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The Impact of the Discovery Learning Model on Mathematical Communication Skills and Study Habits of Junior High School Students
Authors: Faridayanti Iva , Nasrullah Anton , Hidayat Amat , Kania Nia
Published: February 2025

This study investigates the impact of the discovery learning model on students' mathematical communication skills and learning habits in junior high school. Motivated by low mathematical communication abilities and limited use of varied teaching methods, this research aims to assess learning outcomes, the effect of discovery learning, and students' study habits. Using an experimental design (One Group post-test design), 26 seventh-grade students from SMP Negeri 2 Cinangka were selected via simple random sampling. Data were collected through a mathematical communication skills test (5 questions) and a learning habits questionnaire. Prerequisite tests (normality and homogeneity) and hypothesis testing (Independent Sample t-test) were conducted for analysis. Results revealed that the experimental class achieved an average mathematical communication score of 66.83, compared to 60.00 in the control class. Hypothesis testing showed a significant effect (p = 0.04 < α = 0.05). Additionally, the learning habits questionnaire indicated a 65% positive response. The findings demonstrate that the discovery learning model significantly enhances students' mathematical communication skills and fosters strong study habits. This study highlights the effectiveness of discovery learning in improving educational outcomes and suggests its potential for broader application in mathematics education.
Implications of The Philosophy of Materialism on Education in Indonesia
Authors: Yusuf Arba’iyah , Rohmaniyah Vivid
Published: February 2025

The philosophy of materialism is a school of thought that emphasizes that the main reality in life is material. The implications of this philosophy for education in Indonesia include various aspects, ranging from the curriculum, teaching methods, to the purpose of education itself. In an education system influenced by materialism, the orientation of learning focuses more on pragmatic aspects and material outcomes, such as technical skills and economic achievement, compared to the development of moral and spiritual values. As a result, there is a paradigm shift in education that focuses more on utilitarian aspects and the reduction of human values. This article will analyse the impact of materialism philosophy on education in Indonesia and offer a critical perspective to find a balance between material and spiritual aspects in the education process.
Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Pendataan Warga Dasawisma Berbasis Web Framework
Authors: Hidayatullah Reisye Remagari , Amir Faisal , Oriyasmi Fadhilah , Fadilillah Fadli , Hasibuan Rajimar Suhal
Published: February 2025

Pemberdayaan dan Kesejahteraan Keluarga (PKK) Kampung Bukit Agung menghadapi kendala dalam proses pendataan warga dasawisma yang masih dilakukan secara manual. Pendataan manual ini seringkali menyebabkan kesalahan penulisan, data yang tidak lengkap, dan keterlambatan dalam pengelolaan data. Masalah ini menghambat efektivitas program PKK yang membutuhkan data yang akurat dan terkini untuk pengambilan keputusan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan sistem informasi berbasis web yang dapat menyederhanakan proses pendataan warga dasawisma, meningkatkan akurasi, mempercepat administrasi, dan memungkinkan akses informasi secara real-time. Sistem ini diharapkan dapat memberikan kontribusi dengan mengurangi kesalahan dalam pendataan dan mendukung pengambilan keputusan yang lebih cepat serta tepat di tingkat desa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa implementasi sistem ini meningkatkan efektivitas program pembangunan desa dan kesejahteraan masyarakat. Sistem diuji melalui survei kepuasan pengguna, yang menunjukkan 89% pengguna menyatakan bahwa sistem berhasil meningkatkan efektivitas dalam pengelolaan data, terutama dalam hal pengambilan keputusan, akurasi data, dan kemudahan penggunaan.
Klasifikasi Jenis Jerawat Berdasarkan Convolutional Neural Network
Authors: Andini Aulia Rizqi , Yuadi Imam , Yuadi Imam
Published: February 2025

Jerawat biasanya dimulai pada masa awal pubertas dengan meningkatnya produksi minyak pada wajah. Penelitian ini merupakan implementasi dari klasifikasi dan pendeteksian jenis jerawat menggunakan Image Processing. Jerawat dapat diklasifikasikan kedalam beberapa jenis, yaitu komedo hitam, komedo putih, pustula, dan papula. Klasifikasi menggunakan Deep Learning metode CNN menggunakan pustaka Tensforflow Keras. Berdasarkan penelitian yang telah dilakukan, tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengklasifikasikan berbagai macam jenis jerawat dengan data gambar yang dimiliki setiap jenis jerawat. Hasil penelitian yang didapat dari hasil pengujian menghasilkan nilai akurasi yang tinggi 96.57% dan Loss 24.78%. Menggunakan Deep Learning terbukti bekerja cukup efisien karena telah menghasilkan nilai akurasi yang tinggi.
Optimalisasi Pelaporan Bencana Melalui Pengembangan Aplikasi Metode User Centered Design Berbasis Android
Authors: Kuntoro Hizkia Fernando , Widodo Tri
Published: February 2025

