Nonfiction Books Research Articles

Development of the stoic teachings in antiquity

Modern stoicism is becoming increasingly popular in the world: a large number of non-fiction books are published on this topic; many videos reveal the essence of this philosophy; podcasts, articles in magazines, etc. are also dedicated to stoicism. Thus, there is a need to study Stoicism at the scientific level. The study aims to provide an in-depth examination of the history of the Stoic doctrine, in the course of which it is necessary to determine the ideological origins of the Stoic doctrine and the contribution of the Stoics to the development of philosophy. One of the study objectives is to compare the philosophy of Stoicism with other schools of thought to fully reveal the purpose of the article. Analysis, analogy, systematisation, the philosophical pluralism method, synthesis, generalisation, and comparison were used in the study. The development of the Stoic doctrine in comparison with other philosophical concepts of the ancient times was studied. As a result of the analysis of philosophical texts, it was found that Stoicism arose from Kinism and developed on a par with this doctrine. Stoic philosophers had an important influence on philosophy by creating a system of dividing the world into three parts. The Stoics are the continuators of Socrates’ philosophy, and the pedagogical ideas of Stoicism are similar to the general ideas of that time. Stoicism is closely related to Epicureanism, and the Stoics also developed their method of self-analysis. The general trends in the development of this philosophy preserve ancient traditions. Stoicism, as a philosophical trend, developed over a long period and managed to preserve its basic principles unchanged. The study has created several scientific hypotheses that can be considered further at the scientific level, in particular, the following topics: the relationship between Stoicism and Epicureanism; pedagogical ideas of the Stoics; the Stoic method of introspection require further in-depth research by scholars. Such hypotheses can be useful for various groups of people interested in the philosophy of Stoicism and its application in the modern world and life, such as academics (philosophers, researchers), psychologists, managers, and ordinary people seeking personal development and a better understanding of themselves

Strategi Kepala Madrasah dalam Meningkatkan Budaya Literasi di Madrasah Tsanawiyah

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the madrasah head in increasing literacy culture at MTs Sunan Ampel KumpuIrejo Parengan Tuban, to find out the supporting and inhibiting factors in increasing the iteration culture at MTs Sunan Ampel KumpuIrejo Parengan Tuban, to find out the strategy for increasing literacy culture in increasing interest in reading at MTs Sunan Ampel Kumpulrejo Parengan Tuban. This study uses a qualitative approach in which this approach produces descriptive data in the form of written or spoken words from people and observable behavior. The results of this study indicate that: 1) The role of the madrasa head is as an educator, manager, administrator, supervisor, leader, innovator, and motivator. 2) There are several supporting and inhibiting factors in developing a literacy culture. Supporting factors include The active role of madrasa residents, Support from parents of students. In addition, there are several inhibiting factors, namely: limited collection, and the influence of technology. 3) In developing a literacy culture, the head of MTs Sunan Ampel has several strategies used including Developing a library, Providing fiction, non-fiction, and reference books. Development of reading areas, 15-minute reading program, Development of literacy-themed madrasah activity programs.

Summer, 1964, and: Untitled, 1978

Summer, 1964, and: Untitled, 1978 Victoria Chang (bio) Summer, 1964 There are 1645 boxes. Inside each box is a small white dot. On some days, the dot looks like a dot. On other days, each dot is one of my tears. 1645 tears in the last week. Mary Ruefle kept a cryalog. My log is here, in these squares. I now know that tears aren't stillborn. In Chinese, 心疼 is different from 心理難受. The first means heart hurts. The second means heart inside is uncomfortable. In English, we say my heart aches. In every language, the heart can be in pain. But the heart doesn't feel pain. It is not a small mammal. Tears do not come from the heart. They do not come from the eyes or the body. They come from outside of us, like time, from one large repository, which is why we cry when other people cry. In this way, tears are communal. We depend on each other for our sadness. Which is why the repository is kept in a safehouse, away from the CEOs. [End Page 10] Untitled, 1978 Agnes once said, the silence on the floor of my house is all the questions and all the answers that have ever been in the world. I sit and wait for the floor to speak to me. But it just acts like a floor. The floor never testifies on my behalf, even though it has felt everything. Agnes says to give up facts, to have an empty mind. That if your mind is full of garbage, if an inspiration came, you wouldn't recognize it. Agnes tried to avoid having ideas because they are inaccurate. Someone said that what torments us isn't death but life. All along I have been preoccupied with the wrong thing. Maybe the five red bands are life. They wrap around my neck like someone's arms. When Agnes said you just can't be an artist if you can't be alone, I dreamt of the Tahoe fire. I, in the middle of it, sparks falling from the sky like men, the ski lift swaying from thoughts. And I woke up, my mind filled with smoke, no people, and Agnes's words. And the floor emptying my thinking like long division. [End Page 11] Victoria Chang victoria chang is the author of a nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, and several books of poetry, including The Trees Witness Everything and Obit. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch's low-residency MFA program. Copyright © 2023 Yale University

