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Aksi Peduli Lindungi: Kegiatan Membersihkan Pantai Kunyit Kecamatan Bumi Waras Kota Bandar Lampung
Authors: Febiola Putri Giska Mutiara  , Nugroho Adhi Puspito  , Nisa Aprilliani  , Galang Samudra  , Reza Aulia  , Ayunda Rahmanita Ahmad  , Tria Ratna Wulandari  , Toto Gunarto  , Zulfa Emalia
Published: December 2024

The cleanliness condition of Kunyit Beach, Bumi Waras sub-district, has recently become increasingly concerning, with a lot of litter scattered around and no one willing to clean it up. There is trash caught in the rocks along the beach, most of which is inorganic waste such as plastic, bottles, styrofoam, and other discarded items, as well as some organic waste like wood and leaves. This is caused by the lack of public awareness about the importance of maintaining cleanliness and the absence of government support, such as the lack of adequate waste disposal facilities and Environmental Cleanliness Operations Units. (SOKLI). Therefore, a care and protection action was carried out to address the issues arising in the Kunyit Beach area. Environmental care actions through beach cleaning activities are a concrete effort to preserve marine and coastal ecosystems, as well as to raise public awareness about the importance of a clean environment. This action was carried out by the local community who voluntarily assisted, as well as members of Group 1 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Economics course, to fulfill the assignment given by the course instructor, with permission from the Head of the Development Economics Department, the District Head of Bumi Waras, and the Village Head of Bumi Waras. Through this action, it is hoped that collective awareness will be created to maintain environmental cleanliness and the habit of not littering so that coastal areas can be sustainably preserved.
Eksistensi Cafe dalam Tren Cafe Hopping Sebagai Pengembangan Aktivitas Urban Tourism di Banyuwangi
Authors: Dita Ayu Lestari  , Ryan Yeremia Iskandar  , Arya Putra Sundjaja
Published: December 2024

Tourism activities in urban areas in Banyuwangi are currently experiencing limitations where it is currently very difficult to find tourist attractions in exploring urban tourism in the Banyuwangi area that are attractive to tourists. The development of tourist attractions to increase urban tourism activities in Banyuwangi or Urban Tourism is carried out by exploring the potential that exists in urban areas. The current trend of café hopping has become a new phenomenon that offers interesting activities in urban areas, namely visiting cafés and restaurants at close intervals. This trend not only increases urban tourism activities for tourists but also develops the existence of cafes and restaurants visited by tourists. This research data was collected using observation methods, in-depth interviews with informants. Informants are determined based on purposive sampling, where informants are selected based on certain specifications. The informants for this observation were the staff and managers of the Banyuwangi International Yacht Club, Casa Banyu, Alas and Sarasa. The results of this research analyze the tourist attraction of each café and restaurant that is the destination of the café hopping trend, and the development of each café and restaurant since the emergence of the café hopping trend. The development of cafés and restaurants was analyzed using fishbone analysis to see the impact on each café and restaurant of the café hopping trend as one of the urban tourism activities in Banyuwangi.
Analisis Performa Keuangan Perusahan pada PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, Tbk Periode 2018-2023
Authors: Dewi Ambarwati  , Dhea Anggraini  , Permata Dian Pratiwi
Published: December 2024

This research is analyzing financial performance of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, Tbk from 2018-2023 using liquidity, probability, solvency and activity. The objective of this study is to assess the company's ability to overcome challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to understand the strategies it implemented in response. Data for this research was sourced from financial reports on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and analyzed using a quantitative descriptive approach. The study finds that the liquidity ratios show a positive trend, with an average Current Ratio of 145.9% and a Quick Ratio of 104.7%, indicating the company's strong capacity to meet short-term liabilities. Profitability remains stable, with an average Return on Investment (ROI) of 6.3% and Return on Equity (ROE) of 12.1%, reflecting the company's efficiency in generating profits. The solvency analysis, based on the Debt to Asset Ratio (DAR) averaging 48.2%, shows a balanced level of debt, while the decreasing Debt to Equity Ratio (DER) suggests improved debt management. The activity ratios, including Total Asset Turnover (TAT) and Fixed Asset Turnover (FAT), highlight consistent efficiency in utilizing assets to drive revenue. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, Tbk has maintained solid financial health, demonstrating robust liquidity, stable profitability, and effective solvency and asset management. This research aims to contribute to financial literature and serve as a reference for both companies and investors in making informed strategic decisions.
Os impactos psicológicos em mulheres com câncer de colo de útero e a atuação do psicólogo do diagnóstico ao primeiro tratamento
Authors: Monteiro Gabriella Gomes , Santos Alice Parentes da Silva
Published: December 2024

