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Spies
Authors: Kalic Sean N.
Published: August 2023

For more than four decades after World War II, the quest for intelligence drove the Soviet Union and the United States to develop a high-stakes "game" of spying on one another throughout the Cold War. Each nation needed to be aware of and prepared to counter the capabilities of their primary nemesis. Therefore, as the Cold War period developed and technology advanced, the mutual goal to maintain up-to-date intelligence mandated that the process by which the "game" was played encompass an ever-wider range of intelligence gathering means. Covering far more than the United States and Soviet Union's use of human spies, this book examines the advanced technological means by which the two nations' intelligence agencies worked to ensure that they had an accurate understanding of the enemy.

The easily accessible narrative covers the Cold War period from 1945 to 1989 as well as the post-Cold War era, enabling readers to gain an understanding of how the spies and elaborate espionage operations fit within the greater context of the national security concerns of the United States and the Soviet Union. Well-known Cold War historian Sean N. Kalic explains the ideological tenets that fueled the distrust and "the need to know" between the two adversarial countries, supplies a complete history of the technological means used to collect intelligence throughout the Cold War and into the more recent post-Cold War years, and documents how a mutual desire to have the upper hand resulted in both sides employing diverse and creative espionage methods.
Stand Together or Starve Alone
Authors: Winne Mark
Published: August 2023

America has a perplexing, multifaceted problem that combines hunger, obesity, and unhealthy food. This book examines how this situation was created and shows how people working together can resolve this longstanding issue.

The United States—one of the world's wealthiest and resource-richest nations—has multiple food-related problems: declining food quality due to industrialization of its production, obesity across all age groups, and a surprisingly large number of households suffering from food insecurity. These issues threaten to shorten the lives of many and significantly reduce the quality of life for millions of others. This book explores the root causes of food-related problems in the 20th and 21st centuries and explains why collective impact—the social form of working together for a common goal—is the method that needs to be employed to reach a successful resolution to hunger, obesity, and the challenges of the industrial food system.

Authored by Mark Winne, a 45-year food activist, the book begins with background information about the evolution of the U.S. food movement since the 1960s that documents its incredible growth and variety of interests, organizations, and sectors. The subsequent sections demonstrate how these divergent interests have created a lack of unity and constitute a deterrent to achieving real change and improvement. Through examples from specific cities and states as well as a discussion of group dynamics and coalition-building methods, readers will come away with an understanding of a complicated topic and grasp the potential of a number of strategies for creating more cohesion within the food movement—and realizing meaningful improvements in our food system for current and future generations.
U.S. International Trade Policy
Authors: Sawyer W. Charles
Published: August 2023

To understand trade policy, one needs to understand the basics of international economics. This book provides nonspecialists with accessible explanations of international trade, enabling readers to appreciate the importance of current events in international trade policy.

Due to the ever-increasing globalization of the U.S. economy, articles that involve international trade policy—both here and abroad—are increasingly common in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. In many cases, it is apparent that the authors of such articles lack a sound understanding of the basics of international trade policy. Similarly, many nonspecialist readers do not have the necessary background to grasp the meaning of current events in international economics. This book serves both writers and readers, providing concise, easy-to-understand overviews of the key topics necessary for journalists to write understandable articles on trade policy and for readers to understand what they are reading.

The book begins with coverage of the basic framework of international economics that readers need to grasp in order to understand trade policy. The next two sections cover the tools of trade policy and the political factors that drive their use. The author discusses the history of trade policy, describes how it has evolved over time, and explains where it is headed in the future. Readers will come away with a working understanding of topics such as balance of payments, the current account, comparative advantage, government export subsidies, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Doha Round, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the European Union (EU), and the U.S. Trade Representative.
The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II
Authors: Stur Heather
Published: August 2023

Through examinations of U.S. military racial and gender integration efforts and its handling of sexuality, this book argues that the need for personnel filling the ranks has forced the armed services to be pragmatically progressive since World War II.

The integration of African Americans and women into the United States Armed Forces after World War II coincided with major social movements in which marginalized civilians demanded equal citizenship rights. As this book explores, due to personnel needs, the military was a leading institution in its opening of positions to women and African Americans and its offering of educational and economic opportunities that in many cases were not available to them in the civilian world.

