bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
РОЛЬ СТРАТЕГІЧНИХ АЛЬЯНСІВ В ЕРУ СУЧАСНИХ ЦИФРОВИХ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЙ
Authors: Брітченко І.Г.  , Кривов’язюк І.В.
Published: December 2023

Метою дослідження є вивчення ролі стратегічних альянсів в умовах цифрових трансформацій бізнесу.
Фундаментальні та швидкі зміни в ринковому середовищі все частіше ставлять під сумнів існуючі уявлення про роль стратегічних альянсів. Однією з найбільш суттєвих змін, яка формує розвиток бізнесу, є його цифрова трансформація, яка вибудувала базис для створення інновацій, побудови нових цифрових бізнес-моделей, сприяла поширенню прогресивних організаційних змін та підвищенню ефективності бізнесу. Особливе значення в цьому процесі несе ініціатива ІТ-компаній, об’єднання найкращих практик бізнес-моделювання, інновацій та цифровізації бізнесу. В сучасних умовах традиційні системи міжфірмової співпраці та координації відносин вимагають перегляду з метою швидшого реагування на зміну очікувань, вимог та характеристик стратегічних партнерів по бізнесу.
В ході критичного аналізу змісту наукових публікацій вчених сучасності, які досліджували поведінку, особливості діяльності та значення стратегічних альянсів встановлено, що роль стратегічних альянсів в умовах цифрових трансформацій не зникає, а несе нові переваги, вимагаючи максимізації віддачі від більш динамічних партнерських відносин, з одного боку, та довгострокових відносин, необхідних для розвитку інноваційних моделей з іншого, що потребує більш глибокого вивчення таких переваг.
Аналіз динаміки кількості укладених угод у сфері стратегічного партнерства в період 2014-2023 рр. демонструє їх збільшення починаючи з 2017 р., що зумовило активізацію цифрових трансформацій бізнесу. В той самий час, отримані результати демонструють зростання ролі співробітництва між компаніями, яке характеризується взаємоузгодженим управлінням, пошуком взаємних вигід і створенням нової цінності для кожного з учасників стратегічного партнерства.
В ході подальших досліджень встановлено, що роль стратегічних альянсів в умовах цифрових трансформацій бізнесу полягає у забезпеченні стратегічної гнучкості за умов безперервності цифрових трансформацій, покращенні конкурентних позицій на ринку, підвищенні їх інноваційності та ефективності, покращенні організаційної стійкості та здатності компаній до навчання, створення можливостей отримання синергетичного ефекту. Це розвиває здатність компаній керувати змінами проактивно, сприяє спільному вирішенню стратегічних завдань і цілей компаній-партнерів, надає значно більші можливості для розвитку інноваційних процесів через розробку та впровадження нових методів і форм роботи, нових рішень у секторах економіки, інновацій в управлінні, сприяє виживанню в ринковому конкурентному середовищі та є важливим конкурентним імперативом забезпечення загальної довгострокової цифрової трансформації.
Introducción. Salud e integración en Brasil: apropiarse de las políticas públicas para existir (final del siglo XIX-años 1960)
Authors: Mercier Valentine , Martins Ygor
Published: December 2023

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De normalistas a naturalistas: la especialización de las mujeres en salud pública en Brasil (1920-1960)
Authors: Azevedo Nara , Silveira Rossi Daiane
Published: December 2023

El artículo tiene como objetivo demostrar como la institucionalización de la especialización en salud pública en Brasil abrió oportunidades para la capacitación y la profesionalización de mujeres a partir de los años 1920. El análisis busca avanzar en la historiografía en lo que toca al desempeño y especialización de las mujeres en el campo de la salud pública en un periodo, hasta entonces, poco estudiado, sobrepasando la Primera República brasileña (1889-1930), hasta 1960. La delimitación del marco temporal se realizó en función de las fuentes, es decir, la documentación de los cursos del Instituto Oswaldo Cruz y los formularios de registro e inscripción de las alumnas, que se encuentran bajo la tutela de la Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundación Oswaldo Cruz.
Auge y declive de la tecnología española de instrumentos ópticos: el telescopio del Instituto de Óptica Daza de Valdés (1950-1970)
Authors: Barbero Briones Sergio , Moreno Gómez Esteban
Published: December 2023