Di berbagai belahan dunia, bencana alam dan insiden darurat dapat terjadi kapan saja. Respons yang cepat dan terkoordinasi sangat penting untuk menyelamatkan nyawa dan meminimalkan kerugian. Namun, dalam banyak kasus, kurangnya sistem pelaporan yang efisien dan terstruktur sering kali menjadi penghambat dalam manajemen bencana. Dengan aplikasi pelaporan bencana, proses pelaporan dan respons terhadap bencana dapat ditingkatkan secara signifikan. Aplikasi ini memungkinkan orang untuk dengan cepat melaporkan bencana atau kejadian darurat menggunakan ponsel Android mereka. Informasi yang dikumpulkan secara real-time dapat langsung diteruskan ke pihak berwenang dan tim penyelamat, sehingga mereka dapat merespons dengan lebih cepat dan tepat. Selain itu, aplikasi pelaporan bencana juga memfasilitasi koordinasi antara berbagai lembaga dan sukarelawan yang terlibat dalam penanggulangan bencana, dengan memungkinkan pembagian informasi dan sumber daya secara langsung melalui platform digital, aplikasi ini membantu mengoptimalkan upaya penanggulangan bencana secara keseluruhan. Pembuatan aplikasi pelaporan bencana menggunakan bahasa pemrograman Kotlin dan database MySQL. Aplikasi yang dihasilkan memiliki fitur untuk melaporkan bencana dengan mengisi foto, nama, telepon, alamat, dan tanggal serta isi laporan. Fitur yang ada tersebut kemudian dilakukan pengujian menggunakan metode black box testing dan mendapatkan hasil 100% Berhasil.
The Effect of Digital Competence and Knowledge Sharing on Digital Transformation in the Greater Bandung TPT (Textile and Textile Products) Industry
Authors: Ruslan Ruslan , Wahyuningtyas Ratri
Published: February 2025

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 encourages companies to carry out digital transformation to increase productivity and maintain existence. The textile and textile products (TPT) industry is one sector that has begun to implement automation in its production processes. This study aims to measure the level of digital competence, knowledge sharing, and digital transformation in the Greater Bandung textile industry. The research used a quantitative approach with a causal study method. Data were collected from 260 respondents working in textile companies in the Greater Bandung area through online questionnaires. Non-probability sampling technique was used to select respondents, while data analysis was conducted using a continuum line for variable description and SEM-AMOS version 24 to test the relationship between variables. Descriptive research results show that employee digital competence is at a competent level, knowledge sharing practices are at an effective level, and the company's digital transformation is at a good level. The results of hypothesis testing show that Digital Competence has a positive and significant effect on Digital Transformation. Knowledge Sharing has a positive and significant effect on Digital Transformation. Simultaneously, Digital Competence and Knowledge Sharing have a positive and significant effect on Digital Transformation. This study confirms the importance of digital competence and knowledge sharing in supporting digital transformation in the textile sector. Companies are advised to develop training programs according to employee needs, improve technological infrastructure, facilitate knowledge sharing, and align digital strategies with business strategies.
Weaving the Future of Islamic Civilization 2.0: Prospects and Challenges of a Mini-Research
Authors: Thahir Mustafa Kamil
Published: February 2025

This research discusses the concept of "Islamic Civilization 2.0," which aims to build a dynamic and relevant vision of Islamic civilization in the 21st century. In the context of global challenges such as social inequality, environmental degradation, and cultural polarization, it is important to integrate Islamic values with an inclusive and cosmopolitan approach. The purpose of this study is to develop a holistic framework that integrates Islamic epistemology, cosmopolitan values, and inclusive approaches, and to provide practical recommendations for policy makers, educators, and academics in applying those values to face contemporary challenges. This study uses a qualitative approach with a literature study design, analyzing the works of Husein Heriyanto, Bruce Lawrence, and Supriyanto Abdi. Data were collected from books, journal articles, and relevant documents, then analyzed using thematic analysis to develop a holistic framework. The research found that integrating Islamic epistemology, cosmopolitan values and inclusive approaches can form a comprehensive framework for the revitalization of Islamic thought and practice. This framework emphasizes the need for engagement in intercultural dialogue and the development of human values-based science inspired by Islam. This research provides guidance for policymakers, educators and academics to implement policies and curricula that are in line with maqasid al-syariah (the higher purpose of Islamic law). It concludes that "Islamic Civilization 2.0" offers a balanced approach to contemporary challenges by integrating Islamic values in a global context.
Analisis Teknik Terjemahan pada Tombol Perintah Aplikasi Grab Driver saat Menjalankan Order
Authors: Ramadhan Gilang , Gusthini Misyi
Published: February 2025