By opening positions to African Americans and women and remaking its “where boys become men” image, the military was an institutional leader on the issue of social equality in the second half of the 20th century. The pushback against gay men and women wishing to serve openly in the forces, however, revealed the limits of the military’s pragmatic progressivism. This text investigates how policymakers have defined who belongs in the military and counts as a soldier, and examines how the need to attract new recruits led to the opening of the forces to marginalized groups and the rebranding of the services.
Women and War in the 21st Century
Authors: Sankey Margaret D.
Published: August 2023

"Twenty-three countries currently allow women to serve in front-line combat positions and others with a high likelihood of direct enemy contact. This book examines how these decisions did or did not evolve in 47 countries.

This timely and fascinating book explores how different countries have determined to allow women in the military to take on combat roles–whether out of a need for personnel, a desire for the military to reflect the values of the society, or the opinion that women improve military effectiveness–or, in contrast, have disallowed such a move on behalf of the state. In addition, many countries have insurgent or dissident factions, in that have led armed resistance to state authority in which women have been present, requiring national militaries and peacekeepers to engage them, incorporate them, or disarm and deradicalize them.

This country-by country analysis of the role of women in conflicts includes insightful essays on such countries as Afghanistan, China, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Russia, and the United States. Each essay provides important background information to help readers to understand the cultural and political contexts in which women have been integrated into their countries' militaries, have engaged in combat during the course of conflict, and have come to positions of political power that affect military decisions."
The Words and Music of Taylor Swift
Authors: Perone James E.
Published: August 2023

By the age of 13, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had already inked a development deal with a major record label. This early milestone was an appropriate predictor of what accomplishments were to come. Now a superstar artist with an international fanbase of millions and several critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums, Swift has established herself as one of the most important musicians of the 21st century. This accessible book serves Taylor Swift fans as well as students of contemporary popular music and popular culture, critically examining all of this young artist's work to date.

The book's organization is primarily chronological, covering Taylor Swift's album and single releases in order of release date while also documenting the elements of her music and personality that have made her popular with fans of country music and pop music across a surprisingly diverse age range of listeners. The chapters address how Swift's songs have been viewed by some fans as anthems of empowerment or messages of encouragement, particularly by members of the LGBTQ community, those who have been bullied or been seen as outsiders, and emerging artists. The final chapter places Swift's work and her public persona in the context of her times with respect to her use of and relationship with technology—for example, her use of social media and songwriting technology—and her expressions of a new type of feminism that is unlike the feminism of the 1970s.
#antisemitism
Authors: Vinokor-Meinrath Samantha A.
Published: August 2023

Exploring what it means to come of age in an era marked by increasing antisemitism, readers see through the eyes of Jewish Gen Zers how identities are shaped in response to and in defiance of antisemitism.

Using personal experiences, qualitative research, and the historic moment in which Generation Z is coming of age, Jewish educator Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath uses antisemitism from both the political left and the right to explore identity development among Jewish Generation Zers. With insights from educators, students, activists, and more, she holds a lens up to current antisemitism and its impact on the choices and opinions of the next generation of Jewish leaders.

Chapters cover Holocaust education for the final generation able to speak directly to Holocaust survivors and learn their stories firsthand; anti-Zionism as a modern manifestation of antisemitism; and how the realities of 21st-century America have shaped the modern Jewish experience, ranging from the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh to how Generation Zers use social media and understand diversity. The core of this book is a collection of stories: of intersectional identity, of minority affiliations, and of overcoming adversity in order to flourish and thrive.
American Film and Society since 1945
Authors: Quart Leonard , Auster Albert
Published: August 2023

From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society.

One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, Praeger's American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential historical context. The historical overview provides a "capsule analysis" of both American and Hollywood history for the most recent decade as well as past eras, in which topics like American realism; Vietnam, counterculture revolutions, and 1960s films; and Hollywood depictions of big business like Wall Street are covered.

Readers will better understand the explicit and hidden meanings of films and appreciate the effects of the passion and personal engagement that viewers experience with films. This new edition prominently features a new chapter on American and Hollywood history from 2010 to 2017, giving readers an expanded examination of a breadth of culturally and socially important modern films that serves student research or pleasure reading. The coauthors have also included additional analysis of classic films such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and A Face in the Crowd (1957).
The Arab Spring
Authors: Lynch Edward A.
Published: August 2023

This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring.

As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action—or inaction—in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion.