El desarrollo científico-tecnológico de instrumentos ópticos en España tuvo una época de florecimiento en la década de los cuarenta y cincuenta del siglo XX. Esto fue debido al impulso de, primero, la Sección de Óptica del Instituto de Física Alonso de Santa Cruz, y, posteriormente, del Instituto de Óptica Daza de Valdés, fundado en 1946; ambas instituciones pertenecientes al Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Sin embargo, la década de los sesenta supuso un declive de las capacidades y potencialidades adquiridas durante el periodo anterior. La historia de un telescopio, de tipo Maksutov, cuyo diseño y fabricación se realizaron en el Instituto de Óptica, nos sirve de hilo conductor para explicar el auge y declive de la óptica instrumental en España desde los años cuarenta a los setenta. Analizamos los factores involucrados, tanto internos (científicos y tecnológicos), como externos (condicionantes políticos y económicos) que determinaron este singular desarrollo que acabaría convirtiendo a la óptica instrumental en una de las áreas más relevantes en el panorama científico-tecnológico del primer franquismo.
Sustainability and Healthcare Marketing in the Digital Age
Authors: Gigauri Iza
Published: December 2023

Healthcare as a dynamic and complex industry requires marketing to achieve business goals and improve the well-being of society. Transformations in the environment, increased competition, changes in consumer behavior force organizations to adapt to the altered landscape. In this regard, marketing plays a pivotal role in defining consumers' attitudes, motivations, and perceptions, building relationships with stakeholders, developing a strategy, and creating value. Moreover, the aging population, chronic diseases, prolonged pains and disabilities, poverty and poor health conditions, and lack of reliable medical services cause an increased burden not only on the healthcare system but also on the economy and society in all counties. Sustainable Development Goals aim to solve the pressing challenges facing the world. The objectives of this chapter are to discuss healthcare marketing in light of the twin transition: sustainability and digitalization. The chapter illustrates sustainable healthcare marketing opportunities in relation to digital advancements including ChatGPT.
Obstetric Outcomes in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis: An Interview-Based Study in Northern India
Authors: Gupta Latika , Mehta Pankti , Kharbanda Rajat , Balakrishnan Anu , Andreoli Laura , Agarwal Vikas
Published: December 2023

Introduction:

Rheumatic diseases are associated with poor obstetric outcomes, especially in developing countries. In a multisystem disease like antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV), pulmonary and renal involvement may contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes. we explored pregnancy outcomes in women with AAV and compared pregnancies after disease onset to those that occurred before it.

Method:

Women with AAV (Chapel Hill Criteria, 2012) registered at a tertiary care center (2001–2021) were interviewed by teleconsultation or during outpatient visits. Maternal complications and fetal complications were recorded.

Results:

Median age at disease onset was 48 (33–60) years, with the most common subtype being granulomatosis with polyangiitis (13, 48%) followed by microscopic polyangiitis (10, 37%). Twelve women were in the reproductive age group, of which six suffered from a premature menopause. Three pregnancies in three women after disease onset were compared with 62 pregnancies in 23 women with conception before the disease. Pregnancies before disease onset resulted in 58 (93.3%) live birth. One (33.33%) live birth was observed in the pregnancies after disease onset, and disease onset during pregnancy resulting in intrauterine death at 20 weeks period of gestation. One patient is currently in her antenatal period with no complications so far. This study suggests the absence of impact on pregnancy outcome before diagnosis of AAV.

Conclusion:

Pregnancy after a diagnosis of AAV is rare, and successful outcomes may be reported on occasion.
Patient Support Groups in Rheumatic Diseases: An Evolving and Essential Component of Patient Care
Authors: Chua Siew Houy , Eow Liu Hong , Poh Kok Wei
Published: December 2023

Patient support groups, also known as patient advocacy organizations, offer instrumental, emotional, research opportunities and even fundraising to support patients, families, and caregivers affected by certain diseases. The support groups offer therapeutic benefits, not only medically, but also psychosocial aspects of the patients. They serve to increase disease awareness among the patients, public and health professionals which results in promoting patient empowerment in self-management and improving the overall support network for the patients. Rheumatic diseases are often chronic, progressive autoimmune conditions which commonly cause physical symptoms, functionality disability, psychological, social, and economic impact on the patients’ lives. However, limitations such as lack of access to local support groups especially with the rare diseases, and difficulty in sustaining a group due to funding and leadership issues, do exist. This article focuses on the role of the patient support group in complementing the medical treatment provided by health professionals among patients with rheumatic diseases and ways to enhance the sustainability of patient support group.
Unified bounds for the independence number of graphs
Authors: Zhou Jiang
Published: December 2023

The Hoffman ratio bound, Lovász theta function, and Schrijver theta function are classical upper bounds for the independence number of graphs, which are useful in graph theory, extremal combinatorics, and information theory. By using generalized inverses and eigenvalues of graph matrices, we give bounds for independence sets and the independence number of graphs. Our bounds unify the Lovász theta function, Schrijver theta function, and Hoffman-type bounds, and we obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions of graphs attaining these bounds. Our work leads to some simple structural and spectral conditions for determining a maximum independent set, the independence number, the Shannon capacity, and the Lovász theta function of a graph.
ANKARA İTİLAFNÂMESİ’NDEN LOZAN ANTLAŞMASI’NA, LOZAN’DAN GÜNÜMÜZE TÜRKİYE-SURİYE SINIRI
Authors: Demir Enes Mert
Published: December 2023

