compliance and resistance, thereby outing their sexualities and families within the school world.

Within a social deconstructionist, multicultural, post-colonial, feminist, queer theoretical framework, this book spans health, education, sociology, psychology, gender, family, sexuality and cultural studies.
Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender
Authors: Orelus Pierre Wilbert
Published: February 2025

Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances people, across various race, class, language, and gender lines, have. Utilizing dialogue as a form of inquiry, Pierre Orelus conducts in-depth interviews carried over the course of two years with committed social justice educators and intellectuals from different fields and foci to examine the way and the extent to which these forms of oppression have profoundly affected the subjectivity and material conditions of women, poor working-class people, queer people, students of color, female faculty and faculty of color. This book presents a novel and critical perspective on race, social class, gender, and language issues echoed through authentic, collective, and dissident voices of these educators and intellectuals.
Leading from the Middle
Authors: Stone Tammy , Coussons-Read Mary
Published: February 2025

Pity the humble academic. Moving from a faculty position to an administrative office frequently entails gaining considerable responsibility-but ambiguous power. The hope of these two authors is that this volume will serve as a reference and a source of support for current associate and assistant deans and as a window into these jobs for faculty who may be considering such a role. Staff positions often come with detailed job descriptions and reporting lines, but the role of associate/assistant deans is often ill-defined and dependent upon the personality of the dean they serve. The authors thus begin their discussion with an examination of the relationship between these two positions, setting the tone for the rest of the book. Stone and Coussons-Read have structured as a series of modules that encompass different situations in which associate/assistant deans may find themselves, and the authors candidly give advice about how to handle the resulting challenges. Case studies illustrate the typical daily work required by this position, with each case followed by suggestions for effective responses. The authors also provide references to sources in which readers can dig more deeply into areas such as conflict management and communication styles.
Truth and Skepticism
Authors: Almeder Robert
Published: February 2025

Robert Almeder provides a comprehensive discussion and definitive refutation of our common conception of truth as a necessary condition for knowledge of the world, and to defend in detail an epistemic conception of truth without falling into the usual epistemological relativism or classical idealism in which all properties of the world turn out to be linguistic in nature and origin. There is no other book available that clearly and thoroughly defends the case for an epistemic conception of truth and also claims success in avoiding idealism or epistemological relativism.
We Are Coming, Unafraid
Authors: Keren Michael , Keren Shlomit
Published: February 2025

This book tells the little-known stories of three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Many of the soldiers, ranging widely in education level, social class, and combat experience, were displaced immigrants or children of such immigrants. Together, they coalesced into the all-Jewish battalions: "the liberators of the Promised Land."

The ranks of the Jewish Legions included some who would become prominent leaders, such as David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel's second president; however, this book focuses on the experiences of ordinary soldiers who served alongside them. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldier identity with unique Jewish features, as well as an evolving sense of nationalism.
The Promise of Religious Naturalism
Authors: Hogue Michael S.
Published: February 2025

The Promise of Religious Naturalism explores religious naturalism as a distinctly promising form of contemporary religious ethics. Examining how religious naturalism responds to the challenges of recent religious transformations and ecological peril worldwide, author Michael Hogue argues that religious naturalism is emerging as an increasingly plausible and potentially rewarding form of religious moral life. Beginning with an introduction of religious naturalism in the larger context of religious and ethical theories, the book undertakes the first extended study of the works of religious naturalists Loyal Rue, Donald Crosby, Jerome Stone, and Ursula Goodenough. Hogue pays particular attention to the ethical components of religious naturalism in relation to religious pluralism and ecological issues.
White Parents, Black Children
Authors: Smith Darron T. , Jacobson Cardell K. , Juárez Brenda G.
Published: February 2025

White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions—particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in the United States, some people believe the United States may be entering a post-racial state where race no longer matters, citing evidence like the increasing number of transracial adoptions to make this point. However, White Parents, Black Children argues that racism remains a factor for many children of transracial adoptions. Black children raised in white homes are not exempt from racism, and white parents are often naive about the experiences their children encounter. This book aims to bring to light racial issues that are often difficult for families to talk about, focusing on the racial socialization white parents provide for their transracially adopted children about what it means to be black in contemporary American society. Blending the stories of adoptees and their parents with extensive research, the authors discuss trends in transracial adoptions, challenge the concept of 'colorblind' America, and offer suggestions to help adoptees develop a healthy sense of self.
The Urban Racial State
Authors: Cazenave Noel A.
Published: February 2025

