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American Film in the Digital Age
Authors: Sickels Robert C. 
Published: October 2023

This eclectic, yet comprehensive analytical overview of the cataclysmic changes in the American film industry since 1990 shows how they have collectively resulted in a new era—The Digital Age.
The American film industry has entered a new era. American Film in the Digital Age traces the industrial changes since 1990 that have brought us to this point, namely: the rise of media conglomerates, the proliferation of pornography through peripheral avenues of mainstream media, the role of star actors and directors in distributing and publicizing their own pet projects, the development of digital technology, and the death of truly independent films.
Author Robert Sickels draws straight lines from the movies to music, DVDs, video games, fast food, digital-on-demand, and more, to demonstrate how all forms of media are merging into one. He explores the irony that the success of independent films essentially killed independent cinema, showing how it has become almost impossible to get a film released without the imprimatur of one of the big six media companies―Fox, Viacom, TimeWarner, Disney, General Electric, or CBS. In the end, using recent, popular films as examples, he explains not only how we got where we are, but where we’re likely headed as well.
The Baby Boomer Encyclopedia
Authors: Gitlin Martin 
Published: October 2023

This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history.
Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture. The members of this generation experienced some of the most tumultuous times in American history; indeed, the Boomers helped create these pivotal eras. From the advent of rock and roll to disco and rap, from the sexual revolution to the arrival of AIDS, and from race riots to the election of a black president, Baby Boomers have seen it all.
Through nearly 100 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia gives later generations insight into the contributions of the Baby Boomers, and it helps members of that generation better contextualize their own experiences. Included entries are written in a clear and engaging manner, covering politics and activism, entertainment, the economy, gender roles, arts, pop culture, sports, religion, drug and alcohol use, and many other subject areas.
Breakthrough
Authors: DiNardo Richard L. 
Published: October 2023

An expert on German military history offers the first extensive, English-language study of one of the critical campaigns of World War I.
The Eastern Front in World War I has been neglected for too long. Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915 is the first English-language study of the first of the great breakthrough battles of the war—one of the Great War’s critical campaigns.
The book covers the initial attack of the German Eleventh Army and the Austro-Hungarian Third and Fourth Armies in Galicia as they outflanked the Russian position in the Carpathian Mountains that threatened Hungary. Subsequent chapters cover the retaking of Galicia, including the recapture of Przemysl and Lemberg. The examination concludes with the German and Austro-Hungarian forces under the command of August von Mackensen turning north from Lemberg and the subsequent overrunning of Russian Poland by the Central Powers.
Combatant Commands
Authors: Watson Cynthia A. 
Published: October 2023

A one-stop resource for information about U.S. military commands and their organizations, this book describes the six geographic combat commands and analyzes their contributions to national security.
The first book on the topic, Combatant Commands: Origins, Structure, and Engagements is a unique introduction to the geographic commands that are now at the heart of the U.S. military deployment abroad. The book begins with a description of the six commandsâNorthern Command, Pacific Command, Central Command, Southern Command, European Command, and Africa Commandâexplaining how they fit into the current national security establishment. Each command is discussed in depth, including areas of responsibility, subcommands, priorities, threats faced, and engagement institutions.
The history of joint combatant commands is outlined as well, particularly the impact of the Root Reforms of the early 20th century, the push for the 1947 National Security Act, and the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Military Reform Act. In this way, the evolution of combatant commands becomes a window through which to view changes in the U.S. military. Geographic combatant commands are vital to national security. By understanding how they work, readers will better understand where our military is today and where it may be headed.
The Forgotten History of African American Baseball
Authors: Hogan Lawrence D. 
Published: October 2023

This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.
For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.
This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.
The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars
Authors: Reilly Hugh J. 
Published: October 2023

This book offers a revealing look at how newspapers covered the key events of the Plains Indian Wars between 1862-1891—reporting that offers some surprising viewpoints as well as biases and misrepresentations.
The Frontier Newspapers and the Coverage of the Plains Indian Wars takes readers back to the late 19th century to show how newspaper reporting impacted attitudes toward the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.
Emphasizing primary sources and eyewitness accounts, the book focuses on eight watershed events between 1862 and 1891—the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Flight of the Nez Perce, the Cheyenne Outbreak, the Trial of Standing Bear, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 and its aftermath. Each chapter examines an individual event, analyzing the balance and accuracy of the newspaper coverage and how the reporting of the time reinforced stereotypes about Native Americans.
International Law and the Use of Force
Authors: Scott Shirley V. , Billingsley Anthony John , Michaelsen Christopher 
Published: October 2023

