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Military Doctrine
Authors: Chapman Bert 
Published: December 2023

This comprehensive volume provides a thorough overview of 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines worldwide.
Military Doctrine: A Reference Handbook takes a thorough look at 20th- and 21st-century military doctrines around the world. It excerpts relevant English-language scholarly and governmental literature to paint a picture of how military doctrine has developed in recent history, what military doctrines are currently operating on the world stage, and where military doctrine is heading in the near future. The book casts a wide net, scanning the relevant government documents, international agreements, monographs, journals, conference papers, and Internet resources to present a thorough overview of the importance of military doctrine in today's highly unstable world.
Because military institutions are important formulators of national military doctrine and not merely implementers, this book examines the roles played by military organizations around the world. With the proliferation of independent military scholars and the widespread influence of their work in the Internet age, the book also scans the "gray" literature and describes its effects on military doctrine.
A Military History of South Africa
Authors: Stapleton Timothy J. 
Published: December 2023

This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa.
A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historical importance of warfare and military structures in the shaping of modern South African society. Important themes include military adaptation during the process of colonial conquest and African resistance, the growth of South Africa as a regional military power from the early 20th century, and South African involvement in conflicts of the decolonization era.
Organized chronologically, each chapter reviews the major conflicts, policies, and military issues of a specific period in South African history. Coverage includes the wars of colonial conquest (1830-69), the diamond wars (1869-81), the gold wars (1886-1910), World Wars I and II (1910-45), and the apartheid wars (1948-94).
Modern Homelessness
Authors: Hombs Mary Ellen 
Published: December 2023

This in-depth examination reviews fundamental changes of the past decade that have reduced homelessness in the United States and other Western democracies.
Focusing on the last decade, Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook examines the issue in the United States and in other nations that have adopted new strategies to address homelessness—and achieved notable results in preventing and ending it. The handbook covers the unprecedented reductions first announced in 2007 and the crucial shifts in strategy and investment, and the results that brought them about. These fundamental changes are analyzed to identify the factors that proved most effective in altering the national and local dialogue and response relative to this daunting issue.
In addition to a brief history of homelessness in contemporary times, the handbook examines key developments of the past decade in research, policy, housing models, and service delivery that have been shown to decrease homelessness. These include active partnership among the governments of the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and others that moved the discussion in a new direction. The story is brought up to date with a consideration of the effects of the 2008 economic crisis.
A New World to Be Won
Authors: Thomas G. Scott 
Published: December 2023

This book tells the story of 1960—a tumultuous, transitional year that unleashed the forces that eventually reshaped the American nation and the entire planet, to the joy of millions and the sorrow of millions more.
In 1960, attitudes were changing; barriers were falling. It was a transitional year, during which the world as we know it today was beginning to take shape. While other books have focused on the presidential contest between Kennedy and Nixon, A New World to Be Won: John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and the Tumultuous Year of 1960 illuminates the emerging forces that would transform the nation and the world during the 1960s, putting the election in the broader context of American history—and world history as well.
While the author does devote a large portion of this book to the 1960 presidential campaign, he also highlights four pivotal trends that changed life for decades to come: unprecedented scientific breakthroughs, ranging from the Xerox copier to new spacecraft for manned flight; fragmentation of the international power structure, notably the schism between the Soviet Union and China; the pursuit of freedom, both through the civil rights movement at home and the drive for independence in Africa; and the elevation of pleasure and self-expression in American culture, largely as a result of federal approval of the birth-control pill and the increasing popularity of illegal drugs.
Castration Desire
Authors: Murphy Robinson 
Published: December 2023

Theorizes an alternative form of masculinity in global literature that is less egocentric and more sustainable, both in terms of gendered and environmental power dynamics.
As the #MeToo movement made all too clear, we require new tools for imagining alternative masculinities. Enter Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction, which examines an array of contemporary novelists and filmmakers who are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire.” Figures such as Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, Irish-Canadian Emma Donoghue, Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, and South African-Australian J.M. Coetzee present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment. Castration Desire examines how, in promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these transnational artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented relationality.
According to orthodox psychoanalysis, “castration” is always negative: to lose the “phallus” is to lose everything. Against this orthodox account, “castration desire” offers a “less is more” model of sustainable relationality on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. Additionally, this study extends and develops a zeitgeist that is currently unfolding in critical theory, bringing Leo Bersani’s concept of “psychic utopia” together with Judith Butler’s “radical egalitarianism,” extending their shared critique of individualistic masculinity into the environmental humanities. Castration Desire thereby provides an alternative to rapacious consumption practices. In shifting criticism to a new way of thinking about the phase of literary history we are currently in, it also helps define where literary criticism is now, and where it is headed.
Relic
Authors: Simon Ed 
Published: December 2023

