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Pengaruh Likuiditas, Leverage, Profitabilitas dan Kepemilikan Manajerial Terhadap Nilai Perusahaan: Studi Empiris pada Perusahaan Manufaktur yang Terdaftrar di BEI Tahun 2020-2022
Authors: Izzat El-Maula Pangesti Syafi'i  , Agus Endro Suwarno
Published: July 2024

A company will always strive to achieve its goals, for example long-term goals such as the ability to increase company value. Indrarini (2019: 3) defines company value as an investor's vision of the manager's success rate in managing the company's assets entrusted to him which is often associated with stock prices. The sampling technique in this study used purposive sampling method. The data collection method in the study is the annual financial report documentation method (annuar report). This study uses a type of quantitative research, the data used in the research is secondary data obtained by taking through the annual report of each manufacturing company which can be accessed through the company's official website. Liquidity has no effect on firm value, the high level of liquidity causes a decrease in firm value. Leverage affects firm value, companies with low leverage levels can increase firm value. Profitability has no effect on firm value, excessive inventory may have low profitability. Managerial ownership has no effect on firm value, the results of this study contradict agency theory.
The Effect of the Auditor’s Confirmation of Firms’ Disclosure of Political Instability Management on the Decision to Invest in Stocks
Authors: Zaky Hussein Metwally Ahmed , Elsaied Elsayed Farrag Salwa
Published: July 2024

This study aims to investigate the impact of geopolitical, financial, and human factors on foreign direct investment flows. The results revealed that the reality of foreign direct investment explains the political, financial, and human factors, in varying proportions, with significant significance. The positive impact of each of them is on controlling corruption. Governments use foreign direct investment activity as a main tool for growth and development. State and local governments are often responsible for attracting foreign direct investment, and foreign investors prefer countries that enjoy stability and have predictable investment environments by providing clear standards for dealing and having predictable legislation and regulatory parties in which the negotiating parties are clear, and that The absence of clear parties for implementation regarding ownership, taxes, dispute settlement, and instructions, so the investor is afraid of interfering with burdensome administrative resources and unpredictable laws and instructions Keywords: Auditor’s Confirmation – Disclosure – Political Instability – investment Decision.
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: THE CASE IS THE CONSEQUENCES OF NONADHERENCE TO TREATMENT BY AN ACCENTUATED PERSONALITY
Authors: Жигулина Ангелина Ивановна , Тыренко Вадим Витальевич , Федорец Владимир Николаевич , Василенко Владимир Станиславович , Свинцицкая Ирина Сергеевна
Published: July 2024

Введение. Приверженность лечению, комплаентность (patient compliance) — степень соответствия между реальным поведением пациента и терапевтическими рекомендациями, лечебным или профилактическим режимами. Качество приверженности лечению зависит от комплекса различных факторов: психологические характеристики больного, клиническиеособенности заболевания, социальные факторы и факторы, связанные с организацией медицинской помощи. Низкая приверженность является одной из значимых причин снижения эффективности терапии, качества жизни пациентов, повышения затрат на лечение, увеличения риска развития различных осложнений, ухудшения прогноза заболевания и жизни. Цель исследования: анализ низкой приверженности пациентки, страдающей ревматоидным артритом, с оценкой ее психологического статуса в реальной клинической практике. Материалыи методы. Использовался метод оценки психологического профиля пациентов с помощью теста акцентуаций свойств темперамента (ТАСТ), разработанный и стандартизированный впсихосоматической лаборатории Центрально-Черноземного научного центра РАМН. Диагностирован случай низкой приверженности пациентки, страдающей ревматоидным артритом ссоциально-пассивным типом акцентуации темперамента. Выводы. Клиническое наблюдение характеризует повышенный риск развития тяжелых осложнений у пациента с низкой приверженностью, причиной которой явился выявленный акцентуированный профиль личности.

