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African American Families Today
Authors: Hattery Angela J. , Smith Earl
Published: February 2025

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound. This provocative book by two acclaimed scholars of race and ethnicity debunks many common myths about black families in America, sharing stories and drawing on the latest research to show the realities.

African American Families Today examines the wellbeing of African American families around topics including marriage, health, education, incarceration, wealth, and more. Authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith show that even though the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama, has been symbolically important for African Americans, his presidency has not had a measurable impact on the daily lives of African American families. As the book shows, racial inequality persists—we’re clearly not in a “postracial” society.
Becoming a True Champion
Authors: Mango Kirk
Published: February 2025

Today, aspiring athletes have to work harder and be more dedicated than athletes of previous generations who did not have to contend with the messages of a popular culture that promotes winning at all costs and implicitly condones "shortcuts" to winning. Many of today's athletic superstars glorify and demonstrate cheating and illicit, destructive conduct. Whether off the field antics or on the field cheating through the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs typify an athlete's lack of personal values, the bad behavior displayed by many in a broad range of sports is hard to escape. The result is that too many such negative role models and influences are out there, diverting today's developing competitors down a seductive path to failure rather than upward to excellence and lasting, honest achievement.

Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out fills a critical need by speaking in a frank and direct voice directly to today's aspiring athletes about these crucial, controversial issues and the personal choices they face. At the same time the book presents them with the antidote to these negative influences-the fundamental values, attitudes and concepts, both mental and practical, that support and lead to athletic excellence.

A "true champion" is an athlete with the specific qualities of character, mental discipline, and physical skills necessary to generate and keep increasing athletic excellence and success throughout his or her career. These qualities can be learned and developed; they need not be inborn. Becoming a True Champion goes deeply into each quality to show developing athletes how adopting it directly affects and enhances athletic performance, longevity, and dignity. Through relevant examples, inspiring stories, and a personalized approach, the book shows athletes how to avoid the many pitfalls, and overcome the inevitable obstacles, so common in today's sports culture.
Uncommon Sense
Authors: Pessin Andrew
Published: February 2025

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums—by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don’t merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that you can’t easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the world is much stranger than you could have imagined:

You neither will, nor won't, do certain things in the future, like wear your blue shirt tomorrow.

But your blue shirt isn't really blue, because colors don’t exist in physical objects; they’re only in your mind.

Time is an illusion.

Your thoughts are not inside your head.

Everything you believe about morality is false.

Animals don’t have minds.

There is no physical world at all.

In eighteen lively, intelligent chapters, spanning the ancient Greeks and contemporary thinkers, Pessin examines the most unusual ideas, how they have influenced the course of Western thought, and why, despite being so odd, they just might be correct. Here is popular philosophy at its finest, sure to entertain as it enlightens.
Moods, Emotions, and Aging
Authors: Bronson Phyllis J.
Published: February 2025

Despite the backlash against hormone replacement therapy, the depletion of natural hormones in the female body continues to be a problem for women at middle age and beyond. Remedying the problem has proved difficult for women and doctors who are unaware of, or reluctant to prescribe, bioidential hormones—those that match identically the hormones made naturally in the human body. Moods, Emotions, and Aging: Hormones and the Mind Body Connection explains the vital link for women between hormones, mood, and wellness. It outlines the dramatic hormonal shifts that women undergo in the years before menopause, and presents an approach to combining bioidentical hormone therapy with nutrients to achieve mood balance during midlife and beyond. Phyllis Bronson explains the differences between synthetic and bioidentical hormones, and offers vignettes of women who have used bioidentical hormones to help them deal with the changes that accompany natural hormone loss.

This is a groundbreaking book for general readers written by a scientist who is able to take the mystery and the hype out of the hormone controversy. It is intended to empower women, along with their doctors, to make better and more informed choices about their health and well-being as they approach a time in their lives when things can seem like they are spinning out of control. The link between hormones, mood, emotions, and overall wellbeing is a powerful one, and when women are aware of it, they can take steps to bring themselves into better balance physically and emotionally. Here, Bronson shows them how.
Impressions of Hume
Authors: Panagia Davide
Published: February 2025