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every time period has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which gestures beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion; the exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance.
From Abraham Lincoln's death mask to Vladimir Lenin's embalmed corpse, Emily Dickinson's envelopes to Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects. Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics
Authors: Schulenberg Ulf 
Published: December 2023

Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.
asThis interdisciplinary study shows that a mediation between pragmatist aesthetics – which emphasizes the significance of creating, making, and inventing – and Marxist materialist aesthetics – which values form – promises interesting results and that the former can learn from the latter.add
In doing so, Ulf Schulenberg discusses 3 layers of the multi-layered phenomenon that is the revival of humanism: He first explains the potential of a pragmatist humanism, clarifying the contemporary significance of humanism. He then argues that pragmatist humanism is a form of anti-authoritarianism. Finally, he shows the possibility of bringing together the resurgence of humanism and a renewed interest in the work of aesthetic form by arguing that pragmatist aesthetics needs a more complex conception of form.
Establishing a transatlantic theoretical dialogue, Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics brings together literary and aesthetic theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. It discusses a broad range of authors – from Emerson, Whitman, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Dewey to Wittgenstein, Lukács, Adorno, Jameson, Latour, and Rorty – to illuminate how humanism, pragmatism, and anti-authoritarianism are interlinked.
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry
Authors: Sonboldel Farshad 
Published: December 2023

An analysis of the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in three periods: the Constitutional Revolution (1900–1920), the post-constitutional era (1920–1940), and the ascendency of modernism (1940–1960).
Farshad Sonboldel shines new light on the history of modern Persian poetry by re-imagining the roles that the aesthetic experimentations of alternative poets played in different phases of the literary revolution in modern Persian poetry. Dominant narratives portray modern Persian poetry as a gradual, rational, and moderate change in the classical regime of aesthetics as well as a response to – and reflection of – cultural and socio-political changes within Iranian society. They also disregard the significance of radical experiments by alternative poets and undervalue the part they played in the initiation and progress of the so-called "literary revolution." These mainstream narratives minimize the socio-political engagement of literary works with the direct reflection of the social reality, and thus neglect the way many alternative poems struggle with socio-political issues through deconstructing the old and constructing new aesthetic systems.
Each chapter of The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry is centred around poems chosen for their potential to showcase notable experiments of pioneer movements and individuals in each given period. Examining the formal and thematic aspects of these poems, this book reformulates the story of modern Persian poetry and unravels the relationship between radical aesthetic changes in the practice of poetry and resistance against political and cultural domination in society.
Screenwriting
Authors: Gulino Paul Joseph 
Published: December 2023

A substantial update of the previous edition, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach deconstructs recent feature films and offers a new section analysing popular television series.
A proven screenwriting method in emotionally engaging an audience, the sequence approach emphasises the underlying motives of each story plot to better convey its relation to the work as a whole. In this expanded second edition, Paul Gulino includes analyses of recent noteworthy films and serial dramas, such as Parasite, Barry and Breaking Bad, with an eye to how they manage audience attention, convey vital information and deliver their emotional payloads. The aim of the book is to help writers move readily from the feature film to the serial form, mastering both. It is perfect for both beginning writers and those with experience in the feature screenplay form.
Prescription for Inequality
Authors: Duquaine-Watson Jillian M. 
Published: December 2023

This book explores how social determinants of health (SDH) impact the health of a variety of marginalized demographic groups in the United States. Chapters focus on the 13 groups that research demonstrates are most disadvantaged by SDH and, consequently, who suffer the most from ongoing health disparities in America. This includes Black and Hispanic individuals, the LGBTQIA+ community, women, the elderly, people with disabilities, veterans, and those living in rural areas, among others.
Chapters follow a standardized format that makes it easy for readers to focus in on aspects of the subject that are of greatest interest. Each profile begins with a snapshot of that group’s current state of health, including the biggest medical concerns and how other determinants of health may play a role. Next, each chapter takes an in-depth look at the four components of SDH: economic factors, educational access and quality, healthcare access and quality, and living environment and social context. Unique problems and possible solutions are explored within each of these four sections. An end-of-volume bibliography and further readings list points readers who wish to continue their investigation of the topic toward additional information.
Relying on an interdisciplinary framework, the book incorporates research from diverse fields including public health, feminist theory, critical studies of race and ethnicity, poverty studies, disability studies, aging studies, cultural competence, legal studies, and global health. In recognition of the reality that health disparities are the result of a complex interplay of forces and structural factors that permeate American culture, analysis extends beyond health and health care to include a broad range of interrelated social, political, economic, and educational components.
A Universal Superhydrophobic‐Ionophilic Interfacial Strategy for Cycling Stable Aqueous Zinc Metal Electrodes under Low Current Density
Authors: Xu Xiaoyun , Li Songmei , Yan Huibo , Du Juan , Yang Shubin , Li Bin 
Published: December 2023