O câncer é uma das maiores causas de mortalidade no Brasil, e o câncer de colo de útero (CCU) é a terceira maior causa de morte para as mulheres. Esse tipo de câncer acomete principalmente a faixa etária de 35 a 49 anos e tem alta incidência nas regiões Norte e Nordeste do Brasil. Nesse cenário, por ser uma doença que carrega tantos estigmas e principalmente o CCU, que se refere a um órgão o qual tem relação com aspectos muito relacionados ao papel de gênero e características específicas da mulher, a equipe de saúde deve estar bem preparada teoricamente bem como em relação aos aspectos emocionais. Isto é, tanto o momento do diagnóstico quanto o início do tratamento são etapas delicadas e que podem gerar consequências se a comunicação não for feita com cuidado e empatia. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho visa, portanto, contemplar a atuação do psicólogo hospitalar junto a pacientes com CCU e explorar os dados epidemiológicos desse quadro clínico no Maranhão. Esta pesquisa tem como foco possíveis estratégias de intervenções psicológicas que podem ser utilizadas desde o primeiro contato com a doença até o início das terapêuticas, tais como: protocolo SPIKES, comunicação cuidadosa de profissionais da saúde, psicoterapia, grupos terapêuticos e outras que serão detalhadas a seguir. O estudo ocorreu por meio de revisão de literatura e pôde constatar que estratégias como acompanhamento individual e em grupo (grupos de apoio e/ou psicoterapia em grupo) podem auxiliar na elaboração do sofrimento de mulheres acometidas com câncer de colo uterino. Contudo, ressalta-se a escassez de publicações específicas em relação a essa patologia.
ACUTE CONTACT TOXICITY OF SELECTED CONVENTIONAL AND NOVEL INSECTICIDES TO TRICHOGRAMMA JAPONICUM ASHMEAD (HYMENOPTERA: TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE)
Authors:   1Department of Agriculture Entomology, College of Horticulture, KAU, Kerala, India, S Uma
Published: December 2024

Eighteeninsecticides belonging to conventional and novel chemical classes wereevaluated for their toxic effects on the hymenopteran egg parasitoid Trichogrammajaponicum Ashmead following the protocols recommended by InternationalOrganization for Biological Control (IOBC) in the Toxicology laboratory atCollege of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University during 2012-13.Commonly used conventional insecticides comprising six organophoshates(acephate 75 SP, chlorpyriphos 20 EC, dichlorvos 76 EC, dimethoate 30 EC,malathion 50 EC and quinalphos 25 EC); one carbamate (carbaryl 5 DP); onesynthetic pyrethroid (fenvalerate 20 EC) and ten novel insecticides viz;acetamiprid 20 SP, emmamectin benzoate 5 SG, fipronil 80 WG, imidachloprid 200SL, indoxacarb 14.5 SC, buprofezin 25 SC, chlorantraniliprole 18.5 SC,flubendiamide 480 SC, spinosad 2.5 SC and thiamethoxam 25 WDG at fieldrecommended concentrations were tested for their acute contact toxicity againstT. japonicum by adopting residual film bioassay method. The toxicity ofinsecticides was manifested as lethal effect on the adult parasitoids. Amongthe eighteen insecticides tested, acephate caused the highest mortality of88.75 % and chlorantraniliprole caused the lowest mortality (21.25 %) to theadults of T. japonicum. Novel insecticides viz., emmemectinbenzoate, fipronil, imidachloprid, indoxacarb, buprofezin andchlorantraniliprole were rated as ‘harmless’ as per IOBC safety classificationwhereas spinosad, thiamethoxam and flubendiamide were found ‘slightly harmful’to T. japonicum. Conventional organophosphates viz., acephate,chlorpyriphos and dichlorvos were ‘moderately harmful’. Dimethoate, malathion,quinalphos carbaryl, fenvalerate and acetamiprid caused a mortality of 30 – 79% leading them to be rated as ‘slightly harmful’ to adults of T. japonicum.
STUDIES ON EFFICACY OF CERTAIN NEEM PRODUCTS AGAINST SPODOPTERA LITURA (FAB.)
Authors:   Department of Agricultural Entomology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Killikulam, Vallanad-628 252, Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu State, India, T Abdul Razak
Published: December 2024

