Author Of Book Research Articles

Contextualizing the Decalogue: The Invention of the Ten-Commandments in Late Ancient Christianity

This article argues that while several Decalogue precepts are mentioned in the New Testament, the Decalogue as a distinct normative category is completely absent. This goes in line with the evidence from Second Temple Jewish sources, where very limited attention is given to the Decalogue, with Philo serving as an exception. I further propose that the formation of the Decalogue as a distinct normative category comes accompanied by a specific anti-Jewish discourse, beginning in the late second century and continuing into the fourth century. Authors such as Irenaeus of Lyon, Ptolemy, Aphrahat, and the anonymous author of the Syriac Book of Steps construct ‘the Decalogue’ as a category for commandments that Christians must still follow, as opposed to the rest of Law. The latter is characterized as ‘not good laws’, given to the Jews only on account of their sins.

土 오행 墓庫論의 연원과 변천 고찰

This paper examines the origin, meaning, and application of tomb(墓) and storage(庫) theory of Earth(土) in the JinSulChookMi(辰戌丑未) out of the Five Elements(五行). Concerning the distinction of tomb and storage, in Gwak Park(郭璞)'s original text, Jangong(張顒)'s 『Okjojeongjingyung(玉照定眞經)』, and Seo Ja-pyeong(徐子平)'s 『Okjoxinnengjingyung(玉照神應眞經)』, had claimed the Powerful Qi(旺氣) as storage, and the Weak Qi as tomb. On the contrary to this claim, the authors of other books such as 『Lihezhongmingshu(李虛中命書)』 and etc used both terms tomb and storage interchangeably. However, the author of 『Myeongriyakeon(命理約言)』, Jin So-Am(陣素庵) only referred to Joonggi(中氣) of the Jijangan(支藏干) as tomb and used the terms storage and tomb interchangeably. Jin So-Am, the author of book 『Myeongriyakeon(命理約言)』, distinguished the terms of opening storage with this case; Penalty(刑) meets Moving(動) and collision(沖) meets launching(發), and Activating(發動) becomes opening Storage. He suggested Hyung·Choong·Pa·Hae(刑·沖·破·害) as a way of opening storage. The author of 『Japyeongjinjeon(子平眞詮)』, Shim Hyo-cheom(沈孝瞻) argued that Hyung, Choong(刑沖) is acceptable as the way of opening storage, but that the opening of Wood·Fire·Metal·Water(木火金水) is an error of book writers, and only the Hyung(沖) of Earth(土) is possible. On the other hand, the author of 『Jeokcheonsucheonmi(滴天髓闡微)』, Lim Cheol-cho(任鐵樵), said that one should judge opening storage carefully according to destiny(命). The character of entering the storage(入庫) is still interpreted as the five elements entering the storehouse. In the 『Sanmingtonghui(三命通會)』, If the command of the ten stars that have been received is transmitted to the heavens and works for good, you can enjoy blessings, but if they are not transmitted, You have to be a good judge of the strength and weakness of your destiny. Entering the tomb(入墓) means to enter a tomb, and is used negatively compared to entering the storage(入庫). In the 『Lihezhongmingshu(李虛中命書)』 When the Five Elements are in the fortune of entering the tomb(入墓), one should be humble and reserved in order to preserve their wealth.

AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE DIVERSITY AND VARIABILITY OF CRITICAL APPROACHES IN HAZM AL-QARTAJANNI’S “MINHAJ AL-BULAGHA WA SIRAJ AL-UDABA”