Davide Panagia’s Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory. Through close attention to Hume’s theories of sensation, Davide Panagia conceptualizes the modern even more radically (though also more literally) than many of the previous authors in this series. While devoting attention to how a historical thinker such as Hume is read and misread, used and abused in the modern intellectual world, Panagia also focuses on developing a theory of Humean perception and by so doing emphasizes the contemporaneity of Hume’s thought. In what at first seems to be an anachronistic as well as wildly curious claim about a philosopher of the eighteenth century, Panagia holds that Hume was a cinematic thinker.
Campaign for President
Authors: Harvard Kennedy School The Institute of Politics at the
Published: February 2025

In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate announced his or her intention to seek the presidency through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day. Meeting under the auspices of the Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, the candid discussion allows us to learn about the motivations of each candidate, strategies they deployed, and lessons they learned. In addition, representatives from the major SUPERPACS share their strategies and evaluate their impact in an election characterized by unprecedented campaign spending. Campaign for President: The Managers Look at 2012 is essential reading for anyone interested in the inner workings of national political campaigns.
The Triumph of Modernism
Authors: Kramer Hilton
Published: February 2025

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus this first collection of his work to appear in twenty years is a signal event for the art world and for criticism generally.

The Triumph of Modernism not only traces the vicissitudes of the art scene but diagnoses the state of modernism and its vital legacy in the postmodern world. Mr. Kramer bracingly updates his incisive critique of the artists, critics, institutions, and movements that have formed the basis for modern art. Appearing for the first time in greatly expanded form is his consideration of the foundations of modern abstract painting and the future of abstraction.

The aesthetic intelligence that Mr. Kramer brings to bear on certain tired assumptions about modernism—many of them derived from methodologies and politics that have little to do with art—helps rescue the artwork itself and its appreciation from the very institutions, such as the art museum and the academy, that purport to foster it.

Always clear-eyed and vastly illuminating, Hilton Kramer’s art criticism remains among the very finest written in the past hundred years. Readers of The Triumph of Modernism will be treated to an exhilarating experience.
Structure and Dynamics of the U. S. Federal Services Industrial Base, 2000-2012
Authors: Sanders Gregory , Ellman Jesse
Published: February 2025

In a time of austerity, the U.S. government’s reliance on the private sector for a range of services has declined for two consecutive years. Even so, real services contract spending in 2012 remains more than 80 percent above the level in 2000. The CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group brings eight years of experience to the task of understanding this industry in flux. This report examines contract factors, like competition, funding mechanism, and vehicle, while also looking at industrial base factors like vendor market share by size and top contractors by total services revenue. The study team then applies this analysis to individual government customers and service areas. The 2000–2012 iteration of the report also significantly updates the policy implications chapter. This section examines the controversial topics of contract size and multi-award contracts to determine what the data say about their ramifications.
Young Athletes, Couch Potatoes, and Helicopter Parents
Authors: Skolnikoff Jessica , Engvall Robert
Published: February 2025

Major newspapers, news programs, and magazines across the country have recently addressed the current issues of childhood obesity, the link between exercise and improved academic focus, and the importance of diet and exercise in improving the health of our children. As many schools consider cutting recess and removing physical education from their curricula, it has become increasingly important to examine the possible effects of this decision and what it might mean for children and their physical and mental well-being.

In Young Athletes, Couch Potatoes, and Helicopter Parents, Jessica Skolnikoff and Robert Engvall look at the important issue of play and its changing role in today’s hyper-structured society. The authors conducted countless interviews combined with extensive research in order to gain a comprehensive theory on the current nature of play and how it has affected children’s lives. Specific topics addressed include the impact of over-involved parents upon the play of their children, how kids are chosen for sports teams and the effect of these selections on the kids, the lack of unstructured play, and the lasting impression of society’s competitive mindset on children.

This book is not a criticism of parents who want to be involved in their children’s lives, but addresses the structural and cultural issues around the changing role of play and the ways in which kids’ sports are viewed in today’s society. Intended not only for childhood development studies, education, sociology, popular culture, and sports studies, this book will be of interest to parents, coaches, athletic directors, school administrators, and educators.
Hungary and NATO
Authors: Simon Jeffrey
Published: February 2025