A laboratory study was conducted to testthe efficacy of certain neem products viz., neem oil (NO), neem seedkernel extract (NSKE), neem cake extract (NCE), neem leaf extract (NLE) and onecommercial product Vijaya neem against third instar larva of tobaccocaterpillar Spodoptera litura. The food indices Consumption Index (CI),Efficiency of Conversion of Ingested Food (ECI) and Growth Rate (GR) werederived. NSKE five per cent recorded the lowest CI of 0.428 and GR of 0.130. NOthree per cent showed the lowest ECI of 26.04. Vijayaneem exhibited thehighest antifeedant index (64.75) followed by NSKE five per cent (48.7). Amongthe neem products tested, NSKE five percent showed the highest larval mortalityof 40 per cent. Insect growth regulatory (IGR) effect was recorded both in theNSKE five per cent and NO three per cent treated insects and it was morepronounced in NSKE
REPELLENT AND ADULTICIDAL EFFICACY OF ESSENTIAL OILS OF TWO INDIGENOUS PLANTS FROM MYRTACEAE FAMILY AGAINST LASIODERMA SERRICORNE F.
Authors:   Biopesticides and Toxicology Division, Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Malappuram - 673 635, Kerala, India, Viswan K Anju
Published: December 2024

Several plantextracts and essential oils are being used as insecticides to reduceenvironmental
pollution andrisk of resistance. The aim of this study is to evaluate the repellent andadulticidal
properties ofessential oils of two indigenous plants from Myrtaceae family, Melaleuca leucadendron L. and Callistemoncitrinus Curtis against the Coleopteran beetle Lasioderma serricorne F. included inthe family Anobiidae. In the present study repellent activity, direct contact toxicityand indirect toxicity of the two essential oils were evaluated. Significantpest repellency was demonstrated. Undiluted concentrations of essential oilsshowed 97.5% repellency after 1 hour of exposure. Both the repellent andadulticidal activity was highly dependent upon the oil concentration andexposure time. In direct contact toxicity test both M. leucadendron andC.citrinus essential oil exhibited 100% mortality within 1hour. In indirectmethod, both the essential oils exhibited 100% mortality in a time period of 6hours. From these observations it is clear that these oils have potential asactive insecticides against cigarette beetle.
Improving Human Resource Quality as a Key to Harmonizing Law Enforcement in Military Judicial Environment
Authors: Prastyanto Yanwiyatono , Saptomo Ade
Published: December 2024

Law enforcement in the military justice environment in Indonesia faces unique challenges, including legal gaps and inadequate quality of human resources (HR). This impacts the effectiveness of law enforcement and justice for members of the TNI. This research aims to explore the barriers to law enforcement in military courts and provide recommendations to improve the quality of human resources and the effectiveness of law enforcement. The research method used is normative legal research with statutory and conceptual approaches. Data collection was conducted through literature study and analysis of relevant legal documents. The results showed that there were several obstacles, including the lack of clear regulations, lack of qualified human resources, and disharmony between the military and general courts. Although legal procedures exist, their implementation is often hampered by lengthy bureaucracy and a lack of training for military legal personnel. This research recommends improved education and training, competency-based recruitment, and the development of an information management system for law enforcement efficiency. To improve the effectiveness of law enforcement in military courts, structural and substantial reforms need to be carried out, including improving the quality of human resources and harmonization between the military and general justice systems. These efforts are expected to create a justice system that is more responsive and accountable to the needs of society.
BRINCAR NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: CRIANÇAS, COTIDIANO, POLÍTICAS E FORMAÇÃO
Authors: Nascimento Angelica Paola dos Santos Ferreira , Santos Maria Walburga dos
Published: December 2024

This text brings issues related to play decisions within early childhood education institutions, specifically with children aged between 3 and 5 years. The aim is to investigate, in the reports of early childhood education teachers, at what moments children decide how, where, with what and with whom to play in the daily life of school institutions. As defined in the National Early Childhood Education Guidelines (2009), the playing is the axis of pedagogical practices (just like interactions); it is also a prerequisite for this work, that defends playing as a child’s free action. This qualitative research used semi-structured as its data collection tool, in an attempt to understand the motivations and actions of the research subjects. It results come from a master’s thesis; through the analysis, it was possible to infer that educational practices are the result not only of the actions of educators, but they are inserted in a complex institutional mechanism, which covers other spheres that directly interfere in the activity of teachers. We consider that even with advances in the academic production of childhood studies and in legislation for a conception of children as active and participants, in everyday life we realize that actions in early childhood education institutions are still conditioned by an adult-centric vision.
VENHA VER O PÔR DO SOL COMIGO! REFLEXÕES SOBRE OS MUNDOS DAS INFÂNCIAS E RESISTÊNCIA VIA TRABALHO DOCENTE
Authors: Lira Aliandra Cristina Mesomo , Furlan Marta Regina , Saito Heloisa Toshie Irie
Published: December 2024