While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.
Black Women as Leaders
Authors: Martin Lori Latrice
Published: August 2023

This book examines how black women have identified challenges in major social institutions across history and demonstrated adaptive leadership in mobilizing people to tackle those challenges facing black communities.

Most studies about black women and social justice issues focus on the responses of black women to racism within the context of the feminist movement and/or the responses of black women to sexism in black liberation movements. Such discussions often fail to explore the ways in which black women's commitment to negotiating their racial, gender, and class identities, while engaged in the practice of leadership, is discouraged and ignored.

Black Women as Leaders analyzes the commitment of contemporary black women to social justice issues from the perspective of adaptive leadership. It shows how black women are often forced into the public practice of leadership due to violent attacks from people with whom they are in engaged in interpersonal relationships. The book also breaks new ground by revealing how black women suffer from the devaluation and vilification of their engagement in the practice of leadership in private settings, such as their homes and selected religious and institutional settings.
China’s Grand Strategy
Authors: Kashmeri Sarwar A.
Published: August 2023

In the “Great Game” of the 21st century—gaining leadership and influence in Asia—the United States is rapidly being outflanked by China, which is investing in infrastructure, connectivity, and supply chains on an unprecedented global scale.

In this first book to use China’s Belt and Road Initiative, previously known as China’s New Silk Road, as a point of departure to explain why and how China is about to supersede America with regard to influence in Asia, Sarwar Kashmeri argues that the United States has a narrow window of opportunity to find a way to fit into a world in which the rules of the game are increasingly set by China. U.S. opposition to the Belt and Road Initiative is doomed to failure, so America must find creative ways to engage China strategically, and he warns that the window to do so is closing fast.

The Belt and Road Initiative is China’s ambitious project to connect itself to more than 70 countries in Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East through new roads, rails, ports, sea lanes, and air links. This cornerstone of Chinese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping is positioning China at the center of over half of world trade, and the loss of American influence and power could well lead to the end of the postwar liberal world order.

Far more than merely an infrastructure investment, the Belt and Road Initiative is a masterful grand strategy to create nothing less than a new world order based on the Chinese model of government and its financial institutions. Yet, as the passing of the baton of world leadership takes place, the United States seems curiously incapable or uninterested in devising a counterstrategy. Even though the United States will no longer have the largest economy in the world, it will still be a powerful and rich country with global alliances.
The Cost of Congress
Authors: Kunz Karen , Atsas Stavros
Published: August 2023

Congressional ratings have fallen to single digits; citizens believe that Congress fails to do the things its members are publicly paid to do. What does Congress do for our dollars, and how has that changed in the last 50 years?

What was the cost to taxpayers for Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings? What about the Benghazi investigation and efforts to obtain the votes required to repeal Obamacare while failing to consider Zika virus funding bills? What is the true cost of earmarks? Why do Congress members continue to get paid during government shutdowns?

Congress's increasing use of continuing resolutions and agencies' almost semi-annual preparations for government shutdowns come at a significant cost. Combining extensive documentary research with interviews of current and former members and staffers, The Cost of Congress assesses not only how Congress spends tax dollars on its operations but also what Americans receive for those dollars.

Kunz and Atsas assign dollar values, using federal data, to congressional practices and policies. They examine the costs of producing legislation, court challenges, and Supreme Court reversals. They also look at the costs of committee and special investigations, committee assignments, staffing and facilities, and such perks as the gym, meals, and franking. Readers—taxpayers from all walks of life—will come away with a comprehensive view of the costs of operating Congress.
The Declaration of Independence
Authors: Vile John R.
Published: August 2023

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.

A comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the Declaration of Independence, which marked the formal beginning of the colonies' march toward the creation of the United States of America, this encyclopedia contains more than 200 entries examining various facets of the Declaration of Independence and its enduring impact on American law, politics, and culture.

It details key concepts, principles, and intellectual influences that informed the creation of the document, reviews charges leveled in the Declaration against the British crown, summarizes the events of the first and second Continental Congresses, profiles influential architects and signers of the Declaration, discusses existing copies of the Declaration, explains the document's influence on other governments/nations, covers historic sites related to the document, and discusses depictions of the document and its architects in American art, music, and literature over time.
Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada
Authors: Johansen Bruce E.
Published: August 2023

From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land) to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises.