Since the revolutions of 1989-1990, most Central and Eastern European states have been striving to adhere to Euro-Atlantic institutions; and when NATO developed its own 'criteria' for membership, democratic control of the military was considered an essential precondition. Based on firsthand participatory and observational insight, Hungary and NATO: Problems in Civil-Military Relations closely follows Hungary's early work to secure an invitation to join the Alliance in July 1997, preparations for accession in March 1999, and its first four years as a NATO ally. While charting the successes, shortcomings, and continuing challenges faced in its quest to become a full NATO member, Jeffrey Simon presents a comprehensive and original study of civil-military relations in Hungary and simultaneously provides a conceptual framework of civil-military relations that draws upon the lessons of post-communist transition in the entire Central and East European region.
Schools of Recognition
Authors: Bingham Charles
Published: February 2025

Schools are places where various cultures and identities must be recognized, yet there has been little research into what it means to recognize another person, identity, or culture. Drawing on the writings of Charles Taylor, Martin Buber, Judith Butler, and Jessica Benjamin, Schools of Recognition provides a rich picture of how recognition is negotiated in education. Using political theory, existentialism, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, Bingham shows that recognition can be fostered not only through the books that students read, but also through the ways that they learn to engage with other human beings. Recognition depends not only on receiving acknowledgement, but also on giving acknowledgement. It depends not only on what we learn from others about ourselves, but also on what we are able to teach others about themselves.
Tradition Alive
Authors: Plekon Michael
Published: February 2025

Michael Plekon's Tradition Alive presents a collection of essays highlighting not only the vibrant tradition of 20th century Eastern Orthodox thought, but also the necessity of its inclusion in the theological canon constructed mainly by Western Christian thinkers. Ranging from the thought of the first generation of Russian ZmigrZs to contemporary Eastern Orthodox theologians, the essays in Tradition Alive point toward a positive theology that is convinced of the immanence of the holy spirit despite a world torn apart by revolution, violence, and despair. The contributors profess their faith in the transforming presence of Christ and the divine dimensions of the church by looking to the meaning and power of tradition in the practices of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. By focusing on the Orthodox Church's ecclesial and liturgical character, the authors emphasize the living character of the Christian tradition. With many contributions difficult, if not impossible, to access until now, Tradition Alive presents a brave and distinctive effort to enliven Western theology by looking to the theology of the East.
Georgia Scenes
Authors: Longstreet Augustus Baldwin
Published: February 2025

Longstreet’s good-natured narrators paint a lively picture of the Georgia frontier—hilariously contrasting rural and village life and the clash of the vernacular and genteel cultures. Southern Classics Series.
Breaking the Ice
Authors: Zellen Barry
Published: February 2025

Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in the Western Arctic. Zellen discusses the major conflicts facing Alaskan Natives, from the struggle to regain control over their land claims to the Native alienation from the corporate structure and culture and the resulting resurgence in tribalism. He shows that while the forces of modernism and traditionalism continued to clash, these conflicts were mediated by the structures of co-management, corporate development, and self-government created by the region's comprehensive land claims settlements. Breaking the Ice gives testimony to the achievements of Alaskan Natives through peaceful negotiation, and argues that the age of land claims has transmuted this same tribal force into something else altogether in the North: a peaceful force to spawn the emergence of new structures of Aboriginal self-governance.
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Authors: Chen Yangbin
Published: February 2025

One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in order to educate young Uyghur and other ethnic minority students through the national curricula.

Although the Xinjiang Classes are supposed to promote ethnic integration between the Muslim Uyghur minority and the Han majority, there often remains a gap between the stated policy goal and its actual implementation. Guided by the theoretical framework of social capital analysis, this book therefore examines how Uyghur students in the Xinjiang Classes respond to the school goal of ethnic integration.

Chen conceptualizes the process of Uyghur students' responses to the school goal of ethnic integration as social recapitalization. While their former social capital from families or communities in Xinjiang is constrained in the boarding school, Uyghur youths are able to develop independent and new social capital to facilitate their schooling. Nonetheless, they lack "bridging social capital," which makes the goal of ethnic integration more difficult to achieve.
The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan
Authors: Lu Yunfeng
Published: February 2025

The most influential sect in the Chinese mainland in the 1940s, Yiguan Dao was largely destroyed in mainland China in 1953. Yiguan Dao not only survived, however, but developed into the largest sect in Taiwan, despite its suppression by the Kuomintang state. In 1987, through relentless efforts, the sect finally gained legal status in Taiwan. Today, Yiguan Dao not only thrives in Chinese societies, but has also become a world-wide religion which has spread to more than sixty countries.

