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Nation-Building
Authors: Watson Cynthia A. 
Published: May 2024

A revealing exploration of nation-building around the world and its related problems and challenges—from conflict to the role of democracy.
Nation-Building: A Reference Handbookoffers an in-depth examination of the nation-building process with special focus on the late 20th century to the present. U.S. national security expert Cynthia Watson explores economic, political, and social aspects of nation-building and provides unique insight into hot issues and fundamental concerns.
Presenting nation-building from many perspectives, Watson discusses states such as Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkan countries, and East Timor, among others. She illustrates the challenges of rebuilding a country's infrastructure as well as unanticipated problems. The work provides a thorough treatment of the role that democracy plays in the nation-building process and illuminates the position of the United States juxtaposed with UN peacekeeping efforts. This one-of-a-kind reference work is complete with primary source documents, biographical sketches, and resource suggestions.
The Native American Oral Tradition
Authors: Einhorn Lois J. 
Published: May 2024

Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs. Because American Indians existed without written language for many generations, their culture was strongly dependent on an oral tradition for continuity and preservation. Not surprisingly, they spent many hours perfecting the art of oral communication and learning methods for committing their messages to memory. Einhorn thoroughly examines the important aspects of this unique oral tradition from a rhetorical perspective, covering individual speakers, nations, and time periods.
In the first half of the book, the author examines how the Native American oral tradition has affected their cultural assumptions, principles, values, beliefs, and experiences. These chapters focus primarily on characteristics of the Native American oral tradition that transcend individual nations. The second half of the book includes translated transcripts of representative speeches, stories, prayers, and songs. In accessible and compelling prose, Einhorn discusses the sanctity of the spoken word to Native Americans, concluding that their oral tradition helps to account for the survival of their people and their culture.
Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists
Authors: Dolnik Adam , Fitzgerald Keith M. 
Published: May 2024

This book is about the role of negotiation in resolving terrorist barricade hostage crises. What lessons can be learned from past deadly incidents so that crisis negotiators and decision makers can act with greater effectiveness in the future? What are the lessons the terrorists are learning and how will they affect the dynamics of future incidents? What can we learn about the terrorist threat, and about preventing the escalation of future terrorist hostage-taking situations? While there are many trained crisis negotiators around the world, almost none of them has ever had contact with a terrorist hostage-taking incident. Further, the entire training program of most hostage negotiators focuses on resolving crises that do not take into consideration issues such as ideology, religion, or the differing sets of strategic objectives and mindsets of ideological hostage takers. This is especially true with regard to the terrorists of the new breed, who have become less discriminate, more lethal, and more willing to execute hostages and die during the incident. Further, many of the paradigms and presumptions upon which the contemporary practice of crisis negotiation is based do not reflect the reality of the new terrorists.
The main focus of this book is on the detailed reconstruction and analysis of the two most high-profile cases in recent years, the Moscow theater and the Beslan school hostage crises, with a clear purpose of drawing lessons for hostage negotiation strategies in the future. This is an issue of top priority. Terrorist manuals from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq reveal that terrorist organizations are very closely observing and analyzing the lessons learned from these two incidents, suggesting that we are likely to see this type of new terrorist hostage taking involving large numbers of suicide fighters and executions of hostages at some point in the future. This raises a wide array of questions about appropriate responses and negotiation strategies. From the first glance, it is clear that we are not prepared.
The New England Town Meeting
Authors: Zimmerman Joseph F. 
Published: May 2024

In this groundbreaking study, Zimmerman explores the town meeting form of government in all New England states. This comprehensive work relies heavily upon surveys of town officers and citizens, interviews, and mastery of the scattered writing on the subject. Zimmerman finds that the stereotypes of the New England open town meeting advanced by its critics are a serious distortion of reality. He shows that voter superintendence of town affairs has proven to be effective, and there is no empirical evidence that thousands of small towns and cities with elected councils are governed better. Whereas the relatively small voter attendance suggests that interest groups can control town meetings, their influence has been offset effectively by the development of town advisory committees, particularly the finance committee and the planning board, which are effective counterbalances to pressure groups.
Zimmerman provides a new conception of town meeting democracy, positing that the meeting is a de facto representative legislative body with two safety valves—open access to all voters and the initiative to add articles to the warrant, and the calling of special meetings to reconsider decisions made at the preceding town meeting. And, as Zimmerman points out, a third safety valve—the protest referendum—can be adopted by a town meeting.
A New, Peculiar State
Authors: Graziosi Andrea 
Published: May 2024