Written for students as well as the general reader with an interest in social justice and environmental issues, this book traces the relationship between environmental discrimination, race, and class through a comprehensive case history of environmental injustices. Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability includes 50 such case studies that range from local to national to international crises.
Epigenetics and Public Policy
Authors: Robison Shea k.
Published: August 2023

The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development. This book presents one of the first detailed examinations of the political implications of epigenetics
The Failure of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World
Authors: Obaid Nawaf
Published: August 2023

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to understand the Muslim Brotherhood; Qatar's role in promoting the group; and the ideological, social, and religious factors that have led to its ultimate failure.

The book begins by looking at the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in 1928 in Egypt. It then traces its ideology and expansion via the various affiliate organizations in the Arab world as well as its international presence up to the present day. Throughout this historical analysis, evidence is presented linking the MB again and again to political violence and a lack of a coherent policy.

The book weaves into this history the influence of Qatari support, a clarification of the division between true Salafism and the MB's radical ideology, an explanation of how Jamal Khashoggi was a living metaphor for this misunderstanding, and the role the MB has played in various revolutionary movements throughout the Middle East.

The book concludes with a current geopolitical outlook on the MB itself and the Arab world in which it resides. The book is extensively sourced with first-hand primary source quotes from numerous exclusive personal interviews conducted by the author, with both experts on the subject and officials in the region.
The Great Society and the War on Poverty
Authors: Burch   Jr. John R.
Published: August 2023

An ideal resource for students as well as general readers, this book comprehensively examines the Great Society era and identifies the effects of its legacy to the present day.

With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson inherited from the Kennedy administration many of the pieces of what became the War on Poverty. In stark contrast to today, Johnson was aided by a U.S. Congress that was among the most productive in the history of the United States. Despite the accomplishments of the Great Society programs, they failed to accomplish their ultimate goal of eradicating poverty. Consequently, some 50 years after the Great Society and the War on Poverty, many of the issues that Johnson's administration and Congress dealt with then are in front of legislators today, such as an increase in the minimum wage and the growing divide between the wealthy and the poor.

This reference book provides a historical perspective on the issues of today by looking to the Great Society period; identifies how the War on Poverty continues to impact the United States, both positively and negatively; and examines how the Nixon and Reagan administrations served to dismantle Johnson's achievements. This single-volume work also presents primary documents that enable readers to examine key historical sources directly. Included among these documents are The Council of Economic Advisers Economic Report of 1964; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; John F. Kennedy's Remarks Upon Signing the Economic Opportunity Act; The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (a.k.a. the Moynihan Report); and the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (a.k.a. the Kerner Report).
International Relations Theory of War
Authors: Israeli Ofer
Published: August 2023

Covering 1816-2016, this book deals extensively with the international system as well as the territorial outcomes of several key wars that were waged during that time period, providing an instructive lesson in diplomatic history and international relations among global powers.

Based on an in-depth review of the leading theories in the field of international relations, International Relations Theory of War explains an innovative theory on the international system, developed by the author, that he applies comprehensively to a large number of case studies. The book argues that there is a unipolar system that represents a kind of innovation relative to other systemic theories. It further posits that unipolar systems will be less stable than bipolar systems and more stable than multipolar systems, providing new insights relative to other theories that argue that unipolar systems are the most stable ones.

The first chapter is devoted to explaining the manner of action of the two dependent variables?systemic international outcome and intra-systemic international outcome. The second chapter presents the international relations theory of war and its key assumptions. The third chapter precisely defines the distribution of power in the system. The fourth chapter examines the theory’s two key phenomena. The fifth and last chapter presents the book’s conclusions by examining the theoretical assumptions of the international relations theory of war.
John Adams, Slavery, and Race
Authors: Scherr Arthur
Published: August 2023

Providing the first full investigation of second U.S. president John Adams' attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic study illuminates the inner and outer worlds of Adams for scholars and general readers.

John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who not only played a key role in laying the foundation of the nation but is also highly regarded as a great speaker, thinker, lawyer, revolutionary, diplomat, vice president, and president. But was Adams an opponent of slavery and a believer in racial equality? The historical evidence points to the contrary.

This book is the first to discuss at any length John Adams's views on race, slavery, and slavery extension by examining his writings, politics, and diplomacy. Historian Arthur Scherr, an expert who is uniquely knowledgeable about Adams's views on slavery, race, and the Haitian Revolution, reveals Adams's attitudes toward slavery and race in and out of office, spotlighting his views on slavery during the American Revolution, his perspective regarding race as vice president and president of the United States, and his opinions in retirement.

