Book Series Research Articles

Toyota Production System Concepts: Application of Lean in Non-manufacturing Environments - Series Books 18 to 19

Toyota Production System Concepts: Application of Lean in Non-manufacturing Environments - Series Books 18 to 19

László Dobszay: The World of Tones Solfège Book Series and the Timeliness of the Contemporary Edition

"The article discusses the necessity of the contemporary publication of The World of Tones series of solfege books by Dobszay. It outlines the areas of Kodály method that are related to the textbooks and describes the solfege publications in use before the series was published. Keywords: Kodály-method, solfège, music education"

Thor Love & Thunder: Comic book evolution to the film

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has brought many of the best-known Marvel Comics stories to the big screen. But just because they use these stories it doesn’t mean they reproduce them faithfully. As it has been seen over the years, Marvel Studios’ film projects follow their own storylines that do not correspond to the main narrative of the comics. Starting from this premise, this research aims to study the evolution to Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) from the comic book series Thor: The Butcher of Gods (Aaron, 2018) on which it is based. Focusing both on what aspects they share and the differences that make Thor: Love and Thunder a standalone project.

Sinful Servant of God: Orthodox Theologian and Spiritual Writer Nikolay Yevgrafovich Pestov

The article tells about one of the brightest religious exponents of Russian thought, “the Ascetic of the Russian Land”, the Orthodox Christian Nikolay Pestov (1892–1982). The integrity of his Christian worldview arouses a genuine interest in him. The theological works by Nikolay Pestov should be undoubtedly considered in inextricable connection with the study of his life journey. Therefore, special attention is paid to the biography of the thinker based on documentary sources and autobiography. The article observes Nikolay Pestov’s spiritual rebirth, his transformation from the external to the internal, “...from Saul to Paul...”. This approach allows to appreciate the significance of his own experience of Orthodox piety and to see the true value of his gift of writing. Focusing on modern readers, who might encounter difficulties in perception and understanding of literary forms typical for the fourth century, Nikolay Pestov managed to “write without saying anything new, but saying everything as if in a new way instead”. All this becomes possible thanks to the amazing bread th in quoting the “source of eternal truth — the Holy Scriptures”, the works by ascetics of piety of the late 19th–20th centuries, writers, philosophers, teachers, poets, as well as examples from the lives of saints. It is quite difficult to find an equally proper niche for Pestov’s guide in religious literature, since spiritual books were created primarily by monastics describing their own experience. Being a layman himself, Nikolay Pestov wrote a book for lay people, for those who are ready to perform a Christian feat in their family, in education, in friendship, at work, during the day, in conversations and in silence. Nikolay Pestov’s two-volume book shows the way to Christ. It would be a mistake to think that Nikolay Pestov only indicates “the way of salvation” for his readers. He himself is a wanderer, a fellow traveler, a companion on the way. He himself continues his spiritual ascent. The theologian called his series of books “a thesis research” on the topic “Experience of Building a Christian Worldview”. Today this work is called The Modern Practice of Orthodox Piety. The author Nikolay Pestov signed his works with ГБР (GBR) abbreviation meaning the Sinful Servant of God in Russian. The article attempts to show the eternity of Christian wisdom by repeated address to theological works by Nikolay Pestov.

Paulownia spp.: A Bibliometric Trend Analysis of a Global Multi-Use Tree

The research on Paulownia spp. has increased in the last twenty years thanks to the growing interest in the application modalities of this plant in various sectors such as wood, phytoremediation, environmental protection, paper, biofuel, chemistry and medicine. For the first time, this study analyzed the papers present in the Web of Science Core Collection on “Paulownia” to obtain a set of characteristics in the work carried out from 1971 to 2021. This analysis selected and took into account 820 articles and provided evidence of the scientific production of authors, institutions, and countries. This work showed that the most studied species was Paulownia tomentosa, followed by P. fortunei and P. elongate. The JCR category and research area with the most publications was plant science, with 20.4% of the total. The papers were published in 460 journals and in a book series. The journals with the most publications were Bioresources, Advanced Material Research, Agroforestry Systems, Journal of Wood Science and Industrial Crops and Products. The institutions with the most prolific affiliation with the field of Paulownia spp. research were Henan University, the US Department of Agriculture, Belgrade University, the Chinese Academy, and Georgia University. Finally, the 3842 keywords were divided into nine different clusters and the trends of interest in the last fifteen years were highlighted.