Penulis menemukan bahwa pada aplikasi Grab Driver, banyak tombol-tombol perintah yang diterjemahkan dari Bahasa Inggris ke Bahasa Indonesia sebagai perintah yang jelas kepada para pengemudi Grab Driver. Berdasarkan pengamatan ini, penulis berupaya untuk mengetahui efektifitas penerjemahan dengan menganalisis teknik penerjemahan pada tombol perintah aplikasi Grab Driver. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui teknik penerjemahan yang digunakan pada tombol perintah pada aplikasi Grab Driver saat menjalankan order dari Bahasa Sumber (BSu) yaitu Bahasa Inggris kedalam Bahasa Sasaran (BSa) yaitu Bahasa Indonesia. Metodologi penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif. Menurut Sugiyono (2005) pada Ronni (2015) metode kualitatif didefinisikan sebagai “metode penelitian yang digunakan untuk meneliti pada kondisi objek yang alamiah, (sebagai lawannya adalah eksperimen) dimana peneliti adalah sebagai instrumen kunci, teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan secara triangulasi (gabungan), analisis data bersifat induktif dan hasil penelitian kualitatif lebih menekankan makna dari pada generalisasi”. Berdasarkan analisis penulis pada 9 tombol perintah yang ada, penulis menyimpulkan hasil terjemahan mudah dipahami dan instruksinya jelas bagi pengemudi Grab diluar Indonesia yang menggunakan Bahasa Inggris dalam menjalankan order. Selain itu, TSu dan TSa sudah setara dalam makna, informasi yang disampaikan, dan keterbacaan, walaupun ada beberapa perbedaan dalam pemilihan kata dan gaya bahasa.
Pengaruh Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Anak Usia Dini Terhadap Perkembangan Kemampuan Dwibahasa di Era Digital
Authors: Jonathan Errick , Hadi Muhammad Zaki Pahrul
Published: February 2025

Bahasa merupakan alat komunikasi yang manusia gunakan untuk berinteraksi dengan sesama manusia. Dalam kehidupan sehari-hari khususnya pada era modern ini, manusia menggunakan berbagai jenis bahasa dalam berkomunikasi, salah satunya yaitu bahasa Inggris yang merupakan bahasa resmi yang digunakan pada ranah internasional. Tujuan daripada pengamatan ini adalah untuk mengamati pengaruh era digital terhadap perkembangan kemampuan dwibahasa pada anak usia dini khususnya di Indonesia. Pengamatan dilakukan dengan mengkaji studi literatur yang menyoroti perkembangan kemampuan bahasa Inggris anak usia dini, serta peran kemajuan teknologi dalam perkembangan metode pembelajaran bahasa Inggris. Hasil pengamatan ini menunjukkan peran kemajuan teknologi benar adanya mendukung lebih banyak variasi terhadap metode edukasi bahasa Inggris, sehingga pembelajaran bahasa Inggris menjadi lebih menarik dan interaktif. Namun, penggunaan teknologi sendiri belum dapat sepenuhnya maksimal mengingat kondisi-kondisi tertentu yang menjadi tantangan seperti kurangnya dukungan dan kemampuan untuk mendapatkan akses ke teknologi, tantangan dari aspek kebudayaan yang masih sangat kental, dan kondisi geografis pada daerah di pedalaman. Pentingnya keterlibatan peran orang tua, tenaga pengajar serta fasilitas pendukung menjadi poin utama dalam meningkatkan perkembangan dan kemampuan dwibahasa pada anak usia dini.
Peran Konteks Dalam Menerjemahkan Humor : Tantangan Dan Strategi Untuk Memahami Humor Antar Budaya
Authors: Kurniawan Aditya Dwi
Published: February 2025

Penerjemahan humor antar-budaya adalah proses yang penuh tantangan yang memerlukan pemahaman mendalam tentang konteks budaya, sosial, dan kognitif yang melatarbelakangi humor tersebut. Studi ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi peran konteks dalam penerjemahan humor dan tantangan yang dihadapi oleh penerjemah dalam mengadaptasi humor agar tetap dapat diterima oleh audiens lintas budaya. Penelitian ini juga menyoroti strategi-strategi penerjemahan yang digunakan untuk mengatasi hambatan- hambatan yang timbul akibat perbedaan budaya, bahasa, dan norma sosial. Melalui analisis berbagai contoh kasus, seperti penerjemahan komedi televisi, film, dan permainan kata, penelitian ini menemukan bahwa adaptasi budaya dan penggantian idiomatik merupakan strategi yang paling efektif dalam mempertahankan dampak humor dalam budaya target. Selain itu, penggunaan teknik subtitling dan dubbing juga terbukti penting dalam memastikan bahwa humor tetap dapat diterima oleh audiens tanpa kehilangan aspek visual dan suara yang memperkaya pengalaman humor. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan wawasan yang lebih dalam mengenai dinamika penerjemahan humor antar-budaya dan kontribusinya terhadap komunikasi lintas budaya yang lebih efektif.
Integrating Risk Intelligence into Defense Policy
Authors: Sarjito Aris
Published: February 2025

