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Disability, Faith, and the Church
Authors: Wilder Courtney 
Published: October 2023

Including both theoretical discussions and practical information for congregational use or pastoral use, this rich, accessible book explores biblical text, historical and theological issues of disability, and examples of successful ministry by people with disabilities.
Disability, Faith, and the Church: Inclusion and Accommodation in Contemporary Congregations draws from a range of Christian theologians, denominational statements, writings of people with disabilities, and experiences of successful ministries for people with disabilities to answer the deep need of many Christian communities: to live out their calling by welcoming all people. By focusing on 20th- and 21st-century thinkers and political and religious practices, the book outlines best practices for congregations and supplies practical information that readers can apply in classroom or church settings.
The author draws on thinkers from a variety of Christian traditions—including Roman Catholicism, Episcopalianism, Lutheranism, and the Reform traditions—to provide a theologically robust discussion that remains accessible to churchgoers without formal theological training. Emphasis is placed on connecting formal theological reflection and the experiences of ordinary people with disabilities to existing congregational practices and denominational statements, thereby enabling readers to decide on the best ways to successfully include people with disabilities into their communities within the rich and diverse Christian theological tradition.
Dying with Dignity
Authors: Lopes Giza 
Published: October 2023

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.
Should terminally ill adults be allowed to kill themselves with their physician’s assistance? While a few American states—as well as Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg—have answered “yes,” in the vast majority of the United States, assisted death remains illegal. This book provides a historical and comparative perspective that not only frames contemporary debates about assisted death and deepens readers’ understanding of the issues at stake, but also enables realistic predictions for the likelihood of the future diffusion of legalization to more countries or states—the consequences of which are vast.
Spanning a period from 1906 to the present day, Dying with Dignity: A Legal Approach to Assisted Death examines how and why pleas for legalization of “euthanasia” made at the beginning of the 20th century were transmuted into the physician-assisted suicide laws in existence today, in the United States as well as around the world. After an introductory section that discusses the phenomenon of “medicalization” of death, author Giza Lopes, PhD, covers the history of the legal development of “aid-in-dying” in the United States, focusing on case studies from the late 1900s to today, then addresses assisted death in select European nations. The concluding section discusses what the past legal developments and decisions could portend for the future of assisted death.
The Efficient Library
Authors: Rush Elizabeth Barrera 
Published: October 2023

This guide helps librarians improve service with easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to make physical changes in library space and streamline procedures.
This librarian's guide provides recommendations for quick and easy implementation of space-improving, time-saving practices. It also discusses the fundamentals of business and engineering management, public health, and other disciplines as they directly relate to the improvement of library service and management.
Detailing free and affordable adjustments to the library environment as well as information for those who will participate in a renovation or new construction project, the book features tips for creating functional, efficient, and productive spaces; procedures for streamlining routine tasks; methods for arranging materials in high demand; and ways of reconfiguring or planning spaces. It will provide librarians with a working knowledge of process management that will help them to strengthen their competence and build confidence to address and troubleshoot problems, freeing them to engage in more meaningful interactions and activities that benefit the community.
The Emotional Life of Money
Authors: Cross Mary 
Published: October 2023

This fascinating book illustrates how human behavior regarding money is triggered by emotion and powered by our psychic makeup, empowering readers to better understand their own behavior and decision making with money.
Beyond being an essential medium of exchange, money carries deep psychological significance: having enough of it confers power and status and provides the potential to sustain our lifestyle and fulfill our desires. Not having money triggers a breadth of negative emotions. This book explores the psychological payload money carries and the emotional effects it generates, allowing readers to better understand people's behavior with money and its effects on their own lives.
The Emotional Life of Money: How Money Changes the Way We Think and Feel identifies common hang-ups and anxieties about money; summarizes current academic research on money behavior and how people make decisions about their money; discusses the newest branch of economics, behavioral economics; and explores the possibility of the disappearance of cash in the digital future. General readers will be able to comprehend why money has often generated intense feelings of desire, greed, envy, elation, and other emotions, as well as sense of status; and undergraduate students in psychology, economics, and sociology courses will benefit from learning about the latest research on behavior economics and the powerful psychological and emotional effects of money
Information Literacy for Today's Diverse Students
Authors: Matamoros Alex Berrio 
Published: October 2023