Introduction. Adherence to treatment, compliance (patient compliance) — the degree of correspondence between the real behavior of the patient and therapeutic recommendations, therapeutic or preventive regimens, the quality of adherence to treatment depends on a complex of various factors: psychological characteristics of the patient, clinical features of the disease, social factors and factors related to the organization of medical care. Low adherence is one of the significant reasons for reducing the effectiveness of therapy, the quality of life of patients, increasing treatment costs, increasing the risk of various complications, worsening the prognosis of the disease and life. The main aim of this research is the analysis of the low compliance in patient with rheumatoid arthritis. The psychological status of the patient was rated in clinic. Materials and methods. The method of assessing the psychological profile of patients using the temperament accentuation test (TAST), developed and standardized in the psychosomatic laboratory of the Central Chernozem Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, was used. The case of bad compliance in patient with rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed. Also, the patient has a socially passive type of accentuation of temperament. Conclusions. Clinical observation characterizes an increased risk of severe complications in a patient with low adherence, the cause of which was the identified accentuated personality profile.
Diagnosis dan Tata Laksana Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Authors: Celine Anindytha Pranata
Published: July 2024

The number of elderly population in the world is increasing nowadays. In 2020, there were 1.4 billion people in the world aged ≥60 years and it is predicted to double by 2050. Decline in cognitive function and memory is one of the consequences of the aging process that can affect a person’s quality of life. MCI is a pathological condition also preclinical and transitional stage between normal aging and dementia. Early detection and intervention of MCI may delay onset and prevent the progressivity of MCI to dementia. This article aims to provide an overview of MCI which includes risk factors, subjective and objective clinical signs, disease course, diagnosis, and recommendation of MCI management based on existing studies and guidelines.
Impact of Paradoxical leadership and employee proactive work behavior on organizational performance: Mediating role of Organizational learning in Telecom sector of Pakistan
Authors: Ishtiaq Noman , Zubair Syeda Yumna , Rana Aziz Ur Rehman
Published: July 2024

This study examines the influence of impact of paradoxical leadership & proactive work behavior impact on organizational performance with mediating role of organizational learning in telecom area of Pakistan. Primary data has been collected through structured questionnaire from employees of telecom sector in Pakistan. 190 employees of telecom sector participated to the study. Purposive sampling, which is a form of non-probability sampling approach, was used to collect data. SPSS 17 has been used for statistical calculations. The study concluded that in Pakistan telecom business paradoxical leadership & proactive work behavior have a strong positive influence on organizational performance. The association between paradoxical leadership, proactive work behavior, and performance focused on transformation in Pakistan's telecom sector is also said to be mediated by organizational learning.
The Role Of Hedonic Motivation Mediating The Effect Of Augmented Reality Marketing On Buying Intention (Study of the Loreal Paris Brand in Indonesia on the Shopee Application)
Authors: Kusuma I Gede Antara Wijaya , Setiawan Putu Yudi , Ekawati Ni Wayan , Aksari Ni Made Asti
Published: July 2024

This study examines the effect of augmented reality-based marketing on consumer purchase intention, with hedonic motivation acting as mediation. In the context of L'Oreal Paris cosmetic products sold on the Shopee platform. This study uses a sample of 110 respondents with 11 indicators to fill out a questionnaire to raise the relevance of augmented reality technology in enhancing a more immersive online shopping experience, namely the merging of the real and digital worlds and the personal world, which can significantly affect consumer purchase intentions. Through the use of the Virtual Try-On AR feature in Shopee, consumers can see the application of cosmetic products virtually on their faces, which not only enhances product information but also provides a fun and satisfying shopping experience. Data was collected from Shopee users in Denpasar, Bali, who have used this augmented reality feature and analyzed using a quantitative approach. The results showed that hedonic motivation plays an important role in mediating the relationship between augmented reality marketing and purchase intention, signifying that emotional satisfaction from the augmented reality experience increases the likelihood of purchase. This research provides valuable insights for digital marketing and e-commerce practitioners to optimize augmented reality strategies in increasing consumer purchase intention. By understanding the effects of augmented reality marketing through hedonic motivation, brands can more effectively design user experiences that are not only informative but also entertaining and emotionally satisfying, thereby increasing consumer purchase intentions.
The Role Of Information Technology In Improving The Quality Of Health Services In Hospitals
Authors: Viegas Inacio Sarmento
Published: July 2024

This study aims to identify, analyze, and provide recommendations for the effective implementation of information technology to improve the quality of health services in hospitals as well as to find out how the IT process has become an integral component in various sectors, including business, education, government, and health. The methodology used in this study is a literature study and secondary data analysis as well as interviews with health practitioners and information technology experts with a review of scientific articles, research reports, and other publications, data from the Ministry of Health, and relevant national surveys. This will help in identifying current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the application of information technology in hospitals. Information technology has a positive impact on the quality of health services through operational efficiency, accuracy and security of patient data, increased patient satisfaction, and improved accessibility of services. There are challenges and barriers in the implementation of information technology such as implementation costs, training and human resources, data security and privacy, and resistance to change. The implementation of information technology in hospitals has great potential to improve the quality of healthcare services. However, challenges and barriers such as implementation costs, training needs, data security, and resistance to change must be overcome to achieve success.
Grafos Half Cut
Authors: Sucupira Rubens A. , Klein Sulamita , Faria Luerbio
Published: July 2024