Mondros Mütarekesi sonrası Anadolu’da işgallerin başlaması üzerine Millî Mücadele başlamış; bu mücadele, Güney Cephesi’nde Fransız ordusuna karşı verilmiştir. Bu süreçte Ankara Hükûmeti, Fransızlarla yaptığı görüşmelerde Türkiye-Suriye hududunu Misâk-ı Millî çerçevesinde belirlemek istemiş; neticede 20 Ekim 1921 tarihli Ankara İtilâfnâmesi imzalanmıştır. Her ne kadar anlaşmada belirlenen sınır, Türkiye açısından geçici görülse de Lozan Antlaşması’nda aynen kabul edilmiştir. Ancak Lozan sonrası süreçte meydana gelen çeşitli hadiseler bu sınırın; tarihi, demografik ve jeopolitik gerçeklere uygun olmadığını göstermiştir. Nitekim bölgede yaşanan birtakım siyasi ve askerî gelişmeler sonucunda Hatay 1939’da Türkiye’ye katılmıştır. Yine de zaman zaman hudut hattındaki istikrarsızlık durumu devam etmiştir.
Zikredilen malumattan hareketle bu makalede, Türkiye-Suriye sınırının bahse konu süreçte Türkiye-Fransa arasında ne şekilde belirlendiği ele alınmış; Lozan sonrası dönemde yeniden belirlenen sınırın günümüzdeki gelişmelere yansıması incelenmiştir. Nitel araştırma metodu ile hazırlanan çalışmada başta Lozan Konferansı tutanakları olmak üzere çeşitli arşiv belgeleri ve döneme ilişkin literatürden istifade edilmiştir.
Routine Abdominal and Pelvic Ultrasound Examinations: An Audit Comparing Radiographers and Radiologists
Authors: Lo RHG , Chan LP , Wilde CC , Pant R
Published: December 2023

An audit of 202 routine abdominal and pelvic ultrasound examinations was carried out to evaluate the clinical performance and interpretation of these scans by radiographers and compare them with radiologists, and to investigate the extended role of radiographers in performing these scans. Each scan was first performed by a radiographer and then repeated by the radiologist. The findings were subsequently compared and any discrepancy resolved by re-scanning the patient with or without the involvement of an independent radiologist, or by follow-up of the patient by other imaging studies. In 158 (78.2%) scans, there was complete agreement between the radiographer’s and radiologist’s findings. In 44 scans (21.8%), there was incomplete agreement – there were 108 abnormal findings in these scans with incomplete agreement/discrepancy in 53 abnormalities. Overall, the accuracy of radiographers was 92.0% and radiologists was 91.7%; however, the accuracy rates were 94.0% and 96.4%, respectively, when minor abnormal findings without significant influence on the patient’s clinical outcome were excluded.
Analisis Kesulitan Guru Dalam Menyusun Modul Ajar di SMA Negeri Pakusari Jember
Authors: Agusty Selly Syeh , Afrida Indah Rakhmawati , Prafitasari Aulya Nanda
Published: December 2023

Salah satu perangkat penting untuk melancarkan penerapan pem- belajaran dalam kurikulum merdeka belajar adalah modul ajar. Guru wajib menyusun modul ajar secara lengkap dan sistematis hal ini karena merupakan kompetensi pedagogik guru yang perlu dikembangkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis bagaimana kesulitan guru dalam menyusun modul ajar. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Sampel yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah 15 guru yang mengajar di kelas X SMA Negeri Pakusari Jember dengan kisaran umur kurang dari 30 tahun sampai lebih dari umur 50 tahun. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan penelitian ini yaitu dengan wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada 3 kriteria kesulitan guru yaitu: (1) guru paham mengenai modul ajar beserta komponennya sebesar 53%; (2) guru paham mengenai modul ajar tetapi kurang paham komponennya sebesar 20%; dan (3) guru tidak paham mengenai modul ajar beserta komponennya sebesar 27%. Komponen modul ajar yang harus dipahami oleh guru adalah komponen infomasi umum dan komponen inti.
Comparison of Modified Ferriman-Gallwey Score and Biochemical Parameters in the Estimation of the Prevalence of Idiopathic Hirsutism Among Women in the Kurdistan Region
Authors: Jarallah Bushra , Adil Hataw , Palani Ayad
Published: December 2023