The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of the political structure whose chief function for cities and other urban governments is the regulation of race relations within their geopolitical boundaries. In The Urban Racial State, Cazenave incorporates extensive archival and oral history case study data to support the placement of racism analysis as the focal point of the formulation of urban theory and the study of urban politics. Cazenave's approach offers a set of analytical tools that is sophisticated enough to address topics like the persistence of the urban racial state under the rule of African Americans and other politicians of color.
Performance
Authors: Alfred Richard L. , Harris Nathan , Thirolf Kathryn , Webb James
Published: February 2025

Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about results the organization is generating? Answers to these questions require a framework for analysis comprised of three essential ingredients: stakeholders, results and improvement strategies.

Organizational performance is given segmental treatment in literature and research. Numerous articles and books have been written on related topics such as outcomes assessment, organizational effectiveness, and cost-benefit analysis, but each approaches the subject from a singular perspective. In this book, organizational performance is viewed through multiple lenses so that its different dimensions can be understood and appreciated. The view is broad and far-reaching in the beginning and specific toward the end, where actions organizations can take to improve performance are described. Recognizing that performance is context specific, colleges and universities are used in this book as the medium for examining performance.

This book is written for current and future leaders in profit and non-profit organizations who find scholarly books unimaginative, protracted, and detached from practice. Senior executives, while familiar with many of the basic concepts, will find exceptions to current conceptions of organizational performance and practices used to measure and report performance. Performance: The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations will be particularly useful to: college and university administrators; corporate executives and managers; managers in non-profit,policy making and advocacy organizations; graduate program faculty and students; and management consulting organizations.
Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Authors: Snay Mitchell
Published: February 2025

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a major figure in nineteenth century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental in the rise of the Whig and Republican parties.

Snay's biography places Greeley in his historical context—considering the ways that he shaped and was influenced by the rise of the Jacksonian party system, the varieties of antebellum reform, the evolution of urban class relations, and the politics of slavery and emancipation.
First Words
Authors: Offenbacher Barbara Levine
Published: February 2025

First Words: A Parent's Step-by-Step Guide to Helping a Child with Speech and Language Delays gives parents the information they need to allow them to stimulate their child’s speech and language. Parents are given actual samples of how children with autism and other language delays respond differently to questions and how their responses can be redirected in order to start building connections. Offenbacher explains terms such as speech and language, typical language delay, PDD-Pervasive Developmental Delay, ASD-Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome, and ABA-Applied Behavioral Analysis. The book outlines the typical developmental steps of speech and language acquisition, and where parents should begin when starting to help their child. It suggests the types of toys, and experiences that stimulate language, as well as a floor plan to arrange a “work area” and learning center in their home. It provides check lists for them to evaluate their child every step of the way and set meaningful and attainable goals.

This book is not meant to replace professional intervention. But it guides parents in becoming a para-speech partner in maximizing the stimulation their child receives so they develop skills for communicating.
Countries at the Crossroads 2011
Authors:   Freedom House
Published: February 2025

Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance evaluates government performance in seventy strategically important countries from across the globe, including emerging market countries and at-risk states. The in-depth comparative analyses and quantitative ratings—examining Accountability and Public Voice, Civil Liberties, Rule of Law, and Anticorruption and Transparency—serve as a valuable tool for public analysts, educators and students, government officials, and the business community.
Encouraging Your Child's Imagination
Authors: Bouzoukis Carol E.
Published: February 2025

iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too? Carol Bouzoukis gives us just the remedy.

Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Playacting is an easy-to-use guide to creating simple dramas with young children. This innovative "how-to" book is written especially for parents, daycare providers, librarians, educators, and youth leaders who want to not only encourage their child's imagination but enhance their self-esteem and joy of learning. Dr. Bouzoukis recounts nine familiar children's stories for reading aloud and presenting to our children. By following the tips and using the sample questions, anyone can create a story drama in their living room, garage, Sunday school class or community center. Each story includes an analysis that adds insight into the creative process and reminds parents how simple and care-free it is to let our imaginations turn us into wolves, gingerbread boys, trees, and rivers.
Children's Dreams
Authors: Bulkeley Kelly , Bulkley Patricia M.
Published: February 2025

When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond. Dream researchers Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley take readers beyond “it was just a dream” to help children and adults understand why we dream and how dreams can help us unlock our creativity and make sense of our lives. The book introduces readers to the basic psychology and neuroscience of dreaming, then explores dreams from early childhood through adolescence.