AbstractA key challenge to apply aqueous zinc‐metal batteries (AZMBs) as next‐generation energy storage devices is to eliminate the adverse reactions of hydrogen evolution, especially in low current. Here, superhydrophobic and ionophilic artificial solid electrolyte interface (HI‐SEI) on zinc anode is proposed and constructed by enhancing roughness and etching ion channels in universal polysiloxane polymer backbones. The HI‐SEI exhibits superhydrophobicity with high contact angle of 151.5° and ionophilicity with low activation energy of 23.97 kJ mol−1. Thus, the HI‐SEI isolates Zn metal and solvent water and promotes desolvation kinetics of Zn2+. Besides, the HI‐SEI alters the double electric layer structure to form a compact layer hardly any adsorbed solvent water, achieving a small nucleation overpotential of 5 mV and low self‐corrosion current density of 0.95 µA cm−2. Moreover, a symmetric cell with HI‐SEI@Zn anode has a cycle life of >1330 h at low current of 0.1 mA cm−2. And a full cell with HI‐SEI@Zn anode and NaV3O8‐1.5H2O cathode provides long cycle life and low capacity degradation (180 mAh g−1 after 1100 cycles). Hopefully, SEI designs based on such a strategy will be able to improve the low‐current cycling performance of the next‐generation AZMBs.
A Smart DNA Nanoassembly Containing Multivalent Aptamers Enables Controlled Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 for Cancer Immunotherapy
Authors: Lv Zhaoyue , Li Zhemian , Zou Shaolan , Li Peiran , Song Nachuan , Zhang Rui , Xu Mengdi , Liu Mingxing , Li Fengqin , Li Junru , Liu Peifeng , Yao Chi , Yang Dayong 
Published: December 2023

AbstractCRISPR/Cas9 system is promising for the reversal of tumor immunosuppression in immunotherapy, but the controlled delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 remains challenging. Herein, the study reported a smart DNA nanoassembly containing multivalent aptamers, realizing the controlled delivery of Cas9/sgRNA ribonucleoprotein (RNP) for enhanced cancer immunotherapy. A single‐stranded DNA complementary to sgRNA in the Cas9/sgRNA RNP can initiate a cascade‐clamped hybridization chain reaction (C‐HCR) to wrap the Cas9/sgRNA RNP up in the DNA nanoassembly. After selective internalization of DNA nanoassembly by cancer cells, Cas9/sgRNA RNP is released to cytoplasm in response to endogenous RNase H and enters the nuclei to knock out β‐catenin. The expression of the programmed death‐ligand one gene is effectively suppressed, and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment is reprogrammed. Meanwhile, the migration of cancer cells is inhibited, and the apoptosis of cancer cells is promoted. In a breast cancer mouse model, the administration of DNA nanoassembly effectively increased the infiltration of CD8+ T cells, eventually achieving high therapeutic efficacy.
Self‐Assembled Multilayered Coatings with Multiple Cyclic Self‐Healing Capability, Bacteria Killing, Osteogenesis, and Angiogenesis Properties on Magnesium Alloys
Authors: Zhao Yanbin , He Peng , Yao Junyan , Li Mei , Bai Jing , Xue Feng , Chu Chenglin , Cong Yu , Chu Paul K. 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSelf‐healing coatings improve the durability of magnesium (Mg) implants, but rapid corrosion still poses a challenge in the healing stage. Moreover, Mg‐based materials with acceptable bacteria killing, osteogenic and angiogenic properties are challenging in biomedical applications. Herein, the self‐healing polymeric coatings are fabricated on Mg alloys using the spin‐assisted layer‐by‐layer (SLbL) assembly of hyaluronic acid (HA) and branched polyethyleneimine (bPEI) followed by chemical crosslinking treatment. The self‐healing coatings show excellent adhesion strength and structure stability. The corrosion resistance is improved due to the physical barrier of polymer coatings, which also promotes the formation of hydroxyapatite (HAp) during degradation for further protection of Mg substrate. Owing to the dynamic reversible hydrogen bonds existing between HA and bPEI, the crosslinked multilayered coatings possess fast, substantial, and cyclic self‐healing capabilities leading to restoration of the original structure and functions. In vitro investigations reveal that the self‐healing coatings have multiple functionalities pertaining to bacteria killing, cytocompatibility, osteogenesis, as well as angiogenesis. In addition, the self‐healing coatings stimulate alkaline phosphatase activity (ALP), extracellular matrix (ECM) mineralization, and the expression of osteogenesis‐related genes of mBMSCs and HUVECs. This study reveals a feasible strategy to design and prepare versatile self‐healing coatings on Mg implants for biomedical applications.
Contact Pressure‐Guided Wearable Dual‐Channel Bioimpedance Device for Continuous Hemodynamic Monitoring
Authors: Namkoong Myeong , McMurray Justin , Branan Kimberly , Hernandez Joanna , Gandhi Mishika , Ida‐Oze Samuel , Cote Gerard , Tian Limei 
Published: December 2023