The word "hirsutism" describes the development of terminal hairs at androgen-controlled body locations in women, which has distress and adverse psychosocial affects. The diagnosis of hirsutism is the key point in the treatment of unwanted hair growth in women’s body. Present study aimed to evaluate the modified Ferriman-Gallwey (mFG) score and the biochemical hyperandrogenism parameters among Iraqi hirsute women and their association with hirsutism in outpatients clinics in Kalar city, Garmian region, Iraq. This was a cross-sectional study of 100 hirsute women were collected from the outpatients clinic and 26 healthy women in Kalar city. After detailed history taking by using structured questionnaire, physical examination, and the relevant investigations were done, the scoring of hirsutism was indexed according to (mFG) scoring system. Moreover, sera of hormonal markers were measured; which included 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP), total testosterone (TT), free testosterone (FT), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), s. prolactin, and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). No statistically significant differences were found in the median of the sex and related hormones between control subjects and the hirsutism group. Likewise, there were no significant relation between hormonal markers and the rate of hirsutism. While, an intrinsic statistical association was seen between the mFG score with the hirsutism and the rate of hirsutism. Our findings imply that the mFG score system is a significance screening tool and has tremendous importance and utility in establishing the diagnosis of hirsutism.
Fundamental Theology
Authors: Becker Matthew L.
Published: December 2023

Encyclopedic in scope, this book offers wide-ranging coverage of the foundational teachings and practices within the mainstream of the classical Christian tradition. It begins with their roots in the Scriptures, and also branches out into Eastern and Western Christianity, ancient, medieval, and modern, to the present-day.

Part I provides an overview of some of these routes, then presents an historical survey of Christianity’s major traditions. Part II unpacks some of the character of that revelation, focusing particularly on epistemological and procedural questions. Finally, Part III looks at Christian theology in a university setting: the possibility and shape of theology as a university discipline, its major subfields, and its relations with humanities and the sciences respectively.

Fundamental Theology: A Protestant Perspective, 2nd edition, includes a wide range of pedagogical features:

- each chapter begins with an outline thesis statement, highlighted in bold

- charts and graphs

- relevant headings and subheadings employed throughout the book

- keywords

- provides a survey of pertinent reference literature

- questions for review and discussion

- annotated suggestions for further reading
Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament
Authors: Porter Stanley E. , O’Donnell Matthew Brook
Published: December 2023

This volume examines and outlines the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) model of discourse analysis and its relationship to New Testament Greek. The book reflects upon how SFL has grown as a field since it was introduced to New Testament Greek studies by Stanley E. Porter in the 1980s.

The first part introduces basic concepts regarding discourse analysis and the major approaches to discourse analysis within New Testament studies. The second part provides a detailed exploration of discourse analysis in terms of the textual metafunction, beginning with an introduction to the architecture of language within SFL, before exploring several individual elements within it. By focusing upon these individual components – in particular, theme and information structure, markedness and prominence, and coherence and cohesive harmony – Porter and O’Donnell introduce and exemplify the major resources of the textual metafunction.
Hindus and Their Christian Bible
Authors: Sugirtharajah R.S.
Published: December 2023

R.S. Sugirtharajah shows how at the height of European colonialism whilst the colonizers were studying the sacred texts of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians, the Hindus were themselves scrutinizing the invader’s book – the Christian Bible. Sugirtharajah examines how these Hindus transformed the Bible into what they deemed fit for and suited to their contexts. The result was that the Bible acquired a totally different form and lost its authority as the Book of the Empire. Sugirtharajah shows how the resistant, subversive and at times antagonistic readings of the Hindus went beyond what the colonizer had intended. Sadly what these Hindus made of the Bible went largely unnoticed and was ignored by Western scholarship.

This volume seeks to rectify this regrettable omission and to place both the Hindu reformers and nationalists attitude to the Bible in their own specific context and to allow them to speak on their own terms rather than reading them with Christian preconception. The Hindu reformers covered include figures such as Raja Rammohun Roy, Arumuga Navalar, Keshub Chunder Sen, Swami Vivekananda, Ponnambalam Ramanathan, M. K. Gandhi and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and nationalists such as Dhirendranath Chowdhary, Sita Ram Goel and Ram Swarup. The book contains the interpretative context; the textual negotiation that went on between these Hindus and the missionaries and orientalists; examples of their Hinduization of the Bible; and the hermeneutical impact on mainstream biblical interpretation.
The Spirit of Polyphony
Authors: Tarassenko Joanna
Published: December 2023

This book re-examines how Bonhoeffer employs musical patterns of thought and language to a theological end. It outlines how the significance of Bonhoeffer’s musico-theology has not been sufficiently recognised, and sets the stage for a rigorous re-examination. It becomes clear that through the lens of his musical metaphor of polyphony, Bonhoeffer demonstrates how his account of Christian formation contains a latent pneumatology.