[Erdös 1965] mostrou que todo grafo G = (V, E) com m arestas admite um corte de arestas com cardinalidade pelo menos m/2. Neste artigo definimos a classe de grafos Half Cut como os grafos que admitem um corte de arestas com cardinalidade igual a [m/2]. Nós também damos exemplos de grafos tais como caminhos, ciclos e grafos completos que devem satisfazer condições especiais para que sejam do tipo Half Cut.
So All Can Learn
Authors: McCarthy John
Published: July 2024

How do we educate so all can learn? What does differentiation look like when done successfully? This practical guide to differentiation answers these questions and more. Based on national and international work, McCarthy shares how educators finally understand how differentiation can work. Bridging pedagogy and practice, each chapter addresses a key understanding for how good teaching practices can include differentiation with examples and concrete methods and strategies.

The book is constructed to differentiate for diverse educators: veteran of many years to the pre-service teacher, classroom teacher leader to administrator as instructional leader, and coaches for staff professional development:

Presents common language for staff discussing learner needs.

Provides structures for designing powerful learning experiences so all can learn.

Includes chapter reflection questions and job-embedded tasks to help readers process and practice what they learn.

Explore a supporting website with companion resources.

All learners deserve growth. All teachers and administrators deserve methods and practices that helps them to meet learner needs in an ever challenging education environment. Take this journey so all can learn.
High Schoolers, Meet Media Literacy
Authors: Wasserman Jim
Published: July 2024

High school students today are no longer insulated from the vicissitudes of messaging/counter messaging in today’s always available, always blaring media (coming into their cars, homes, and ears through ever-more personal devices), including the cross-accusations of “fake news” that leave true seekers of information spinning in circles. Young people are no longer “future consumers,” as products they are not even old enough to buy are pitched to them, while groups with political agendas seek to make future voters already on their “team” before they first step into a voting booth. Fortunately, there is now a call for empowering teens with the knowledge and skills to decode such messaging so that they are no longer passive receptacles of messaging, but active participants in their own media processing. This is the field of media literacy.
Digital Citizenship
Authors: Rogers-Whitehead Carrie
Published: July 2024

Being a good digital citizen means to be an ethical and responsible member of the online community. Digital citizenship is the practice and teaching to help individuals, particularly young people, know how to navigate, create, communicate and protect themselves online. As more and more technology is used in personal lives and schools, the need for digital citizenship grows.

Digital Citizenship: Research and Practice from the Field provides research-based strategies that can help any educator working with technology and youth. Through experience and data collected by teaching in-depth digital citizenship classes with K-12 students, special populations and educator trainings, this book can provide real-life advice on what works, and what doesn't.

The models and advice in this title are based on prevention science. Prevention Science is the application of scientific method to prevent dysfunctional human behavior before it even starts.

In addition, this book will give its readers worksheets, activity sheets, lesson plans and assessment tools for implementing digital citizenship instruction in their organization.

Digital citizenship is a growing, multi-faceted, interdisciplinary subject in need of research and practical and applicable advice. This book brings together past studies, independent research and knowledge from other disciplines to provide solutions.
Imperfect Heroes
Authors: Barkley Andrew
Published: July 2024

Imperfect Heroes is intended to help teachers flourish during challenging times. The book is written for all educators, but especially those who seek renewal in their ability to help students learn and grow. Included are the inspiring and motivational stories of twelve “Teaching Heroes.” Successful leaders, writers, and artists face challenges strikingly similar to obstacles faced by teachers. Iconic individuals often use life hardships as a springboard to achieve higher levels of effectiveness. Teachers can do this, too.