Readers will be able to form their opinions based on factual documentation of Adams's statements and actions regarding the key events involving slavery and race during this period: the gradual emancipation of slaves; U.S. aid to Haiti, the only black-governed nation in the world, and to its Governor-General Toussaint Louverture in gaining its independence; and the U.S. government's decision to permit slavery in new states and territories formed from public lands such as the Old Northwest and the Louisiana Purchase.
Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond
Authors: Wright Thomas C.
Published: August 2023

An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the rise of the “Pink Tide.”

• Explains how and why Fidel Castro established communism in Cuba, his motivations for taking Cuba into the Soviet camp, and the consequences of both of these actions

• Documents how the repression, dictatorships, and human rights violations of the 1970s and 1980s were unanticipated outcomes of the Cuban Revolution

• Clarifies the often confusing and contradictory trends in Latin American political history from the 1950s to the present

• Examines the “Pink Tide” of recent leftist governments, including those of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia
Mesopotamia and the Rise of Civilization
Authors: McIntosh Jane R.
Published: August 2023

A broad introduction to a major turning point in human development, this book guides the reader through the emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia, when city life began and writing was invented.

Covering Mesopotamia from around 3000 BCE to the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE, Mesopotamia and the Rise of Civilization: History, Documents, and Key Questions combines narrative history material and reference entries that enable students to learn about the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia and its enormous influence on western civilization with primary source documents that promote critical thinking skills.

The book provides essential background via a historical overview of early development of society in Mesopotamia. This introduction is followed by reference entries on key topics; 4,000-year-old primary sources that explore Mesopotamian civilization through voices of the time and bring to light the events of a schoolboy's day, the boasts of kings, and personal letters about family concerns, for example; and a section of argumentative essays that presents thought-provoking perspectives on key issues. While the intended readership is high school students, the book's authoritative coverage of intriguing subject matter will also appeal to the wider public, especially in these times of heightened focus on the Middle East.
Mexican American Psychology
Authors: Tovar Mario A.
Published: August 2023

There are now more than 32 million Mexican Americans living in the United States. As a result, the odds that a clinician will work with a member of this population—one of the fastest-growing minority groups in the United States—is extremely high. Understanding the culture, society, psyche, acculturation, assimilation, and linguistics specific to Mexican Americans, as well as their crises and appropriate interventions, is imperative to provide counseling/therapy services and culturally sensitive assessments.

In this book, author Mario Tovar explains how Mexican American history and society affects the needs of this group and how services to Mexican Americans require adjustments as a result. Tovar documents significant differences among Mexican Americans depending on whether they are documented or undocumented immigrants, and on their place of origin—rural versus urban areas of Mexico, and northern versus southern Mexico, for example. Readers will understand how the region of the United States in which Mexican Americans settle can influence the development of certain traits for them and learn about mental and physical health care practices common to Mexican Americans, including folk medicine and "healers" who often include grandmothers and elder neighbors.
Mobile Technology and the Transformation of Public Alert and Warning
Authors: Bean Hamilton
Published: August 2023

This timely book provides the inside story of the development of mobile public alert and warning technology in the United States and addresses similar systems being used in Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands.

This book provides a comprehensive account of how mobile-smartphone systems are transforming the practice of public alert and warning in the United States. Recent events have vaulted mobile alert and warning technology to the forefront of public debates concerning the hazards of the digital age. False alarms of ballistic missile attacks on Hawaii and Japan, the non-use of mobile alerts during the Northern California wildfires, and the role this technology plays in supporting police manhunts and counterterrorism efforts have prompted reconsideration of how these systems are used.