Tarassenko demonstrates that incorporation of this pneumatology is key in deepening one’s understanding of Bonhoeffer. It allows the relationship between Christology and Christian formation in Bonhoeffer’s thought to become fully realised. The appeal to polyphony articulates this pneumatology, as an indirect but nevertheless exceedingly successful means of contouring an account of the Spirit’s work.
Female Voices and Egyptian Independence
Authors: Mahmoud Rania M.
Published: December 2023

This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence. Reading the novels against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves. Using a comparative lens, the study foregrounds the ways in which the authors confirm, critique, rewrite/revise, or reject developmental narratives. Paying particular attention to women that range from the uneducated black slave (a topic seldom discussed in Arabic literary studies), to the uneducated rural Siwan woman with artistic talent (Bahaa Taher’s Sunset Oasis, 2009), to the wealthy cultured Coptic housewife (Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell), to the rising late nineteenth-century British female professional (The Guns of El Kebir by Jon Wilcox), and finally to the eclipsed twentieth-century Egyptian female national intellectual (Naguib Mahfouz’s Sugar Street, 1992), all of whom play crucial roles in the journeys of the respective male protagonists, and by extension, the Egyptian national project.
Covid-19 in Palestine
Authors: Naser-Najjab Nadia
Published: December 2023

Israel and Palestine were worlds apart during the pandemic that claimed over five million lives globally. While Palestinians were forced to adopt crude survival measures and endure economic privations, Israel was praised as a vaccination world leader. This book demonstrates how Israel utilized the pandemic to tighten surveillance and control over Palestine and the Palestinians. Drawing on theories of settler colonialism and the concept of ‘necropolitics’, the book is a vital testament to the reality of the Israeli settler colonial project today. The author uses case studies and interviews with Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Hebron, Kufr Aqab and the Jalazoon refugee camp to understand the lived experiences of Palestinians. The newest colonial policies are discussed including how Israel activated a counter-terrorism database that could track citizens and ensure they adhered to lockdown regulations. It also shows how Israel destroyed Palestinian infrastructure essential for water, sanitation and hygiene, leaving Palestinians unable to fight the virus. The book shows that, for Palestinians, the pandemic was simply the latest in a long line of national catastrophes in a context where settler colonialism prevails.
A Diplomatic History of US Immigration during the 20th Century
Authors: Montoya Benjamin
Published: December 2023

This timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006.

Comparing the immigration experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans and Vietnamese, this book highlights how the US viewed each group throughout the American century, the various factors that have shaped US immigration, and the ways in which these debates influenced relations with the wider world. Using a comparative approach, Montoya offers an insight into the themes that have surrounded immigration, its role in forming a national identity and the ways in which changing historical contexts have shaped and re-shaped conversations about immigrants in the United States.

This account helps us better understand the implications and importance of immigration throughout the American century, and informs present-day debates surrounding the issue.
Critical Thinking
Authors: Watson Jamie Carlin , Arp Robert , King Skyler
Published: December 2023

‘You shouldn’t drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.’ Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right?

For anyone tackling philosophical logic for the first time, here is a practical guide to the skills required to think critically. From the basics of good reasoning to the difference between claims, evidence and arguments, Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp and Skyler King cover the topics found in an introductory course.

Now revised and fully updated, this 3rd edition gives you the chance to develop critical thinking skills that can be used in and out of the classroom. Two new chapters on reasoning in the age of conspiracy theories and fake news demonstrate how to apply reason and avoid being dissuaded by the persuasive power of evidence-free emoting. Features include a glossary, chapter goals, more student-friendly exercises, study questions, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. Chapter topics, organised around real-life examples such as predicting the weather, a murder mystery and the Ouija board, cover:

- the structure, formation, analysis and recognition of arguments

- deductive validity and soundness

- inductive strength and cogency

- inference to the best explanation

- truth tables

- tools for argument assessment

- informal and formal fallacies

This entertaining and easy-to-follow introduction is a complete beginner’s tool set to good reasoning, analyzing and arguing.
From Action to Ethics
Authors: Sandis Constantine
Published: December 2023

Over the course of the last decade, Constantine Sandis has advanced our understanding of the role action plays in determining our ethics and motives.

In this collection of his best essays in the philosophy of action, Sandis brings together updated versions of his writings, accompanied by a new introduction. Read collectively they demonstrate the breadth of his interests and ability to relate to broader issues within the culture, connecting debates in philosophical psychology about motivation, negligence, and moral responsibility with Greek tragedy, social psychology, and literature.

