Basic Books Research Articles

American covenant: how the constitution unified our nation and could again [Yuval Levin. New York: basic books; 2024

It is much easier to find flaws than unifying traits in the U.S. Constitution. Yet, author Yuval Levin defends the bargaining and negotiating that got us the original document and its amendments against charges that the government structure wrought by them turned out to be anti-democratic. Instead, Levin contends that the Constitution’s struggles have fostered solidarity and a common commitment toward success. He favors the Madisonian model of American constitutionalism.

Exploring the relationship between extensive graded book reading and writing performance among third-grade students: a correlation analysis

This study examines the impact of long-term extensive book reading activities on students’ writing skills in a distinct context lacking prior research. Employing technology to monitor students’ reading, the research focuses on first language long-term reading activities, a domain unexplored in Taiwan’s education system. Tracking book reading over three years, the study unveils the gradual fulfillment of reading goals and explores the connection between extensive book reading and writing performance. The investigation also found that graded reading and Bridge Books’ roles in enhancing students’ reading and writing outcomes. Employing rigorous data analysis, the study offers a comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationship between extensive book reading and writing performances. Findings reveal Picture Books and Basic Books as popular reading categories, influencing writing quality and word count during the revision process. However, there are potential trade-offs between quantity and quality of the writing performances, specifically observed in Bridge Books’ impact on initial draft and revision quality. The complex interplay between different grades of the book and writing performance emerges, suggesting implications for educational interventions and further research in enhancing writing performances through extensive reading.

Training in Trauma-Responsive and Anti-racist Telehealth: A Model for Behavioral Health Clinicians and Providers

AbstractTelehealth's uptake in behavioral health services has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many clinicians continue to lack focused training in providing trauma-informed and culturally-responsive telehealth care. This article outlines a model curriculum that was created to instruct and coach behavioral health providers in California on how to integrate anti-racist and trauma-responsive techniques into telehealth. Topics like evidence-based trauma therapies, racial/ethnic trauma, marginalized communities, digital divide, and provider selfcare were all covered in the nine-part curriculum. Every three-hour session included evidence-informed didactic content, telehealth skills practice, and concrete planning for implementation. Trauma-responsive frameworks such as the tri-phasic model of trauma recovery (Herman in Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence—From domestic abuse to political terror, Basic Books, 2015) and the neurosequential model of therapeutics (Perry in The handbook of therapeutic care for children, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2020) served as the foundation for the sessions. The Tools to Improve Practice (TIPs) website was created as a supplementary digital resource portal to support clinicians with continuous implementation. This model illustrates a replicable approach to strengthening workforce capacity and competence in trauma-responsive, anti-racist telehealth practices.

Change Over and Switchback for Experimentation on Large Animals

Among the most common designs, the very randomized design, in randomized blocks and in Latin squares, stands out, however, approaches to alternative designs are not as common in basic books that cover experimental statistics, especially in the approach that was given in this article. The study of Change Over and Switchback designs is a separate chapter within statistics. For experimentation on large animals, alternative tests are widely used, that is, obtaining a sequence of treatments that can make the final cost of this operation viable. There are two types of experimental tests: rotational (Changeover) and reversal (Switchback). The objective of this work was to present the Changeover and Switchback designs.

Analisis Perbedaan Antara Pembiayaan Bank Syariah Dengan Kredit Bank Konvensional : Analisis Variabel Utama Pembiayaan

This paper discusses the differences between Islamic bank financing and conventional bank credit. This research method is descriptive qualitative by analyzing the basic theory of the fundamental differences between Islamic bank financing and credit at conventional banks. The data was collected using literature studies from scientific journals and basic sharia economics books. Meanwhile, data analysis uses tabulation, coding, editing and verification or conclusion methods. Conventional banks prioritize and prioritize the complete guarantee aspect, whereas in sharia banks it only focuses on the character aspect of the customer itself, meaning that it can be said that the sharia bank believes that the customer will have good intentions when providing credit or financing within a certain agreed period of time.

Instructional design students’ design judgment development

This qualitative multi-case study explores the exercise and development of the design judgment of eight instructional design (ID) students working on design projects over one semester in graduate programs at four different institutions in the USA. Their design processes were explored through interviews and their design documents using the concepts of design judgment as reported by Nelson and Stolterman (The design way: Intentional change in an unpredictable world, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2012) and reflection-in-action as reported by Schön (The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action, Basic Books, New York, 1983) to characterize the exercise and development of their design judgment across the semester. Findings reveal that these ID students make multiple design judgments concurrently and constantly. Their prior design experience, the course requirements and their design practice in class influence both the exercise and development of their design judgment. Lastly, the development of their design judgment is both perceptible and personal. In light of these findings, recommendations are made for how to support the development of ID students’ design judgment.

Two Metaverse Dystopias

AbstractIn recent years, the metaverse—some form of immersive digital extension of the physical world—has received much attention. As tech companies present their bold visions, scientists and scholars have also turned to metaverse issues, from technological challenges via societal implications to profound philosophical questions. This article contributes to this growing literature by identifying the possibilities of two dystopian metaverse scenarios, namely one based on the experience machine and one based on demoktesis—two concepts from Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Basic Books, 1974). These dystopian scenarios are introduced, and the potential for a metaverse to evolve into either of them is explained. The article is concluded with an argument for why the two dystopian scenarios are not strongly wedded to any particular theory of ethics or political philosophy, but constitute a more general contribution.