Drawing upon interviews with officials, executives, experts, and citizens, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the events and contexts influencing the trajectory of mobile public alert and warning and charts a course for its improvement. The book first introduces readers to the high stakes involved in the transformation of public alert and warning, explaining how new research is revealing the benefits, limitations, and risks of mobile technology in the disaster communication context. Three case studies then illustrate issues of risk, trust, and appropriateness in mobile public alert and warning.
Navigating Social Security Disability Programs
Authors: Noblitt James Randall , Noblitt Pamela Perskin
Published: August 2023

This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

This text aims to bring clarity to medical and psychological health care providers so they better understand the importance of their role in disability determinations by familiarizing them with the benefits, limitations, and qualifications for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. Also useful for patient advocates, the authors here provide insights into the workings of Social Security, the language employed, the definitions adhered to, and the reliance on providers to respond to requests from Social Security and their patients to support their claims when warranted. Almost all medical and mental health professionals will need to interact with Social Security at some point, but will not understand the relevance or importance of their response. Much hangs on the clarity of treatment notes and opinions rendered by clinicians. Not only can their failure to respond to requests for Social Security, or to their patients in a disability case, obstruct their patients' access to benefits, it may also put a provider at risk of board censure or civil suit.
The New Town Hall
Authors: Masullo Gina M.
Published: August 2023

Drawing on in-depth interviews with a wide variety of people, this book answers two questions: How and why do we personally engage with elected officials online and offline? What influence does this personal political engagement have on our democracy?

Never before has it been so easy for Americans to make their personal views known to their elected officials. Citizens can tweet their opinions to their political representatives or respond to a Facebook post on politicians' pages to convey their approval or dislike for policies. They can engage politically through virtual town halls or show up in person at a protest easily organized through digital platforms. But this mediated relationship also makes it easy for politicians to push back against the opinions of their constituents by deriding their views or even blocking them online.

The New Town Hall gives readers a firsthand look at personal political experiences through vivid stories from a variety of Americans. Researcher and former journalist Gina Masullo documents how Americans feel when they are blocked on social media and demonstrates how political talk with elected officials—both online and offline—leads to more involved types of political participation, such as protests or campaigning for political candidates. She contextualizes these personal political experiences with an eye toward understanding how these interactions influence the democratic process.
The Northern Home Front During the Civil War
Authors: Cimbala Paul A. , Miller Randall M.
Published: August 2023

This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War provides the first extensive treatment of the northern home front mobilizing for war in two decades. It collates a vast and growing scholarship on the many aspects of a citizenship organizing for and against war. The text focuses attention on the roles of women, blacks, immigrants, and other individuals who typically fall outside of scrutiny in studies of American war-making society, and provides new information on subjects such as raising money for war, civil liberties in wartime, the role of returning soldiers in society, religion, relief work, popular culture, and building support for the cause of the Union and freedom.

Organized topically, the book covers the geographic breadth of the diverse northern home fronts during the Civil War. The chapters supply self-contained studies of specific aspects of life, work, relief, home life, religion, and political affairs, to name only a few. This clearly written and immensely readable book reveals the key moments and gradual developments over time that influenced northerners’ understanding of, participation in, and reactions to the costs and promise of a great civil war.
Effects of physical active breaks on vigilance performance in schoolchildren of 10-11 years
Authors: Gonzalez-Fernandez Francisco Tomas , Baena-Extremera Antonio , Hortiguela-Alcala David , Ruiz -Montero Pedro Jesus
Published: August 2023

Purpose.

The main aim of this research analyses acute PE based on AB and how it might have an exponential affect during the school day.

Methods.

A total of 46 healthy schoolchildren (age = 10.75 ± 0.65 years) participated in this study, receiving a traditional lesson of 25 min during the assigned class followed by 10 min of a free-reading task (Control Condition) or 10 min of physical activity based on motor games (Active-Break Condition). Immediately following the assigned 10-min. intervention, the participants performed the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) then finally returned to perform the traditional lesson for the remaining 15 min. Significant differences were found in the PVT.

Results.

Our results show the main effect of the Active-Break Condition group responding faster (365 ms) than the students in the Control Condition group (379 ms), F(1.45) = 24.18, p = 0.001, η2 = 0.34. The present study demonstrated that a student’s vigilance performance changes after of AB of 10 min (compared to the Control Condition) and that AB improves the efficiency of vigilance in schoolchildren of 10–11 years.

Conclusions.