Caroline Callard, Spectralities in the Renaissance, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (The Past and Present Book Series.) Oxford, Oxford University Press 2022

Caroline Callard, Spectralities in the Renaissance, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. (The Past and Present Book Series.) Oxford, Oxford University Press 2022

Learning from Diane: Her Achievements and Profound Influence on Researchers and Language Teachers in China

Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman has been an enduring and highly influential contributor to the field of applied linguistics, English language teaching, in general, and especially grammar teaching. She has inspired many thousands of language teachers, student-teachers and academicians in applied linguistics. Her research in Second Language Acquisition and her later research interest in introducing complex systems to the field of applied linguistics has had a great impact on research in applied linguistics. The book she co-authored with Cameron put a completely different perspective on language and language studies. Her book on teaching approaches also attracted thousands of readers who specialize in language teaching. The video made on different teaching methods covered in the book is also a good demonstration helping learners identify the features of different methods. What’s more, her coinage of the word “grammaring” and the concept of form-meaning-use she advocated in the book series Grammar Dimensions has shed light on people’s understanding of grammar and grammar teaching, thus transforming the way of teaching grammar. Her numerous publications of influential books and papers have great impact on researchers and language teachers in China.

ВІД HOMO SACER ДО ПУЛЬЧІНЕЛЛИ: «КОМІЧНА ПОЛІТИКА» ДЖОРДЖО АГАМБЕНА В КОНТЕКСТІ ПАНДЕМІЇ COVID-19

The article discusses the critical views of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben on the ethical and political consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in a retrospective review of his political theory. First of all, it is about empirical confirmation in times of pandemic of theoretical hypotheses proposed by the Italian philosopher in the famous series of books by the Homo Sacer project. The comparative analysis shows how the concept of «bare life» (which in the first books of the project is personified by Agamben in the paradigmatic figure of Roman law homo sacer) is transformed into the definition of «asymptomatic patient» during the pandemic, and the sovereign power turns into an «administrative Leviathan» that keeps people in the «noose» of decrees and regulations. The way out of this crisis situation seems possible primarily through a change in the optics of seeing the paradigmatic figure of the bare life. Namely, through the transition from the tragic figure of Roman law, homo sacer, whom anyone could kill with impunity, to the figure of Pulcinella's commedia dell'arte, who cannot be killed. Contrary to the conventional view of Agamben's philosophy as a negative statement of crisis situations without suggesting possible solutions, the author seeks to show the positive nature of the Italian philosopher's thought, which offers a way out of political contradictions by turning to the non-political, in this case, to comedy.

Del Col and McCreery’s Kill Shakespeare: A Reading of Shakespeare through Critical Pedagogy

Objectives: This paper aims to investigate how the inherent taste in Shakespeare can change through the teaching of the very core of English heritage; Shakespeare, by applying critical pedagogy as a method which in its turn diminishes superiority of the value and taste that is given to his name. Methods: It argues that teaching through the usage of critical pedagogy is a way to tame the idea, the name, and the obsession of and with Shakespeare by answering the question: How could critical pedagogy be a way for educators to specialize in and inform students of Shakespeare without becoming part of the Western Metaphysical bandwagon that idealizes cover-ups which market preach-hood and forms? Results: The results indicate that there is a need to a reading of the word ‘Shakespeare’ through critical pedagogy. This would make space for the death of the author and the authority that is associated to the word ‘Shakespeare.’ Conclusion: Finally, the paper will conclude with how Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery's comic book series, Kill Shakespeare (2010-2014), as well as other literary texts, have brought to light ways in which the authority of Shakespeare's dominion over the English literary canon and the pressure of approaching Shakespeare is a window to reading Shakespeare under the scope of critical pedagogy.

Recent Advances in Genitourinary Tumors: Updates From the 5th Edition of the World Health Organization Blue Book Series.

Urinary and Male Genital Tumours is the 8th volume of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours series, 5th edition. Released in hard copy in September 2022, it presents an update to the classification of male genital and urinary tumors in the molecular age. Building upon previous volumes in this series, significant effort has been made to harmonize terminology across organ systems for biologically similar tumors (eg, neuroendocrine tumors). Genomic terminology has been standardized and genetic syndromes covered more comprehensively. This review presents a concise summary of this volume, highlighting new entities, notable modifications relative to the 4th edition, and elements of relevance to routine clinical practice. To provide a comprehensive update on the World Health Organization classification of urinary and male genital tumors, highlighting updated diagnostic criteria and terminology. The 4th and 5th editions of the World Health Organization Classification of Tumours: Urinary and Male Genital Tumours. The World Health Organization has made several changes in the 5th edition of the update on urinary and male genital tumors that pathologists need to be aware of for up-to-date clinical practice.