This book, based on fieldwork conducted in 2002 in Taiwan, is the first English-language scholarly study exclusively focusing on Yiguan Dao. Lu includes a history of Yiguan Dao in mainland China, but focuses on the sect's evolution in Taiwan in the past few decades. Specifically, he probes the operation of Yiguan Dao under suppression in the past twenty years, and examines the relationship between Yiguan Dao and its rivals in Taiwan's religious market. The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan develops the religious economy model by extending it to Chinese societies.
Greek Modernism and Beyond
Authors: Tziovas Dimitris
Published: February 2025

Although it is one of the most dynamic and controversial areas of Greek culture, Greek modernism has received little scholarly attention as a literary and cultural phenomenon. A wide variety of competing, often clashing discourses and approaches characterize the study of Greek modernism. In this landmark volume, scholars from three continents provide a framework in which developments in prose, poetry, and drama can be studied together. The contributors seek to redefine the contours of Greek modernism, to reassess its impact on Greek culture, to explore the fringes of the movement. Special attention is paid to the role of the avant-garde in Greece and the emergence of postmodern trends in Greek culture. Greek Modernism and Beyond is valuable reading for students and scholars of Greek and European literature.
Ladies on the Lot
Authors: Lawson Helene M.
Published: February 2025

In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene M. Lawson and the “ladies on the lot” take readers behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership. Linking the women’s own stories within the broader framework of gender and occupation, Lawson presents an engaging and important case study on the impact of gender differences and behavior in the workplace. In doing so, Ladies on the Lot makes an original contribution to the field and will be of interest for a wide variety of courses, including gender and occupations, the sociology of work, the sociology of women, and various courses in women’s studies and qualitative methods.
Once upon a Campus
Authors: Seymour Daniel
Published: February 2025

The unique and controversial companion volume to Daniel Seymour's On Q places Seymour's ideas and theories within the context of a call to action. In a series of realistic case-study lessons, he reveals how colleges and universities can dramatically improve their performance by drawing upon the concepts found in systems theory, quality management, and studies of organizational behavior. Seymour's goal is to overcome the current reactive mind-set and replace it with a proactive education environment where student success is the main objective. Once Upon a Campus can be put to use as an audit tool, as a guide for readers to identify problem areas in their institutions, and as a planning resource in evaluating and implementing overall performance improvement.
Party Movements in the United States and Canada
Authors: Schwartz Mildred A.
Published: February 2025

Party movements can be described as political organizations that both participate in the electoral process and have social movement qualities. They appear frequently in both Canada and the United States. Many of these movements face huge organizational problems, and yet they display remarkable resilience, signaling both continuing political dissatisfactions as well as possibilities for changing political outcomes. This book demonstrates how organizational theory can be useful for understanding party movements, and also expands on the idea of continuity, contributing new ways of thinking about how organizations change and survive in the face of recurring dilemmas. This look inside party movements, at the organizational problems they face and the strategies employed to deal with them, represents a new way of accounting for their history that contrasts with perspectives focusing solely on external conditions.
Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism
Authors: Krebs Edward S.
Published: February 2025

The most comprehensive study of Shifu available, this valuable work explores the life and political milieu of a central figure in Republican China. Born in 1884, Shifu was brought down in 1915 by overwork, poverty, and tuberculosis. Yet during that short span, he became the most influential anarchist of his time. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Krebs provides an intellectual biography of this committed revolutionary and analyzes the importance of Shifu's thought during the New Culture-May Fourth years as his followers fought for influence with the Marxists and later over the issue of alliance with the Nationalists. Placing Shifu's life within the dynamic intellectual and political currents of the time, the author describes Shifu's early work as an assassin within the anti-Qing movement. Examining the influence on Shifu of Confucianism and Buddhism, Krebs highlights reform Buddhism's close relationship with revolutionary activism. Most significantly, Shifu's unflagging work to propagate anarchism during the early years of the Republic and his interactions with other socialists reveal a hitherto unknown level of activity among socialist revolutionaries. This important book thus offers fresh insights not only into the anarchist movement itself, but into the broader history of Chinese socialism as well.
The Healing of Nations
Authors: Amstutz Mark R.
Published: February 2025

