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American Artists in Postwar Rome
Authors: Miller Peter Benson 
Published: February 2025

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for modern art in Rome was less vigorous as those in Paris and New York, numerous galleries, artist-run spaces, and other institutions acted as important catalysts, making Rome an international artistic hub. The city attracted now canonical figures Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Thek, and Cy Twombly, along with less well-known artists, such as Eugene Berman, Gene Charlton, Carlyle Brown, Peter Chinni, William Congdon, Claire Falkenstein, Marcia Hafif, John Heliker, James Leong, Beverly Pepper, and Laura Ziegler, among many others.
Rather than focusing on institutions and diplomatic relationships, the book centres the experience of artists, and also addresses Rome’s gay subculture and the role of female artists during the period, eschewing traditional narratives of the male “cultural ambassador.” Through case-study based investigation, Peter Benson Miller explores the reciprocal relationships between American modernist artists and Italian artists in postwar Rome, and reveals how these artists perceived Rome as less constrained by the demands of a national school, and as an alternative to New York. This congenial creative atmosphere yielded “new pictorial forms” developed in tandem with or absorbed from like-minded Italian artists, engaging the city and its multiple layers of history, from antiquity to the profound trauma inflicted by the recent conflict.
The book also establishes the entangled social networks, galleries, exhibitions, and institutions sustaining their work and providing entrée into local artistic circles. Focusing on a series of specific exchanges, this study contributes to our understanding American modernism in an international context.
Esotericism in Western Culture
Authors: Hanegraaff Wouter J. 
Published: February 2025

This accessible introduction by the world’s leading expert explains why the study of esotericism is not a marginal pursuit but belongs at the center of modern research in the humanities. Reflecting updates in the field since the foundational publicationWestern Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed(2013), Wouter J. Hanegraaff demonstrates that the exclusion of “rejected knowledge” from normative accounts of Western civilization is the reflection of a narrow Eurocentric ideology that became the template for discrediting and ultimately destroying so-called “primitive” cultures associated with “superstition” and “pagan idolatry” during the global colonial age.
Rejecting this “rejection of rejected knowledge” means restoring the suppressed to its legitimate place in history and cultural analysis. Through this approach, Wouter J. Hanegraaff depicts a radically inclusive vision of the Greater West and its forgotten histories, from pagan antiquity through Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures up to secular modernity and beyond.
Stoic Capitalist
Authors: Rosenkranz Robert , Hallsworth Ian 
Published: February 2025

The Stoic ideal ofa well-lived life has been around since 300BC, but what can we learn from it 2,300 years later?
InThe Stoic Capitalist, Robert Rosenkranz shows how its teachings can lead to a life of accomplishment, fulfillment, and impact. Stoic principles are applied not just to help you cope but to achieve your most ambitious goals. He offers an astute combination of philosophical, psychological, and business observations, along with practical advice spanning topics as diverse as finance, investments, negotiation, hiring, time management, art collecting, philanthropy, and longevity. He explains how ancient philosophy and its psychological insights can be used to create extraordinary outcomes in your personal and professional life.
Each of the short chapters offers ideas you can use to thrive. Along the way, you meet a lively global cast of RAND nuclear strategists, pioneering artists, scientist-entrepreneurs racing to extend the human lifespan, and iconic figures in the Wall Street boom years. The book offers an insider’s perspective on the creation of such major developments as private equity, hedge funds, and junk bonds.
Rosenkranz writes as he speaks, with the engaging voice of a Renaissance man who is insatiably curious, eager to learn, open to all viewpoints, but embracing none without critical thought. Reading this book may help you realize your childhood dreams.
Crescent Dawn
Authors: Sheppard Si 
Published: February 2025