Using a variety of old and new archival sources to examine the emergence of the Soviet system (1917-1937), this combined approach offers chronologically coherent and original construction of some crucial stages and problems in Soviet history. The past two centuries have produced an extraordinary number of new states—more than 30 in 20th-century Europe alone. It is within this turbulent context that one must analyze the rise of the Soviet state, an entity that would prove fragile in the long run despite its all-powerful facade. An examination of the extreme features and peculiarities of the Soviet variant offers revealing insights into this exceptional historical process and contributes to a wider understanding of the European Forty Year War (1912-1953).
Graziosi devotes particular attention to Soviet solutions to the peasant and nationality problems, as well as to the pre-eminent role of ideology, the rise of personal despotism, and the unusual degree of penetration between state and economy. Using a variety of interpretations, he applies concepts from political, economic, and social history to the Soviet phenomenon without losing sight of its connections with more general European developments. The life of a Bolshevik leader is used to provide an overview of the whole period from six points of view: psychology, ideology, despotism, nationality, relations with the West, and economic building. Also, an analysis of industrialization based on the accounts of foreign workers who often met a tragic fate in the great purges contributes significantly to an assessment of the role that myth building played in the Stalinist repression of the Soviet working class.
Organizational Downsizing, Discrimination, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Authors: Karake-Shalhoub Zeinab 
Published: May 2024

Organizational restructuring and corporate downsizing can have a significant impact on the perceived social responsibility and responsiveness of any firm. This book analyzes the phenomenon by identifying the nature and types of structural or functional relationships that exist between downsizing and organizational performance variables, on the one hand, and organizational social responsiveness on the other. It looks at changes in the use of various restructuring techniques to improve efficiency and effectiveness and the effects of these changes on the organizational citizenship standing in the community. It goes on to add to the understanding of the general phenomenon of downsizing by examining its relationship to the level and pervasiveness of corporate social responsibility.
Karake-Shalhoub addresses three questions. First, is corporate downsizing related to improvement in organizational financial performance? Second, is there any relationship between downsizing and corporate social responsibility? Third, what is the nature of this relationship? The book will be attractive to management theory scholars, social responsibility and ethics researchers and practitioners, organizational development researchers and practitioners, and human resource scholars.
Pop Culture India!
Authors: Kasbekar Asha 
Published: May 2024

The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.
Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestylefollows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history.
How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader inPop Culture India!
Postmodern Hollywood
Authors: Booker M.  Keith 
Published: May 2024

Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary of postmodernism, especially as it pertains to American cinema-one of the central players and leading lights in the development of this cultural attitude. Four distinct sections investigate postmodernist fragmentation, musical use, and pastiches of previous television shows and cinematic genres in such films as Quentin Tarantino'sPulp Fiction, David Lynch'sMulholland Drive, and Sofia Coppola'sMarie Antoinette.
Discussions of the phenomenon of postmodernism have established certain characteristics that are typical of postmodernist culture. These characteristics include formal fragmentation, a tendency toward a particular kind of nostalgia, and the use of materials and styles borrowed from previous films and other cultural products. This volume presents a brief summary of the characteristics that have typically been associated with postmodernism, especially as they pertain to film. It illustrates those characteristics with discussions of a wide variety of American films of the past thirty years, noting how those films participate in the phenomenon of postmodernism. Emphasis is on popular, commercial films, rather than the more esoteric, experimental products that have sometimes been associated with postmodern film.
Booker's work contains detailed discussions of a wide variety of American films—including classics likeSullivan's TravelsandThe Last Picture Show, and recent successes such asScream, Natural Born Killers, Memento, Moulin Rouge, andFight Club—noting how these films participate in the phenomenon of postmodernism, and how they have helped to shape its current form.
Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians
Authors: Applegate Rachel 
Published: May 2024

Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting.
Library professionals—regardless of whether they operate in a school, public, or academic library setting—need to have effective evaluation skills in order to be accountable to stakeholders and to effect informed improvement.Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librariansprovides information and guidance that is highly useful and accessible for all librarians looking to intelligently manage the strengths and weaknesses of their library as well as communicate its value to its stakeholders.
Rather than focusing on data-gathering methods appropriate for researchers, the book concentrates on data collection at the local level that enables informed managerial decision-making. It describes and compares techniques that can be used with any level or type of resource—staffing, software, and expertise, for example—in any size library. Author Rachel Applegate makes it clear that accountability is everywhere and imperative, and any librarian can learn the simple techniques to benefit from evaluation.
Determination of Left Main Coronary Artery Luminal Area Using CT Angiography in Individuals with Un-Obstructive Coronary Arteries
Authors: Aziz Zohair , Shahzad Syed Khurram , Rehman Fahd Ur , Khan Ismail Ahmed , Khawaja Asma Zafar , Shafique Hafiz Muhammad , Siddiqui Abdul Hameed , Khan Zahoor Aslam 
Published: May 2024