The research aims to analyze one of the significant works in Arabic rhetoric and critical studies, Minhaj al-Bulaghā’ wa Sirāj al-Udabā’ by the Andalusian critic and poet Hazim al-Qartajanni. The study seeks to clarify and demonstrate the author's methodology in addressing linguistic, rhetorical, and critical issues, as well as his approach to analyzing and interpreting them. It highlights the integration of knowledge and methodologies through the use of induction and textual documentation as a systematic method to compile argumentative evidence. This approach underscores the uniqueness of the book's author by deconstructing its structural and semantic components and describing them to reach conclusions, analyze content, interpret it, and compare it with Arab and Greek heritage to highlight the findings. To achieve this, two research methodologies were adopted: First, the integrative approach, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of linguistic sciences and rhetorical critical issues by employing tools that study the research topic from all knowledge dimensions and eliminate barriers between specialized divisions. Second, the descriptive-analytical approach, which involves analyzing the critical issues presented in the book based on observation and research mechanisms to collect information and data from the primary source, Minhaj al-Bulaghā’ wa Sirāj al-Udabā’. The analysis aims to explain and interpret the content, draw conclusions, and provide commentary. The findings of the research reveal the diversity and complexity of critical topics addressed by al-Qartajanni. He adopts a logical perspective that integrates Greek and Arabic cultural elements in his analyses, uncovering the principles and foundations upon which rhetoric is built within the framework of a discipline supported by logic and wisdom in Arabic rhetoric.

L’éloge de la démocratie et l’apologie de l’humanité comme modes de discours chez Nelson Mandela

Speech is a fascinating issue that interests the communicator, the linguist, the sociologist, the neurologist, the philosopher, the translator, etc., due to its plural essence and evident complexity. Our objective is twofold: to analyze Nelson Mandela's speeches as a tribute to democracy and a defense for fraternity, and to contribute to the birth of more democratic and peaceful Republics. At the heart of this issue lies the main question: what are the discursive representations of Nelson Mandela that attest to the dual dimension, the praise of democracy and the advocacy of fraternity? The methodology is based on the collection of data from the author's book and other works on the subject. Our study is based on an analytical approach and is presented in two phases: on the one hand, the praise of democracy and on the other hand, the defense of brotherhood in Nelson Mandela.

The Library Collection of the Waqf of Ahmed Agha in Mostar From the Mid-17th Century

Goal: The paper will present the library collection of the Babusaade Ahmed Agha based on one of the three existing waqfiyas of this benefactor, preserved in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul (TS.MA.d. 6927). The waqfiya describes the establishment of a madrasa and its accompanying library in Mostar in the mid-17th century. The work will also offer a comparison of this collection with the Gazi Husrev-beg Library collection in Sarajevo, as the majority of the preserved titles from the mentioned collection can be found in this central heritage institution. Approach/Methodology: Using the identification method, we determined the exact titles and authors of the endowed books and manuscripts, for which numerous lexicographical dictionaries and manuscript catalogs were consulted. The classification of works by subject areas was based on the Flügel and Ahlwardt models. Regarding the presence of works from the original collection established by the Babusaade Ahmed Agha, the main research base was the Gazi Husrev-beg Library collection in Sarajevo, which provided direct access to works from the mentioned collection, as well as published catalogs of manuscripts in Oriental languages from this institution. Results: The paper highlights data related to the titles and authors of works from the library collection that was part of this educational institution. Based on this information, insight was provided into the thematic and content diversity of the mentioned library. Particularly interesting is the fact that this waqfiya contains the oldest mention of a librarian (1653) in Mostar, along with his duties and responsibilities regarding the preservation of the manuscript collection. In addition to this, the paper discusses the current state of the collection, aiming to determine the extent of preservation of the manuscript holdings from this 17th-century Mostar library. Originality/Value: In scientific and expert circles, it was known that there was a waqf established by the Babusaade Ahmed Agha, but it was not widely known what he left behind as a legacy for his fellow citizens in Mostar. This paper specifically discusses his legacy in Mostar based on primary sources, as well as the provisions he established to specify how this waqf would function. The waqf of Ahmed Agha was very important for the cultural life of Mostar in the second half of the 17th century.