The book focuses on what psychologist C. G. Jung called the “big dreams” of childhood—intensely memorable dreams that can blaze themselves into children’s memories and remain a haunting, often inspiring, presence throughout their lives. While acknowledging that a complete interpretation of any dream requires personal input from the dreamer, the authors show readers how to identify recurrent patterns in dreams that reflect the primal wisdom and the healthy growth of every child’s mind and imagination. Children’s Dreams offers practical advice about how adults can best communicate with children about dreams to offer reassurance and to cultivate a child’s imagination and development.
Sharing Sadhana
Authors: Bailey Victoria
Published: February 2025

A daily personal yoga practice, or sadhana, is carried out by yogis and yoginis throughout the world every day. Within western culture our knowledge of yoga and yoga practices has been shaped by lessons and insights provided and shared by well-known yoga teachers and yoga therapists in various traditions. Yet, the consistent message from all these teachers is to maintain your own daily practice – honor your sadhana.

Finding and committing yourself to either a particular yogic tradition’s daily discipline or finding the confidence and dedication to create your own yoga practice can be both daunting and challenging to new yoga students while it eventually becomes an essential part of every day for people with an established practice. In Sharing Sadhana, the author provides an overview and outline of what yoga sadhana means within western yoga culture and what it means to prominent and experienced yoga teachers and therapists in the western yoga world. She interviews yoga teachers such as Richard Miller, Nischala Joy Devi, Leslie Kaminoff and other prominent practitioners about their views, advice, and experience of sadhana and what it means to them in their personal daily lives and in their teaching. The book offers a means for these experienced practitioners to share information about their own development of sadhana, to provide insights into their own personal yoga journey as well as sadhana guidance and inspiration to new and seasoned yoga practitioners. It includes the challenges they have faced on their yoga journey and how they have overcome those barriers; their advice to other yoga practitioners; and how their yoga practice has changed over time. Anyone hoping to cultivate a better daily yoga practice will be inspired to begin today.
Pluralism and Freedom
Authors: Monsma Stephen V.
Published: February 2025

Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided, and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen V. Monsma explores the question of how much autonomy should faith-based organizations retain when they enter the public realm? He contends that pluralism and freedom demand their religious freedom be respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions and of the general public and secular groups be equally respected, ideals that neither the left nor the right live up to. In response, Monsma argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine, authentic—but also a limited—autonomy for faith-based organizations providing public services, and offers practical, concrete public policy applications of this framework in practice.
How Math Works
Authors: Williams G. Arnell
Published: February 2025

We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math. Is it our fear of math that constrains us? Or our inability to understand math’s place in relation to our everyday lives? How can we help our children better understand the basics of arithmetic if we’re not really sure we understand them ourselves?

Here, G. Arnell Williams helps parents and teachers explore the world of math that their elementary school children are learning. Taking readers on a tour of the history of arithmetic, and its growth into the subject we know it to be today, Williams explores the beauty and relevance of mathematics by focusing on the great conceptual depth and genius already inherent in the elementary mathematics familiar to us all, and by connecting it to other well-known areas such as language and the conceptual aspects of everyday life. The result is a book that will help you to better explain mathematics to your children. For those already well versed in these areas, the book offers a tour of the great conceptual and historical facts and assumptions that most simply take for granted.

If you are someone who has always struggled with mathematics either because you couldn’t do it or because you never really understood why the rules are the way they are, if you were irritated with the way it was taught to you with the emphasis being only on learning the rules and “recipes” by rote as opposed to obtaining a good conceptual understanding, then How Math Works is for you!
Planning Your Time in Retirement
Authors: Stebbins Robert A.
Published: February 2025

Much of what is written about getting old has a negative feel to it, which is certainly not entirely unjustified. Health may begin to fail. Finances may become tighter as income dwindles or stops altogether. Family and friends may move away or move on. But the retirement years do not have to be negative or bleak. Within this “dark scenario,” a positive existence is possible. Planning Your Time in Retirement focuses on the variety of free-time activities available to retirees as related to their physical, social, and economic situation in old age, helping readers find out what their passions are, what the possibilities might be, and how to cultivate their own leisure lifestyle.