This book is a discussion of key documents that explain the development, current status, and relevance of the international law governing the initiation of military hostilities.
International Law and the Use of Force: A Documentary and Reference Guide brings to life a crucial body of law, explaining its historical origins, the core rules and principles of the regime embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, and contentious aspects of that law in the contemporary world.
In light of the intensified interest in the question of justified or unjustified use of force, this timely resource introduces and analyzes over 40 documents relating to the legality of the initiation of military hostilities. The volume presents competing assessments of the legality of key uses of force and explains mainstream positions on important issues such as national right to self-defense, anticipatory and preemptive self-defense, terrorism, aggression, and the role of the UN Security Council. The book concludes by assessing whether the international law that seeks to limit the number of wars has in fact made the world a more peaceful place.
Killing the President
Authors: Oliver Willard M. , Marion Nancy E. 
Published: October 2023

This book offers an analysis of every American presidential assassination and various attempted assassinations, examining the events surrounding each event and the people involved.
The assassinations and attempted assassinations of American presidents were pivotal events that reverberated throughout the nation, even in cases where the murder was botched. The individuals behind each plot are often fascinating studies in obsession and distorted perception of reality—like President James Garfield's assassin, who spent an extra dollar on the gun he chose for the act simply because it would look better in a museum display after the event.
For the first time under one cover, this text offers a concise study of every presidential assassination, attempt, and rumor. Each chapter focuses on a single American assassination, providing an analysis of the president, the assassin, and the events that shaped their arrival at that place in time. The chapter then describes the assassination or attempt itself and the long-term impacts of the crime. Accounts of the more contemporary incidents involving Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush especially demonstrate the evolution of the monumental task of protecting the U.S. president in a free and open society.
The Nexus
Authors: Shanty Frank 
Published: October 2023

This timely and important work offers an in-depth analysis of the existence—or nonexistence—of a nexus between international terrorism and drug trafficking emanating from Afghanistan.
The Nexus: International Terrorism and Drug Trafficking from Afghanistan addresses an issue that directly impacts the prospects for resolution of the current insurgency in that nation. Written by noted terrorism expert Frank Shanty, the book explores the nature and the extent of involvement between international criminal drug traffickers, particularly of drugs originating from Afghanistan, and international terrorist networks with global reach.
Shanty dispels the myths and disinformation surrounding this vital—and controversial—question, even as he arrives at his own answers. In addition to offering a historical overview of the opium problem in Afghanistan from the late 1970s to 2010, the book looks at three distinct phenomena. It examines the existence, characteristics, and behavior of international terrorists operating from Afghanistan, specifically the evolution and ascendancy of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and the nature of their relationship. It looks at Afghanistan's opium trade relative to specific-actor involvement and, finally, it analyzes allegations of a link between terrorists in Afghanistan and international drug criminals and the implications of that connection.
The Ego Made Manifest
Authors: Bradshaw Wayne 
Published: October 2023