How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of political ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the international community away from moving on to the next step in regime change. Here, Mark R. Amstutz takes a restorative justice approach, calling for nations to account for crimes through truth commissions, public apology and repentance, reparations, and ultimately forgiveness and the lifting of deserved penalties. The distinctive feature of forgiveness is the balance it strikes between backward-looking accountability and forward-looking reconciliation. The Healing of Nations combines a theory of the role of forgiveness in public life with four key case studies that test this ethic: Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Amstutz uses the hard cases to illustrate the promise and limits of forgiving without forgetting.
The Practices of Global Citizenship
Authors: Schattle Hans
Published: February 2025

What is global citizenship, exactly? Are we all global citizens? In The Practices of Global Citizenship, Hans Schattle provides a striking account of how global citizenship is taking on much greater significance in everyday life. This lively book includes many fascinating conversations with global citizens all around the world. Their personal stories and reflections illustrate how global citizenship relates to important concepts such as awareness, responsibility, participation, cross-cultural empathy, international mobility, and achievement. Now more than ever, global citizenship is being put into practice by schools, universities, corporations, community organizations, and government institutions. This book is a must-read for everyone who participates in global events—all of us.
Tooning In
Authors: White Cameron , Walker Trenia
Published: February 2025

A collection of eloquent essays, Tooning In critically examines and interprets the concept of 'popular culture.' Many interesting works have addressed this subject, but few have provided a critical perspective regarding the possibilities of popular culture as a tool for teaching and learning. White and Walker suggest that popular culture is a vital aspect of contemporary life and can be wielded as a tool for efficacy and empowerment, particularly among youth. The book addresses such important questions as: What is the role of popular culture in students' lives? What are the possibilities for popular culture in schooling and education? What are the differences between traditional and transformative approaches to popular culture? With essays specifically devoted to film, music, television, games, and other alternative popular culture texts, Tooning In invites readers to re-examine the fundamental aspects of popular culture as a societal force.
Value War
Authors: Brewer Paul R.
Published: February 2025

In Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights, Paul R. Brewer looks at how the public debate about gay rights has shaped public opinion and conversely how public opinion has shaped the public debate about gay rights. Using a variety of methods, including polls, experimentation, and content analysis, he shows how the nature of public debate_which encompasses news stories, television sitcoms, presidential speeches, and sermons by local clergy_has influenced what and how Americans think about gay rights. He also shows how public opinion has created opportunities and obstacles for foes and advocates of gay rights by defining the very terms and boundaries of the public debate. Brewer's analysis not only sheds new light on how the politics of gay rights has evolved in recent years and may evolve in the future, it also illuminates the broader tensions in American politics, from the culture war over social issues to the struggle over civil rights.
Professional Standards for the Superintendency
Authors: Hoyle John R. ,   The AASA Commission on Standards for the Superintendency
Published: February 2025

School superintendents provide leadership and inspiration in school districts across the country. They must be skilled collaborators who can rally resources to support better education for all children living in our multicultural society. Professional standards will help to ensure excellence in the American school superintendency. Developed by a special AASA Commission on Standards for the Superintendency and reviewed by a national 'Jury of 100' business and education leaders, these eight standards combine administrative knowledge with research on performance goals, competencies and skills in the following areas: leadership and district culture; policy and governance; communications and community relations; organizational management; curriculum planning and development; instructional management; human resources management; and the values and ethics of leadership.
Student Leadership Training
Authors: Taub Diane
Published: February 2025

The practice of students demonstrating their care and helping each other to achieve their goals and dreams has a long historical tradition. According to Taub, communication skills are at the heart of the matter, particularly when dealing with troublesome, personal, and emotional issues. This workbook was designed to help professionals assist students in reinforcing basic communication skills required for most student peer support and/or leadership programs, as well as being applicable to a more general universe. A variety of user-friendly exercises, activities, useful facts and statistics, and a description of a successful Peer Support program are included. Will benefit teachers, facilitators, and students.
Black on Black
Authors: Fisher Celeste A.
Published: February 2025

Images of violent black masculinity are not new in American culture, but in the late 1980s and early '90s, the social and economic climate in the country contributed to an unprecedented number of films about ghetto life. And while Hollywood reaped financial gains from these depictions, the rest of the country saw an ever widening "opportunity gap" between marginalized groups and mainstream society, as well as an increase in juvenile violence. These events added to the existing discomfort of the viewing public with representations of young black males living in urban ghettos.

Black on Black: Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience tackles the under-examined subject of black, male-focused, coming-of-age films in American society. Of central concern is an analysis of responses made by culturally diverse young adults to selected "Hood" films of the early 1990s. Grounded in Reader-Response Theory and utilizing qualitative research design and analysis, author Celeste Fisher examines student interpretations of three representative films of the period: Boyz N the Hood, Juice and Menace II Society.