Word play in Vselena from the Uzh collection of literary works by D. Vodenicharov

The present article is devoted to the phraseological language play found in Vselena from Uzh – a collection of Dimitar Vodenicharov’s literary works (Vodenicharov is also the author of several other books, including Phraseological Novel). By using language play in the text, the author interprets the Biblical themes of creation and Adam and Eve, intertwining the logic of the modern world (with an emphasis on the stereotypes of women) with the logic of the holy book. As a result, there is a clash between the language of today’s popular culture and our preconceived notions about the high style characteristic of texts like the Bible. The analysis focuses on various types of lexical-level language play (i.e. lexical, phraseological and other playful transformations). The article concludes that, on the one hand, language play is a feature specifically used in the construction of the text under analysis (Vselena), on the other hand, it is related to the cognitive mechanisms used by the modern person for its interpretation and his/her abilities to encode and decode a multi-layered text through making associative links based on extensive background knowledge.

Art and algae: an ocean intimacy. A story in four parts

ABSTRACT I am a photographer, author and designer of many books, with my last few focusing on the world of seaweed and kelp. My most recent book, The Curious World of Seaweed, is the basis for a travelling exhibition of prints by the same name. I am the co-director of Above/Below, a campaign working to bring the recognition afforded the forests on land to the kelp forests below the ocean’s surface. Above/Below’s signature effort is a web-based book titled The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp. Released in November 2023, it has been accessed by over 10,000 kelp-curious learners with ocean educators, kelp researchers, and graduate students interested in the convergence of art and science using the website frequently. For over 20 years I have used my flatbed scanner and computer exclusively for generating imagery. Synthesizing the scientific stories of the Pacific and Atlantic rocky coasts, beaches, and nearshore waters is my overriding passion, bringing thoughtfulness and stewardship to these extraordinary places of discovery. This essay, Art & Algae: An Ocean Intimacy, concludes that artmaking is essential for our human relationships with seaweed and kelp so that understanding of these organisms can flourish. It is told as a diaristic account of four instances of place-based, algal artmaking.

Afterlives of Slavery in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Demerara Sugar”

ABSTRACT Maxine Beneba Clarke is an African-Caribbean Australian writer, the award-winning author of many books across a range of genres and a distinguished slam poet. In her long poetic memoir “demerara sugar”, she addresses the trauma, politics, genres and sites of intergenerational memory of plantation slavery and its legacies. With the prefix “after” in afterlives of slavery, the essay draws out aspects of Clarke’s project: representing the wake of slavery; going in search of memory of the lived experience of enslavement; finding new routes of memory work. Her routes take her from Melbourne to London, Liverpool and Birmingham, through slavery museums, archives, family interview, city streets and air and train journeys. This essay addresses the dynamics of haunting, rememory, and (un)belonging in the poem by exploring the chronotopes of the museum/archive and the city street.

Celebrating the contributions of Black nurses to nursing's history.

Kandace Chimbiri, based in London, is the author of several Black history books for children.

A South African view of youth entrepreneurship in the epoch of digital transformation. A review of the book “Practical tools for youth entrepreneurs” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

The importance of youth entrepreneurship in the context of digital transformation makes it relevant to study its development. The article is a review of a new book on the promotion and support of young and aspiring entrepreneurs in the South African Republic. The book is characterized by novelty of views and considerable informative content. It is organized into three main parts comprising 9 chapters. Issues related to the conceptual vision of youth entrepreneurship and a large-scale initiative that was specifically designed and then piloted in the South African Republic to stimulate related activities have been addressed. The author of the peer-reviewed book emphasizes the importance of the university environment and the mechanisms formed in it, on the one hand, and entrepreneurs’ personal development, on the other. Recommendations on finding sources of funding and working with potential consumers of innovative products and services have been given. The book is written in lucid language, which is characteristic rather for educational literature, and is well illustrated. It is found to contain various references to digital transformation, and governance is considered in relation to both entrepreneurial firms created by entrepreneurs and youth entrepreneurship incentive schemes in general. The book contains interesting (including pedagogical) information that will also be useful to consider when establishing cooperation among the BRICS countries.