Cultural influences in students’ lives―often tied to aspects of their background such as ethnicity, national origin, socioeconomic status, gender, and religion―play a large role in determining how they learn. Learning styles additionally differ among students, making it difficult to know how to best support all students.
This book introduces academic instruction librarians to a differentiated instruction (DI) approach that will help them to offer students a choice of how to engage with course content, assess their understanding of the material, and demonstrate mastery of the material to the instructor, allowing students to actively participate in their education.
It explains various instructional techniques used in DI and provides detailed, step-by-step examples for implementing educational technology tools supporting each technique. Accompanying the examples are tips for overcoming known challenges in implementation and best practices for successful adoption of the techniques. Readers will understand how to begin using the most popular types of educational technology tools for academic information literacy instruction.
The Last Fish Swimming
Authors: Petrossian Gohar A. 
Published: October 2023

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world’s fish.
Humans are deeply dependent on fishing—globally, fish comprise 15 percent of the protein intake for approximately 3 billion people, and 8 percent of the global population depends on the fishing industry as their livelihood. The global fishing industry is plagued by illegal fishing, however, and many highly commercial species, such as cod, tuna, orange roughy, and swordfish, are extremely vulnerable.
Through criminological analysis, The Last Fish Swimming emphasizes the importance of looking at specific environmental factors that make illegal fishing possible. It examines such factors as proximity to known ports where illegally caught fish can be landed without inspection (i.e., ports of convenience), fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance efforts, formal surveillance, and resource attractiveness in 53 countries that altogether represent 96 percent of the world’s fish catch. The book calls upon the global community to address the illegal depletion of the world’s fish stock and other similar threats to the world’s food supply and natural environment in order to ensure the sustainability of the planet’s fish and continuation of the legal fishing industry for generations to come.
Library Licensing
Authors: Halaychik Corey , Reagan Blake 
Published: October 2023

This clear and concise manual will help librarians understand licenses so that they can become better reviewers, drafters, and negotiators.
Libraries purchase or subscribe to countless resources that are governed by licenses–both digital products and physical objects like rare books or equipment. Many librarians, however, lack the legal expertise to comprehend and assess the clauses found in licenses.
Authors Corey Halaychik and Blake Reagan have reviewed and edited thousands of contracts and use the lessons they've learned to help librarians sort through the often archaic and confusing language found in licenses. Library Licensing is a key reference for anyone responsible for reviewing, editing, negotiating, and agreeing to licenses that govern library resources. It contains essential information that will allow the reader to not only understand the language used in contracts but also to replace confusing and redundant language with clear and concise alternatives. Organized with ease of use in mind, chapters are written for quick and easy consultation and application.
Library Patrons’ Privacy
Authors: Valenti Sandra J. , Lund Brady D. , Beckstrom Matthew A. 
Published: October 2023

A quick, easy-to-read synthesis of theory, guidelines, and evidence-based research, this book offers timely, practical guidance for library and information professionals who must navigate ethical crises in information privacy and stay on top of emerging privacy trends.
Emerging technologies create new concerns about information privacy within library and information organizations, and many information professionals lack guidance on how to navigate the ethical crises that emerge when information privacy and library policy clash. What should we do when a patron leaves something behind? How do we justify filtering internet access while respecting accessibility and privacy? How do we balance new technologies that provide anonymity with the library's need to prevent the illegal use of their facilities?
Library Patrons' Privacy presents clear, conversational, evidence-based guidance on how to navigate these ethical questions in information privacy. Ideas from professional organizations, government entities, scholarly publications, and personal experiences are synthesized into an approachable guide for librarians at all stages of their career. This guide, designed by three experienced LIS scholars and professionals, is a quick and enjoyable read that students and professionals of all levels of technical knowledge and skill will find useful and applicable to their libraries.
Marine and Coastal Law
Authors: Nixon Dennis W. , Daly Michael J. , Farady Susan E. , Porter Read D. , Wyman Julia B. 
Published: October 2023