Starting from the understanding that laughter, joy, emotions and senses are central and legitimate in the education of children, the objective is to reflect on the teaching action in education in early childhood education in the search for new meanings and meanings for teaching, learning and child development. It is an essay in the light of the critical foundations of childhood education and of authors who dialogue with this theoretical basis. Organized into three sections, initially brings the conceptions of children and childhoods, emphasizing the role of the educational context in their formation, then highlights the relevance of children's experience based on teaching intentionality and, finally, presents educational organizers that can help to think the role of the educational institution and teaching work in the process of child humanization. We reiterate the need to organize teaching based on a commitment to valuing and offering meaningful experiences, which enhance and promote interaction, autonomy and daily learning, committed to expanding children's knowledge. Pedagogical work committed to the human development of children must include their participation, consideration of their ways of thinking and interpreting the world, as a way of welcoming and valuing the childlike being.
Optimizando Escalonamentos de Alinhamentos Biológicos sob Restrições de Memória
Authors: Mills Gabriel C. , Boeres Cristina , Rebello Vinod E. F.
Published: December 2024

Em um trabalho anterior, escalonamentos em pipeline foram demonstrados ser assintoticamente ótimo em termos de makespan enquanto requer o menor consumo de memória para executar um conjunto de alinhamentos biológicos. Em particular, este artigo foca em determinar se makespans menores que aqueles de escalonamentos em pipeline existem para experimentos de tamanho limitado e, se existir, quanto é possível melhorar e a qual custo.
John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson
Authors: Inaba Mitsutoshi
Published: December 2024

John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA Victor labels, Sonny Boy shaped Chicago's music scene with an innovative style that gave structure and speed to blues harmonica performance. His recording in 1937 of "Good Morning, School Girl," followed by others made him a hit with Southern black audiences who had migrated north. Unfortunately, his popularity and recording career ended on June 1, 1948, when he was robbed and murdered in Chicago, Illinois. In 1980, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

Mitsutoshi Inaba offers the first full-length biography of this key figure in the evolution of the Chicago blues. Taking readers through Sonny Boy's career, Inaba illustrates how Sonny Boy lived through the lineage of blues harmonica performance, drawing on established traditions and setting out a blueprint for the growing electric blues scene. Interviews with Sonny Boy's family members and his last harmonica student provide new insights into the character of the man as well as the techniques of the musician.

John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville provides fans and musicians alike an invaluable exploration of the life and legacy of one the Chicago blues' founding figures.
The Westerns and War Films of John Ford
Authors: Matheson Sue
Published: December 2024

Responsible for some of the greatest films of the 20th century—The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man among others—John Ford was best known for motion pictures that defined the American West and the face of wartime military. A Hollywood celebrity, Ford lived his life against the background that Twentieth Century-Fox fashioned for him. As he did, the facts of his life merged with—and became inseparable from—his multifaceted legend, fostered by Hollywood’s studio culture and his own imagination.

In The Westerns and War Films of John Ford Sue Mathesonoffers an engaging look at one of America’s greatest directors and the two genres of films that solidified his reputation.

Drawing on previously unreleased material, this volume explores the man, the filmmaker, the veteran, and the legend—and the ways in which all of those roles shaped Ford’s view of America, national character, and his creative output. Among the films discussed here in depth are Ford’s early productions, such as The Iron Horse and Drums along the Mohawk, his military films, such as Submarine Patrol, The Battle of Midway, and They Were Expendable, and his Westerns, including Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and Cheyenne Autumn.

Ford imbued many of his creations with a point of view that represented his ideals, and the films discussed here illustrate their director’s distinct vision of American life on the frontier and in service of the country. That vision—Ford’s idealization of the American Character—would, in turn, shape the worldview of several generations. The Westerns and War Films of John Ford will appeal to critics and scholars, but also to any fan of this iconic filmmaker’s work.
Historical Dictionary of the Cold War
Authors: Smith Joseph , Davis Simon
Published: December 2024

“Cold war” was a term coined in 1945 by left-leaning British writer George Orwell to predict how powers made unconquerable by having nuclear weapons would conduct future relations. It was popularized in 1947 by American journalist Walter Lippmann amid mounting tensions between the erstwhile World War II Allies - the capitalist democracies - the United States of America and Britain - versus the Soviet Union, a communist dictatorship. As the grand alliance of the “Big Three” they had defeated Nazi Germany, its satellites and Japan in World War II but became rivals who split the world into an American-led Western “bloc” and Soviet-led Eastern “bloc.” Both were secured from direct attack by arraying ever-greater nuclear and conventional forces against the other while seeking global supremacy by other means. The 45-year Cold War lasted until the Soviet Union collapsed between 1989 and 1991.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Cold War contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, crucial countries and peripheral conflicts, the increasingly lethal weapons systems, and the various political and military strategies. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this crucial period in history.
How the Math Gets Done
Authors: Draper Catheryne
Published: December 2024

How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math provides a roadmap to understanding what the symbols for math operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) really mean, what the clues are to interpret these symbols, and a kind of short story of how they evolved over time. to decipher the enigmatic squiggles of those verbs called operations.

