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The Manager as Mentor
Authors: Marquardt Michael , Loan Peter 
Published: February 2024

One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn. By nurturing talent, motivating individual development, and encouraging excellence, a manager's mentoring can enhance individual performance and the organization's prospects for success. Mentoring is not an easy skill to develop, and many managers, who may excel at leading or coaching, may be disasters as mentors when it comes to creating a bond and bringing out untapped qualities in others. The Manager as Mentor goes beyond traditional approaches to explore the newest techniques in mentoring and collaboration. Featuring personal development tools, worksheets, and references, The Manager as Mentor will enable managers to bring out the best in themselves, the people they guide, and their organizations.
Mentoring is an age-old practice, tracing its roots in ancient Greek folklore to Odysseus' friend, Mentor, whom the Homeric hero entrusted as guide to his son's development. Today, with the ascendance of the knowledge age and the transformation of the workplace into an environment of continual learning, mentoring has emerged as one of the most important and valuable roles a manager can perform. By serving as a role model, providing feedback, nurturing talent, inspiring individual development, and facilitating excellence, a manager's mentoring strengthens relationships within the organization, and ultimately contributes to such critical factors as improved job performance, low turnover, and greater profitability. Mentoring is not an easy skill to attain, however, and many managers who may excel at leading teams or coordinating projects may be disasters as mentors. The Manager as Mentor explores emerging trends and approaches to help managers master the skills of effective mentoring—and enhance themselves, their proteges, and their organizations in the process.
Drawing from extensive research, dozens of examples, and their own practical application in training managers around the world, the authors argue that exceptional mentoring skills can be developed. They guide the reader toward understanding the key roles that mentors play and the activities and techniques they can employ for maximum impact. Diagnostic exercises will help readers assess their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for development, and create a step-by-step action plan for achieving goals—either individually or in groups. The authors also offer an extensive listing of resources for more in-depth information on various aspects of mentoring, such as problem solving, active listening, and employee advocacy. Ultimately, The Manager as Mentor offers the tools by which managers can promote learning, empowerment, and insight to create vibrant organizational cultures.
Manifest Ambition
Authors: Pinheiro John C. 
Published: February 2024

This is not another chronological retelling of the Mexican War. Instead, it examines civil-military clashes during the war in light of Jacksonian politics and the American citizen-soldier tradition, looking at events that shed light on civilian authority over the military, as well as the far reaching impact of political ambition during this period (specifically, presidential power and the quest for the presidency). By 1848, Americans had come to realize that in their burgeoning democracy, generals and politicians could scarcely resist the temptation to use war for partisan gain. It was a lesson well learned and one that still resonates today.
The Mexican War is known for the invaluable experience it provided to future Civil War officers and as an example of America's drive to fulfill her Manifest Destiny. Yet it was more than a training ground, more than a display of imperialism. Significantly, the Mexican War tested civilian control of the military and challenged traditional assumptions about the role of the army in American society. In so doing, it revealed the degree to which, by 1846, the harsh partisanships of the Jacksonian Era had impacted the American approach to war. This is not another chronological retelling of the Mexican War. Instead, it examines civil-military clashes during the war in light of Jacksonian politics and the American citizen-soldier tradition, looking both at events that shed light on civilian authority over the military and at the far reaching impact of political ambition during this period (specifically, presidential power and the quest for the presidency).
In addition to politics, a host of others factors marred civil-military relations during the war, threatening U.S. victory. These included atrocities committed by Americans against Mexicans, disobedient officers, and inefficient U.S. military governors. In the end, as Manifest Ambition shows, Polk's ability to overcome his partisan leanings, his micro-management of the war effort, and his overall strategic vision, helped avoid both a prolonged occupation and the annexation of All Mexico. By 1848, Americans had come to realize that in their burgeoning democracy, generals and politicians could scarcely resist the temptation to use war for partisan gain. It was a lesson well learned and one that still resonates today.
Martin Scorsese
Authors: LoBrutto Vincent 
Published: February 2024

Martin Scorsese's current position in the international film community is unrivaled, and his name has become synonymous with the highest standards of filmmaking excellence. He is widely considered America's best living film director, and his Taxi Driver and Raging Bull appear frequently on worldwide surveys of the best films of all time. Here, in the first biographical account of this artist's life, Vincent LoBrutto traces Scorsese's Italian-American heritage, his strict Catholic upbringing, the continuing role of religion in his life and art, his obsessive love of cinema history, and the powerful impact that the streets of New York City had on his personal life and his professional career.
Meanwhile, the filmmaker's humble, soft-spoken public persona tells only part of the story, and LoBrutto will delve into the other side of a complex and often tortured personality. Scorsese's intense passion, his private relationships, his stormy marriages, and his battles with drugs and depression are all chronicled here, and, in many cases, for the first time. In addition, the book includes an interview with the director, as well as filmographies cataloging his work as a director, producer, actor, and presenter.
As his Best Director award at the 2007 Oscars clearly demonstrated, Scorsese has become something like Hollywood royalty in recent years, finally enjoying the insider status and favor that eluded him for most of his career. But these recent developments aside, Scorsese is also notable as a distinctly American type of artist, one whose work-created in a medium largely controlled by commercialism and marketing-has always been unmistakably his own, and who thus remains a touchstone of artistic integrity in American cinema. In Martin Scorsese: A Biography, readers can examine not only the work of one of the form's genuine artists, but also the forces that have propelled the man behind it.
MLA Made Easy
Authors: Heath Marilyn 
Published: February 2024