The increasing complexity and unpredictability of global threats, including cyberattacks and hybrid warfare, necessitate the integration of risk intelligence into defense policy frameworks. Risk intelligence, a proactive tool for anticipating and mitigating risks, plays a crucial role in enhancing situational awareness, resource optimization, and decision-making in defense strategies. This research aims to explore the integration of risk intelligence into defense policies through a strategic risk management approach, highlighting its importance, challenges, and practical implementation. A qualitative methodology was adopted, utilizing secondary data from government policy documents, international defense reports, and scholarly articles. Findings reveal that while risk intelligence enhances preparedness and adaptability in defense policies, its implementation faces barriers such as technological limitations, data silos, and resistance to change. Enablers include advancements in artificial intelligence, inter-agency collaboration, and structured policy frameworks. The study concludes that integrating risk intelligence into defense policies requires establishing dedicated units, investing in technology and training, and fostering international partnerships to share intelligence. These measures can bridge existing gaps, ensuring defense policies are resilient and proactive in managing contemporary and emerging threats.
Keywords         : cybersecurity, defense policy, hybrid threats, risk intelligence, strategic risk management
English Pronunciation Problems and Orthography Irregularities: Teacher Perspective Assessment in Sudanese Secondary School Context
Authors: Ali Ezzeldin M.T. , Alsuni Kawthar M.
Published: February 2025

Assessment of students from language teachers’ side represents one of the effective ongoing pedagogical activities that work to improve feedback about the performance of students. This study aims to measure the teachers' impressions about the pronunciation errors taking place due to the irregularities in English spelling. The teacher questionnaire provides data about students’ knowledge regarding the complex letter-to-sound relationships, teaching techniques, course content, and phonological awareness. The results revealed that the Sudanese learners have little knowledge about the relationship between letters and sounds and do not understand this connection, where the content of the English textbook does not address the pronunciation issue sufficiently. Moreover, teachers rarely provide learners with sufficient pronunciation practice activities that help them in decoding English letters to their sounds. Teachers are not satisfied with the content of the course and the narrow space given to the teaching of the link between letters and sounds. Finally, the students’ knowledge, teaching issues, and phonological awareness are dynamic factors in reducing the pronunciation errors due to irregularities of English spelling according to the teacher's point of view. Syllabus design should consider authentic and more advanced tactics for teaching English pronunciation in the EFL classroom.
 
 
 
 
Key words: irregularities, content, phonological awareness letter to sound link, assessment
Komparasi Pemenuhan HAM Bagi PMI Asal Pulau Lombok di Tiga Negara Tujuan Utama (Arab Saudi, Malaysia, dan Singapura)
Authors: Rohmatin Khairina , Jannah Kholipatul , Amelia Kiki Rizki , Torey Gloria Stevani , Wijayanti Ika
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini membahas pemenuhan lima hak dasar bagi Pekerja Migran Indonesia (PMI) asal Pulau Lombok di tiga negara tujuan utama, yaitu Malaysia, Arab Saudi, dan Singapura. Hak-hak tersebut meliputi hak demokrasi, kebebasan beragama, jaminan sosial, tanpa diskriminasi, serta hak untuk istirahat dan bersantai. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif melalui pendekatan fenomenologi, data primer diperoleh melalui wawancara online dengan PMI yang dipilih secara purposive, sementara data sekunder berasal dari lembaga resmi dan penelitian sebelumnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hak demokrasi di Malaysia minim terpenuhiakibat kurangnya sosialisasi Pemilu dan keterbatasan fasilitas, sedangkan di Arab Saudi dan Singapura, pemenuhan hak ini lebih baik yang didukung dengan TPS yang memadai dan sosialisasi yang jelas. Hak kebebasan beraga cukup terjamin di semua negara, meskipun di Malaysia terdapat kendala akses ke fasilitas ibadah. Jaminan sosial, seperti asuransi kesehatan dan kompensasi, terpenuhi dengan baik di Arab Saudi dan Singapura, namun akses layanan kesehatan di Malaysia masih terbatas. Hak tanpa diskriminasi optimal di Singapura dengan lingkungan kerja yang inklusif, sementara di Arab Saudi dan Malaysia terdapat kasus ketidakadilan terhadap pekerja perempuan. Selanjutnya, hak untuk istirahat dan bersantai terpenuhi dengan sangat baik di Singapura dengan libur mingguan dan waktu istirahat yang jelas, dibandingkan dengan Malaysia yang masih menghadapi jam kerja panjang tanpa libur sesuai kontrak. Penelitian ini menegaskan perlunya pengawasan ketat dari pemerintah Indonesia dan kolaborasi internasional untuk memperkuat perlindungan dan pemenuhan HAM bagi PMI di negara-negara tujuan.
Sensory re-education pilot program following chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in cancer patients
Authors: Hébert Johanne , Bergeron Anne-Sophie , Claveau Christine
Published: February 2025