How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math

compares the old and the new methods for math procedures from a “Big Idea” perspective by organizing the information in four sections: Definition, Organization, Relationships and Patterns, and Connections. Each section contains three chapters that clarify the issues related to each “Big Idea” section. The Conclusion offers parents even more hints and guidelines to help their child through this “math country” of procedures for calculating in math.
Doing Good and Doing Well
Authors: Kaufman Michael L.
Published: December 2024

Helping professionals of all types are everyday heroes who routinely and selflessly improve the lives of others. But they often don’t believe or realize that they also form a valuable pool of future leaders—that their specific characteristics, distinct aptitudes, and servant leader’s mindset not only prepare them, but already uncommonly equip them, to rise to the highest tiers of their organization’s leadership structure.

You don’t have to be either someone who does good in the world for others or someone who makes a good living running a company or managing others. You can be both—you can remain committed to the greater good of society and still lead a for-profit or nonprofit organization or become a successful entrepreneur. You can simultaneously activate your right-brain and left-brain faculties, apply your honed service-oriented side and your business-savvy side.

How does the author know this can be done? Because he did it himself! Sharing lessons learned over a 30-year career and featuring plentiful anecdotes to illustrate the pointed discussions and central themes, Doing Good and Doing Well: Inspiring Helping Professionals to Become Leaders in Their Organizations aims to inspire helpers to exercise the power they already possess and encourage them to travel a fruitful and fulfilling path to professional development and organizational leadership.
Joseph and Harriet Hawley's Civil War
Authors: Teed Paul E.
Published: December 2024

This book explores the remarkable partnership of Joseph and Harriet Hawley, a married couple from Connecticut whose lives were transformed by overlapping experiences in the American Civil War era. When Joseph became the colonel of the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in 1862, Harriet ignored family advice and social convention, and travelled to Union military headquarters at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, where Joseph’s regiment was stationed. From that bold beginning, she spent the next three years as a visitor at field hospitals, a teacher at freedman’s schools, a wartime journalist, a ward nurse, and her husband’s informal advisor and publicist. Moving in and around the scenes of military action, she lived and worked in spaces usually reserved for men and took on responsibilities that implicitly challenged conventional understandings of women’s physical and emotional dependency. While Joseph struggled for recognition and promotion in the brutally competitive environment of Union military politics, Harriet shrewdly used her own personal contacts with power brokers in Hartford and Washington to protect his interests and those of his men. And as the terrible realities of the Civil War pushed them both to the brink of physical and emotional collapse, Harriet and Joseph remained committed to the cause and found ways to sustain their devotion to both Union and emancipation in the very worst moments of the conflict.
The Ethics of Hospitality
Authors: Boursier Helen T.
Published: December 2024

Set against an ethical-theological-philosophical framework of the role of love in the Abrahamic tradition (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), The Ethics of Hospitality highlights the personal witness of refugee families seeking asylum from the Northern Triangle in Central America to the U.S. Their heart-wrenching stories include why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the arduous overland journey, and their inhospitable reception when they arrived to the U.S. and requested asylum. It includes an overview of the systemic connections between the U.S. and the violence which catapults these families to seek safety. The voices of the families join the witness of interreligious volunteers of greater San Antonio who assist the refugee families in diverse capacities and who testify to the mutual blessing they receive when love of God, expressed as love of neighbor, becomes central to the immigration conversation. Ultimately, the proposal is that the interreligious community has the privilege and responsibility to respond in love with refugees seeking asylum, while also leading the outcry in the public square for their radical welcome.
Dignity As a Human Right?
Authors: Smith George P.
Published: December 2024

Dignity is seen, commonly, as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. The dimensions of this obligation are subject to wide discussion and defy universal agreement. Dignity is seen, commonly, as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. Dignity as a Human Right? examines dignity within the prism of death, and more particularly, its humane and dignified management. Although there is no domestic or international right to die with dignity, within the right to life should, arguably, be a right to dignity and self-determination especially at its end-stage; for, a powerful interface exists between the right to human dignity and the very right to life, to love and humanity as well as compassion at its conclusion. Legislative efforts--nationally and internationally--have begun to recognize a right to die with dignity when a condition of medical futility exists. There are presently five states and the District of Columbia, together with a judicial interpretation from the Montana Supreme Court, which recognize death assistance for the terminally ill. Internationally, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland are seen as leaders in this recognition. The United Nations has played a significant role in framing end-of-life decision making within the ambit of human rights protection. The UN Charter states unequivocally that the dignity and worth of the human person must be protected and safeguarded. Similarly, among other instruments, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights acknowledges that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity
Authors: McClendon III John H.
Published: December 2024

Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. Explicitly, the philosophical examination of Black Theology conceptually maps its quest for establishing Black Christology as an authentic form within Christian theology. This text critically expounds on the methodologies and arguments, which guide how Black Theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity. Significantly, the racialized character of Black Theology immediately sets this discourse within the context of philosophy of race. Clearly, the philosophy of race in terms of its substance and scope is continually expanding. Notably, the philosophy of religion in its conceptual association with the African American experience considerably enriches the content of the philosophy of race. Therefore, Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal stands as a unique contribution to philosophy of race. Summarily, while this book tackles the formidable problem of Christian theological subject matter, nonetheless, the reader must be aware that this is not a work executed methodologically in any theological manner, inclusive of Christian theology. Subsequently, while the object of our investigation substantively remains theological in character, the method of investigation is guided by philosophical inquiry, which is based on secular principles. Furthermore, although, most mainstream works in philosophy of religion, along with theology neglect to exam African American theologians and philosophers, the subject matter of Black Christology substantially facilitates in filling this intellectual void.
Building Walls
Authors: Castañeda Ernesto
Published: December 2024

The election of Donald Trump has called attention to the border wall and anti-Mexican discourses and policies, yet these issues are not new. Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. This book describes the building of walls, symbolic and physical, between Americans and Mexicans, as well as the consequences that these walls have in the lives of immigrants and Latin communities in the United States. The book is divided into three parts: categorical thinking, anti-immigrant speech, and immigration as an experience. The sections discuss how the idea of the nation-state itself constructs borders, how political strategy and racist ideologies reinforce the idea of irreconcilable differences between whites and Latinos, and how immigrants and their families overcome their struggles to continue living in America. They analyze historical precedents, normative frameworks, divisive discourses, and contemporary daily interactions between whites and Latin individuals. It discusses the debates on how to name people of Latin American origin and the framing of immigrants as a threat and contrasts them to the experiences of migrants and border residents. Building Walls makes a theoretical contribution by showing how different dimensions work together to create durable inequalities between U.S. native whites, Latinos, and newcomers. It provides a sophisticated analysis and empirical description of racializing and exclusionary processes.

View a separate blog for the book here: https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/blog-building-walls-excluding-people/
The Sidekick Comes of Age
Authors: Zimmerly Stephen M.
Published: December 2024

Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study—until now. Using young adult literature (YA) to study the sidekick reveals new and exciting ways to understand these kinds of characters and this kind of literature. YA has embraced the sidekick, recognizing the way the character reflects the importance of growth and finding one’s place in the world. The nature of many YA texts allows sidekicks to grow beyond literary or historical origins. This includes letting sidekicks “evolve” over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick’s characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick’s perspective, paradoxically making the sidekick the hero. A singularly focused and prolonged study helps to establish sidekick scholarship as a burgeoning field in and of itself.
Framing the Friday Sermon to Shape Opinion
Authors: Madanat Philip Odeh
Published: December 2024

The book investigates the intricate relationship between Friday sermon and the worshippers’ opinion in Jordan. The author examines the religious sphere in Jordan in an attempt to unravel the apparent and hidden actors who produce and intake Friday sermon in an ostensibly westernized yet profoundly religious society. It fills a major gap in literature on how Islamist movements and groups use and produce the Friday sermon and its sociopolitical context. Covering the period before, during and after the Arab Spring, the book also challenges the lack of field investigation on framing and agenda-setting. The state, Islamist groups, and the media all vie to usurp the loyalty of the worshipper through the Friday sermon.
The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence
Authors: LaPaglia Gino
Published: December 2024

Strategic Intelligence is a form of meaning that promises the possibility of strategic advantage, dignity, the achievement of objective, and the fulfillment of potential in hostile environments. In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence Gino LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of reason—arising in human experience, encoded as value, and born by culture as a strategic resource—has been encoded as values that have been memorialized in culturally authoritative sources in various Eurasian cultures for thousands of years. These sources have validated a strategic orientation in the world, legitimized the strategist as a heroic identity, and transmitted a coherent world view that enables the practitioner of strategy to overcome asymmetric threat. By excavating the provenance of strategic thought expressed in the cultural identity of the strategist in the most culturally authoritative mythological, literary, philosophical and religious sources, and excavating the underlying strategic values expressed in cultural products, LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of human rationality is one of the most basic structural dynamics of human meaning, and that the transmission of this strategic way of being and acting in the world offers hope for life’s underdogs.
Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul
Authors: Alvaro Carlo
Published: December 2024