J. I. Packer’s Theology of Justification—His Reception and Appropriation of a Classic Protestant Doctrine

This article is a systematic overview of Packer’s theology of justification from the perspective of descriptive, analytical, and critical methodologies. A series of books written by Packer were investigated in order to identify various references to justification, which led to a categorization consisting of six features (justification as the legacy of the Reformation, eternal status, a precursor of sanctification, trust in Christ, covenant reality, and a divine promise). Two of Packer’s most important books used for this research, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God (2005) and Concise Theology: a Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs (2011), also revealed the theological foundation of justification, which I present as the two pillars on which Packer’s theology of justification stands: God’s being and Christ’s incarnation. These two pillars reveal not only God’s invisible being as Trinity but also his self-disclosure in Christ as an exclusive focus of the sinners’ belief of justification. The six features and the two pillars of Packer’s theology of justification demonstrate not only how he received and appropriated the classical Protestant teaching about God’s decision to consider sinners righteous despite their sins but also how it generates, through faith in Christ, a consistently new life.

The Nobel and Back Again

Abstract This article re-evaluates the translation strategy of the Italian publisher Mondadori for Pearl S. Buck. From the first translations in the book series Medusa to the latest editions of the 2010s, the publisher’s literary assessment and marketing strategy for Buck’s oeuvre fluctuated towards and away the standing of a Nobel Prize laurate. By collecting and analysing a variety of records from the publisher’s archive at Fondazione Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori (Milan, Italy) and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach, Germany), this contribution challenges pre-existing narratives concerning this author’s Italian publication history. By identifying four phases in Mondadori’s programme for Pearl S. Buck, it argues that a rebranding that intentionally moved her public image away from the unwieldy shadow of the Nobel ultimately prolonged Buck’s success in the Italian language throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Addressing global challenges in geographical education: perspectives from the CGE Springer book series

A key responsibility of academic scholarship is to further develop the field under investigation and to critically evaluate how it is responding to challenges from both inside and outside of the field of enquiry. This article offers an overview of whether the scholarship published in geography education (GE) from the perspective of the Commission for Geography Education (CGE) Springer book series is sufficiently engaging with contemporary global challenges and education discourses. Guided by the 2022 IGU-CGE Rennes Conference’s three axes: curriculum renewal, pedagogy and teacher training, the article discusses the findings of a meta-analysis of the six books published in the CGE Springer series in the past five years (2017 to 2021).The thematic analysis shows that GE is engaging with global realities of environment and sustainability, climate change, globalisation and the importance of powerful knowledge for understanding and engaging with complex, often controversial issues. But there are also gaps and absences in terms of who is producing knowledge and from where knowledge is being generated. We contend that the book series is well placed to support the community in addressing global concerns and the related transformative pedagogies needed to enact them. However, we also suggest that the publications at this point in time have yet to fully grasp the specifics needed for the challenges that lie ahead. Some preliminary considerations for advancing the field through future publications are offered. These may be useful to GE researchers and scholars in different regions of the world.

Computational Psychometrics: Near Future or Reality

This book continues a series of books on the methodology of educational testing and assessment written by leading psychometricians and researchers in the field of educational assessment. Computational psychometrics is defined as the combination of computer science methods and psychometric measurement principles for analysing data obtained as a result of testing using technologically advanced test formats. The first part of the book discusses the changes that have occurred in teaching and educational assessment under the influence of digital technologies. The second part provides an overview of computational psychometric methods: from traditional psychometric models to machine learning technologies.
 The material in the book can be useful to students and researchers in the field of psychometrics who are involved in the development, design and analysis of learning systems and measurements using complex test formats and data. The strength of the book is an electronic application containing the code of the R or Python programming environment for the methodological chapters.

Harry Potter: A Pedagogical Tool to Teach Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Advocacy

Since its conception, the Harry Potter franchise has become a cultural phenomenon which transgresses national borders. As many Potter fans struggle with how to manage their fandom in the face of author J.K. Rowling’s transphobic stance, the book series may ironically and more specifically be used to improve attitudes toward the LGBTQ + community. By using academic theory–such as Rudine Sims Bishop’s concept of mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors–and specific examples of application in a classroom environment, this paper shows that the Potter books may be offered as powerful pedagogical tools to positively affect the attitudes of "insiders" toward "outsiders." This essay classifies LGBTQ + and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) populations as "outsiders," and non-LGBTQ + and non-BIPOC groups as "insiders," and it cites specific case study evidence in Latin America to signify the importance of this issue on a global scale.

Reading Science Fiction in Socialist Hungary

Abstract The article explores the emergence of science fiction as a genre in socialist Hungary. By focusing on the origins and role of the science fiction anthology Galaktika [Galaxy] and the book series Kozmosz Fantasztikus Könyvek [Cosmos fantastic books] and exploring the role of their editor, Péter Kuczka, the article argues that book publication from the mid- to late 1960s onward was much more elastic and variable than one would think. Readers’ growing interest in science fiction, and the commercial success of science fiction publications, convinced the state that it needed to accept science fiction as a legitimate literary genre. By examining the intellectual and cultural development that led to this legitimization and by analyzing some of the key publications and their themes and topoi, the article hopes to contribute to a better understanding of Hungarian socialist cultural policy.