Deep Listening and Time Passing: Five Recent Nonfiction Books of Note

Deep Listening and Time Passing: Five Recent Nonfiction Books of Note

Inter-Review

Review Article| February 01 2023 Inter-Review Tom Montgomery Fate, The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries. Ice Cube Press, 2022. 168 Pages, Paper, $19.99.John T. Price, All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations. University of Iowa Press, 2022. 218 Pages, Paper, $19.95. John T. Price; John T. Price John T. Price is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction, including Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father, and All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations. He is also editor of The Tallgrass Prairie Reader. A recipient of a prose fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, his work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the Regents/Foundation Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he directs the English Department's Creative Nonfiction Writing Program. He lives with his family in the Loess Hills of western Iowa. More info at: www.johntprice.net. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom Montgomery Fate Tom Montgomery Fate Tom Montgomery Fate is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press, 2022), Cabin Fever, a nature memoir (Beacon Press), and Steady and Trembling, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, his essays have been widely published and have often aired on NPR and Chicago Public Radio. More info at: https://tomfate.com/. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (2023) 25 (1): 219–225. https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.25.1.0219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John T. Price, Tom Montgomery Fate; Inter-Review. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1 February 2023; 25 (1): 219–225. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.25.1.0219 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressFourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Search Advanced Search You do not currently have access to this content.

Misconception of reading literacy and its impacts on literacy acculturation in school

Literacy competencies are important for students to keep abreast of the pace in the 4.0 industrial age. Misunderstanding of the concept of literacy may result in the incorrect application of literacy acculturation. This study is aimed at 1) describing teachers’ misconceptions of reading literacy and 2) describing the implementation of students’ reading literacy acculturation at school. Data were collected from teachers’ and students’ statements and activities during the literacy acculturation activities in the participating schools from 19 regencies in East Java, Indonesia. Additional data were in the forms of documents and field notes obtained from observation, interviews, questionnaires, and documentary studies. The results show that: 1) the concept of literacy is understood as literal and mechanistic reading, and 2) schools tend to apply formal literacy activities by asking students to read texts 15 minutes before classes begin. Several problems are found in most research sites in which there is no follow-up on the given free reading assignments, teachers and school principals neither become literacy models, the availability of fiction and non-fiction books is limited, and students are not highly motivated to follow the reading literacy program. This study implies the urgent need to improve all school stakeholders understanding of the literacy concept and provide better activities for the implementation of the reading literacy acculturation program in schools.

The Availability of Spanish Language LGBTQ Nonfiction Books in the United States–Mexico Borderland

This study examines the availability of LGBTQ Spanish language nonfiction books among selected university libraries along the United States–Mexico border to measure access to materials for readers and researchers and identify what resources selectors might use to inform purchases. This study utilizes 37 titles and seven libraries for a comparison of holdings. It seeks to expand the body of knowledge available regarding LGBTQ literature while establishing a baseline regarding the availability of LGBTQ Spanish-language materials in academic libraries.

Teaching Climate Change Science with the Humanities and Global Perspectives

Teaching Climate Change Science with the Humanities and Global Perspectives

Anthony Burgess as Literary Biographer


 
 
 
 This chapter addresses some questions of literary form and biographical method arising from Anthony Burgess’s biographies of Ernest Hemingway and D. H. Lawrence. A new connection is established between Burgess’s unsuccessful first attempt to write an autobiography in 1977 and his growing interest in the potential forms of biography, which he explored in novels and non-fiction books in the 1970s and 1980s. A close examination of two specific works, Ernest Hemingway and His World (1978) and Flame Into Being (1985), allows us to chart the evolution of Burgess’s biographical method, which he went on to redeploy in his two volumes of formal autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God (1987) and You’ve Had Your Time (1990).
 
 
 

BOOK REVIEW- So, You want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo

So, You Want to Talk About Race is a non-fiction book written in 2018 by Ijeoma Oluo. Each chapter title is based on a question in the context of race in contemporary America. The book review demonstrates authors’ thoughts on topics as well as advice on how to talk about issues related to race. The review of the book highlights the argument on the United States’ political, economic, and social systems, and how they are impacted by systematic and institutional racism. This analysis provides summary of the book and highlights some important components for readers while discussing race-related subjects, such as affirmative action, microaggression, and police brutality.