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal farming is one of the leading causes of environmental degradation. Farming livestock contributes to a large amount of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year; it contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, coral reef degeneration, and deforestation. Second, raising animals for food causes millions of animals to suffer and be killed. And third, consumption of meat and animal products is linked with heart disease, diabetes, and various cancers. Consequently, a global change in the way that animals are treated is imperative. Many moral philosophers have suggested a move toward vegetarianism. But vegetarianism, unfortunately, still relies on raising animals for food, and does not avoid the deleterious effects of animal products on human health. The right solution is ethical veganism, which is the avoidance of all animal products and by-products. Some moral philosophers have framed ethical veganism in terms of animals having the same fundamental rights as humans, a notion that is highly controversial. In any case, the view that animals have rights is not capable of generating the moral duty to embrace ethical veganism. The answer is to adopt a virtue-oriented approach to the treatment of animals because the acquisition of virtues, such as compassion, magnanimity, temperance, and fairness enable people to see that raising and using animals for food is unfair, callous, and self-indulgent.
Three Fruits
Authors: Cameron Mary M.
Published: December 2024

Mary M. Cameron first encountered an Ayurvedic medical practice in remote, western Nepal in 1978. In Three Fruits, Cameron traces Ayurvedic medical practices from those village healers to the professionally trained doctors in the Kathmandu Valley. An intimate portrayal of Ayurvedic doctors in Nepal during a period of political unrest and social change, Three Fruits connects the doctors’ care for Nepal’s valued medicinal plants to the boundless joy of health they desire for their patients. Combining ethnography with history and Indian philosophy, this detailed study weaves the elegant theory of tridosa (three humors) and the popular medicine trifala (three fruits) into the narrative accounts of doctors’ multi-sited practice. Aware of rising global alternative medicine and environmental movements, the doctors speak to their relevance for Ayurveda and sustainable, integrated, and culturally meaningful plural medicine in Nepal. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, history, philosophy, ethnobotany, public health, and environmental studies.
The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de Prémare in Eighteenth-Century China
Authors: Mungello D. E.
Published: December 2024

The image of a voice in the wilderness evokes an outcast who has been condemned and banished by society. That image fits the scholar-priest Joseph de Prémare who spent the last thirty-eight years of his life (1698-1736) mainly in remote areas of China. He was condemned to silence by not only his religious superiors, but also by intellectuals in Europe. He was silenced because his Figurist theories were regarded as dangerous and implausible. And yet the irony of this silencing is that Father Prémare was one of the most knowledgeable Sinologists of all time. As a missionary in towns in the southern province of Jiangxi, he was freed from many pastoral duties by an assisting catechist and able to devote himself to intensive study of Chinese texts. He was practically a scholar-hermit who left the urban, politicized atmosphere of Beijing after only two years to return to Jiangxi province. There he cultivated Chinese literati who helped him assemble a remarkable collection of classical texts. He was prolific in producing a wide body of works in philology, history, philosophy, religion and drama.

Faced by critics who were claiming that Chinese culture was alien to Christianity, Prémare joined the effort led by his fellow Jesuit Joachim Bouvet to save the Christian mission in China from destruction. The Figurists were radical in arguing that the ancient Chinese texts, like the Old Testament, anticipated the coming of Christ long before his birth. They claimed that Chinese commentators erred in viewing these ancient texts as records of history when in fact they were works of metaphorical and figurative meaning. Influenced by a Chinese scholar, Prémare made a philological analysis of Chinese characters to explain his theory. When Figurism was condemned by his religious superiors, Prémare attempted to circumvent their prohibition by sending his manuscripts to the proto-Sinologist Etienne Fourmont in Paris, asking that they be published anonymously. Fourmont criticized Prémare’s theories and failed to publish them. By the time of his death, Prémare had sent most of his manuscripts to Paris where they remained buried for many years.
The Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study & Learn a Discipline
Authors: Paul Richard , Elder Linda
Published: December 2024

The Thinker’s Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline empowers students to take control of their own learning by asking questions, challenging assumptions, drawing upon reliable information, and exploring alternative opinions. Making intellectual work more accessible, practical, and engaging, this book fosters minds that question, probe, and can master a variety of forms of knowledge through intellectual perseverance and regular use of critical thinking skills.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fair-minded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.
The Man Who Created Merseyside Football
Authors: Kennedy David
Published: December 2024

A comprehensive look into early professional football, this biography of Everton and Liverpool’s founding father John Houlding breaks new ground by addressing the important role of football club ownership in the early history of the game.