KEPRAKTISAN ENSIKLOPEDIA FAMILI FABACEAE KEBUN RAYA BANUA UNTUK MELATIHKAN KETERAMPILAN BERPIKIR KRITIS MAHASISWA

Research development is research that aims to improve research that has been done before to improve the quality of learning materials. An encyclopedia is a type of learning material in the form of a book (a series of books) which compiles descriptions of various matters and is arranged alphabetically or according to the scientific environment. Generally, encyclopedias combine text with collaborative images in such a way that it is interesting. This study aims to describe the validity of the content, the practicality of the contents and the expectations and effectiveness of the expectations of the Fabaceae family encyclopedia. The research method used is the Tessmer design, which consists of: 1) self evaluation; 2) expert review; 3) one-to-one evaluation; 4) small group evaluations; The validation subjects included three experts, the individual test subjects were four students who were taking the phanerogamae course and the small group test subjects were four students who were taking the phanerogamae course. Data were obtained from research instruments on content validity, practicality of content, practicality of expectations, and effectiveness of expectations. The results of the study showed: 1) The validity of the contents of the encyclopedia was categorized as valid, namely 3.80, 2) the practicality of the contents was categorized as good, namely 3.82, and the practicality of expectations was categorized as very good, namely 85.71%, 3) The effectiveness of the expectations was categorized as very good, namely 88, 89%, so as to be able to train critical thinking skills. The Encyclopedia of the Fabaceae Family of the Banua Botanical Garden was declared valid including content, language and design. Practical because it has appeal and is easy to use so it gives a positive response (very good). Effective because it can train students' critical thinking skills.

Blockchain Technology and the Future of Accounting

This paper aims to investigate the implications of blockchain technology in improving the quality of financial information. To achieve this objective, the author has studied several published journals, newspaper articles, book series, and case studies. It is observed that blockchain technology can create a platform for organizations to disclose their information voluntarily in the short run while it decreases errors in financial disclosure, enhances the quality of accounting information and reduces information redundancy in the long run. A harmonized movement of accountants, auditors, regulatory authorities, and other relevant parties can extract the optimum benefits of blockchain technology in the accounting ecosystem. The findings of this study will encourage top management and policymakers to adopt blockchain in their business to increase the quality of data and the acceptability of the reports. This study indicates necessary ways outs to improve the quality of accounting information by applying blockchain technology. It further identifies potential threats in implementing blockchain technology and recommends appropriate remedies.

Barnbiblioteket Saga och den unga läsaren

Barnbiblioteket Saga and the Young Reader: The Rhetoric of Editing in Children’s Literature Publishing
 In this article, I explore the archive of the publishing company Svensk läraretidnings förlag and the children’s book series Barnbiblioteket Saga (The Children’s Library Saga). Instead of considering the published Saga texts as the products of individual creativity, this article emphasizes the editorial process as an aesthetic-pedagogical function and literary production as an editorial art form. The article addresses two central questions: What editorial practices can be identified in the preserved manuscripts, and what principles guiding the editors can be discerned from these practices? In connection with this, I present two models to describe the publisher’s manuscript practices, which can be employed to gain a broader understanding of the importance of editorial manuscript work in publishing. The archival material shows that the editorial process was continually influenced by a rhetorical audience. To a significant extent, the various stages of manuscript handling were driven by pedagogical concerns and rooted in how children’s needs, interests, and resources were perceived. However, the editorial work was also strongly motivated by aesthetic considerations, which were closely intertwined with the pedagogical aspects.

100 år med Danmarks Stednavne

Names are an important part of the intangible cultural heritage that our language represents and placenames are an important source for many subjects such as language research, geography, history, archaeology etc. Therefore, it is an important task to provide knowledge about place-names in a form that can be used widely. This knowledge can be found in the book series Danmarks Stednavne (‘Place-Names of Denmark’), and in 2022, it is one hundred years since the first volume of the series was published. In this article, we present the editorial history of the series and describe the process in the development of the volumes, each standing on the shoulders of its predecessors. The series’ chosen form of production based on a land-registration system, which today can be considered obsolete, is explained, along with the variation regarding which classes of place-names have been treated in each volume and the varying inclusion of settlement-historical presentations based on the place-name evidence. While such issues have changed, the series has upheld a consistent focus on listing historical forms of the place-names and interpreting their etymology. The presentation of the publishing process and changed editorial principles in the course of time are rounded off with the current editorial plans for the future of Danmarks Stednavne.