A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.
The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from Persia to Russia. This intercontinental melee is expertly re-told in this fascinating new history by historian Si Sheppard.
But this is not the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West as you might assume. Europe was not united against the Turks; the scandal of the age was the alliance between King Francis I of France and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Meanwhile, the resistance of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco to Ottoman encroachment played a critical role in denying Constantinople direct access to the Atlantic Ocean. By the same token, though religious imperatives were critical to the motivations of all the key actors involved, these in no way fell neatly along the Christian Muslim divide.Crescent Dawnexpertly shows how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V desired nothing more than to eradicate the Protestant heresy metastasizing throughout his domains, but the threat of Turkish invasion forced him to stay his hand and indulge his Lutheran subjects to ensure a common defense. Nevertheless, the collective effort to constrain the expansion of the Ottoman superpower did succeed with the ultimate victory in 1571 the tipping point in reordering the trajectory of history.
Crescent Dawnfeatures some of the legendary figures of the era – from Mehmet the Conqueror, and Suleiman the Magnificent on the Ottoman side, to Charles V and Vasco de Gama on the other – and some of the most exotic locales on Earth – from the sumptuous palaces of Constantinople to the bloody battlefields of the Balkans to the awe-inspiring mountains of Ethiopia. This is a colorful history that brings the great battles of the age to life and clearly shows how the western struggle against the Ottomans constituted the first truly world war.
Second Arakan 1943–44
Authors: Moreman Tim 
Published: February 2025

A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.
The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in western Burma, following a failed first effort in early 1943. The battles fought shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility that had for over two years crippled the Allied cause, and for the first time offered the prospect of successful offensive operations against the Japanese in Burma.
Military historian Tim Moreman examines the wide range of actions that made up the Second Arakan campaign, from XV Indian Corps’ initial push down the Burmese coast towards Akyab Island, to the key events of the major JapaneseHa-Gooperation launched by Twenty-Eighth Army. These include the Battle of the Admin Box near Sinweyza, where the surrounded 7th Indian Division inflicted a serious defeat on the Japanese 55th Division; the reinforcement of Imphal and Kohima; and the seizure of Razabil, the Tunnels and Point 551 between March and May 1944.
Packed with maps, diagrams, battlescene artworks and photographs that guide the reader through this complex campaign in easy to follow detail, this work provides a must-have illustrated companion to this decisive victory for British and Commonwealth arms over the Imperial Japanese Army.
B-26 Marauder vs Me 262
Authors: Forsyth Robert 
Published: February 2025

An illustrated account of the clashes between the Luftwaffe’s Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and the USAAF’s B-26 Marauder bomber during the final months of the war in Europe.
As the world’s first jet-engined fighter aircraft, the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me 262 heralded a new dawn in design, performance, and combat capability upon its operational debut in 1944, outclassing its Allied counterparts for both speed and firepower. The skies over Austria and southern Germany saw the Me 262 enter savage aerial clashes as fighter ace Adolf Galland’s JV 44 engaged three USAAF bomber groups, targeting their formidable – but ill-prepared – Martin B-26 Marauders with often devastating results.
In this dramatic new study, Luftwaffe historian Robert Forsyth examines how USAAF crews in twin-engined Marauders endeavoured to fulfil their bombing missions while jet pilots in Me 262s attacked with 30 mm MK 108 nose-mounted cannon and, eventually, 55 mm R4M air-to-air rockets. First-hand accounts, newly commissioned artwork and archive photography enhance the fascinating and action-packed story of these two aircraft and the fearsome combat that was waged between them.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Authors: Rhodes John David 
Published: February 2025