Along this path from action to ethics, Sandis engages with Hegel, Wittgenstein, Anscombe, Ricoeur, Davidson, and Dretske, together with contemporary authors such as Jennifer Hornsby and Jonathan Dancy. As he responds to each thinker and theme, he develops his own philosophical position, the key thesis of which is that philosophy of action without ethics is empty, ethics without philosophy of action is blind.
Story Mode
Authors: Case Julialicia , Freeze Eric , Pane Salvatore
Published: December 2023

Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core ‘gamers’, Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all into writing and designing complex and emotionally affecting narrative video games. The first textbook to combine game design with creative writing techniques, this much-needed resource makes the skills necessary to consume and create digital and multi-modal stories attainable and fun. Appealing to the growing calls for greater inclusivity and access to this important contemporary apparatus of expression, this book offers low-cost, accessible tools and instruction that bridge the knowledge gap for creative writers, showing them how they can merge their skill-set with the fundamentals of game creation and empowering them to produce their own games which push stories beyond the page and the written word.

Broken down into 4 sections to best orientate writers from any technological background to the strategies of game production, this book offers:

- Contextual and introductory chapters exploring the history and variety of various game genres.

- Discussions of how traditional creative writing approaches to character, plot, world-building and dialogue can be utilised in game writing.

- An in-depth overview of game studies concepts such as game construction, interactivity, audience engagement, empathy, real-world change and representation that orientate writers to approach games from the perspective of a designer.

- A whole section on the practical elements of work-shopping, tools, collaborative writing as well as extended exercises guiding readers through long-term, collaborative, game-centred projects using suites and tools like Twine, Audacity, Bitsy, and GameMaker.

Featuring detailed craft lessons, hands-on exercises and case studies, this is the ultimate guide for creative writers wanting to diversify into writing for interactive, digital and contemporary modes of storytelling. Designed not to lay out a roadmap to a successful career in the games industry but to empower writers to experiment in a medium previously regarded as exclusive, this book demystifies the process behind creating video games, orienting readers to a wide range of new possible forms and inspiring them to challenge mainstream notions of what video games can be and become.
Reading Mediated Life Narratives
Authors: Carlson Amy
Published: December 2023

Calling attention to the unseen mediation and re-mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this ground-breaking exploration uncovers the ever-changing strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in these texts. Concentrating on contemporary life texts found in the material book, museums, on social media and archives that present perceptions of individuality and autonomy, Reading Mediated Life Narratives exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives. Amy Carlson asks such questions as what agents act upon these narratives; what do the text, the creator, and the audience gain, and what do they lose; how do constantly evolving technologies shape or stymie the auto/biographical “I”; and finally, how do the mediations affect larger issues of social and collective memory?

An examination of the range of sites at which vulnerability and intervention can occur, Carlson does not condemn but stages an intercession, showing us how it is increasingly necessary to register mediated agents and processes modifying the witnessing or recuperation of original texts that could condition our reception. With careful thought on how we remember, how we create and control our pictures, voices, words, and records, Reading Mediated Life Narratives reveals how we construct and negotiate our social identities and memories, but also what systems control us.
Discovering Indian Philosophy
Authors: Long Jeffery D.
Published: December 2023

With a history dating back at least 3000 years, the philosophical tradition of India is one of the oldest to continue to thrive today. Encompassing a wide variety of worldviews, Indian philosophy includes perspectives that have ongoing relevance to contemporary issues such as the nature of consciousness, the relationship between philosophy and the good life, the existence of a divine reality, and the meaning of happiness. Contrary to widespread stereotypes, Indian philosophy is not simply an extension of Indian religion. Scepticism is a pervasive feature of this discourse, and there is even a school of thought which affirms materialism. The idea of a divine reality is debated extensively, not only in terms of the existence of such a reality–“Is there a God?”–but also in terms of its nature–“What is God?”

This book, drawing upon some of the latest research in the field, traces the history of the Indian philosophical tradition from ancient times to the present, outlining the views and major thinkers of such schools of thought as Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, and many more. Jeffery D. Long treats each system, however, not simply as an historical artifact, but as a living reality with important insights to offer our world today. It is essential reading for anyone interested in world philosophies and how they address the ‘big questions’ that have always engaged human beings
The Holocaust Sites of Europe
Authors: Winstone Martin
Published: December 2023

The Holocaust is the gravest crime in recorded history. In order to try and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos and other settings for the atrocities. The Holocaust Sites of Europe offers the first comprehensive guide to these sites, including much practical information as well as the historical context.