Personal, career, and relational roadblocks are universal, and much can be learned from how heroes have turned trials into successes. The main idea of this book is that learning about the lives of people different from ourselves can provide large benefits. The application of ideas from new and divergent sources to our teaching practices can result in transformative growth in our ability to help others learn. Teachers can use the hero stories intertwined with classroom examples to gain confidence, motivate students, and renew their commitment to making a positive contribution to the world.
Toward a Holistic Intelligence
Authors: Lesch Lyn
Published: July 2024

Toward a Holistic Intelligence: Life on the Other Side of the Digital Barrier is a critical examination of how the Internet, our current digital age, and people’s continuous use of digital devices is adversely affecting their thought processes, working memories, attention spans, and overall level of intelligence. In doing so, it explores how a larger intelligence based primarily on direct insight and creative absorption, qualities which are integrally part of people’s emotive and sensorial lives, might allow for a clearer exploration of their world and themselves at a time in which our cognitive lives are being so thoroughly abrogated by the Internet and its resultant technologies.
Seven Steps to College Success
Authors: Hamblet Elizabeth C.
Published: July 2024

“Just when I’ve mastered the IEP process, here comes college.”

If you’re a parent of a student with a disability who has an IEP or 504 or you’re a professional who works with them, you probably know the K-12 landscape well. But you may have questions about what happens for these students when they get to college, where the shifts in prevailing laws result in a disability accommodation system that works differently, the academic demands increase, and some of the supports students have used in high school won’t be available.

The good news is that research shows that the proper preparation can help students make a smooth college transition! But the planning needs to be rooted in a thorough understanding of the changes they’ll encounter in the college environment.

In this essential guide, college learning disabilities specialist Elizabeth C. Hamblet builds a foundation of knowledge step-by-step and answers your urgent questions.

In 7 Steps to College Success, you’ll learn how:

·students access accommodations, and which ones commonly are and aren’t approved

·parents and professionals can help students develop the key personal and academic skills needed for self-management at college

·students can find colleges that are a good fit in all of the important ways and what admissions directors want them to know about the application process

This third edition has been greatly revised to make it equally helpful to parents and professionals. It includes updated research and interviews, and new in this edition is corrections to common myths readers may have heard.
A Workbook for Reading Argumentative Texts
Authors: Scheuermann James E.
Published: July 2024

This Workbook is a collection of exercises and case studies designed to serve as a companion to Reading Argumentative Texts: Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding. The exercises and case studies track each of the chapters of Reading and provide opportunities for students to hone their skills at using the analytic tools presented in Reading, and to acquire additional analytic tools and concepts. These tools are illustrated through the analysis of complete essays from the mass media, speeches, a sermon, and passages from academic works.

The approach is flexible and practical and avoids academic jargon and specific theories of argumentation. As is the case with Reading, this Workbook is grounded in two principles. First, that the meaning of an argumentative text is to be found in the statements that constitute the argument itself, in other statements that are more or less directly related to the argument, and in the structure and context of the text. Accordingly, while this book discusses the analysis of arguments, argument-types, and errors in argumentation (fallacies), it focuses equally on the other sources of meaning of a text. Second, there is no single, authoritative reading of an argumentative text.

The interplay of these two premises informs the view that analyzing and understanding an argumentative text is an art and that, within certain well-defined parameters, there are “better” and “worse” readings of a text and not “right” or “wrong” readings.

The principal sources of meaning discussed include: (1) the structure of the text (and so the book examines six types of introductions and teaches how to outline and summarize), (2) key sentences, phrases, and words in a text (so the book discusses ambiguity, the difference between factual and normative statements, irony, and rhetoric), (3) context (intellectual, social, political, cultural, and physical context), and (4) the logical connections between terms in an argument (including the four different types of arguments, fallacies, and the distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions).

The book is designed to be used in late high school or early college critical reading, critical thinking, rhetoric, or writing courses.
Enduring Questions
Authors: Bloome David , Freeman Evelyn B. , Horowitz Rosemary , Katz Laurie
Published: July 2024

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title

Children’s literature is ubiquitous in preschool and elementary school classrooms and in school libraries. Teachers use children’s literature for pedagogical purposes and to excite children’s imaginations and expose them to “worlds” beyond their own experience. Over the past thirty years, teachers have increasingly used children’s literature to expose their students to cultural, racial, and religious diversity as well as introducing their students to issues of social justice and social equity. Unfortunately, Jewish children’s literature is often absent in the preschool and elementary school classroom. When it is present, it is almost exclusively Holocaust literature. The result is that Jewish people are nearly invisible in the children’s literature found in preschool and elementary school classrooms and when it is available, it presents a “picture” to children of Jews as victims. The purpose of our book is to address this problematic situation and provide teachers with guidance in the use of Jewish children’s literature in the preschool and elementary school classroom.