A pilot program for sensory re-education following chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) has been developed by an occupational therapist working in a cancer treatment centre in Quebec. Inspired by the somatosensory pain rehabilitation (SPR) method developed by Spicher (2003) for nerve injuries, this is an innovative program in oncology for patients with neuropathy-related pain or discomfort in their hands or feet. The program includes a sensory re-education component and a physical exercise component. It aims to reduce the symptoms of neuropathy and improve functional capacity and quality of life. The results are promising in patients who enrol in the program shortly after the onset of symptoms of CIPN, who actively commit to the program and who are diligent in adhering to the recommendations. Additional studies will be necessary, however, to demonstrate further and validate the benefits of a program of this nature for CIPN patients.
In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination
Authors: Tanner Sonja
Published: February 2025

Plato has often been read as denigrating the cognitive and ethical value of poetry. In his dialogues, the faculty that corresponds to the poetic—the imagination—is located at the lowest level of human intelligence, and so it is furthest from true understanding. Simultaneously, the Platonic dialogues violate Plato’s own alleged prohibitions against quoting and imitating poets, and much of the writing in the dialogues is poetic. All too often, the voluminous literature on Plato dismisses Plato’s poetic formulations as merely the unintended contradictions of an otherwise meticulous author.

In Praise of Plato’s Poetic Imagination asks whether this ubiquitous reading misses something truly significant in Plato’s understanding of the cognitive and ethical dimensions of human existence. Throughout the dialogues, Plato formulates ideas so precisely, utilizing carefully crafted images and structures, that we must question whether his flagrant and performative poetics can be mere mistakes, and inquire into how the poetic and creative arts contribute to true understanding. This book approaches the latter question by analyzing the role of the imagination in Platonic dialogues. It argues that critiquing poetry by poetic means, just as arguing against mimêsis mimetically in the Republic or writing against the written word in the Phaedrus, constitute performative contradictions that bear significant philosophical meaning on further examination. The book suggests that the elusive examples of dialectic referred to in the divided line are the dialogues themselves—the putting into practice of ethical ideals. If so, the role of the imagination is to be sought in the unfolding of the dialogues themselves, not simply in what is said, but also in what takes place within the dialogues.
Crime and Racial Constructions
Authors: Covington Jeanette
Published: February 2025

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed greater significance since blacks protested racial injustice during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It does so by reviewing a number of films that have been released from the 1970s until the present in which black males are depicted as violent and threatening. It likewise considers how these same films represent black females as prostitutes; drug addicts; and irresponsible, abusive mothers who spawn violence in their children. Because these on-screen images of a violent, apolitical, and immoral black underclass find their way into the criminological literature, the book also takes a look at how criminologists use these images to link crime to underclass culture. Both Hollywood and criminologists alike manage to ignore how black activism during the 1960s social movements actually sparked black opposition to the kind of black-on-black crime that is routinely depicted on-screen. By taking a critical look at these negative images, Crime and Racial Constructions seeks to correct some of the distortions that arise from the undue academic and cinematic focus on black criminals at the expense of racially conscious blacks.
Conradian Contracts
Authors: Juhasz Tamas
Published: February 2025

This book treats Joseph Conrad's simultaneous interests in exchange, contracts, and the condition of displacement. The central hypothesis is that the novelist's characters face the option of signing or rejecting what might, with some generalization, be called a social covenant. These individuals conduct a lonely or marginal existence and, to ease their isolation, they would like to (re)enter a community. For this reason, they are ready to contribute to larger collective causes and comply with those restrictions that social life, in its contractual aspect, requires. As Julia Kristeva puts it, 'The foreigner is the one who works,' yet engagement in transactions in order to earn a social position is fraught with difficulties. In return for their contribution, these hard-working characters do not always receive the compensation that they had in mind, especially when their definition of companionship violates the boundaries of legality and social propriety. Their private, illicit interests are bound to clash with communal ones, and the ensuing negotiating, readjustment, or compromise-seeking either crush the individual party or result in a redefinition of the notion of contract. This link between exchange and displacement is explored in nine narratives. Just as the concept of exile is used in a broad, often metaphorical sense (ranging from characters who are actual migrants through individuals who occupy a marginal position within their native community to individuals who are caught between conflicting cultural-economic models), the trade or contractual alliance that can create, or at least promise, a sense of communal belonging and personal recognition is also manifold in its definition. Although it always includes, if to varying degrees, the transference of economic goods or entering a specific agreement, exchange is never limited to legal-material procedures. Instead, varius emotional investments, sexual transactions, and narcissistic reciprocities supplement the representation of actual commerce, inviting critical ideas from economic anthropology, post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Asia's Educational Edge
Authors: Guo Yugui
Published: February 2025