From Karl Marx to Wyndham Lewis, this book examines Max Stirner’s influence on the modern manifesto.
Max Stirner has long proven to be an elusive figure at the fringes of 19th-century German idealism. He has been portrayed as the father of the philosophical dead end that was egoistic anarchism: a withered branch of an ineffectual movement, remembered largely because of its suggestion that crime was a valid form of revolutionary action. From this perspective, egoists subscribed to extreme forms of anarchism and defended acts of theft, assault, and even murder; egoism only held lasting appeal to rebels, nihilists, and criminals; and Stirner’s ideas could – and should – be consigned to the dustbin of history accordingly.
The Ego Made Manifest argues that many of the accepted truisms about Stirner and his reception are false and that his contribution to modernist and avant-garde manifesto-writing traditions has been overlooked. Beginning with his influence on Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Wayne Bradshaw reinserts Stirner into the history of manifestos that not only rebelled against tradition but sought to take ownership of history, culture, and people’s minds. This study documents the trajectory of Stirner’s reception from mid-19th-century Germany to his rediscovery by German and American readers almost 50 years later, and from his popularity among manifesto writers in fin de siée Paris to the birth of Italian Futurism. Finally, it considers how American and British interest in egoism helped inspire Vorticism’s satirical approach to revolt, and how, in an age of extremism, Stirner’s ideas continue to haunt the modern mind.
The Ethics of Immediacy
Authors: McCurry Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy.
During the first half of the 20th century, a profound transformation – an existential revolution – took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves. Inspired by Freud’s psychoanalysis, a newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged. With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud’s ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human.
Jeffrey McCurry describes how this new state of affairs stood in contrast to how immediate experience had been historically dismissed, devalued, repressed, and even negated in the fields of psychology, literature, and philosophy. This experience posed dangers to psychological stability, social order, and philosophical certainty. McCurry examines how Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Woolf’s modernist criticism and fiction, and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, psychology, literature, and philosophy in turns embraced the risks and dangers of putting immediate experience as the center of humanity, of respecting, understanding, appreciating, and following the lead of immediate, spontaneous, pre-reflective, pre-evaluative, concrete experience in human life.
Antimicrobial prophylaxis with teicoplanin plus gentamicin in primary total joint arthroplasty
Authors: Azamgarhi Tariq , Gerrand Craig , Skinner John A. , Sell Alexander , McCulloch Robert A. , Warren Simon 
Published: October 2023

Abstract. Objectives: To compare prosthetic joint infection (PJI) and acute kidney injury (AKI) rates among cohorts before and after changing our hospital's antimicrobial prophylactic regimen from cefuroxime to teicoplanin plus gentamicin. Methods: We retrospectively studied all patients undergoing primary total joint arthroplasty at our hospital 18 months pre- and post-implementation of the change in practice. All deep infections identified during follow-up were assessed against the European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) definitions for PJI. Survival analysis using Cox regression was employed to adjust for differences in baseline characteristics and compare the risk of PJI between the groups. AKIs were identified using pathology records and categorized according to the KDIGO (Kidney Disease – Improving Global Outcomes) criteria. AKI rates were calculated for the pre- and post-intervention periods. Results: Of 1994 evaluable patients, 1114 (55.9 %) received cefuroxime only (pre-intervention group) and 880 (44.1 %) patients received teicoplanin plus gentamicin (post-intervention group). The overall rate of PJI in our study was 1.50 % (30 of 1994), with a lower PJI rate in the post-intervention group (0.57 %; 5 of 880) compared with the pre-intervention group (2.24 %; 25 of 1114). A corresponding risk reduction for PJI of 75.2 % (95 % CI of 35.2–90.5; p=0.004) was seen in the post-intervention group, which was most pronounced for early-onset and delayed infections due to coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) and cefuroxime-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Significantly higher AKI rates were seen in the post-intervention group; however, 84 % of cases (32 of 38) were stage 1, and there were no differences in the rate of stage-2 or -3 AKI. Conclusions: Teicoplanin plus gentamicin was associated with a significant reduction in PJI rates compared with cefuroxime. Increases in stage-1 AKI were seen with teicoplanin plus gentamicin.
Diecezja przemyska w średniowieczu
Authors: Sułowski Zygmunt 
Published: October 2023

Termin diecezja został użyty w tytule w znaczeniu obszaru — dla odróżnienia od biskupstwa jako instytucji. Przedmiotem artykułu jest zarejestrowanie przejawów chrześcijaństwa na tym terenie — poczynając od najdawniejszych, kończąc zaś na okrzepnięciu wewnętrznej struktury diecezji katolickiej. Celem artykułu jest więc przedstawienie średniowiecznego chrześcijaństwa na obszarze późniejszej diecezji przemyskiej.
The phase-space architecture in extrasolar systems with two planets in orbits of high mutual inclination , Bounds on energy and angular momentum loss in the full n-body problem
Authors: Mastroianni Rita , Scheeres Daniel J. 
Published: October 2023

The phase-space architecture in extrasolar systems with two planets in orbits of high mutual inclination