There is a broad range of authentic, high quality Jewish children’s literature that could be used by preschool and elementary school teachers regardless of how many Jewish children they have in their class. It is as important for teachers with no Jewish children in their classroom as it is for teachers with some or many Jewish children in the class to expose all of their students to Jewish children’s literature. Our book introduces preschool and elementary teachers to a broad range of high-quality children’s literature books and stories and provides them with background information so that they can use Jewish children’s literature thoughtfully with their students.
Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male Achievement
Authors: Ransaw Theodore S.
Published: July 2024

All Black males are born with dreams and aspirations. However, Black male dreams are often deferred when they leave the classroom at the end of the day. Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male Achievement was created to be a survival guide for new teachers, with short and to-the-point content and structured reflective exercises for professional development as well as learning communities. This resource contains both research-based and classroom-based content that includes practical resources including:

-Expository real-world vignettes to ground each chapter and to set the tone for reflective practice.

-Reflective exercises for individual or group collaboration that facilitate positive internal shifts.

-Prolepsis approaches that help the reader plan for future success utilizing personal goal setting.

-Extended activities that build on and support positive educational outcomes with Black males in a way that affirms Black male identity are found in the toolkit.

Also in the toolkit, the reader will find sample letter templates to advocate for Black males, intervention plans, student efficacy surveys, and user-friendly best-practices for closing achievement gaps for Black males by grade level.
Conversations and the Human Experience
Authors: Wassermann Selma
Published: July 2024

The main thesis of this book is that words have power. They have power to nourish – to add substantially to the way people feel about themselves. They also have power to hurt – to diminish another’s feelings about self. The words we use to each other can bring us closer together or drive us further apart.

The materials in the book provide readers with opportunities to examine and reflect on the relationship between human interactions and the development of positive human relationships, specifically how conversations work to enable positive relationships or diminish them.

These include being able to “tune in” to what the other person is saying, freeing oneself from the need to judge, being respectful, and having a clear and non-defensive idea of what is coming out of one’s mouth.

The materials in the book also provide a self-instructional program to develop one’s skills in using human interactions that build more positive relationships.
Practice What You Preach
Authors: Philp Nicole
Published: July 2024

This book is based on the recognition that students learn best, and learn the most, when they witness their teachers modeling the characteristics they profess to value in their classrooms; in other words, when they see their teachers “practice what they preach”.

If teachers are going to hold themselves true to this adage, then not only do they have a responsibility to practice what they preach, but they must also be deliberate about what they preach in the first place. Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability and Personal Values explores how teachers can “preach” the values that matter most in the classroom and provides practical strategies for how to put those values into “practice”. Each chapter focuses on a different value that is worthy of investing time and energy into as an educator, and worthy of being “preached” and “practiced” through integrating them into curriculum outcomes lessons. Teachers who put into practice the values that they preach reap the rewards of respectful and engaged students. Students likewise reap rewards of self-confidence, determination, and a love of learning when those same values are modeled by their teachers.
Putting It All Together
Authors: Galle Jeffery W. , Galle Jo K.
Published: July 2024

Thanks to learning science and to the creativity of teaching and learning professionals, we know much more about the ways students learn experientially and collaboratively. For our courses, teaching scholars have identified practices and pedagogies that engage students to collaborate and experience deeper learning. Ken Bain has called Super Courses the courses that possess opportunities for learning in the classroom, the lab, and into the world where experiential learning joins course content. The course practices and pedagogies so fundamental to deep learning should also be included in program design (both for academics and campus life) and even the curriculum itself.

Putting it all Together provides a frame that includes the pedagogies and practices and discussion of the larger contexts within which they can be applied. The book also offers more than thirty brief chapters of selected practices applied in individual contexts. The authors are faculty members, administrators, and staff professionals who have developed learning experiences for students. The rationale behind the book is simple: embedding the most powerful practices and pedagogies within courses, programs, and the curriculum calls for every professional at every institution to play a different but equally important role in improving student learning and student success.
Where Stars Meet People
Authors: Pitre Leilya A.
Published: July 2024