Objective: To assess the Minimal Luminal Area of the left main coronary artery in cardiac patients having un-obstructed coronary arteries.
Study Design: Analytical, Cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology/National Institute of Heart Diseases Rawalpindi Pakistan, from April-Sep 2023.
Methodology: Total eighty six individuals with low risk pre-test probability for Coronary artery disease (via CAD consortium calculator) underwent a CT angiogram and their Left Main Coronary Artery Minimal Luminal Area was calculated using dedicated software over a 2-month period. Approval from the Ethical Review Board was sought. Sampling was done by using non-probability consecutive sampling. Student t-test was applied to find the mean difference of LM-MLA between factors such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, gender, and smoking status with Minimal Luminal Area. Pearson correlation was applied to find correlation between Left Main Coronary Artery Minimal Luminal with age, BMI, BSA, and LV-mass. p<0.05 was taken as statistically significant.
Results: Out of total n=86 individuals, 67(77.9%) were males and 19(22.1%) were females with average age of 45.78±11.40 years. The mean Minimal Luminal Area of study sample was 12.07±4.17mm2 with males having a mean Minimal Luminal Area of 12.79±4.31mm2 and females having a mean MLA of 9.50±2.26mm2. It was noted that an increased LV mass leads to an increase in LM-MLA (r=0.579, p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Variety of factors influence the Left Main Coronary Artery Minimal Luminal which means local guidelines would have to be set up to dictate treatment threshold in patients with ...
HUBUNGAN ANTARA VERTICAL JUMP DAN FLEKSIBILITAS TUNGKAI PADA PEMAIN SEPAK BOLA
Authors: Dwi Herdayanti  
Published: May 2024

Latar belakang: Kondisi fisik dalam olah raga adalah semua kemampuan jasmani yang menentukan prestasi yang realisasinya dilakukan melalui kesanggupan pribadi (kemauan; motivasi). Tujuan: untuk mengetahui hubungan vertical jump terhadap fleksibilitas tungkai pada pemain sepakbola Metode: Rancangan penelitian yang digunakan yaitu desain korelasional (corelational design). Yang menyatakan hubungan vertical jump (X) terhadap fleksibilitas tungkai (Y) pada pemain sepak bola SSB Putera Sukma. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini akan menggunakan 2 jenis instrument penelitian, yaitu Vertical Jump dan Fleksibilitas tungkai. Hasil: Berdasarkan data analisis hubungan antara vertical jump dan fleksibilitas tungkai, dari total 40 sampel didapatkan p value 0,002 yang artinya p <0,005 sehingga Ho ditolak yang berarti ada hubungan antara vertical jump dan fleksibilitas tungkai. Kesimpulan: Peneliti menyimpulkan bahwa terdapat hubungan antara vertical jump dan fleksibilitas tungkai.
“No soy intelecto sino obrero”. Rebeldía cotidiana en los Ferrocarriles de Yucatán durante la Revolución Mexicana
Authors: Bortz Jeffrey , T. Águila Marcos 
Published: May 2024

El trabajo industrial moderno depende de la cooperación afinada de muchos trabajadores bajo el control de la empresa. Sin embargo, lo que aparece como un derecho natural del capital, para los trabajadores aparece como el control del capital sobre su comportamiento, ya sea que estén de acuerdo (acomodación) o no (resistencia). El artículo está inspirado en el trabajo de James C. Scott, quien ha señalado la importancia de las “formas de resistencia cotidianas”. La resistencia generalmente toma dos formas, colectiva (sindicatos y huelgas) e individual (comportamientos). En la literatura mexicana la línea divisoria entre el control del capital y el control del trabajo se ha estudiado principalmente en su forma colectiva. Este artículo analiza las resistencias individuales de los trabajadores ferroviarios en los Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, durante los años revolucionarios en México y en la Península, y muestra cómo se alimentaron entre sí para aumentar gradualmente la esfera de control laboral sobre el lugar de trabajo. Los trabajadores se permitieron ser descuidados, beber en el trabajo, robar o ignorar las reglas del tiempo, ser beligerantes con la autoridad, sobre todo evitando el castigo más extremo: ser despedidos permanentemente. En este proceso, los datos sugieren que los trabajadores ferroviarios que colaboraron juntos en el patio de ferrocarriles se involucraron principalmente en la resistencia colectiva mientras que los que sacaban los trenes participaron principalmente en la resistencia individual. Sin embargo, en última instancia, ambos grupos se beneficiaron de la interacción de ambos conjuntos de acciones, al menos hasta 1940.
Pengenalan	Debat	Bahasa	Inggris	Model	British Parliamentary	Untuk	Beginner	di	Akademi	Maritim Nusantara Banjarmasin
Authors: Elisa Rosiana  , M. Arinal Rahman  
Published: May 2024