Who gets to be an ELT course book author? Native speakerism in English for specific purposes and business English course books

IntroductionNative speakerism has a profound influence on many aspects of ELT, for example negatively affecting job opportunities of those perceived as ‘non-native speakers’. Nevertheless, little is known about the effect of native speakerism on the recruitment of course book authors (CBAs).MethodsTherefore, this study analysed the linguistic and ethnic representation of 161 CBAs of 77 business English business English and English for specific purposes English for Specific Purposes course books (CBs) published globally by Pearson, OUP, CUP, Macmillan and NGL.ResultsThe data clearly show that publishers tend to hire white ‘native speakers’ from the UK as CBAs. More specifically, 90% of all CBA slots were taken by ‘native speakers’, 95% by white CBAs, and 78% by CBAs from the UK.DiscussionThis indicates a profound native speakerist bias among publishers against not only ‘non-native speakers’, but also those ‘native speakers’ who are not white or do not come from the UK. It is thus suggested that business English and English for Specific Purposes publishers pay greater attention to the diversity of the author teams they hire.

Lunatic Asylums: Their Organisation and Management, by Charles Arthur Mercier

SUMMARY Lunatic Asylums, published 130 years ago, is a fascinating insight into how these institutions were managed in the late Victorian era. This brief article considers what it reveals about the zeitgeist of the time and the book's author, the remarkable Charles Mercier.

THE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL VALUES IN READING TEXT IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK AT THE EIGHTH GRADE AT SMP NEGERI 1 GUNUNGSITOLI

Cultural values are the basis of thinking and views of a community group that has been studied and selected so that it is considered good, therefore cultural values based learning is very important for the easy generation of a nation. In Indonesia, cultural values in education are included in the independent curriculum and are referred to as the Pancasila student profile. These values must be applied in learning including in learning materials as a form of strengthening the cultural values of the nation's children in the midst of global progress. Given the importance of this, this study aims to analyze cultural values in reading texts contained in English textbooks at UPTD SMP Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli. The main purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the cultural values in the reading text, how the author implements the meaning in the sentence and whether the reading text in the book have met the purpose of the curriculum. This research used a qualitative approach and content analysis technique. The data analysis technique is based on the theory namely familiarizing and organizing, coding and reduction and interpreting and representing. Data collection was based on using check table instruments and document analysis. Data were collected through analysis of reading texts in the English for Nusantara book at UPTD SMP Negeri 1 Gunungsitoli. Then the data collected was processed qualitatively to analyze the patterns and meanings by the cultural values in the Pancasila student profile. The results showed that five dimensions were successfully adapted in the reading text, namely the dimension of faith, ear o almighty God and noble morals, the second dimension of global diversity, the third dimension of cooperation, the fourth dimension of independence and the fifth dimension of creativity. The only dimension that was not found was the critical reasoning dimension. The next finding is the meaning integration technique conveyed in the text sentences based on the results of the analysis, the researcher found two types of meaning adaptation in the sentences in the text, namely explicit and implicit. Between the two, the explicit adaptation technique is the most widely used by book authors while implicit is used the least. Based on these two findings, the researcher concluded that the author still needs to pay attention to embedding the value of the Pancasila student profile into the student reading text.

Writing our way through academia: Our journey as young faculty and book authors

Writing our way through academia: Our journey as young faculty and book authors

How lived-in landscapes could help rescue the planet: An interview with Tony Hiss

An interview with the author of the recent book "Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth."