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is the most important film in the history of American avant-garde cinema and one of the most significant and influential films in the whole of film history. It was made by Maya Deren and her then husband Alexander Hammid in their bungalow above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for a mere $274.90.
The artistic collaboration between Deren and Hammid – which was by all accounts harmonious – finds its distorted and unhappy reflection in the vision of the tormented female protagonist in Meshes of the Afternoon. The film’s focus – through a series of intricate and interlocking dream sequences – on female experience and the domestic sphere link it to the Hollywood melodramas of the period, while its unsettling atmosphere of dread, death and doubles makes it a counter-cinematic cousin to film noir. The film has made its influence felt not only on the entire subsequent history of experimental film and video production, but also on the work of Hollywood auteurs. It is a touchstone of women’s film-making, of modernist cinema and of modern art.
John David Rhodes traces the film’s history back into the lives of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, but in particular that of Deren. He places special significance on the film as a culmination of Deren’s abiding interest in modernism and her intense engagement in socialist politics. Rhodes argues that while the film remains a powerful point of reference for the feminist film-makers and experimentalists who have claimed it as their birthright, it also offers itself as an example of political art in the broadest terms. In Rhodes’s original study, Meshes of the Afternoon emerges as a film that is not only artistically ingenious, but also rich in historical significance and political potential.
Black Girl (La Noire de...)
Authors: Dima Vlad 
Published: February 2025

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century.Black Girlwas his brilliant, blistering debut.Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world.
Vlad Dima's study ofBlack Girlargues that the film helped to map the future of African cinema. He situates it within its postcolonial context, considering its adaptation from the eponymous short story first published in 1962. He examines the performances of Mbissine Thérèse Diop (Diouana), Anne-Marie Jelinek (Madame) and Robert Fontaine (Monsieur), considering the ways in which they embody or subvert postcolonial, French archetypes, and then goes on to examine the technical aspects of Sembene's filmmaking, such as his innovative use of framing and aural composition. Finally, he traces the film's lasting influence on African cinema, from Sembène’s ownXala(1975), to Safi Faye’sMossane(1996), Joseph Gaï Ramaka’sKarmen Geï(2001), Jean-Pierre Bekolo’sSaignantes(2005), and Mati Diop'sAtlantics(2019).
Electronic Waste
Authors: Lepawsky Josh 
Published: February 2025

The United Nations has reported that the world is on track to produce over 180 billion pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) by 2030.
This tidal wave of discarded electronic products, including cellular phones, laptop and desktop computers, televisions, solar panels, major household appliances, and telecommunications equipment, poses a host of serious environmental and public health problems and challenges.
Electronic Waste: A Reference Handbookprovides readers with an illuminating survey of the myriad issues and controversies surrounding the collection, treatment, disposal, and recycling of electric and electronic products, including trends and challenges related to public health, social justice, and environmental protection and stewardship. It also discusses ways in which increasingly electronics-dependent societies and economies are factoring environmental, social, and public health considerations into their e-waste mitigation, recycling, and disposal strategies. The book is further supplemented with perspectives from experts in the field of electronic waste, profiles of important organizations and agencies, and a chronology of major events and developments.
1970s Jazz Fusion
Authors: Reed Baker Matthew 
Published: February 2025

The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop.
The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. This book is a celebration of one of the most adventurous but unappreciated eras in popular music, wherein the traditional sounds of jazz were melded and mashed up with funk, soul, hard rock, and electronics. Even as they were accused of selling out and contaminating traditional jazz, artists like Miles Davis, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra made some of the most creative and invigorating music of the era.
Full of the musicians’ personal stories and anecdotes, this book provides a discussion of their albums and the cultural context for their music. That context also includes how these albums have been passed down through generations and have reverberated through the music of today, inspiring both hip-hop and electronic artists through sampling and contemporary jazz and soul artists who are less constrained by traditional genres. Though recorded decades ago, jazz fusion remains culturally vital and sonically thrilling to this very day.
Schizophrenia
Authors: Vitelli Romeo 
Published: February 2025