Although limited, our results could help researchers and teachers more accurately apply AB to more properly improve their students’ vigilance. More studies with EEG analysis and neuroimaging are necessary to understand the effects of AB in young students.
PELAKSANAAN PROGRAM TAHFIDZ AL-QUR’AN DI SD SAINS ALUMNIKA PALEMBANG
Authors: Zulkipli  , Febriyant  , Ayuni Bitri
Published: August 2023

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses pelaksanaan program tahfidz Al-Qur’an yangdilaksanakan di SD Sains Alumnika Palembang agar dapat berjalan dengan baik serta untuk mengetahuifaktor pendukung dan penghambat dalam pelaksanaan program tahfidz Al-Qur’an di SD Sains AlumnikaPalembang. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakanpendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Informan dalam penelitian ini adalah kepala sekolah, ketua programtahfidz Al-Qur’an dan guru tahfidz di SD Sains Alumnika Palembang. Pengumpulan data wawancara,observasi, dan dokumentasi. Sedangkan teknik analisis data melalui reduksi data, penyajian data, danpenarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan program tahfidz Al-Qur’andi SD Sains Alumnika Palembang sudah berjalan dengan baik mulai dari pengorganisasian, pengarahan,motivasi, dan koordinasi. Adapun faktor pendukung pelaksanaan program tahfidz Al-Qur’an yaitu karenaadanya motivasi, usia siswa yang masih anak-anak, tersediannya guru tahfidz dan adanya dukungan dariorang tua siswa. Sedangkan faktor penghambat pelaksanaan program tahfidz Al-Qur’an yaitu adabeberapa siswa yang belum bisa mengaji sehingga belum menguasai makhorijul huruf dan tajwid dansiswa tidak mengulang hafalan secara rutin sehingga hafalan tersebut menjadi cepat lupa
IDENTIFIKASI PROBLEMATIKA PELAKSANAAN KULIAH DARING PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19
Authors: Mahdi  , Zulkifli Azhari , Fatanah
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study was to find out the problems faced by students of the Islamic Counseling Guidance Study Program in conducting online lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic, to find out the solutions provided by the study program in addressing the problems felt by BKI students of the Da'wah and Communications Faculty while conducting online lectures. during the Covid-19 pandemic. To achieve this goal, this research uses a qualitative research approach with descriptive research type, with data collection techniques using observation techniques, semi-structured interviews, documentation. The data analysis technique uses descriptive analysis method, which will then be carried out data reduction, data presentation and data verification (drawing conclusions) to analyze the data. The results showed that the problems faced by students in conducting online lectures were that they had difficulties with the internet network, high quotas, too many assignments given by lecturers, and most of the respondents said they did not understand the material presented by the teaching lecturer. This makes it difficult for students and becomes a problem in carrying out online lectures. Furthermore, the head of the study program and lecturers have taken follow-up actions to address the problems felt by students by making a lecture contract that has been agreed upon by both parties between the lecturer and students as well as giving tolerance to students in sending assignments
KONSEP PENDIDIKAN PASCANATAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF ISLAM
Authors: Mubarokah Indahilma , Baits Abdul , Sopwadin Iwan
Published: August 2023

Pendidikan pascanatal memiliki peranan penting dalam kehidupan setiap anak, dimana hal tersebut merupakan jaminan agar anak dapat berkembang optimal dan tidak mengalami kesulitan yang berarti dalam kehidupannya. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis dan mensintesis konsep pendidikan pascanatal serta bagaimana pandangannya menurut Islam. Metode penelitian yang digunakan ialah kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi pustaka dengan studi dokumentasi sebagai teknik pengumpulan datanya. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa konsep pendidikan pascanatal secara jelas terdapat dalam al-Qur’an surat At-Tahrim [66]: 6. Dalam tafsir Al-Misbah dan Al-Maraghi dijelaskan bahwa ayat tersebut mengindikasikan adanya tangung jawab moril kedua orang tua untuk bertanggung jawab terhadap anak-anaknya serta kepada pasangannya masing-masing, sebagaimana masing-masing bertanggung jawab terhadap apa yang diperbuatnya. Bentuk tanggung jawab tersebut melalui pendidikan yang proses berupa penanaman nilai-nilai kebaikan dan keta’atan kepada Allah SWT. Keluarga sebagai tempat pendidikan pertama bagi anak berperan dalam pembentukan karakter yang siap menghadapi masa depan, sedangkan sekolah sebagai lembaga pendidikan formal memiliki peran sebagai penguat pendidikan dasar serta menjadi pemersatu untuk mengembangkan hubungan dengan masyarakat yang bersifat simbiosis mutualisme mewujudkan saling menguntungkan tanpa menimbulkan kerugian bagi seluruh komponen
TATHBIIQU ASALIIBU AL-AS`ILATI WA AL-AJWIBATI WA ATSARUHA 'ALAA TAHSHIILI TA’LIMI AL-LUGHAH AL-‘ARABIYYAH FII SHAFI AT-TSAMIN “A” FII AL-MADRASAH AT-TSANAWIYYAH BI MA’HAD UMMUL QURO AL-ISLAMI BOGOR
Authors: Muthmainnah  , Taufik Akasahtia Lukman , Asriani
Published: August 2023