This book provides insight into how meaning is made by a multicultural audience in response to a particularly controversial representation of "Blackness" in American society. Developed to make sense of the violence that accompanied the screenings of some Hood films, this research provides a greater understanding of how such films are interpreted. Black on Black is suitable for scholars and students interested in the subject, as well as for anyone interested in film, race, multiculturalism, and identity politics.
Chalk in Hand
Authors: Pflomm Phyllis Noe
Published: February 2025

This is a book for anyone who tells stories—teachers, parents, and especially children's librarians. Although the storyteller must draw during the presentation, artistic ability is not necessary for success. All stories and poems in this collection of stories and poems with chalk-board drawings have been tested in library story hours and in visits to schools. Several are intended for the pre-kindergarten age group, and most are suitable for older children as well.
The Nine-Eyed Agate
Authors: Jangbu Jangbu
Published: February 2025

The Nine-Eyed Agate seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding personality who survived childhood during the Cultural Revolution, then going on to lead a rich and somewhat controversial career within the PRC. As a free-wheeling, restless traveller in samsara (the cycle of existence), Jangbu has explored every corner of the Tibetan plateau with a view to understanding the culture and history of his people, their plight, and the key issues that Tibet faces today. Widely read in world literature through Chinese translation he has traveled around the world, attending international poetry meetings and film festivals, taking part in university conferences and developing his passion for film. This rich diversity is reflected in his poems and prose, the subject matter ranging through eternal themes such as love and betrayal, fantasy and 'magical realism', mystical flight and biting social satire. His poetry is experimental, presenting a panorama of styles with examples in modern free-verse, classical Indo-Tibetan metrical poetics (though this is rare), and more characteristically, in the dense "obscure" poetry of the post-Cultural Revolution years in China (1980s onwards), for which Jangbu is particularly well known. His work is often semi-autobiographical, written in a "docu-fictional" mode, announcing Jangbu's growing fascination for the screen.
Musicologia
Authors: Maconie Robin
Published: February 2025

In Musicologia—meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music—author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "auditory cheesecake." Fresh and penetrating insights draw attention to the influence of musical analogy in the history of science and philosophy from ancient Greece to modern times. Since music has always existed, it is an expression of human consciousness. The discoveries of Pythagoras, Zeno, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein would not have been possible without a tradition of musical acoustics.

The story of Musicologia unfolds in thirty-one chapters from primordial considerations of silence, communication, selfhood, balance, and motion to focus on more recent and specific issues of chaos, order, relativity, and artificial intelligence, showing that even the most controversial aspects of modern art music form part of a wider endeavor to engage with universal propositions of science and philosophy.
Datopotamab Deruxtecan (Datroway) for Advanced Breast Cancer
Authors:   Editors from The Medical Letter
Published: February 2025

The FDA has approved datopotamab deruxtecan (Datroway – Daiichi Sankyo/AstraZeneca), a trophoblast cell-surface antigen-2 (Trop-2)-directed antibody and topoisomerase inhibitor conjugate, for treatment of adults with unresectable or metastatic hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer who received prior endocrine-based therapy and chemotherapy for unresectable or metastatic disease.
HUBUNGAN NALAR BAYANI, NALAR BURHANI, DAN NALAR IRFANI DALAM INTEGRASI INTERKONEKSI KEILMUWAN AMIN ABDULLAH
Authors: Ulviana
Published: February 2025

The concept of integration-interconnection is no longer unfamiliar, and it has even become an ideology in Islamic Higher Education Institutions (PTKIN). In this integration, Amin Abdullah employs Al-Jabiri’s epistemology, which consists of three modes of reasoning: bayani, burhani, and irfani. In Bayani reasoning, rationality is used merely as a tool to justify texts, while in Burhani reasoning, rational thought is applied to seek objective truth. The source of the texts in Burhani's reasoning is reality. Additionally, the thinking method that connects the two is intuitive reasoning. Intuitive reasoning draws its source from experiences and spiritual insights, which are intersubjective. To delve deeper into Amin Abdullah’s concept of integration-interconnection, an understanding of these three modes of reasoning is essential. Therefore, this article will explore Bayani, Burhani, and Irfani's reasoning in more detail. This research is a literature review, gathering data from primary and secondary sources. The primary sources are literature that discusses M. Amin Abdullah’s integrative-interconnective concept, while the secondary sources are complementary scientific literature. The result of this research is an explanation of the relationship between bayani, Burhani, and Irfani reasoning within the integrative-interconnective knowledge concept of Amin Abdullah.
STUDI KASUS WANITA KARIR SETELAH MENIKAH
Authors: Tampubolon Tabina Naura Zayyani , Eno Amanda Maulani  , Halsa Tirani
Published: February 2025