For some retirees, a post-work existence consisting of fun works well, for they have managed to shape an interesting casual leisure lifestyle based on easygoing activities that make them happy. Seldom included in the popular image of leisure, however, are other types of leisure that are also widely available to retirees. Regardless of means, the retirement years can consist of activities and pastimes that fulfill the interests and pursuits of any retiree. A variety of exciting leisure activities exists, which retirees may pursue within their financial, physical, mental, and geographic limits. This book provides a guide—the serious leisure perspective—for exploring these activities and choosing those that fit one’s tastes, aptitudes, and abilities. At its most appealing, a leisure lifestyle includes a balance of easy-to-do casual interests as well as serious ones that require knowledge, effort, and perseverance. For some, enjoyment and fulfillment may come from engaging in volunteer work, while for others it may involve leisure activities from which they gain some form of payment. By employing the notion of positive simplicity—simple living in the domain of leisure—many people at this stage of life can delight in these final years. While time and money cannot be ignored, finding those activities that allow for engagement, reward, and simplicity can result in days, even years, of leisure that is meaningful, enjoyable, healthy, and empowering.
George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior
Authors: Washington George
Published: February 2025

Taking his inspiration from a 16th century French manual on etiquette, young George Washington compiled his own set of instructions under the title, The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior. These concise rules to live by have been studied and copied by millions of readers eager to absorb Washington’s secrets of success in life and work. Neither unduly severe nor sentimental, the rules have stood the test of time and still reverberate today.
Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
Authors: Parry John Weston
Published: February 2025

When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the assumption that most people with mental disorders are violent, prone to act out, and a threat to others and themselves, is clearly erroneous. Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness thoroughly documents and explains how and why persons with mental disabilities who are perceived to be a future danger to others, the community, or themselves have become the most stigmatized, abused, and mistreated group in America, and what should be done to correct the resulting injustices.

Each year state and federal governments incarcerate, deny treatment to, and otherwise deprive hundreds of thousands of Americans with mental disabilities of their fundamental rights, liberties, and freedoms— including on occasion their lives—based on unreliable and misleading predictions that they are likely to be dangerous in the future. Yet, due to an exaggerated fear of violence in our society, almost no one seems concerned about these injustices, which exclusively affect Americans who have been impaired by mental disorders and the lack of treatment, especially after they have been abused as children or injured in combat. Instead, we appear to be oblivious to these injustices or comfortable in allowing them to become worse. Here, John Weston Parry carefully delineates the mishandling of persons with mental disabilities by the criminal and civil justice systems, and illustrates the ways in which we can identify and remedy those injustices.
A U. S. -Indonesia Partnership For 2020
Authors: Hiebert Murray , Osius Ted , Poling Gregory B.
Published: February 2025

A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020 explores avenues to boost cooperation in all three of these pillars. Political and security relations between the United States and Indonesia have grown more robust in recent years. Trade and economic relations, while growing, remain contentious. This study assesses progress on these two pillars, along with the under-resourced field of people-to-people collaboration, and offers recommendations to take the partnership to the next level in each area.
The Indonesian Presidency
Authors: McIntyre Angus
Published: February 2025

This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the global biographical literature on political leaders.The Indonesian Presidency shows how Indonesia's 1945 constitution provided first for the personal rule of presidents Sukarno and Soeharto and then facilitated the shift towards constitutional rule that marked the presidencies of B.J. Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Megawati Sukarnoputri. This important study elevates the personalities of Sukarno and Soeharto into key explanatory factors for the character of their "Guided Democracy" and "New Order" regimes, respectively. It argues that in 1959 Sukarno began fashioning his system of personal rule, to the detriment of Indonesia's parliamentary democracy. Another constitutional turning point occurred in 1998, when a rudimentary constitutional rule reappeared. The broad shift since 1998 from personal to constitutional rule has its personal counterpoint in the relationship between Megawati and her father, which makes this unique blend of history and biography a powerful tool for understanding the Indonesian presidency. An afterword by the author on the book's website, www.rowmanlittlefield.com/isbn/0742538273, brings readers up to date on Indonesian political developments that have affected the presidency since the book's publication.For an up-to-date afterword by the author, click here; for glossary, click here.
The Nature of Intrinsic Value
Authors: Zimmerman Michael J.
Published: February 2025