This book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to add another layer to their understanding of the Holocaust by visiting these important sites for themselves. It provide a survey of all the major Holocaust sites in Europe, from Belgium and Belarus to Serbia and Ukraine: not only does it discuss the notorious concentration and death camps, such as Auschwitz and Ravensbruck, but also less well known examples, like Sered' in Slovakia, together with detailed descriptions of massacre sites, as well as the ghettos, 'Euthanasia' centres and Roma and Sinti sites which witnessed similar crimes. Throughout the book there is also extensive insight into the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Sites of Europe is a thoughtful and fitting guide to some of the most traumatic sites in Europe and will be an invaluable companion for those who wish to honour the victims and understand more about their fate.
Reading Audio Readers
Authors: Berglund Karl
Published: December 2023

The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: when it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?

Tracking hundreds of thousands of readers on the level per user and hour, Reading Audio Readers combines computational methods from cultural analytics with theoretical perspectives from book history, publishing studies, and media studies. In doing so, it provides new insights into reading practices in digital platforms, the effects of the audiobook boom, and the business-models for book publishing and distribution in the age of streamed audio.
On Design
Authors: Balcıoğlu Tevfik
Published: December 2023

This volume presents for the first time a curated selection of essays written over the last 30 years by leading design thinker and educator Tevfik Balcioglu. With a focus on Turkish and British design, his writing examines questions of national and transnational design history and provides a critical insight into contemporary global design issues.

Structured into four thematic sections with contextualizing introductions, this anthology addresses various aspects of design history, theory, education and practice. Essays look at the impact of industrialization and globalization on design cultures and highlight local and global design developments from the late 20th century to the present day. They cover reproduction techniques and technological progress in recent decades, the changing nature of mass-produced objects and the introduction of new methods, systems, shapes, forms and styles over time.

Addressing issues relating to education and practice, case studies draw on Balcioglu’s work at various institutions such as Izmir University of Economics, Turkey where he established a faculty of design departments and introduced a new model of integrated programmes, and Kent University, UK where he established the BA (Hons) 3D Design course. His writing explores the nature and transferability of knowledge in the design field through critical analysis of the emergence of new degree programmes, the evolution of design education and the relationship between theory and practice.
The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology
Authors: Andrews Charles
Published: December 2023

Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology – works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuelled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today.

While none of the four novelists in this study were committed Christians during the 1920s, Andrews explores how their fiction written in the wake of the First World War operates theologically when it challenges English civil religion – the rituals of the nation that elevate the state to a form of divinity. Bringing these novels into a dialogue with recent political theologies by theorists and theologians including Giorgio Agamben, William Cavanaugh, Simon Critchley, Michel Foucault, Stanley Hauerwas and Jürgen Moltmann, this book shows the myriad ways that we can learn from the authors’ theopolitical imaginations.

Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions.
Central Asia in World War Two
Authors: Davis Vicky
Published: December 2023

Central Asia has long been the geographical and strategic crossroads of East and West, with inhabitants colonized by Cossacks and traders from the Russian Empire in the 19th century. This book examines how Central Asia, as part of the Soviet Union, experienced population displacements on an even greater scale during the Second World War. Vicky Davis reflects on how troops were sent westwards into action, only for waves of civilians to travel eastwards into the region: evacuees, refugees and even deportees sent into exile from their homelands in other parts of the vast Soviet Union.

Central Asia in World War Two is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the Second World War. Based on meticulous archival research, it considers the interactions of the individual citizen and the Soviet state, weaving together the experiences of over three hundred ordinary men and women in Central Asia as they coped with their new roles on the front line or in the rear. Suffering incredible economic and physical hardship, racism and religious oppression, these mainly Muslim citizens were subjected to a forced process of Sovietization under the influence of Stalin’s ubiquitous propaganda machine.

Davis shows how, while conscripts were all too often slaughtered or scapegoated in their regiments, the women and children left at home slaved in factories and communal farms to fuel the machinery of a war taking place thousands of kilometres away. She convincingly argues that the impact of forced assimilation, cultural indoctrination, anti-Semitism and re-education on the region were as great as the daily fight for survival in wartime, while the legacy of the period is almost as complex, with struggles over the ownership and revision of history continuing even today.
Philosophy of the Family
Authors: Baron Teresa , Cowley Christopher
Published: December 2023

Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a ‘family’? What is a ‘family tie’? We use the general concept of ‘family’ in many contexts – in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politics – and yet one person's family may be strikingly different from another's.