This study has several pedagogical implications. For instance, when seeking a solution or treatment of career women after marriage can be more empathy and discussion in the form of a cultural approach if there are autobiographies that narrate matters experienced during romantic relationships outside Western culture. This study has implications for the ways marriage and family education can be implemented in daily life using what is already known. At its core, this study shows that professional women are more likely to be the party who files for divorce than their non-professional counterparts. It says a lot if the career woman is going to work much harder at not getting pregnant than she would have just sat out on all the sex, which must mean her reasons for doing it are stronger than yours. Another thing is responsible conditions from the husband and external factors including a third party. The result of this study suggests the importance and impact of family and society in shaping each marriage process. This proposal shows that the marriage.
PENGEMBANGAN ASESMEN FORMATIF DISERTAI FEEDBACK UNTUK MATA PELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM
Authors: Ana Khoirunnisak  , Ari Abi Aufa  , Ahmad Shofiyuddin
Published: February 2025

Formative assessment enhances students' potential and achievement by evaluating their learning outcomes. It helps determine whether the learning material needs to be revisited based on assessment results. Formative assessment is conducted during the learning process to provide continuous feedback to students. Its goal is to monitor students' progress, identify strengths and weaknesses, and offering appropriate guidance to improve learning. This Research and Development study employed the ADDIE model, which includes the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation phases. Data collection methods used in this research included observation, questionnaires, interviews, and tests. The respondents consisted of material experts, assessment experts, educators, and students. The techniques employed were descriptive qualitative, descriptive quantitative, and Rasch model analysis. Validation results from material and assessment experts showed that the content aspect had an average score of 83.3% (very valid), the constructed aspect scored 87.5% (very valid), and the appearance aspect scored 75% (valid). The practicality aspect achieved an average score of 97.5% (very valid). The questionnaire results from material experts, assessment experts, educators, and students indicated that the readability aspect received an average score of 93% (very valid). Based on these results, it can be concluded that the formative assessment developed meets the criteria for validity. The Rasch model analysis also indicated that all 20 items met the criteria for item reliability, person reliability, and Cronbach's alpha, concluding that the formative assessment developed is reliable.
PENERAPAN MEDIA PAPAN PERKALIAN DALAM MENGATASI KESULITAN BELAJAR BERHITUNG PERKALIAN KELAS 3
Authors: Eka Agustin Wulandari  , Zaeni Abu
Published: February 2025

The problem experienced by 3rd grade students of MI Islamiyah Banjaranyar during the learning process is difficulty in calculating multiplication. This study aims to find out the difficulties of multiplication counting and the explanation of the application of multiplication board media in overcoming students' difficulties in multiplication calculation and to find out the supporting factors for the use of multiplication board media for grade 3 students of MI Isalamiyah Banjaranyar. This researcher is designed using a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques in this study include observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the findings found that there were 5 students who had difficulty calculating multiplication. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that (1) to overcome the difficulty of multiplication calculation, educators use multiplication board media. The implementation steps are to introduce the multiplication board media to the students, face the multiplication board media, the teacher explains KI, KD and the learning objectives, the teacher explains the multiplication material, the teacher explains how to use the multiplication board, then the teacher asks the students to try to calculate multiplication by using the multiplication board media. (2) The factors that support the existence of multiplication board media are clear visuals, interaction, teacher creativity, institutional support, interaction and can be manipulated. Another factor is the existence of a learning place, support from the principal to apply this multiplication board media and from the results of the application of this multiplication board media, the difficulty of calculating multiplication is resolved. (3) factors that affect the inhibition of multiplication board media in overcoming students' difficulties in learning to multiply are Limited Access, Teacher Readiness, Student Interest, Inconsistent Application. Lack of Interaction, Separation from Real Context.
PENGEMBANGAN BISNIS PEDAGANG SAYUR MELALUI MEDIA SOSIAL PERSPEKTIF HUKUM BISNIS ISLAM
Authors: Moch. Uzeir Mustaqfirin  , Muhamad Ali Tamrin
Published: February 2025