At the heart of ethics reside the concepts of good and bad; they are at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, an act right or wrong, a decision defensible or indefensible, a goal desirable or undesirable. But there are many varieties of goodness and badness. At their core lie intrinsic goodness and badness, the sort of value that something has for its own sake. It is in virtue of intrinsic value that other types of value may be understood, and hence that we can begin to come to terms with questions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and so on. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: just what it is for something to be valuable for its own sake, just what sort of thing can have such value, just how such a value is to be computed. In the final chapter, the fruits of this investigation are applied to a discussion of pleasure, pain, and displeasure and also of moral virtue and vice, in order to determine just what value lies within these phenomena.
Pragmatist Aesthetics
Authors: Shusterman Richard
Published: February 2025

This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of living, and by providing a compellingly rigorous defense of popular art—crowned by a pioneer study of hip hop—Richard Shusterman reorients aesthetics towards a fresher, more relevant, and socially progressive agenda. The second edition contains an introduction where Shusterman responds to his critics, and it concludes with an added chapter that formulates his novel notion of somaesthetics.
The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Supply Chain Operations
Authors: Silva Solon Alexsandro , Paulo Leite Silveira Marcos
Published: February 2025

In December 2019, in Wuhan, China, the emergence of a new disease changed the lifestyle of the entire population. The COVID-19 pandemic has marked the world and continues to do so, causing several impacts in the most varied sectors. This chapter aims to show how the pandemic impacted the global logistics network by showcasing several supply chains that were affected, mainly focusing on e-commerce and food supply chains and their many aspects. This chapter also draws attention to how changes, caused by the virus, have transformed consumer behavior over the past 2 years. It will also present mitigation strategies that have been or could have been used by companies to minimize the risk of disruptions during the pandemic by creating a more resilient supply chain.
A Conducive Quality Environment Augmenting Practice in Educational Institution
Authors: G. Verghese Ashok , Sudalaimuthu Thalavaipillai , Ramalingam Pon
Published: February 2025

A messy workplace has an unstructured environment delay in executing the work. Employees find it difficult to locate the files/document when needed in the messy workplace. The purpose of this proposed study is to apply the practices of 5S in educational institutions. The 5S comprises five phases: Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. The 5S implementation creates conducive environment in educational sectors that result in effective usage of time and storage space. The 5S implementation generates a significant impact in an educational institution as it relates to the “Swatch Bharat Mission”. Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014. The 5S is an active tool that helps the educational sectors to improve the global quality of higher education by satisfying the expectations of the investors. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science serves as the first institution in receiving the Global Certification for 5S implementation in India from TuV (Technical Inspection Association) Rhineland. The execution of 5S creates a dynamic environment for stakeholders of the Institution.
In Brief: Anaphylaxis with Glatiramer Acetate
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

The FDA has required a new boxed warning in the label of the subcutaneously injected immunomodulatory drug glatiramer acetate (Copaxone, Glatopa, and generics) about a risk of anaphylaxis.1 Glatiramer has been used for years to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Cosibelimab (Unloxcyt) for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

Cosibelimab (Unloxcyt) for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Suzetrigine (Journavx) — A Sodium Channel Blocker for Acute Pain
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

The FDA has approved suzetrigine (Journavx – Vertex), a selective sodium channel blocker, for oral treatment of moderate to severe acute pain in adults. Suzetrigine is the first sodium channel blocker to be approved in the US for this indication and the first oral nonopioid drug to be approved for treatment of pain in over 25 years.
Drugs for Dry Eye Disease
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

Disruption of tear-film homeostasis (altered composition, reduced production, rapid evaporation) and resulting ocular surface inflammation cause the discomfort and blurred vision of dry eye disease. Many cases are caused by tear evaporation due to meibomian gland dysfunction. Other precipitating factors can include lacrimal gland dysfunction, poor eyelid function, environmental factors, extended screen time, inflammatory conditions such as Sjögren's syndrome, and use of some ocular or systemic drugs such as antihistamines, retinoids, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Benzalkonium chloride, a preservative used in some eye drops, can cause eye irritation and exacerbate symptoms of dry eye disease; use of preservative-free ophthalmic preparations is preferred. Dry eye disease is most prevalent in females and older adults, but its incidence in young people is increasing, possibly because of increased screen time.
Olezarsen (Tryngolza) for Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