The United States in the past half-century has consistently led the world in the strength of its economy and in scientific research and development. Now, this position at the forefront of industry and innovation is threatened. Asia's Educational Edge warns that the United States relies heavily on the talent of foreign-born scientists and engineers_skilled workers who face increasing, and increasingly favorable, options for employment elsewhere. East Asia's and India's emerging economies are expanding their own higher education capacity in the sciences and their own research and development infrastructure. Accordingly, the United States faces great and growing competition in attracting talented students and professionals from the international community. In this carefully researched volume, Yugui Guo asks: Can the U.S. education system succeed in training enough high-quality students in the sciences to meet the ever-growing need? Asia's Educational Edge is essential reading for industrial and research leaders, policy makers, educators, and scholars of international and comparative education.
Fighting Words and Feuding Words
Authors: Walsh Thomas R.
Published: February 2025

Anger is central to the Homeric epic, but few scholarly interventions have probed HomerOs language beyond the study of the IliadOs first word: menis. Yet Homer uses over a dozen words for anger. Fighting Words and Feuding Words engages the powerful tools of Homeric poetic analysis and the anthropological study of emotion in an analysis of two anger terms highlighted in the Iliad by the Achaean prophet Calchas. Walsh argues that kotos and kholos locate two focal points for the study of aggression in Homeric poetry, the first presenting HomerOs terms for feud and the second providing the native terms that designates the martial violence highlighted by the Homeric tradition. After focusing on these two terms as used in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Walsh concludes by addressing some post-Homeric and comparative implications of Homeric anger.
Jouissance As Ananda
Authors: Khasnabish Ashmita
Published: February 2025

Jouissance as Ananda seeks to resolve the often-problematic Western concept of the ego by proposing a cross-cultural theory of consciousness that draws on Indian philosophy. Author Ashmita Khasnabish begins with a critique of Western psychoanalysis, engaging French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray's concept of jouissance to highlight shortcomings in the work of Freud and Lacan. Khasnabish then seeks to expand the idea of jouissance by comparing it with the Indian concept of ananda. The highly theoretical analysis of philosophical and psychoanalytic terms is combined with an examination of colonial and postcolonial literature. A thoughtful and immensely creative approach to psychoanalytic theory, Jouissance as Ananda will be of interest to readers from a variety of cultures and disciplines.
A Land Without Castles
Authors: Murphy Thomas K.
Published: February 2025

Thomas K. Murphy explores the shifting history of European attitudes toward America, utilizing British and French writing from the late eighteenth through the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Murphy studies a rich collage of literary, philosophical, and political writing by Europeans during this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes, the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and of England during this same period, and the genre of the travel journal. Murphy has created an interesting historiography that augments our understanding of American history, but also illuminates the role that these imaginative texts about the New World played in the formation of significant social and political developments in modern European history.
The Most Dangerous Art
Authors: Loewen Donald
Published: February 2025

At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional trajectory that corresponds to the intensity of the social and state pressures that threatened Russian poets from the early 1920s to the late 1950s. During a period when literature became intensely political, and creative freedom became intensely risky, these autobiographies proclaim poetry's immortality and defend the poet's right to individual creativity against an increasingly threatening Soviet literary hierarchy. Donald Loewen provides detailed close readings of these biographies and juxtaposes these readings with historical context. The Most Dangerous Art is an illuminating contribution to the study of Russian literature. The volume is of special interest to researchers of 20th century Russian literature and autobiography.
Revitalizing the Commons
Authors: Bowers C. A.
Published: February 2025

The enclosure of the cultural and environmental commons has been going on for hundreds of years, privatizing what was previously available to all members of the community. Recently, however, the process of enclosure has been accelerated by the spread of economic globalization. This timely book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to this current trend, and explains the nature of educational reforms that promote ecological sustainability, conserving of cultural and linguistic diversity, local democracy, and greater community self-sufficiency. Revitalizing the Commons will be of interest to scholars of environmental studies, education, and community development alike.
Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv
Authors: Narvselius Eleonora
Published: February 2025

Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia's voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L'viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L'viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.
A Handbook of Military Conscription and Composition the World Over
Authors: Simon Rita J. , Abdel-Moneim Mohamed Alaa
Published: February 2025