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People By Walter RussellMead. Knopf, 2022. 672 pages. $35, hardcover.We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel By EricAlterman. Basic Books, 2022. 512 pages. $35, hardcover.

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People By Walter RussellMead. Knopf, 2022. 672 pages. $35, hardcover.We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel By EricAlterman. Basic Books, 2022. 512 pages. $35, hardcover.

To infinity and beyondThe Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes Paul Halpern Basic Books, 2024. 320 pp.

A physicist's wild romp through the multiverse probes space-time, string theory, and everything in between.

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, by J. BradfordDeLong (Basic Books, London, 2022), pp. 605

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, by J. BradfordDeLong (Basic Books, London, 2022), pp. 605

Before we were trans: A new history of gender by KitHeyam, London: Basic Books, 2022, p. 343, ISBN‐13 9781529377743.

<i>Before we were trans: A new history of gender</i> by KitHeyam, London: Basic Books, 2022, p. 343, ISBN‐13 9781529377743.

Return-to-Tradition Radical Jewish Women Organization ‘Beit-Yakov’ in interwar Lithuania

ABSTRACT With the establishment of the Lithuanian state in the interwar period, an accelerated secularization process took place among its Jewish residents. In this atmosphere, a ‘Beit-Yakov’ women’s organization arose in Lithuania, intending to bring Jewish women back to religion by studying basic books in Judaism and applying these studies in their lives. Soon, ‘Beit-Yakov’ evolved into an active organization that instilled in its members a belief in their ability not only to establish their homes on the foundations of religion but also to change the direction of the development of the Lithuanian Jewry from secularization towards a return to tradition.

The Queer Archive as Promiscuous Ethics of Care

During their play Burgerz (2018) – performed around the time of the public consultation for the reform of the Gender Recognition Act – trans artist and activist Travis Alabanza draws on and re-activates a genealogy of transcestor kinship structures (Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A new history of gender, London: Basic Books, 2022) constituted by mostly non-Western gender non-conforming identities such as the Hijra, the Kathoey, Two Spirit, Quariwarmi and the Femminiello. With this, Alabanza contributes towards their overarching project of archiving trans lives, while highlighting the need to draw on non-Western epistemologies of gender identity to counter contemporary forms of transphobia. Before the opening of Burgerz, Alabanza held Tranz Talkz, a series of conversations with trans and gender non-conforming people throughout different theatre venues in the UK. Drawing on the central element of their show – the burger – these talks were held around tables where participants ate burgers and chips, and recorded with the aim of creating a sound archive that preserves the implications of being a gender non-conforming person in contemporary Britain. Looking at Burgerz and the recorded material from Tranz Talkz, this article argues that Alabanza’s entangled art project creates a queer archive that, attending to Ann Cvetkovitch’s words, ‘preserve[s] and produce[s] not just knowledge but feeling’ (An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, sexuality and lesbian public cultures, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003). The approach to Alabanza’s project through Cvetkovitch’s lens reveals how the trans archive generates a practice of undoing epistemic violence, in the sense of countering transphobia, and constitutes, borrowing The Care Collective’s terminology, a ‘promiscuous ethics of care’ (Andreas Chatzidakis et al., The Care Manifesto: The politics of interdependence, London: Verso Books, 2020) understood as activating alternative forms of caring kinship structures beyond the nuclear family.

Bitch: On the female of the species. By LucyCooke, Basic Books. 2022. pp. 369. $18.99/$30.00 (ebook/hardback). ISBN: 9781541674899

Bitch: On the female of the species. By LucyCooke, Basic Books. 2022. pp. 369. $18.99/$30.00 (ebook/hardback). ISBN: 9781541674899

PEMBELAJARAN QIRᾹAT AL KUTUB DI PONDOK PESANTREN AL-HUDA TINJAUAN KURIKULUM, BAHAN AJAR DAN METODE

&lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Islamic boarding schools are known as religious educational institutions and religious problems. In modern times, Al-Huda Islamic Boarding School still applies traditional learning systems such as Qirāatul Al-Pole learning. The development of Islamic boarding school education is inseparable from the existence of a curriculum that is used as a reference in the implementation of education and plays an active role in achieving the educational goals of Islamic boarding schools, as well as teaching materials and methods. So, the purpose of this research is to find out the curriculum, teaching materials, and learning methods of the yellow book at the Al-Huda Islamic Boarding School. This research method uses descriptive qualitative methods, with data collection techniques by interviews, observation, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the Al-Huda Islamic boarding school in learning qirāatul al-polar uses a curriculum related to nahwu, sharf, and balaghah, the teaching materials used are basic books such as the safinah and tijan books using the sorogan method. Not a few students often take part in Musabqoh qiraatul al-pole (MQK) competitions at the sub-district to national levels and often win prizes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Law, Liberty, and Anarchism in the Progressive Era - Michael Willrich. American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2023. 480 pp. $32.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1541697379.

Law, Liberty, and Anarchism in the Progressive Era - Michael Willrich. American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2023. 480 pp. $32.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1541697379.

An Exploration of the Effects of Gene-Editing Technology on Human Identity

An Exploration of the Effects of Gene-Editing Technology on Human Identity

The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World

The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World

We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight over Israel By EricAlterman. New York: Basic Books, 2022

We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight over Israel By EricAlterman. New York: Basic Books, 2022

McCallum, Jamie K. (2022) Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. Basic Books.

McCallum, Jamie K. (2022) Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. Basic Books.