This extensively updated third edition of the classic casebook Marine and Coastal Law provides readers with an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide to landmark laws, regulations, and legal decisions governing the United States' vast marine and coastal resources.
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the prestigious Marine and Coastal Law casebook provides an essential overview of landmark legal decisions and statutory provisions in U.S. marine and coastal law, with a particular emphasis on regulatory changes and legal conflicts involving climate change, coastal resilience/protection, and sea level rise. In addition to a thorough updating of the contents of the second edition (including editorial commentary on every case), this new revised edition features extensive new content, including two entirely new chapters and new "learning objectives" for each chapter.
Produced by five experts in U.S. marine law, this third edition stands as an accessible and invaluable resource for both lay readers and legal professionals who are seeking greater understanding of the ever-evolving and frequently contentious laws and regulations governing U.S. and international fisheries, maritime shipping and transport, offshore oil and mineral resources, climate change mitigation strategies, coastal protection, marine pollution, and port and harbor operations.
Nurturing Children’s Talents
Authors: Kiewra Kenneth A. 
Published: October 2023

Explains steps that parents can take to help their child develop talent in any activity that has sparked his or her interest.
Nurturing Children’s Talents: A Guide for Parents is a book for all parents. That’s because talent is made, not born, and parents are in prime position to help children discover and develop talent, whether the talent domain is archery, baton twirling, chess, or zoology. Moreover, talent development is a continuum along which all children can grow. Carnegie Hall might be the destination for some while community band is for others. Meanwhile, most parents are eager to help their children traverse a talent path but don’t know how … until now.
Nurturing Children’s Talents offers parents insights and step-by-step plans to help children reach their potential. These recommendations stem from author Kenneth A. Kiewra’s personal experience raising a chess champion and his extensive research interviewing talented performers—including national, world, and Olympic champions—and their parents, across many domains.
Old School Still Matters
Authors: Fife Brian L. 
Published: October 2023

Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education.
Despite dramatic, sweeping changes in recent decades, a strong case can be made for guiding the reformation of contemporary public education in the United States on common school ideology of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the common school remains a public institution capable of preparing America’s youth to contribute to the community in a positive manner, and that education must be treated at a public good where all children—regardless of social class—have a right to a quality education. The work includes a thorough overview of Horace Mann’s writings on K–12 public education that support the common school ideal—concepts that are over 150 years old, yet still highly relevant today.
On the Go with Senior Services
Authors: Goodman Phyllis 
Published: October 2023

Not only does this book offer insights into how to better serve all seniors, but it also provides complete step-by-step instructions for dozens of exciting and engaging programs that can be held both onsite and offsite.
While serving the senior population is a standard service in public libraries, it has traditionally focused on in-house programs and homebound services. On the Go with Senior Services is different. With this inspiring and practical guide, your library can rejuvenate its in-house services with new programs and also take them on the road–to retirement and assisted living communities, adult day care programs, and nursing homes and rehab centers.
With such diversity in the senior population, this book describes strategies for designing senior programs that fit your community's needs. It offers a trove of templates for programs that range from crafts, word games, pop culture, pets, holidays, humor, mysteries, technology, and music. It offers tips and suggestions on how to interact with seniors, including those who may have a variety of physical and cognitive needs. There are also guidelines for working with individuals suffering from dementia. A robust list of further resources is provided.
The growing population of seniors presents librarians with new challenges and opportunities, and this book is a valuable guide to navigating and embracing them.
On the Job
Authors: DeMello Margo 
Published: October 2023

This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.
It's not surprising that the first question we are asked by strangers often has to do with what we do for a living. It's another way of asking, “Who are you, and what are you about?” But what happens when the answer to that question is “I am a gondolier” or “I am an Instagram influencer?“ This book tries to answer that question, focusing on approximately 100 unusual occupations around the world.
Arranged alphabetically, entries define the jobs and detail their historical, social, and cultural significance. Entries also examine where the job is located, how it came to be, how people get into the position, and what the economic and future outlook is for that job. While the entries focus on contemporary jobs, the encyclopedia also includes sidebars that highlight unique jobs from history to give the reader a sense of how unusual (and often terrible!) some jobs once were. Students will find this book useful in looking at cultures around the world.
The Power of the Prosecutor
Authors: Jacoby Joan E. , Ratledge Edward C. 
Published: October 2023