This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical and technological developments played major roles in this choice, we also understand that racial and gender relations, social group and political regime dynamics, regional influences, and international forces also affected military composition and relations to the rest of the society. Through this review, we aim at providing an easy-to-access source of knowledge about military mobilization policies and historical developments as well as the main ideas, politics, and events that shaped them. Through this review, we offer a glimpse on developments that influenced societies and political systems and were reflected in their militaries.
Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy
Authors: Lenczowski John
Published: February 2025

Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy: Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy, by John Lenczowski, offers a solution to one of the greatest weaknesses in U.S. foreign policy that has exacerbated the unprecedented anti-Americanism of recent years—the U.S. Government's inability to conduct the "full spectrum" of diplomatic arts and to integrate them with the other arts of statecraft at the level of grand strategy. The analysis presents a critique of how the Department of State's focus on traditional, government-to-government diplomacy comes at the expense of public diplomacy. "Public Diplomacy" is defined in the broadest sense as including all those arts that involve relations with, and influence over, foreign publics and opinion leaders, including: cultural diplomacy, exchanges, information policy, strategic communications, psychological strategy, political action, political warfare, and wars of ideas. Author John Lenczowski, one of the first modern advocates for the strategic integration of all the instruments of national power, calls for the development of an "influence culture" in U.S. foreign policy, and provides a roadmap for the reform of the structure and culture of American diplomacy. While addressing contemporary U.S. foreign policy, this study presents lessons in statecraft and grand strategy that are applicable for all times and places. Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy thus raises issues that are relevant not only to diplomats, but to practitioners of intelligence, counterintelligence, military strategy, and economic statecraft.
African Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Authors: Khannous Touria
Published: February 2025

African Pasts, Presents, and Futures: Generational Shifts in African Women's Literature, Film, and Internet Discourse, by Touria Khannous, provides a history of African women’s cultural production, as well as an alternative approach to the arguments that have traditionally dominated post-colonial studies in general, and African and gender studies in particular. It examines some of the more overarching questions that are prevalent in the works of African women authors, who position themselves within the contexts of Islam, feminism, nationalism, modernity, and global and postcolonial politics, thus engaging in the construction of socio-political platforms for reform in their home countries. The book explores different aspects of women’s agency at the political, cultural, social, religious and aesthetic level, and highlights their civil society activism and push for legal reform. It also traces their opinions on a range of social and political questions and underscores fundamental shifts in their positions and concerns through the different generations.
Identity's Moments
Authors: Perinbanayagam Robert
Published: February 2025

The work is an examination of the role of language in the constitution of self and in the presentation of identity. Following the path laid out by George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin the work presents self, identity and meaning as ongoing accomplishments between human actors who participate in what may be termed the dramas human relations. Human agents use language as symbolic actions with which they transform themselves and others, as well as places and things, clothing and money etc into meanings with which they conduct their lives.
Explaining Culture
Authors: Demerath Loren
Published: February 2025

This book is about our appreciation for order and meaningfulness. It offers a new theory of that feeling inspired by Durkheim and Marx, then derives other theories to answer a range of questions: why we like to make ourselves orderly (in Chapter Three’s theory of identity and commitment), why create shared orders of meaning (in Chapter Four’s theory of culture); how we create those orders collaboratively through conversation (Chapter Five), and also through narrative, symbolic, and ritualistic formats (Chapter Six), and how orders of meaning are created in response to social structural position (Chapter Seven). In the end, this book shows how our sense of order both integrates and segregates us into productive associations with one another.

And so, Explaining Culture is able to explain two patterns common to all growth: expansion and centralization. We see how our desire for novelty disperses us for resources, and that for familiarity draws us together to create meaningful order from them. Indeed, this book may offer a new approach to answering one of the most basic questions in both social and natural science: the question of how organic systems like society are created and maintained.

Explaining Culture is an important new step in answering our most basic questions about culture, social interaction, and the emergence of order. The unique contribution of this work is in identifying the determinants of meaningfulness, and the ways we make the world meaningful by ordering it. Our valuing of order is rarely mentioned in sociology, but this book shows how it is the key influence in how we order ourselves and each other.
American Fascism and the New Deal
Authors: Almanzar Nelson A. Pichardo , Kulik Brian W.
Published: February 2025

American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming alliances between the corporate-private realm and the state-public realm. These same alliances made FDR and subsequent political figures rethink the direction they wanted to take American democracy. Through a careful analysis of the Associated Farmers of California, Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar and Brian Kulik show how the AFC formed positions in direct alliance with fascist ideas, but also why these ideas resonate with so many people even to this day.