Authors: Rita Mastroianni, Christos Efthymiopoulos
We revisit the secular 3D planetary three-body problem, aiming to provide a unified formalism representing all basic phenomena in the phase space as the mutual inclination between the planetary orbits increases. We propose a 'book-keeping' technique allowing to decompose the Hamiltonian as ℋ_sec=ℋ_planar+ℋ_space, with ℋ_space collecting all terms depending on the planets mutual inclination i_mut. We numerically compare several models obtained by multipole (Legendre) or Laplace-Lagrange expansions of ℋ_sec, aiming to define suitable truncation orders for these models. We explore the transition, as i_mut increases, from a 'planar-like' to a 'Lidov-Kozai' regime. Using a numerical example far from hierarchical limits, we find that the structure of the phase portraits of the (integrable) planar case is reproduced to a large extent also in the 3D case. A semi-analytical criterion allows to estimate the level of i_mut up to which the dynamics remains nearly integrable. We propose a normal form method to compute the basic periodic orbits (apsidal corotation orbits A and B) in this regime. We explore the sequence of saddle-node and pitchfork bifurcations by which the A and B families are connected to the highly inclined periodic orbits of the Lidov-Kozai regime. Finally, we perform a numerical study of phase portraits for different planetary mass and distance ratios, and qualitatively describe the approach to the corresponding hierarchical limits.

Bounds on energy and angular momentum loss in the full n-body problem

Authors: D. J. Scheeres, G. M. Brown
A new bound on the amended potential in an n-body system is derived and applied to the partitioning of energy and angular momentum in a disrupting gravitational aggregate. This result provides analytic insight into how energy and angular momentum can be lost or partitioned between different collections of bodies as they escape from each other.
La capacitación y la formación de los empleados públicos para el uso de redes sociales y herramientas digitales: estudio de caso de la Escuela de Administración Pública de Cataluña
Authors: Palomar Baget Jesús 
Published: October 2023

En los últimos años las tecnologías sociales han irrumpido en la sociedad: en las relaciones personales, en el sector privado y también en el sector público. El uso de las redes sociales y las herramientas digitales por parte del sector público se está llevando a cabo de un modo incrementalista y con diversas finalidades: comunicación, proximidad, participación, transparencia, gobierno abierto, etc. El papel de los empleados públicos en el uso de estas nuevas herramientas es vital para conseguir los objetivos fijados, siendo la capacitación y la formación la principal forma de hacerlo.
Este artículo se centra en el estudio de caso del centro de formación de empleados públicos de la región española de Cataluña y en las diferentes estrategias formativas y capacitadoras a diferentes empleados públicos, tanto del gobierno regional de Cataluña como de las administraciones locales catalanas, para que las redes sociales y las herramientas digitales sean utilizadas de modo corporativo y cumpliendo los objetivos de las respectivas instituciones.
Concesiones hospitalarias, como experiencia en salud pública en Chile. caso: “Hospital El Carmen, Dr. Luis Valentín Ferrada”
Authors: Domínguez Daniel 
Published: October 2023

El presente estudio se enfoca en la experiencia Chilena en hospitales
concesionados, enfocando los esfuerzos en el caso del Hospital el Carmen de
Maipú, centrándonos en la etapa de operatividad del mismo, esbozando la
importancia de generar estrategias que mejoren la gestión en las asociaciones
público privadas, como un instrumento necesario para mejorar la calidad
de las políticas públicas en Chile, constatando que los problemas de gestión
existentes radican principalmente en la manera de coordinar el contrato
entre la concesionaria y los sistemas de coordinación de las instituciones
del Estado para supervisar y administrar el correcto funcionamiento del
hospital y del sistema en general.
Elementos estructurales que limitan el desarrollo de la transparencia en el sector público en
Authors: Maturana Carolina , Moreno Daniela 
Published: October 2023

El artículo muestra las dificultades existentes en Chile para avanzar hacia
el desarrollo de una cultura de la Transparencia en el sector público, en el
marco de las reformas de gobernanza, usando datos del Estudio Nacional
de Funcionarios del Consejo para la Transparencia. Los resultados dan
cuenta que existen profundas diferencias en términos del conocimiento,
la valoración y las expectativas sobre las políticas de gobernanza, según
el nivel jerárquico, la región, las funciones y el sistema contractual al que
están adheridos los funcionarios. Así, para avanzar hacia una cultura de la
transparencia en el sector público, es necesario reconocer que las reformas
legislativas —más allá de la calidad de las normas— no son suficientes si el
proceso de implementación de las mismas es débil. Además, los hallazgos
permiten identificar elementos del proceso de instalación de esta política
pública que pueden mejorarse, así como también, que pueden servir como
elementos a considerar en la aplicación de este tipo de normas en otros países.