This book is unique. It offers readers opportunities to explore the most common universal themes taught in secondary English Language Arts classrooms using poetry; however, it doesn’t simply suggest poems grouped by common themes. Each poetry section presents a poetic conversation among the poets on each of the given eight themes. One of the poets initiates each section with an original poem, and the next poet responds to the first, initial, poem. The other poets join the conversation responding to the first, second, or any of the poems previously included in this section. The poems feature the themes of poetry, places, nature, beauty, and harmony, love, loyalty and betrayal, home and family, loss and grief, and dreams and hopes for the future. The three final chapters aim to explain how to use these poems, and poetry in general, in the classrooms and beyond its walls; to invite novice and experienced poets to create various forms of poetry; and to share views on poetry, its teaching, reading, and writing. The various poetry forms are explored in this volume to create poems that help deliver the author’s message. All poems are written exclusively for a diverse readership of the book.
Learning Compassion
Authors: Rinaldi Jacquelyn Ane , Mayes Clifford
Published: July 2024

This book discusses the relationship between compassion and peace with a special emphasis on the role that therapy and education can play in promoting a state of affairs in which, as humanity becomes more compassionate, peace becomes more possible.
Creating a Teacher Collective
Authors: Impedovo Maria , Ferreira-Meyers Karen , Inoue Noriyuki
Published: July 2024

The present book addresses the following challenge: How do we create and sustain a teacher community? For practitioners, the main question in this handbook is: How do we build and facilitate teacher communities? The different chapters discuss teacher interaction for learning and professional development in light of three constructs: the group, the community, and the network.

There is a wealth of literature, especially on theoretical frameworks, success factors, and barriers to participation in teacher communities. However, this book addresses the need for a step-by-step guide with valuable suggestions for those who want to create (from scratch) and support a community of teachers brought together to deal with specific issues and, importantly, mediated by educational technology
The Little Guide to Giving Poster Presentations
Authors: Bond John
Published: July 2024

Poster presentations are usually the first steps in a budding academic and research career. Many potential presenters, however, feel lost in this process, as there are few courses that teach you how to proceed. The Little Guide to Giving a Poster Presentation: Simple Steps to Success shows the reader how to take their ideas or work and present it to their peers and community in poster format. The Little Guide answers all the beginner’s questions in a direct and useful fashion.
Virtual K-8 Teaching
Authors: Baker Nicholas M.
Published: July 2024

Virtual K-8 Teaching: A Handbook for Building Productive Teacher-Student Relationships is a deep dive into the ways in which virtual K-8 teachers build those ever-elusive relationships with virtual students. Virtual K-8 teachers rarely, if ever, see their students in-person and yet are expected to build meaningful and productive relationships with them. The literature on this topic was analyzed and discussed. Eight virtual middle-school teachers were interviewed, as well. These teachers shared stories, tips and tricks.

Concerning the building of meaningful and productive teacher-student relationships in virtual settings, the research brought about many common threads, including student engagement, teacher academic and social presence, the nurturing of student sense of belonging, bridging the transactional distance gap and the importance of the student’s educational community. Also, emerging throughout was an immediately useful collection of teacher tips and tricks for creating productive, safe spaces that foster success of the K-8 virtual student. Ultimately, teacher-student relationships were found to be crucial in the overall success of the virtual K-8 student.
Ludic Pedagogy
Authors: Lauricella Sharon , Edmunds T. Keith
Published: July 2024

Ludic Pedagogy: A Seriously Fun Way to Teach and Learn outlines why and how having fun and positive experiences in college and university classes (and not just at social events or parties) leads to increased student success in face-to-face, hybrid, hyflex, or online environments. It provides readers with the Ludic Pedagogy model, together with how instructors can employ the elements of the model – play, playfulness, and positivity – in the courses that they teach.

This book is grounded in empirical research so that readers can appreciate why each element of the Ludic Pedagogy model contributes to increased learning and student wellbeing. It also offers examples, practical advice, and guidance on how faculty can employ activities and attitudes so that students have more memorable, meaningful, and valuable educational experiences in college/university. In order to win over the elbow-patched-blazer-wearing professoriate, we specifically address why the ludic mindset, and having fun, is compatible with “serious” academic work.
Courting Islam
Authors: Oliver-Dee Sean
Published: July 2024

This book is an exploration of the perceptions of the American and British governments about Islam and Muslims based upon their experiences over the past two centuries. It provides a response to the accusation that US and British governments are inherently anti-Islamic and are seeking the destruction of that faith through their policy decisions. The book uses primary documents from the US and British governments to examine the attitudes of politicians and officials in a variety contexts ranging from the ‘War on Terror’, the Iranian Revolution and the ‘Trojan Horse’ Scandal to the conversion of Alexander Russell Webb to Islam, Islamic Finance and Mosque-building. In so doing it provides a wide-angle lens on the diversity of issues and experiences which have shaped the views of officials and politicians about Islam.
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Authors: Salyer Matthew C.
Published: July 2024

Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century “romance” hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that popular Romantic novels such as Scott’s Waverley and Cooper’s The Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the modern nation state.
Embracing the Anaconda
Authors: Carrasco Anita
Published: July 2024

Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Anita Carrasco examines the socio-environmental impacts of contemporary mining on the Atacameños, an indigenous community in northern Chile, and their home in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world. Carrasco describes the impacts of short-term mining corporations like Anaconda Copper that arrived, destroyed, and departed, and explains the positive and negative memories of those left behind. Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, race and ethnic studies, and Latin American studies.
Celebrity and the American Political Process
Authors: Brubaker Jennifer
Published: July 2024

Integrated Marketing Communication: Celebrity and the American Political Process uses an integrated marketing communication perspective to examine the brand of the celebrity as it is brought into the American political system, primarily in the form of celebrity endorsements and branding, as candidates, causes, and movements use celebrities as a strategy to reach voters. Jennifer Brubaker posits that while the relationship between celebrities and political issues is hardly new, it has evolved into a significant connection—in the past, it was a novelty to see a politically active celebrity; today, it’s becoming an expectation related to fame. Using integrated marketing communication and persuasion theory, Brubaker argues that establishing candidates’ brand identity is a critical factor in determining whether they win or lose an election, and celebrity-politics relationships are a central tool in building a candidates’ brand identity. Scholars of political science, communication, marketing, and history will find this book particularly useful.
Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South
Authors: Lugo-Ocando Jairo
Published: July 2024

Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South: A Mouthpiece for Truth examines the way in which foreign aid has shaped professional ideologies of journalism as part of systematic and orchestrated efforts since the beginning of the twentieth century to shape journalism as a political institution of the Global South. Foreign aid pushed for cultural convergence around a set of ideologies as a way of exporting ideology and expanding markets, reflecting the market society along with the expansion of U.S. power and culture across the globe. Jairo Lugo-Ocando argues that these policies were not confined to the Cold War and were not a purely modern phenomenon; today’s journalism grammar was not invented in one place and spread to the rest, but was instead a forced colonial and post-colonial nation-building exercise that reflected both imposition and contestation to these attempts. As a result, Lugo-Ocando claims, journalism grammar and ideology differ between societies in the Global South, regardless of claims of universality. Scholars of journalism, international relations, Latin American Studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.
Revolutionary Egypt in the Eyes of the Muslim Brotherhood
Authors: el-Nawawy Mohammed , Elmasry Mohamad Hamas
Published: July 2024

The Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in 1926, has been at the forefront of the resurgence of political Islam in the Middle East. It has also endeavored to reach out beyond Egypt and the Middle East, to an international audience, increasing its media campaign in English. This outreach is the focus of the book, which delves into the media strategies and ventures of the Muslim Brotherhood by studying how it has used its official English website to frame its political ideologies and its role in the 2011 Egyptian uprising.
The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals
Authors: Dietz Dan
Published: July 2024

Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals, including three by George Gershwin (Strike Up the Band, Of Thee I Sing, and Let ’Em Eat Cake). The decade also saw the last musicals by Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Vincent Youmans; found Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in full flower; and introduced both Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen’s music to Broadway.

In The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway from 1930 through 1939. This book discusses the era’s major successes, notorious failures, and musicals that closed during their pre-Broadway tryouts. It includes such shows as Anything Goes, As Thousands Cheer, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, The Cradle Will Rock, The Green Pastures, Hellzapoppin, Hot Mikado, Porgy and Bess, Roberta, and various editions of Ziegfeld Follies.

Each entry contains the following information:

Plot summary

Cast members

Names of all important personnel, including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors

Opening and closing dates

Number of performances

Critical commentary

Musical numbers and the performers who introduced the songs

Production data, including information about tryouts

Source material

Details about London and other foreign productions

Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including a discography, filmography, and list of published scripts, as well as lists of black-themed and Jewish-themed productions. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of information and provides a comprehensive view of each show. The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.
Where in the World Are You?
Authors: Everist Norma Cook , Vos Nelvin
Published: July 2024