The analysis presented in American Fascism and the New Deal will be of particular interest to sociologists, especially social movement theorists; Chicana/o studies scholars; political scientists; business ethicists; and historians.
Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx
Authors: Weisman Tama
Published: February 2025

Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought is the first book to examine Hannah Arendt’s unpublished writings on Marx in their totality and as the unified project Arendt originally intended. In 1952, after the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt began work on the project “Totalitarian Elements in Marxism.” First conceived of as a companion to The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt neither completed this project, nor its subsequent revision, “Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought.” Filling in many of the gaps in our understanding of the trajectory of Arendt’s thought from the time she published Origins in 1948 to the publication of The Human Condition in 1958, Tama Weisman traces and evaluates the development of Arendt’s thought on Marx, how his thought could be used toward totalitarian ends, and his place in the tradition of Western political thought.

Although highly critical of much of Arendt’s reading of Marx, Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx advances a persuasive critique of Marx implied but never developed in Arendt’s Marx project. Drawing on several of Arendt’s more persuasive criticisms of Marx in combination with her evaluation of the tradition of Western political thought, Weisman makes a compelling case for the charge that when Marx left philosophy to change the world, he paved the way for the loss of our sense of awe and wonder in philosophical, political, and worldly experience.
Political Election Debates
Authors: Benoit William  L.
Published: February 2025

Political debates are an important facet of modern election campaigns. How politicians frame an argument, how the audience perceives it, and how the media decides to display it are key components in analyzing the outcome of a political debate, and ultimately, an election. Drawing mainly on the functional theory of political campaign discourse, William L. Benoit examines a wide variety of debates not only in the United States but across the globe. Because each phase of election offers new challenges, specific attention is paid to how primary versus general and incumbency influence the content of political leaders’ debate practices. Specifically, the book delves into the history and nature of debates in various United States elections, including presidential, vice presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, and mayoral candidates. Also examined are debates ranging from the United Kingdom to South Korea to Australia. Benoit also employs the issues ownership theory and functional federalism theory as a deeper part of the analysis. This book offers a critical examination and comprehensive overview of election debate theory.
The Augustinian Imperative
Authors: Connolly William E.
Published: February 2025

An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also 'an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies.' Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Augustinian Imperative contains unethical implications: its carriers too often convert living signs that threaten their ontological self-confidence into modes of otherness to be condemned, punished, or converted in order to restore that confidence. With a lucidity and rhetorical power that makes it readily accessible, The Augustinian Imperative examines Augustine's enactment of the Imperative, explores alternative ethico-political orientations, and subsequently reveals much about the politics of morality in the modern age.
Civilized Oppression
Authors: Harvey J.
Published: February 2025

In this important new work, J. Harvey analyzes what is involved in serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law, and argues for the crucial role of morally distorted relationships in such oppression. She uncovers a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, and points to some of the implications for social and institutional life.
Democracy Gone
Authors: Abele Robert P.
Published: February 2025

In Democracy Gone, Abele argues that the last eight years in particular have shown us that our democracy has largely disintegrated, leaving behind only an exoskeleton that was once its original vertebrae of ends and principles. This book questions whether or not the American democratic experiment has run out of steam and if, through our inattention, we have replaced our democracy with politicians lustful for power and central authority that is out of touch with the needs of common people. The essays included in Democracy Gone focus specifically on two questions. First, how true are we staying to our founding values in our national actions and dialogues? Second, how consistent and universal is our application of the principles and standards we claim to hold dear? The underlying call is that it is critical to our form of democracy in the United States that citizens once again become active participants in the issues of the day: nothing less than the reclamation of our democracy is at stake.
Hidden Threads
Authors: Heddendorf Russell , Vos Matthew
Published: February 2025

Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world. Heddendorf finds in sociological theories some 'hidden threads' - Christian principles woven into the fabric of society. Early Christian thought was radical in its approach to social life. Jesus provided a different concept of the person, and encouraged his followers to act upon this new understanding. Thus, in the early centuries after Christ, Christian social thought was a dynamic, positive, social force, but today the situation differs. Many Christians readily accept current interpretations of problems as valid. Consequently, in response to these modern explanations, Christians develop a form of secularized thought which supports popular solutions and fails to critically engage with the real issues of the day. Hidden Threads is an examination and Christian critique of sociological theory, demonstrating appreciation for the richness of social life and holding in tension those theories that attempt to explain it.
How the Halakhah Unfolds
Authors: Zahavy Tzvee , Neusner Jacob
Published: February 2025

In separate multi-volume works, the project has presented form-analytical English translations of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Yerushalmi, and Bavli, outlined the Yerushalmi and the Bavli and compared these outlines. In this volume, the main points of the Halakhah of the topological expositions or tractates of the Mishnah-Tosefta-Bavli Hullin are set forth and the theological message of the tractate is laid out. The project yields a systematic account of the Halakhah in its documentary unfolding.