Olezarsen (Tryngolza – Ionis), an apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III)-directed antisense oligonucleotide, has been approved by the FDA to reduce triglyceride levels in adults with familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS). It is the first drug to be approved in the US for this indication.
Edukasi Pendidikan Kesehatan Pada Keluarga Tentang Pemanfaatan Buku Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak (KIA) Pada Ibu Hamil
Authors: Sulhani  , Isnaeni Lisa , Ningsih Hasrun
Published: February 2025

Pemanfaatan Buku Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak (KIA) masih belum optimal di kalangan ibu hamil, terutama karena rendahnya pemahaman dan kesadaran terhadap fungsi buku ini dalam pemantauan kesehatan ibu dan anak. Program pengabdian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman ibu hamil dan keterlibatan keluarga dalam pemanfaatan Buku KIA melalui penyuluhan berbasis komunitas. Kegiatan dilakukan di Posyandu Dusun Enjak, Desa Labulia, wilayah kerja Puskesmas Ubung, dengan melibatkan 40 responden, terdiri dari 17 ibu hamil dan 23 anggota keluarga. Penyuluhan dilakukan secara interaktif menggunakan metode ceramah, diskusi kelompok, serta media edukasi berupa leaflet dan infografis. Evaluasi efektivitas dilakukan melalui pre-test dan post-test dengan lima indikator penilaian. Hasil menunjukkan peningkatan pemahaman ibu hamil sebesar 45%, kesadaran akan manfaat Buku KIA naik 45%, frekuensi penggunaannya meningkat 50%, dan keterlibatan keluarga bertambah 55%. Peningkatan ini menunjukkan bahwa edukasi berbasis komunitas efektif dalam meningkatkan pemanfaatan Buku KIA, sejalan dengan penelitian sebelumnya yang menekankan pentingnya pendekatan keluarga dalam edukasi kesehatan maternal. Dengan demikian, penyuluhan ini dapat menjadi strategi yang relevan dalam meningkatkan pencatatan kesehatan ibu dan anak, serta mendukung kebijakan nasional dalam menurunkan angka kesakitan dan kematian maternal.
Columns: The Future is Now
Authors: Orzulak Melinda McBee , Lillge Danielle , Lillge Danielle , Orzulak Melinda Mcbee , Dungey Destiny , Morrow Madelyn , Sewell Jade
Published: February 2025

For three early career ELA teachers, disciplinary understanding and vision necessitate seeking small wins as they become powerful advocates for students and work in support of the communities they serve.
Speaking My Mind: The Evolution of a Teacher-Writer: Writing for, with, and to Students
Authors: Petersen Norma
Published: February 2025

When teachers write with students, the classroom becomes a community of writers who inspire each other.
“Digital Discourse for What?” Pursuing Deeper Purposes in English Classrooms
Authors: Rosser Barrett , Talian M. E. , Crawford Angela , Reed  , Burrows-Stone Katie , Freifelder June , Freed Jennifer , Stornaiuolo Amy
Published: February 2025

English teacher-researchers involved in an inquiry group share how they use digital discourse for deeper purposes in diverse classrooms.
A arte de ensinar
Authors: Fonseca Dutra Anelise , Batista Pinheiro Gabriela
Published: February 2025

Este artigo tem como propósito apresentar o projeto “A Arte de Ensinar”, que foi desenvolvido como parte da pesquisa do mestrado e que foi transformado em filme. O artigo tem como objetivo principal verificar se o lúdico auxilia os alunos no ensino-aprendizagem da Língua Inglesa (Brown, 2012). Como referencial teórico traz discussões sobre o conceito de lúdico e o seu uso em sala de aula (Andrade, 2017), o uso da música no processo de ensino-aprendizagem (Levinskaya, 2015), as realidades socioculturais dos educandos (Freire, 1987), dentre outras. Como metodologia utilizamos um questionário semiestruturado aplicado aos alunos e uma entrevista gravada com o professor. Como resultados podemos afirmar que a utilização da arte é importante para o auxílio no processo de ensino-aprendizagem do inglês. A pesquisa apresentada tem como contribuição para a área mostrar a importância da utilização da arte para auxiliar no ensino-aprendizagem do inglês.