Everist Vos challenge congregations to take a new look at and mission -- to see themselves as God's people in the world. Explore exciting new understandings that come from starting with people in the world rather than with church structures. Professors Everist (clergy, Wartburg Theological Seminary) and Vos (laity, Muhlen-berg College) bring their insights to bear on how people's daily struggles, needs, and hopes can connect to God's mission through practical steps. These include spiritual growth and the challenge of mutual accountability. A reflections section helps readers discern God at work in their lives.
Worship Frames
Authors: Kapp Deborah J.
Published: July 2024

Worship is a congregation's most important practice. In worship we encounter God's gracious presence and come face to face with the frailty, goodness, and potential of our humanity. We are comforted, corrected, forgiven, healed, challenged, and sometimes even disturbed by the divine and one another. We are morally formed and sent by God into the world. The mysterious and uncontrollable work of the Spirit is at the heart of all genuine worship. Yet worshipers and leaders work hard to worship. In Worship Frames, Deborah Kapp explores how the sociological concept of frames can help us better understand the social and human dynamics of worship. Frames are interpretive schemes or ideas that help people locate, understand, and identify their experiences. For example, opening a service with a period of silent reflection followed by a sober hymn is a different frame for worship than opening with congregational announcements and a loud call-and-response session. She has found that this theory has opened her eyes to dynamics in worship she had not noticed before and best helped her understand differences in worship styles. By understanding our frames, we can learn how to reframe worship to give fuller and richer expression to our faith. Kapp shares her insights with congregations and worship leaders so they will gain new perspectives from which to analyze and design worship, and deepen their perceptions about the role worship plays in faith communities.
Transparent Teaching of Adolescents
Authors: Keller-Kyriakides Mindy
Published: July 2024

Transparent Teaching of Adolescents is a philosophy, method, and timely application of strategies that span the school year. A collaborative effort from all over the globe, the dialogue between this teacher and her former students presents both the wholeness of teaching and a model of how to build rapport, engage high school students in their experience, and enrich learning at the secondary level of education.
A Sociology of Hikikomori
Authors: Sekimizu Teppei
Published: July 2024

Hikikomori, which literally means “withdrawal,” is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades. Based on interviews with people who have experienced it, Teppei Sekimizu explores what the hikikomori experience is like from a sociological perspective. He also examines the characteristics of four decades of hikikomori discourse by governments, professionals, and mass media; the difficulties faced by parents with hikikomori children; and the social policy which has relegated most provision of welfare for citizens to the private sector. Through these examinations, the author illustrates how the exclusive labor market and familial social policies create masses of family-dependent and isolated individuals in contemporary Japan. A Sociology of Hikikomori leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the manifold hikikomori phenomenon and Japanese society itself.
Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy
Authors: Lee Shayne
Published: July 2024

This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The book’s concept of a modern God introduces a new method of analysis that reimagines theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes who recalibrate divine attributes to the sensemaking cadences of their contemporaries. Shayne Lee demonstrates how cinematic theodicy navigates a happy medium between affirming divine benevolence and sidelining supernatural activity and that filmic characters, like their real-world counterparts, are quite clever at triangulating rationality, faith, and tragedy. In addition to positing synergistic links between theodicy and secularity, Lee offers critical insights into cinema’s relevance to the sociology of evil by specifying how films code and narrate malevolent actions and outcomes, demarcate clear lines of distinction between victims and perpetrators, clarify societal dynamics driving inequality and oppression, and transform individual episodes of suffering into collective and memorialized identities of trauma. This book illuminates how filmic treatments of theodicy construct evil and suffering in calculated ways that connect specific acts, effects, and institutions to greater structures of meaning.
Leadership Practices in Speech and Debate Coaches
Authors: Regan Barry J.
Published: July 2024

Intercollegiate forensics is an extracurricular activity venerated in American higher education for producing influential thought leaders, public servants, and highly trained professionals. In spite of its sterling reputation, financial support for and student participation on intercollegiate forensics teams is in an alarming state of decline. The author argues that intercollegiate forensics coaches, in the face of enormous challenges which threaten the continued vitality of competitive speech and debate at institutions across the United States, must chart a strategic pathway forward for current and existing intercollegiate forensics teams. This book advocates for the application of empirically validated leadership frameworks to the nuances of leading speech and debate programs. The author explores the use of innovative pedagogical methods and coaching strategies rooted in modern perspectives of competitive access and inclusion to boost team participation from individuals and groups historically excluded from the activity. Through the recommendations laid out in this book, the author offers a framework for intercollegiate forensics coaches to use in navigating an uncertain future.