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized mental illnesses. Discover the truth about this condition, which affects roughly 25 million people worldwide.
Part of theQ&A Health Guidesseries, this book offers a broad introduction to schizophrenia. The book’s questions cover what schizophrenia is and its common characteristics, the factors that may lead to its emergence, how schizophrenia is diagnosed and managed, and how to best support friends or loved ones living with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia: Your Questions Answeredhelps readers better understand a psychiatric disorder that has been falsely portrayed in the media for decades.
Augmenting the main text, a collection of 5 case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The common misconceptions section at the beginning of the volume dispels 5 long-standing and harmful myths about schizophrenia, directing readers to additional information in the text. The glossary defines terms that may be unfamiliar to readers, while the directory of resources curates a list of the most useful books, websites, and other materials. Finally, whether they’re looking for more information about this subject or any other health-related topic, readers can turn to the guide to health literacy section for practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the internet.
A EDUCAÇÃO ESPECIAL NA PERSPECTIVA DA EDUCAÇÃO INCLUSA NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL
Authors: Souza Maria Patrícia Soares da Silva de , Coutinho Diógenes José Gusmão 
Published: February 2025

Neste artigo aborda-se o tema a educação especial na perspectiva da educação inclusiva na educação infantil. Sabe-se que as crianças com deficiência, autismo, altas habilidades e/ou superdotação devem ser incluídas no ensino regular, mas para que isto aconteça é preciso que as instituições de educação infantil ofereçam estrutura física para recebê-las e atendê-las. É necessário garantir a todas as crianças uma educação que contribua com o seu desenvolvimento integral e também que as unidades educativas sejam de fato inclusivas em todos os aspectos educacionais. Todas as crianças devem ter a mesma igualdade de condições tanto no acesso quanto na permanência escolar, porém, os desafios enfrentados pelos profissionais no cotidiano da educação infantil nos mostram que também é necessária a abrangência de políticas e projetos educacionais que contemplem a todas as crianças para que de fato elas possam ter seus direitos garantidos e respeitados. Os professores precisam e devem receber formação continuada, pois é necessário realizar propostas pedagógicas que contemplem todas as crianças e proporcionem vivências que garantam a ampliação dos repertórios delas, contribuindo para o seu pleno desenvolvimento.
<span>Đánh giá hiệu quả quy trình nuôi cá trê vàng (C<i>larias macrocephalus</i>) trong hệ thống tuần hoàn kết hợp xử lý chất thải</span>
Authors: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Nho , Phạm Thanh Liêm 
Published: February 2025

Nghiên cứu được thực hiện nhằm đánh giá hiệu quả của quy trình nuôi cá trê vàng (Clarias macrocephalus) trong hệ thống tuần hoàn (RAS) kết hợp xử lý chất thải. Thí nghiệm được thực hiện trong hệ thống tuần hoàn với thể tích 4 m3 nước nuôi trong thời gian 4 tháng. Cấu phần của RAS bao gồm 4 bể nuôi có thể tích 1 m3/bể được nối với bể lắng xoáy (350L), bể chứa (350L), bể lọc sinh học (2 m3) và bể bèo tai tượng (diện tích bề mặt 2 m2). Cá có khối lượng trung bình 11 gam/con được thả nuôi trong bể với mật độ 1.000 con/m3. Cá được cho ăn 2 lần/ngày bằng thức ăn viên công nghiệp 41% protein. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy, cá trê vàng nuôi trong RAS quy mô 4m3 thể tích nước nuôi đạt khối lượng 141,0-157,8 g/con, tỉ lệ sống 73,74-88,3 %, năng suất đạt 100,7-141,8 kg/m3 và FCR là 1,02-1,29 sau 120 ngày nuôi. Tăng trưởng về khối lượng (y: tính bằng gram) của cá theo ngày nuôi (x: tính theo ngày) được thể hiện bằng phương trình y = 1,2397x – 3,4465 (R² = 0,9697) với tốc độ tăng trưởng tương đối 2,05%/ngày. Khi cung cấp 1 kg thức ăn (tính trên vật chất khô, chứa 52,2 g N) thì thải ra 19,78% N (chứa 10,32 g N) chất thải rắn và 40,60% N (chứa 21,19 g N) chất thải hòa tan. Bể lọc sinh học xử lý được 32,5% lượng TSS, 3,42% lượng COD, 6,49% lượng PO43- và bể bèo xử lý được 24,7% lượng TSS, 0,37% lượng COD, 17,55 % lượng NO3-, 5,34% lượng PO43-, 12,82% lượng TN của hệ thống nuôi. Lượng nước sử dụng để sản xuất 1 kg cá trê vàng trong RAS là 0,2 m3 nước.
Rortian Solidarity in José Revueltas’s Carceral Novels
Authors: Gallegos-Ordorica Sergio Armando 
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT
This article examines the two carceral novels (The Walls of Water and The Hole) of the Mexican philosopher, writer and labor activist José Revueltas using as a lens Richard Rorty’s views on solidarity—particularly, Rorty’s views on what solidarity consists in, how it is developed and the effects it has, and this article argues that, if Rorty’s views on solidarity are correct, Revueltas’s carceral novels have a remarkable ability to expand our solidarity in virtue of their raw portrayal of the shared humiliation and suffering endured by prisoners within the Mexican penal system, which Revueltas was well acquainted with. Specifically, this article shows that Revueltas’s characters in the two novels develop solidarity in virtue of a common susceptibility to pain and humiliation, that they show what solidarity consists in since they share common selfish hopes about small things that are woven into their final vocabulary and, finally, that they illustrate the effects of solidarity as they are forced to live in environments where all traditional differences (e.g., race, tribe, religion, etc.) eventually fade.
Gender Indoctrination
Authors: Magada-Ward Mary 
Published: February 2025