A concise, handy guidebook for teaching correct MLA-style citation to middle and high school researchers.
MLA Made Easy: Citation Basics for Beginners offers an effective way to introduce proper research citing to those who are new to research and the MLA style. Full of examples and practical tips, it provides teachers with everything they need to help even the most reluctant middle- and high school student researchers create accurate, complete citations in the MLA format.
MLA Made Easy includes instructions and examples for citing all common sources, from reference books to websites, as well as online databases, magazines, interviews, and videos. Coverage is divided into three parts: how to create citations for the works cited page, parenthetical documentation, and research paper formatting. Based on the 2009 revision of the MLA Handbook, it offers clear, precise, and up-to-date guidelines for showing students in their formative research experiences the importance of correctly citing their sources.
The New Digital Storytelling
Authors: Alexander Bryan 
Published: February 2024

Newly revised and updated, this is the essential guide to state-of-the-art digital storytelling for audiences, creators, and teachers.
Written for everyone interested in the communication potential of digital media, including educators, marketers, communication professionals, and community activists, this is the ultimate guide to harnessing technology for storytelling. No other book covers the digital storytelling movement as thoroughly as this updated second edition of a popular work, nor does any incorporate as many technologies, from video to augmented reality, mobile devices to virtual reality.
The book combines history, analysis, and practical guidance about digital storytelling. It begins with a history that encompasses an exploration of storytelling itself, as well as a description of narratives using digital tools from the 1980s through 2000. From there, the author dives into modern digital storytelling, offering analysis and guidance regarding the use of digital video, podcasting, social media, gaming, mobile devices, and virtual and augmented reality. The work concludes with practical advice about how to create and share digital stories using the most current tools so even the new would-be storyteller can create their first digital narrative.
Of course, the second edition is updated to take into account the many ways the field has advanced since the original book appeared. With many new examples of digital stories, this edition's evidence base is current and fresh. New or transformed technologies are also addressed, including virtual reality; mobile devices that have become mainstream tools for creating, sharing, and experiencing digital stories; and the wide variety of new storytelling apps and services.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Authors: Kantor Martin 
Published: February 2024

This unprecedented work is an invaluable resource for therapists treating patients with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), for individuals suffering from OCPD, and for friends, family, and coworkers of those with OCPD.
Although a significant number of individuals suffer from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), most of these people see themselves as being perfectly normal. In actuality, they are missing out in life due to their being compulsively prompt, counterproductively perfectionistic, and excessively penurious. This book explains what OCPD is, making it clear how it differs significantly from OCD; explains the thought processes and desires that give rise to the counterproductive defense mechanisms of OCPD; and identifies the approaches and methods that can allow such afflicted individuals to break through their character armoring and become rehumanized.
In this book, Martin Kantor, MD, presents information to defuse the many manifested symptoms of OCPD: anxiety, indecision, unreasonable perfectionism, and difficulty in compromising. His explanations and methods will give the hopeless succor, move the stalled forward, and foster interpersonal cooperation and flexibility in the stubborn, while simultaneously enhancing the OCPD individual's social performance thus increasing his or her chances for interpersonal, relational, and occupational success. Kantor also identifies the social manifestations of OCPD and describes how to move idiosyncratic, rigid bureaucracies toward accomplishing what should be their most important mission: helping those who are in need and seeking comfort.
The Post-Heroic Presidency
Authors: Genovese Michael A. , Belt Todd L. 
Published: February 2024