In this book, readers will take a fascinating journey with local prosecutors as they seek to obtain reasonable and appropriate case dispositions while preventing abuse and misuse of the law and protecting the civil rights of their jurisdictions. Prosecutors have a powerful and generally little-understood role in the criminal justice system. Their important powers include accepting or rejecting cases, making decisions about dismissing charges, or moving cases to disposition and recommending a sentence—all of which can critically affect not only individuals but society through their ability to shape our criminal justice system. The Power of the Prosecutor: Gatekeepers of the Criminal Justice System explores the real-world actions and outcomes of local prosecutors through five well-known cases, documenting the variety of pressures prosecutors face both within and outside their offices as they attempt to make the best decisions about crimes and defendants.
Written by individuals who have actively engaged prosecutors in practically every U.S. state over 30 years' time, the book examines actual case profiles that enable readers to witness how prosecutors reach their behind-the-scenes decisions and grasp how the criminal justice system operates. The authors explain the variations in prosecution, including the effects of policies and priorities, action choices available, and the types of both internal and external relationships with other participants in the system: the police, the courts, the defense counsel, and the community they represent. Readers will come away with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the complexities and pressures faced by prosecutors in upholding justice under a wide variety of conditions.
Power Up Your Read-Alouds
Authors: Paganelli Andrea 
Published: October 2023

Capture the hearts, minds, and attention of your digital-age listeners using read-aloud experiences that engage technology.
""I wish my learners would be as excited about reading as they are about technology"" is a lament frequently sung by those who seek to support reading development. There is no debate that reading is fundamental and that reading aloud strongly supports lifelong reading engagement. Technology, however, is ubiquitous in our society, and engagement with it is essential for our success. Reading and technology are therefore in competition for learners' attention, but by combining reading and technology through use of read-aloud, facilitators can create engaging digital read-aloud programs to enhance the learning experience.
Digital read-aloud can be used with multiple age groups, in a variety of settings, and with differing degrees of expense and technology complexity. Understanding that these myriad options can be overwhelming, however, Andrea Paganelli offers detailed information on the background, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of technology-infused read-aloud for reading support persons, school librarians, public librarians, instructional librarians, teachers, and professors. Her ideas span multiple ages and subjects and include practical examples designed to engage both educators and readers.
Early Clinical Outcome of Mini-Craniotomy in Mixed Density Subdural Hematoma
Authors: Saeed Abbasi Amjad , Qasmi Shahzad Ahmed , Abbasi Hanif , Khan Awais Ali , Ahmed Ali , Shamim Babar 
Published: October 2023

Objective: To determine the efficacy of mini-craniotomy for evacuation of mix-density subdural hematoma in terms of early clinical outcome.
Study Design: Quasi-experimental study.
Place and Duration of Study: Neurosurgery Department, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Jan to Dec 2020.
Methodology: Eighty patients with mixed-density subdural hematoma were included in the study. All were subjected to minicraniotomy under general anaesthesia. Post-operative Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was monitored and compared with the preoperative Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) to see the early clinical outcome of the patients.
Results: Out of 80 patients with mixed-density subdural, 38(47.5%) were females, whereas 42(52.5%) were males. The mean age of the patients was 70.9±6.98 years. Improvement in Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) after 24hrs showed that 68(85%) patients had a favourable outcome, while 12(15%) had the same condition post-operatively.
Conclusion: Mini-craniotomy is a suitable surgical procedure for the treatment of mixed-density subdural hematoma.
Absolute Lymphocyte Count; the most Sensitive Indicator of the Risk of Progression and Complications in COVID-19
Authors: Ali Kamran , Nawaz Khurram Haq , Ul Hassan Wahaj , Waqar Raja Muhammad 
Published: October 2023

Objective: To explore the role of lymphocyte count as a predictor of severity biomarkers in COVID-19 patients.
Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Sep 2020 to Jan 2021.
Methodology: A total of 120 patients were enrolled for this study. We analyzed the blood samples of the affected patient in a certified laboratory. From blood samples, we deduced information related to leucocyte count, neutrophils, lymphocyte (cells×109/L) counts, ferritin (ng/mL), CRP (mg/dL), d-Dimer (mg/mL), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, U/L) and lymphocyte subsets.
Results: In critical condition cases, we observed a massive decrease in CD3+CD4+T cell count by 49% (278+124.53 vs 545+138.32), CD4+/CD8+ratio by 30% (0.72+0.14vs1.00+0.04) and CD4+MFI by 17% (21834+1150.03 vs 26287+920.86) as compared to the Non-Critical Group (p-value<0.001). Comparatively, the ferritin and LDH levels were high in the Critical Group (p-value <0.001).
Conclusion: After the results, our study concluded that lymphocyte count plays a vital role in the early determination of COVID infection. We observed that a decrease in CD8+ count highly contributes to the severity of COVID-19.