ABSTRACT
This article explores the phenomenon of stay-at-home daughterhood to demonstrate how this practice provides a stark contrast to the requirements and rewards of genuine education. It does so, the article argues, both through its dependence upon isolation and indoctrination and its allegiance to conceptions of femininity and masculinity that reveal themselves to be uninhabitable, the latter by trying to cultivate an impossible aspiration to omnipotence and the former by violating what Peirce identifies as “the sole rule of reason,” which is “to not block the road of inquiry.”
Analisis Tingkat Literasi Keuangan Syariah pada Santri Pondok Pesantren Ngalah
Authors: Farida Alimatul 
Published: February 2025

Peneltian ini mengkaji tentang analisis tingkat literasi keuangan syariah pada santri pondok pesantren ngalah, yang notabene pesantren adalah sebuah lembaga pendidikan non formal yang bersifat keagamaan. Karena jumlah pesantren di Indonesia sebanyak 26.975 unit sampai dengan bulan april 2022. Dalam hal ini apakah pesantren mempunyai tingkat literasi keuangan syariah yang tinggi?
Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan penelitian mix methode dengan jenis penelitian kuantitatif deskriptif. Temuan penelitian dalam penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tingkat literasi keuangan pada santri pondok pesantren ngalah bisa dikatakan masih rendah yaitu di rata rata 50% tingkat pengetahuan tentang keuangan secara umum, sedangkan tingkat literasi keuangan syariah masih rendah dibawah 50%.
O‘QUVCHILARNING YOZMA NUTQ KOMPETENSIYALARINI RIVOJLANTIRISH
Authors: Parpiyev Odil 
Published: February 2025

Boshlang‘ich sinf o‘quvchilarining og‘zaki va yozma nutqini o‘stirishdan asosiy maqsad nutqiy vaziyatlarda o‘z fikrini ifodalay oladigan yoshlarni tarbiyalashdir. Ushbu maqolada o‘quvchilarning lingvistik kompetensiyalarini rivojlantirish usullari yoritilib, soha mutaxassislarining ilmiy asarlaridan iqtiboslar keltirish orqali muallif fikrlarini izohlab bergan. Boshlang‘ich sinflarda pedagogik kuzatishlar asosida muammoning mohiyati aniqlangan va topshiriqlar metodikasi ishlab chiqilgan.