Soviet Criminal Law in the Eyes of a Gulag Prisoner: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lecture on Criminal Law in Light of “The Gulag Archipelago”

In his monumental non-fiction book, The Gulag Archipelago, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexandr Solzhenitsyn illustrates real events in Soviet labor camps in literary form. The depiction of EVIL is shocking. The totalitarian Soviet regime subjected millions of people to a horrific fate. As is generally well-known, A. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet concentration camp. Mass terror was the essence of Soviet totalitarianism. A. Solzhenitsyn included a lecture on Soviet criminal law in his book, stressing the importance of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union in authorizing this terrorism. Solzhenitsyn himself was not a lawyer. However, his conclusions were very accurate. Article 58 of the Criminal Code, which consisted of seventeen paragraphs, defined “counter-revolutionary offenses”. They were obviously punished most severely. Article 58 became a weapon of terror for the Soviet authorities, who used it to convict millions of innocent people.

«Я з вогненнай вёскі» как книга о травматическом опыте жертв Второй мировой войны

The article is devoted to the non-fiction book Out of the Fire. The authors had an extraordinary task to record the memory of civilians about the Second World War in Belarus. The methods of work of the authors with the respondents (search for witnesses, ways to establish contact, important points of interviewing witnesses) are analyzed. At the beginning of the article, the difficulties that the authors encountered in the process of working with people who survived mass executions are described. The style of the work is considered, attention is paid to journalistic and documentary elements. The structure of the book and the ways of its organization are also studied. The article explores how the experience of war victims and the concept of a fiery village are reflected in the work. A significant part of the article is devoted to the psychological reactions of civilians who survived extreme events in terms of cruelty. Out of the Fire is a topical and remarkable book about the suffering of civilians in war with a strong anti-war message. The experience of the authors in collecting materials, methods of working with respondents can be useful to modern documentary authors.

Sowieckie prawo karne w oczach łagiernika. Aleksandra Sołżenicyna wykład o prawie karnym w świetle Archipelagu GUŁag

Soviet Criminal Law in the Eyes of a Gulag Prisoner: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lecture on Criminal Law in Light of The Gulag Archipelago In his monumental non-fiction book, The Gulag Archipelago, Nobel Prize winning author Alexandr Solzhenitsyn illustrates real events in Soviet labor camps in literary form. The depiction of EVIL is shocking. The totalitarian Soviet regime subjected millions of people to a horrific fate. As is gener- ally well-known, Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet concentration camp. Mass terror was the essence of Soviet totalitarianism. Solzhenitsyn included a lecture on Soviet criminal law in his book, stressing the importance of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union in authorizing this terrorism. Solzhenitsyn himself was not a lawyer. However, his conclusions were very accurate. Article 58 of the Criminal Code, which consisted of seventeen paragraphs, defined “counter-revolutionary offenses”. They were obviously punished most rticle 58 became a weapon of terror for the Soviet authorities, who used it convict millions of innocent people. Słowa kluczowe: Aleksandr Sołżenicyn, Nagroda Nobla, prawo karne ZS

Bad Sexology: The Scientific Publications of the University Press (Watford and London), 1897–1901

Summary This article surveys the full catalogue of works published by the University Press, erstwhile of Watford, and its mysterious proprietor George Ferdinand Springmühl von Weissenfeld. The intrepid (and criminal) outfit is well known for publishing the first English editions of Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds which were banned in Britain following a sensational trial in 1898. Other works produced by the press were crucial in establishing the new sexology across social strata in modern Britain. Among them are several English translations of French sexological tomes. There were also in-house productions that shaped the new sexology for a popular British readership including some of the first non-fiction books by Walter Matthew Gallichan, written under the pseudonym Geoffrey Mortimer. More than this, von Weissenfeld mounted an extraordinary defence of the freedom to publish scientific books about sex, an endeavour that was inextricably linked with his anti-establishment marketing strategy.