Abstrak

Debat merupakan salah satu metode pendidikan yang dapat membuat siswa menjadi lebih kritis dan mampu menggunakan argumen dengan baik. Tidak hanya itu, debat juga dapat meningkatkan kepercayaan diri siswa, terutama dalam berbahasa asing. Siswa diharapkan dapat menjadi lebih kompeten dengan mempelajari model debat bahasa Inggris. Pengabdian masyarakat kali ini dilakukan untuk mengenalkan kepada taruna dan taruni Akademi Maritim Nusantara Banjarmasin (AMNUS) mengenai metode debat British Parliamentary. Hasil dari debat bahasa Inggris model British Parliamentary yang diadakan di AMNUS Banjarmasin sebagai bagian dari program pengabdian masyarakat ini menunjukkan bahwa program tersebut berjalan dengan lancar dan mencapai tujuannya. Para taruna AMNUS Banjarmasin telah menyatakan ketertarikan mereka untuk mengikuti kompetisi berbahasa Inggris di masa depan dan bahkan telah mendiskusikan kemungkinan untuk berpartisipasi dalam kompetisi debat yang hanya menggunakan bahasa Inggris. Para taruna berharap bahwa pengenalan dan simulasi debat ini akan membantu membentuk mereka menjadi pemikir yang mandiri dan berpengetahuan luas. Mereka juga mengklaim bahwa program ini telah membantu mereka menjadi lebih nyaman berdebat dalam bahasa Inggris dan lebih memahami konvensi debat akademis.

Kata Kunci: Pengabdian Masyarakat, Bahasa Inggris untuk Tujuan Tertentu, Sistem Debat Parlemen Inggris, Taruna, Bahasa Inggris Maritim
Tinjauan Literatur Sistematik Tentang Pengaruh Model Flipped Classroom terhadap Kemandirian Belajar Siswa
Authors: Ananda Shella Cahaya Dwi , Salim Agus , Mastur Mastur 
Published: May 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh model flipped classroom terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa. Metode yang digunakan adalah Systematic Literature Review, yang disesuaikan dengan kriteria inklusi menggunakan protokol PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa flipped classroom berpengaruh positif terhadap kemandirian belajar siswa, model flipped classroom dilakukan dalam dua fase, yaitu di luar kelas dan di dalam kelas. Model pembelajaran tersebut memanfaatkan teknologi dengan peran aktif siswa untuk mendukung keefektifan proses pembelajaran. Guru menjadi fasilitator dengan mengarahkan siswa untuk mengakses materi dari video pembelajaran, website, e-learning, dan modul digital saat fase di luar kelas. Pada fase di dalam kelas, guru dapat melaksanakan kegiatan pembelajaran dengan membahas materi yang sudah diberikan sebelumnya di luar kelas sehingga sisa waktu dapat digunakan untuk melakukan diskusi, tanya jawab, demonstrasi, serta proyek pembelajaran lainnya. Siswa yang memiliki kemandirian belajar yang baik akan berusaha untuk melaksanakan tugasnya sendiri tanpa bergantung kepada guru maupun orang lain. Penggunaan model flipped classroom yang berpusat pada siswa dalam pembelajaran dapat meningkatkan kemandirian belajar siswa dibandingkan dengan model pembelajaran tradisional.
Sistem Informasi Percetakan Mandiri Creative Berbasis Website Dengan Menggunakan Codeignite
Authors: Destiarini Destiarini 
Published: May 2024

Meningkatnya perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi menyebabkan perusahaan-perusahaan dari berbagai bidang mengembangkan bisnis di dunia internet, khususnya perusahaan-perusahaan di bidang industri percetakan. Tujuan penelitian adalah mencari solusi dengan membangun aplikasi percetakan online yang memudahkan konsumen dalam melakukan pemesanan, konsumen hanya perlu memesan jasa percetakan melalui website dimana saja dan kapan saja tanpa datang ke lokasi percetakan. Perusahaan percetakan juga dapat memanfaatkan situs percetakan online sebagai media pemasaran untuk bersaing dengan perusahaan sejenis di wilayah yang lebih luas. Aplikasi percetakan online berbasis website ini dibangun dengan menggunakan metode Waterfall. Dalam penerapannya, metode Waterfall dibagi menjadi beberapa tahapan, dimulai dari analisis kebutuhan, perancangan sistem, perancangan fisik dan pengujian. Hasilnya adalah website aplikasi percetakan online dimana konsumen dapat melakukan pemesanan melalui website tanpa harus datang ke lokasi percetakan, konsumen hanya perlu melakukan transaksi melalui website yang sudah ada. Setelah melakukan konfirmasi pesanan, konsumen dapat memantau progress pesanan yang dapat dilacak secara real time melalui website.