The background to this research is that currently technology has developed rapidly, all human activities have evenly utilized technology. Like the business activities carried out by vegetable traders in Canggu Village. They use technology to develop their business, so that people don't have to travel far to traditional markets and to take advantage of technology that is currently developing, because many people in the surrounding area still choose to shop at traditional markets. The researcher chose the object of vegetable traders because vegetables have high consequences, namely they wilt easily and rot quickly, so vegetable traders need a large marketing area in addition to offline marketing, so that the vegetables they sell run out quickly, get bigger profits and minimize losses. The aim of this research is to find out the business practices carried out by vegetable traders in Canggu Village, the influence of the use of social media on the business they run and to know the business development carried out by vegetable traders when viewed from Law Business Islamic. This type of research is field research using a qualitative descriptive approach, to collect data through observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this research are (1) that the practices carried out by vegetable traders in marketing their products are offline and online using the social media Whatsaap and Facebook (2) these media can have an influence on the business they run, one of which is that it can increase sales and income (3) in developing the vegetable trader's business are in accordance with Islamic Business Law.
IMPLEMENTASI PROJEK PENGUATAN PROFIL PELAJAR PANCASILA (P5) DAN PROFIL PELAJAR RAHMATAN LIL ALAMIN (PPRA) TEMA KEARIFAN LOKAL
Authors: Elma Kumala  , Ida Fauziatun Nisa’  , Usman Roin
Published: February 2025

Education serves as a method of passing down cultural legacy, knowledge, and abilities to the following generation. The curriculum is a vital instrument in achieving educational objectives. "Curriculum Merdeka" is a new program introduced by the Indonesian government with the aim of creating a more contextual curriculum for all students in Indonesia. In this context, project-based learning is utilized to strengthen students' profiles in Pancasila and Rahmatan Lil Alamin. This study aims to comprehend the implementation process and the factors that facilitate and impede it factors in executing the P5-PPRA theme of local wisdom at MTs Roudloh. This research employs qualitative methods. The findings reveal several stages in implementing P5-PPRA at MTs Roudloh Semambung. The planning stage involves forming a facilitation team, evaluating the madrasah's preparedness, choosing the project's scope, themes, and duration, and creating project modules. The beginning, context, action, introspection, and follow-up are all included in the implementation stage. The assessment stage involves assessing the implementation of P5-PPRA based on observations. Supporting factors include the enthusiasm and eagerness of students, sufficient infrastructure and facilities, as well as the school's support environment. Hindering Among the factors are teachers' limited understanding of The updated curriculum and variations in the traits of the students. In conclusion, the implementation of P5-PPRA has been conducted effectively in accordance with the guidelines, despite being in its initial stages
PENGARUH MODEL PEMBELAJARAN KOOPERATIF SCRAMBLE TIPE TGT (TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENT) TERHADAP PENINGKATAN JIWA KOMPETITIF SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN PAI
Authors: Ayu Nur Chamidah  , Yogi Prana Izza  , Ulva Badi’ Rohmawati
Published: February 2025

Cooperative learning is an educational method that emphasizes student cooperation to achieve goals. This approach is believed to increase students' active participation as well as their academic and social abilities. Torneo Team Game (TGT) is one of the popular and successful cooperative learning models. This TGT model combines elements of games and tournaments to increase student interest and motivation in learning. The aim of implementing the TGT type scramble cooperative learning model is to improve student learning achievement, foster a spirit of cooperation, and build healthy competition in the classroom. Through this model, students are expected to be more active in the learning process, improve their ability to communicate and collaborate with peers, and have higher motivation to achieve better learning achievements. (1) planning, (2) implementation, and (3) evaluation are part of this research methodology. This research also involves forming small, heterogeneous teams based on students' academic abilities. At the implementation stage, students are divided into small teams and given learning material as a group. The research results show that cooperative learning using the TGT model can increase students' understanding of subject matter, improve social skills, and foster learning motivation through healthy competition. Students who are involved in learning with this model show significant improvements in terms of active participation and collaboration between friends. student achievement. Therefore, the TGT type cooperative learning model can be considered as a useful alternative to improve the quality of education and students' overall abilities.