This book examines how presidents from Nixon to Obama have faced the challenges of global leadership in a dramatically changing world—one with more limited resources and an increasing number of threatening challengers.
The immediate post-World War II era was undeniably a period of American power and influence. Even during the Cold War, the United States was the leader of the West, exerting wide-ranging power internationally. But beginning with the Vietnam War, America began experiencing a series of setbacks and challenges to its power. The Post-Heroic Presidency: Leveraged Leadership in an Age of Limits examines how U.S. presidents have attempted to reverse or contend with this new era of limited power in which presidential leadership is hamstrung due to an increasingly globalized and interdependent world—one where power is more diffuse and the system of checks and balances bind a president in an age of hyper-partisanship.
The book examines presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries, explaining how the first U.S. president to confront this new age was Richard Nixon, who—along with Henry Kissinger—developed a sophisticated approach to deal with the recalibration of American power. It documents how other recent presidents have either tried to make peace with limited power (Jimmy Carter), reverse the decline (Ronald Reagan), ignore the implications of limits (George W. Bush), or find ways to lead that were less ambitious, more prudent, and less unilateral (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama). In the cases of Clinton and Obama, this shift to using "soft power," persuasion, and multilateralism earned them criticism that they are "weak," thereby undermining their efforts to lead—both at home and abroad.
TREATMENT OF IRRECOVERABLE RADIAL NERVE PALSY USING THE MODIFIED MERLE D’AUBIGNÉ TENDON TRANSFER METHOD
Authors: Mai Tuong Trong , Nguyen Vinh Quang , Nguyễn Phi Duong 
Published: February 2024

Background Irrecoverable radial nerve palsy (RNP) leads to the inability to extend the wrist and fingers and significant reduction in grip strength. The aim was to assess the outcomes of treating non-recovering motor RNP using the modified Merle d’Aubigné tendon transfer method. Materials and Methods A descriptive prospective study involved 33 patients between January 2017 and March 2019. Results Males constituted the majority (32/33 cases, 97%). The ratio of radial nerve and posterior interosseous nerve injuries was nearly equivalent (16/17). The mean extension range of the wrist was 48.6° ± 14.9° during finger extension and 30.9° ± 14.4° during finger flexion. The mean flexion range of the wrist was 34.8° ± 15.8° during finger extension and 42.6° ± 14.8° during finger flexion. 93.9% of patients achieved full finger extension when the wrist joint was extended beyond 10°. The mean angulation range of the index finger was 55.3° ± 7.4°. The Kapanji score achieved was 8.4 ± 1.2. The achieved grip strength was 65.4% compared to the unaffected side. The surgery did not induce radial deviation deformities of the wrist joint. 32/33 patients were satisfied with the surgical outcomes. 31/33 patients returned to their previous professions. 93.9% of patients achieved very good and good results, while 6.1% achieved fair results. Conclusion Treating irrecoverable radial nerve palsy using the modified Merle d’Aubigné tendon transfer method yields very good results. The utilization of the pronator teres for wrist extensor transfer and the flexor carpi radialis for finger extensor transfer is appropriate and contributes to limiting wrist joint radial deviation deformities. This modified technique has been researched and recommended by various authors worldwide.
Losing the Center: The Emergent Metaphysics of Positive and Negative Distance in Troubadour and Flamenco Lyric
Authors: Meyerson Ben 
Published: February 2024

ABSTRACT
Subjective mediation is often treated as an epistemological problem, because it denies the thinker unfettered access to things-in-themselves. This article proposes instead that the sociohistorically sedimented qualities of subjective mediation are a window onto the positional juncture at which the subject ends and things-in-themselves begin. When analyzed together, flamenco letras and medieval troubadour lyric record an expansive experiential account of movement through the world, producing a portrait of the dynamics by which subjects spatiotemporally locate themselves and therefore showing us the conditions underlying the split between subjectivity and things-in-themselves. In troubadour lyric, subjects rely on untraversed positive distance to position themselves in space and time, while subjects in flamenco letras foreground negative distance, which has already been traversed. Exemplars from influential troubadours Guilhem IX of Peitieus and Marcabru elucidate the particularities of positive distance and then illustrate its transition into an uncertainty that bespeaks negativity. Meanwhile, a survey of representative flamenco letras uncovers the historicized spatiotemporal precarity of negative distance. The meshwork of relations that arise from the interplay of positive and negative distance demonstrates how the subject’s experience of space and time relies on determinate mixtures and separations that both consolidate its positionality and express the material dynamics that have shaped its mediated aperture onto the world.
The Deceived: Lope de Rueda and Improvisation on the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Stage
Authors: Thomas Alex J. H. 
Published: February 2024

ABSTRACT
Lope de Rueda’s plays, among them Los engañados (The Deceived, 1558?), met great acclaim among contemporaneous audiences. Yet unlike the continued literary prestige enjoyed by the play’s Italian source, Gl’ingannati (The Deceived, 1532), Rueda’s work has been reduced to a sidenote in literary history. Such a decline in the author-actor’s critical fate speaks to the importance of physical performance to his popularity: performance that, this article argues, did not rely on memorized written dialogue. Through a comparison of Los engañados and Gl’ingannati, this article hopes to demonstrate that—plot aside—the Spanish play bears closer resemblance to the improvised Italian plays of the commedia dell’arte than it does to the scripted Gl’ingannati. An analysis of the work’s structure in the light of studies on commedia dell’arte scenarios, and the elements of orality found in its dialogue that imply spontaneous composition, shows Rueda’s play to carry all of the hallmarks of improvisation. As such, this article suggests that improvisation must be recognized as a production mode of early modern theatre well beyond the borders of the Italian peninsula.
DIGITAL MARKETING PADA PELAKU USAHA PEMULA DI SMK AT TAUFIQIYAH
Authors: Pranata Mohammad Firlie , Wijaya Nur Qoudri , Septiani Ria 
Published: February 2024