The study is established with the background of the Arab teacher applying questions and answers methods to look at the students' studies in the class. This method is usually used by teachers and interned with other methods such as lecture methods, discussion methods, etc. This study aims to study and get accurate data on how the question-and-answer method is applied and how it affects student learning. The method used in this study is a quantitative descriptive method. The population in this study is class viii a princess student and used the saturated sample with a total of 47 respondents. Data collection techniques using questionnaires or angkets, documents and interviews. Processing data using a help version of the SPSS 23 application. Overall, studies show the effect of applying deductions at 36 %, a good rating of 48,02 and a perfect 77% through research. Based on analysis of the hypothetical evidence, the value t calculates less than t tables (0,637 < 2014), and thus it can be said that there is no significant effect between applying q&a methods to student study with a variable associated level of 1,3 %.
TATHBIIIQU MANHAJ 2013 FII TAHSIINI MAKHRAJAAT AT-TA’LIMIYYAH AL-LUGHAH AL-‘ARABIYYAH LISHAF AT-TSAMIN “B” (AL-QUDUS) FII AL-MADRASAH AT-TSANAWIYYAH MAZRO'ATUSSIBYAN CENGAL
Authors: Barkah Siti , Asriani  , Taufik Akasahtia Lukman
Published: August 2023

Curriculum is a container that determines education’s course. For the implementation of the 2013 curriculum stressed competence, knowledge, and skill. Mts Mazroatussibyan Cengal al school implementing the 2013 curriculum in arabic studies. The implementation of curriculum 2013 is expected to increase student’s learning results because this curriculum is essentially centered on students. Teacher only as facilitators and mediators and motivators for student’s, so that students have the spirit of learning and getting better results. The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation, the supporting factors and inhibitors of the 2013 curriculum in improving the results of learning arabic. Using a qualitative approach to case studies. The results of this study may be concluded that the implementation of curriculum 2013 in raising students learning outcomes are properly running, and students learning results have increased during the performances, despite obtacles such as learning resources for deductions, less interesting learning media, passive centering students and lack of discipline in class activities. This needs special attention to achieving the learning purposes consistent with the 2013 curriculums content observing, asking, reasoning, and communicating
TA`TSIRU ISTIKHDAAMU WASAAITHA AL-GHAAZI AL-KALIMAAT AL-MUTAQAATHI’AH ILAA MAHAARAH KITAABAH AL-LUGHAH AL-‘ARABIYYAH LISHAF AT-TSAMIN FII AL-MADRASAH AT-TSANAWIYYAH “DARUL IHSAN” CIBUNGBULANG
Authors: Ulul Azmi  , Asriani  , Taufik Akasahtia Lukman
Published: August 2023

Students often assume that learning Arabic is difficult. Game are an activity that has rules, purpose and fun. The playing of crossword puzzle is one of the Arabic learning media where students must fill the blank (white box) spaces with letters that from a word based on the instructions given. In addition, the game can be developed to train students to make perfect sentences from the root words that result from a crossword puzzle answer paragraph. This  research is meant to know impact on use of the medium crossword puzzle on the Arabic writing skills of class eight Junior High School Darul Ihsan Cibungbulang. The approach used in the study is the quantitative with experimental methods, While the research design uses a Pre-Experimental type One-Group Pretest Posttest Degsain. Data sources obtained from primary and secondary data. Data collection techniques use observation, interview, angket and test. Angket results and test are then treated using SPSS (Stastical Program For Sosial Sciences) for windows versi 26 dan Microsoft Excel 2010. Hypotheses in the test using Paired Sample t-Test. Based on data analysis, this studysuggests that the use of a medium of  crossword puzzle can affect the ability of the Arabic writing skills of class eight Junior High School Darul Ihsan Cibungbulang, with a Sig.(2-tailed) sum of 0,000<0,05