Football supporters the world over are aware of the great rivalry that exists between the two giants of Merseyside football, Everton and Liverpool. This rivalry was created out of a split within Everton FC that gave rise, in 1892, to Liverpool FC. The two clubs subsequently went on to dominate the English game, amassing twenty-seven English top flight titles between them, more than any other city in the country.

What isn’t as well known is that one man was responsible for the rise of both clubs: former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, John Houlding. In The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton, David Kennedy recounts the sporting legacy of Houlding. A brewer and Conservative politician, Houlding was a polarising yet fascinating figure. His financial input, first at Everton Football Club and then at Liverpool Football Club, provided the launch pad for the establishment of two nationally and internationally known sporting organizations. By the time of his death in 1902, both clubs had reached the pinnacle of the English game and Houlding’s place as the founding father of professional football in Merseyside was assured.

More than just a football biography, The Man Who Created Merseyside Football also details the many other aspects of Houlding’s life—a family man, businessman, and local politician with parliamentary aspirations. His business and political life, in fact, became entangled in dramatic fashion with the Liverpool football scene on more than one occasion. The complete story of this captivating and influential individual is finally told for the first time in this book, in full and wonderful detail.
American Isolationists
Authors: Jeans Roger B.
Published: December 2024

With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First Committee, focused their attention on the European war when it broke out in September 1939. Most were less interested in Japan’s aggression in East Asia, which left an opening for another isolationist group, the Committee on Pacific Relations, which opposed war with Japan right up to the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists, Roger B. Jeans provides a detailed history of the committee, which was launched in September 1941, a scant ten weeks before the beginning of the war. Its driving force was Missourian Orland Kay “O. K.” Armstrong, who traveled widely during the late 1930s and early 1940s recruiting prominent Americans for his movement against war with Japan. He and his colleagues were often critical of US policies and of China, the victim of Japanese aggression. As a result, they were often ostracized as pro-Japanese. Jeans draws on previously untapped sources—the personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them—to paint a rich picture of this little-known group.
Darker with the Dawn
Authors: Steiner Adam
Published: December 2024

From his early work with The Birthday Party to the future sounds of Ghosteen, Nick Cave has rewritten the language of rock ‘n’ roll.

Darker with the Dawn uncovers the history and deeper meanings behind Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ most well-known songs from “Tupelo”, “The Mercy Seat”, “Red Right Hand”, “Stagger Lee”, “Into My Arms”, to “Higgs Boson Blues” and beyond.

The book explores Nick Cave’s life in music drawing upon his inspirations of the Bible, Greek myth, and literature, as well as his enduring passion for gospel, blues, and progressive rock. Steiner reflects upon Cave's journey from his childhood in Australia, struggles with drug addiction, his young fascination with the nightmare landscapes of America's wild west and the southern gothic towards a reckoning with his own sense of Christian spirituality. In a career spanning four decades Cave's songwriting has moved from the saints and sinners of the traditional murder ballad to piano-based heartbreak songs, deconstructed garage rock and ambient fever dreams delivered through minimalist electronica. Adam Steiner dives into the world of a complex songwriter who, in his universal expressions of love and death, continues to speak to us of the light and shade of humanity.
Disneyland on the Mountain
Authors: Glasgow Greg , Mayer Kathryn
Published: December 2024

A fascinating look at Walt Disney’s last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it.

It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mountain. A vacation destination where guests could ski, go ice skating, or be entertained by a Disney Imagineer-created band of Audio-Animatronic bears. In the summer, visitors could fish, camp, hike, or take a scenic chairlift ride to the top of a mountain. It was the Mineral King resort in Southern California, and it was Walt Disney’s final passion project. But there was one major obstacle to Walt’s dream: the growing environmentalist movement of the 1960s.

In Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was, Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer provide an unprecedented look inside the Mineral King saga, from its origins at the 1960 Winter Olympics to the years-long environmental fight that eventually shut the development down. The fight, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, reshaped the environmental movement and helped to put in place long-reaching laws to protect nature. Although the court battle, coupled with Walt’s death in 1966, meant the end for the Mineral King resort, the ideas and planning behind it have permeated throughout the Walt Disney company and the ski tourism industry in ways that are still seen today.

With firsthand interviews and behind-the-scenes details, Disneyland on the Mountain offers incredible access to a part of Disney history that hasn’t been thoroughly explored before, including Walt’s love of nature, how the company changed after Walt’s death, and of course, the story of Mineral King. It’s a tale of man versus nature, ambition versus mortality, and how a gang of scrappy environmentalists took on one of America’s most beloved companies.