Sumenep is the easternmost city in Madura. Sumenep has natural wealth that has great potential to be used as a business area. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are expected to spearhead the economy in Sumenep district, plus the district has a program for a thousand entrepreneurs and a thousand tourism to introduce Sumenep Regency as the soul of Madura. Sumenep is home to the Wiraraja University campus which has a Faculty of Economics and Business with a Digital Business Study Program. This is a benchmark for instilling an entrepreneurial spirit from an early age.At – Taufiqiyah Vocational School, Sumenep Regency, located at Jl. Safari No. 035 Aengbaja Raja, Bluto sub-district, Sumenep Regency. This teaches students to instill an entrepreneurial spirit from an early age, but it is a shame that the school does not yet have a special department for business and marketing or digital business. At - Taufiqiyah Vocational School gradually has to follow the development of digital technology which has provided major and fundamental changes in various aspects of life as well as business organizations, a practical approach in managing changes in business organizations in the digital era so that the transformation carried out by planning and implementing strategies produces human resources who are better prepared to face change. This researcher found that students initially studied digital marketing autodidactically or on their own by trying to market using the social media they had, but this was not enough without intense training to increase students' knowledge and skills, such as by practicing advertising, product photos and strategies for marketing on social media so that students can finally enter the market or set up a shop in a market place, but this needs to be done because currently students are just trying without any clear training. Students are expected to be able to serve customers or customers in a friendly and open manner, be disciplined in their business and be able to do digital marketing well.
Akulturasi Arsitektur Cina dan Melayu pada Istana Niat Lima Laras Sumatera Utara
Authors: Meylani Ade , Dafrina Armelia , Saputra Eri 
Published: February 2024

Niat Lima Laras palace is a relic of the Lima Laras Sultanate in North Sumatra. Niat Lima Laras Palace was founded by Datuk Mad yudha, who was the eleventh king of the Lima Laras Kingdom. The palace was built in 1907 until its completion in 1912. Formerly the palace was inhabited by Datuk mad yudha and his family as a residence as well as a center of political, social and economic power for the Lima Laras community. But now the palace is left empty and used as a historical tourist attraction. In the Palace building, there has been architectural acculturation because the construction of the palace involved Chinese groups who had settled in the Lima Laras and the surrounding Lima Laras community as building coolies. This study aims to determine the influence of acculturation of Chinese and Malay architecture applied to the building of Niat Lima Laras Palace. The method used is a descriptive-qualitative method. Analyzing the data descriptively is by analyzing theories related to the architectural characteristics of Niat Lima Laras Palace, then comparing these theories to this Palace, in order to draw conclusions. The results of the analysis showed that the building acculturated Chinese and Malay architecture. The dominant palace applies acculturation of Malay architecture such as stage-shaped palaces, installation of walls, floors, the shape of doors and windows and their colors and ornaments. There is also the application of Chinese architectural acculturation such as the main concept of symmetrical palaces, roof shapes, materials used, colors and ornaments.
Kajian Dampak Alih Fungsi Terhadap Perubahan Fasad Bangunan Bioskop Ria Pematangsiantar
Authors: Cahyani Retno , Fahrizal Effan , Novianti Yenny 
Published: February 2024

Ria Cinema is located in Pematangsiantar City. This cinema was built in 1953 and started operating actively in 1955. This building is a cinema building that was built after the end of the Dutch occupation of Indonesia. In 2003, this cinema was no longer actively operating. The main reason is because the cinema does not support the city's economy, in 2022 the former cinema building has been restored and revived by changing its function as a food court which is named Foodcourt Ria Heritage. Transfer of function is the process of an activity that changes the initial function into a new function of a room, a building. Transfer of building functions is a strategy in building preservation. As a historical relic in the field of film, the existence of this building certainly has a lot of potential. This study discusses the description of the changes in the building of the former Ria Cinema in terms of building facades and spatial planning. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive approach that aims to describe the observed object.
In this study it was found that the conversion of the former Ria cinema building was determined by several elements, namely the facade elements (walls, doors, windows, roof and structures) and spatial elements. This research concludes that the conversion of the former Ria cinema building into a Ria Heritage food court has affected the change in facade elements