Преемственность между творчеством поэтов «английской линии» Эдварда Томаса и Филипа Ларкина на фоне привычного пейзажа

The research aims to demonstrate the continuity between the creative work of two 20th-century British poets, Edward Thomas (1878-1917), known during his lifetime as a literary critic and author of biographies and books on rural life, and Philip Larkin (1922-1985), within the so-called English line of poetry (the national, ancestral tradition that began to be singled out in opposition to modernism, when re-examining the history of the development of 20th-century English-language poetry), particularly regarding the familiar landscape in their works as the setting for poems and a means of psychological support. The paper conducts a comparative analysis of the works of both poets in this aspect. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that in Russia, where Thomas’s writings are little known, his influence on later poets and his connection with them has not yet been considered. As a result, the paper reveals that Thomas and Larkin consciously arrived at the ancestral English tradition, and many features of their creative work link them to this tradition. Notably, since Larkin was familiar with Thomas’s work, it may have directly influenced him. Regarding the familiar landscape, despite its changes over time, both poets were able to find support and spiritual enlightenment in it, as well as a source of patriotism.

Some Comments on Early Arab "Wonders and Marvels" Literature

This study discusses copious early Arab literature of "wonders and marvels". The authors of such books found their materials in the Muslim religion, in the ancient Arab heritage and in strange facts about other cultures. The study examines the themes addressed by these works, including magic, fantasy, strange customs, curiosities, humor, the absurd, mockery, nightly chats, puzzles, riddles, rebuke, satire, defamation, battles, animals, angels, demons, etc. Composers of "wonders and marvels" books chose rhyming names for their works in order to attract the reader. The study found that the popularity of such books was due to the fact that certain phenomena and customs were perceived as incomprehensible by Arabs, who therefore sought transcendental or supernatural explanations, giving free rein to their imagination. Some books of this genre were apt to arouse fear in the reader and the oft-repeated stories in them were eventually believed by many and became means for realizing Arabs' desires and dreams. The study found that at first such books were perceived with scorn, as collections of superstitions and myths, and were therefore popular mainly among the lower classes. Because the genre did not attract the interest of the more educated, its scholarly study was neglected for a long time.

Her Fierce Faith: Contextualizing Ellen Tarry as a Catholic Convert and Foremother of Black Lives Matter Activism

Abstract: This article contextualizes the timely significance of Ellen Tarry as an African American teacher, writer, activist, and Catholic convert who engaged in interracial justice before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement. It similarly presents her as a foremother of present-day Black Lives Matter (BLM) activism. Locating her divergences from other Black writers across time, this analysis features the distinctive admixture of secular and sacred values pervading her writings and work as a Harlem Renaissance journalist, autobiographer, and pioneering author of picture books for Black children and youth that promoted collaborative Catholic social action on behalf of her race.

Framing, Reframing, and Deframing: Disclosure in Indigenous Comics

ABSTRACT: This article demonstrates how Indigenous comic creators disrupt or reclaim the conventions of comics in four works: The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw), 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson (Cree), Deer Woman: A Vignette by Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis), and Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls (Tahltan). These comics use innovative paneling to expose silence and denial in settler-colonial societies, to disrupt linear concepts of time, and to assert Indigenous presence expansively across settler-colonial borders. American comic book theorist Scott McCloud, author of several celebrated books on the “vocabulary of comics,” argues that comics create a “dance of the visible and invisible” in the production of “closure” across panels (McCloud 92). In the context of reading comics, McCloud defines closure as “observing the parts but perceiving the whole,” which he further glosses as the reader’s act of silently filling in the gaps between panels, allowing that reader to comprehend the action even between two seemingly unrelated panels. However, without critical self-awareness, a reader risks imposing closure in ways that maintain settler-colonial norms. The comic books that I discuss mobilize strategies of dis closure to contest a reader’s assumptions about the production of meaning across panels. I argue that disclosure interrupts readers’ unconscious mobilization of established narratives that invisibly guide interpretation, and turns the mirror back on the readers themselves. These comic books’ insurgent acts of disclosure challenge settler-colonial impositions of closure and powerfully activate narratives of Indigenous resistance, cultural continuance, empowerment, and resurgence.

Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator

The first credited work of the famed children’s book author was a set of illustrations in a 1947 popular-science book about nuclear physics.