This introductory guide sets out to examine the multiple meanings of the family and related concepts. It explores the different roles played by these concepts in our attempts to understand who we are, where we belong, and what we owe to whom, and the relationships between individual, family, and society. Grounded in philosophy and ethics, the book also draws extensively from other disciplines such as law and sociology, discussing the concrete implications of these ideas for issues such as parental love, marriage and divorce, family autonomy, and assisted reproduction.
Living Latin
Authors: Kerrigan Charlie , Goldhill Simon
Published: December 2023

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language’s history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world, arguing that this material is just as worthy of readers’ attention as the famous classics. Those classics are reassessed in the light of popular concerns, as works of art that evoke ancient, sustainable, and communal ways of living, encompassing broad and diverse traditions of readers through time.

And of course Latin lived on: this account revisits what happened to the language after the Roman empire, tracing its twin streams — intellectual lingua franca and a series of Romance languages — into the twenty-first century. What emerges is a human chain stretching back thousands of years and still in existence today, a story of workers and weavers, violets and roses, storytellers and musicians, a common and democratic archive of world history.

Kerrigan’s strong and attractive case for a new conception of Latin sends out a call to arms to reevaluate the place of Latin in history. On the one hand, an interesting and readable history of the language, on the other, this book sets out to provoke questions for readers, students, and teachers of Latin, as well as anyone interested in the ancient Mediterranean world. Latin was and should always be for all.

This historical essay goes in search of the Latin of ordinary people, gathering a wide body of evidence to explore the diversity of the language through time, as well as the role that some of Latin’s most famous texts (the comedies of Plautus and Terence, Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses) have played in popular culture, from the streets of medieval Naples to contemporary music and film. Based in the latest scholarship and drawing on both Irish and international contexts, this book presents a new take on an old and influential language.
Homes in Crisis Capitalism
Authors: Holborow Marnie
Published: December 2023

Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination. Women now make up nearly half of the paid workforce globally, yet prevailing neoliberal social policy continues to rule out adequate state provision of child- and elder-care, choosing instead to rely on marketized services to fill the gap. It is mainly women who carry out this little valued care work, either in a non-paid or paid capacity, and gender inequality is entrenched across society. Official gender parity policies, often expressed in terms of equality of opportunity, have done little to ease the double burden of domestic and care work for the vast majority of women. Competitive labour markets discriminate against those expected to be the primary caregivers of children, the sick and disabled and older people. In addition, the presence across many societies of an acute housing crisis and soaring inflation have put added pressures on home life. A social reproduction crisis has developed, and it is working class women and women of colour who are paying the price.

Holborow analyses homes in crisis capitalism through a Marxist lens of capitalist social reproduction. This book charts the interwoven social and political effects and outcomes of work and care provided in the home, and makes the case for a radical break with capitalism to give social reproduction the material resources and social recognition it deserves.
The Asian Gang Revisited
Authors: Alexander Claire E.
Published: December 2023

In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over ‘Asian gangs’ in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of ‘the gang’, friendships, and the role of ‘brothers’ in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered identities.

The Asian Gang Revisited picks up the story of ‘the Asian gang’ over the subsequent two decades, examining the changing identities of the original participants as they transition into adulthood in the context of increased public and political concerns over Muslim masculinities, spanning the War on Terror, ‘grooming gangs’ and knife crime. Building on her ongoing relationships with the men over 25 years, the book explores education, employment, friendship, marriage and fatherhood, and religious identity, and examines both the changes and the continuities that have shaped this group. The book is based on two sets of interviews (in 1996 and 2012) and over 25 years of friendship. It traces the lives of its participants from their teenage years through to their early-mid 40s. A unique longitudinal study of this small, diverse but still close cohort of men, the book offers an intimate, rich and textured account of what it means to be a Muslim man in contemporary Britain.
Citizen-Driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh Liberation War
Authors: Stevens Rachel
Published: December 2023

This open access book presents an international history of humanitarianism during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Examining the motivations, actions and competing interests of multiple humanitarian actors such as the Red Cross, Oxfam, grassroots NGOs and individuals, it analyses the impact of humanitarianism for refugees in the camps.

With western governments indifferent or slow to respond to India’s pleas to assistance, Stevens shows how international aid to Bangladeshi refugees during the 1971 crisis was citizen-driven. Focusing on the actions of individuals and NGOs in Australia, Stevens shows how they rallied community support, fundraised at record levels and effectively lobbied the Australian government to increase aid and recognise Bangladesh’s independence. Using archival materials from Australia, the UK, Switzerland and the US, Citizen-driven Humanitarianism and the Bangladeshi Liberation War provides an account of how civil society was galvanized, even radicalized, in their pursuit to remedy systemic problems such as ethnic persecution, militarism and poverty. Documenting the myriad forces at play during the refugee crisis of 1971, it shows how broader social and cultural developments coalesced to create the citizen-driven humanitarianism of the late 20th century.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian Catholic University.