AbstractWearable devices for continuous monitoring of arterial pulse waves have the potential to improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of cardiovascular diseases. These pulse wave signals are often affected by the contact pressure between the wearable device and the skin, limiting the accuracy and reliability of hemodynamic parameter quantification. Here, a continuous hemodynamic monitoring device that enables the simultaneous recording of dual‐channel bioimpedance and quantification of pulse wave velocity (PWV) and blood pressure (BP) is reported. The investigations demonstrate the effect of contact pressure on bioimpedance and PWV. The pulsatile bioimpedance magnitude reached its maximum when the contact pressure approximated the mean arterial pressure of the subject. PWV is employed to continuously quantify BP while maintaining comfortable contact pressure for prolonged wear. The mean absolute error and standard deviation of the error compared to the reference value are determined to be 0.1 ± 3.3 mmHg for systolic BP, 1.3 ± 3.7 mmHg for diastolic BP, and −0.4 ± 3.0 mmHg for mean arterial pressure when measurements are conducted in the lying down position. This research demonstrates the potential of wearable dual‐bioimpedance sensors with contact pressure guidance for reliable and continuous hemodynamic monitoring.
Discovery of PRDM16‐Mediated TRPA1 Induction as the Mechanism for Low Tubulo‐Interstitial Fibrosis in Diabetic Kidney Disease
Authors: Xu Fang , Jiang Hongwei , Li Xiaozhou , Pan Jian , Li Huiling , Wang Luxiang , Zhang Pan , Chen Junxiang , Qiu Shuangfa , Xie Yuxin , Li Yijian , Zhang Dongshan , Dong Zheng 
Published: December 2023

AbstractThe pathogenesis of Diabetic kidney disease(DKD) involves pathological changes in both tubulo‐interstitium and the glomerulus. Surprisingly, tubulo‐interstitial fibrosis (TIF), does not develop significantly until the late stage of DKD. Here, it is demonstrated that PR domain‐containing 16 (PRDM16) is a key to the low level of TIF in DKD. In the experiments, PRDM16 is upregulated in high glucose‐treated renal tubular cells, DKD mouse kidneys, and renal biopsy of human DKD patients via activation of NF‐κB signal pathway. High glucose‐induced expression of fibrotic proteins in renal tubular cells is suppressed by PRDM16. Mechanistically, PRDM16 bound to the promotor region of Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) to transactivate its expression and then suppressed MAPK (P38, ERK1/2) activation and downstream expression of TGF‐β1. Knockout of PRDM16 from kidney proximal tubules in mice blocked TRPA1 expression and enhanced MAPK activation, TGF‐β1 production, TIF development, and DKD progression, whereas knock‐in of PRDM16 has opposite effects. In addition, overexpression of PRDM16 or its induction by formononetin ameliorated renal dysfunction and fibrosis in db/db diabetic mice. Finally, the above finding are detected in renal biopsies of DKD patients. Together, these results unveil PRDM16/TRPA1 as the mechanism responsible for the low level of TIF in the early stage of DKD by suppressing and TGF‐β1 expression.
Mapping of Spin‐Wave Transport in Thulium Iron Garnet Thin Films Using Diamond Quantum Microscopy
Authors: Timalsina Rupak , Wang Haohan , Giri Bharat , Erickson Adam , Xu Xiaoshan , Laraoui Abdelghani 
Published: December 2023

AbstractSpin waves, collective dynamic magnetic excitations, offer crucial insights into magnetic material properties. Rare‐earth iron garnets offer an ideal spin‐wave (SW) platform with long propagation length, short wavelength, gigahertz frequency, and applicability to magnon spintronic platforms. Of particular interest, thulium iron garnet (TmIG) has attracted huge interest recently due to its successful growth down to a few nanometers, observed topological Hall effect, and spin‐orbit torque‐induced switching effects. However, there is no direct spatial measurement of its SW properties. This work uses diamond nitrogen‐vacancy (NV) magnetometry in combination with SW electrical transmission spectroscopy to study SW transport properties in TmIG thin films. NV magnetometry allows probing spin waves at the sub‐micrometer scale, seen by the amplification of the local microwave magnetic field due to the coupling of NV spin qubits with the stray magnetic field produced by the microwave‐excited spin waves. By monitoring the NV spin resonances, the SW properties in TmIG thin films are measured as a function of the applied magnetic field, including their amplitude, decay length (≈50 µm), and wavelength (0.8–2 µm). These results pave the way for studying spin qubit‐magnon interactions in rare‐earth magnetic insulators, relevant to quantum magnonics applications.