Bomb and Climate Change in Fact and Fiction

This essay counterpoints two existential threats in our lifetimes—nuclear apocalypse and climate catastrophe—comparing how they have been recorded in historical documents and how they have registered in the American imagination. It surveys non-fiction and fiction, including a few films, to uncover persistent patterns of American denial that may lead—in fact, scientists increasingly believe will lead—to climate apocalypse. Strong historical and thematic similarities exist until, surprisingly and even shockingly, they diverge at their imagined endpoints. My essay turns to examples from the United States’ history as a nuclear power. These include governmental suppression of information after the bombing of Hiroshima, willful distortions of how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved, and controversial museum exhibitions since 2000. I also analyze American perceptions of climate change, as directly informed by numerous, but flaccid, reports, conferences, and summits on “global warming” that activist youth groups now parody in postings and memes. The essay examines the kind of doom-laden fantasies that I myself once had about the threat of nuclear annihilation. It looks to the worlds of fiction and film for iterations of the same kind of dread and doom. Imaginative projections in fiction include motifs such as “empty cities” with no sense of human responsibility for the absence of people, strong themes of racial disparity, and the exploration of human depravity versus the possibility of cooperation and community. Primary fictional examples of nuclear plots include Cormac McCarthy and Octavia Butler, and the suppressed 1959 racial drama The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens. For cli-fi fiction, the essay touches on similar preoccupations in novels by Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and a host of 21st-century others. My topic has renewed urgency in 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reintroduced the nuclear threat and forestalled action to slow climate change. But—and this emerges as an important payoff in the essay—nuclear and climate change narratives differ strongly in how we conceive of their endpoints. Despite sporadic fears about terrorists after 9/11, about North Korea, and now about Ukraine, Americans still by and large expect that, absent a true madman (Putin being a chief suspect), nuclear restraint will hold. In contrast, with regard to climate catastrophe, an increasing number of examples in both fact and fiction now expect climate catastrophes that will end humanity but (unlike nuclear winter), not end life on Earth which will remain, and increasingly become, both inventive and fecund. The essay ends with a meditation on the possible, even likely, consequences of expecting, and even accepting, the inevitability of climate apocalypse on a human scale. Archive: Selected 20th and 21st-century American novels, grouped by theme and outcome and cited briefly; a few 20th and 21st-century films; best-selling non-fiction books: Schell’s The Fate of the Earth. Weisman’s The World Without Us, the History Channel’s Life After People, Scranton’s We’re Doomed, Now What? Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth, Rich’s Losing Earth and others. Academic books by Nixon, Scranton, Ghosh, Purdy, McClintock, and others.

Geoff Dyer: On not having a career

Geoff DyerOn not having a career James Surowiecki and Geoff Dyer (bio) Over the past thirty-five years, Geoff Dyer has written an extraordinary number of books and essays on a dizzying array of topics, including D. H. Lawrence, jazz, photography, the Battle of the Somme, the Soviet film Stalker, and life aboard an American aircraft carrier. In all of his work, Dyer integrates personal experience with critical analysis, constructing a distinctive authorial voice that is casual, yet commanding. One is drawn to Dyer's books not necessarily because of what he is writing about, but because his relentless curiosity and inquisitive mind can turn any subject into an occasion for perceptive, stylish, and often very funny prose. [End Page 148] Dyer's most recent book, The Last Days of Roger Federer, is no exception, as he weaves together reflections on Federer, Nietzsche, Beethoven, Burning Man, John Coltrane, and much else into a clever and illuminating meditation on last works and on endings more generally. In October, Dyer and I corresponded about his writing, and why it is a mistake to say he has had a career. —james surowiecki james surowiecki Near the end of The Last Days of Roger Federer, you write that the theme running through your all work is "giving up." The book that brought you to real attention in the United States was Out of Sheer Rage, which is about procrastination and indolence and about not writing the critical study of D. H. Lawrence you were trying to write. You once said, "As soon as I get fed up, bored, tired, or weary of anything, I abandon it. Books, films, writing assignments, relationships—I just give up on them." Yet over the course of your life you've finished a dizzying array of projects and written a tremendous amount. The Last Days is your nineteenth book. How should we make sense of this? Is the obsession with giving up a kind of pose? Or is it something you think about doing but usually don't? geoff dyer I have no doubt that the desire to give up and quit has been the fuel that's not just kept me going but also somehow obliged me to keep slogging away. The two go hand-in-hand in various ways, most obviously in my not having the patience to do a lot of the donkey work of conveying facts and information in my nonfiction. By keeping that to a minimum—by not including what readers can get in other books on a given subject—I free myself to do the stuff that I enjoy, the stuff that, to paraphrase Walker Evans, only I can do, the stuff that makes a book uniquely mine. Many nonfiction books could be written by anybody possessed of a certain level of expertise about a given topic. [End Page 149] js Do you abandon things less often than you did when you were younger? gd Only because I start fewer and fewer things. I've actually completed a very high percentage of the books that I wanted to write. The only conspicuous failure was a book on tennis that I was supposed to write; I ended up writing the book on director Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker instead. Other than that, I abandoned a few essays—one on The Clock by Christian Marclay for Harper's—and a small number of other pieces. I've actually always had a highly developed sense of self-discipline and obligation. js Can you say something about how you write? In The Last Days, for instance, you talk about the difficulty you had getting the book started and the difficulty of finishing it. How do you finally get started on a project? And more generally, when you're working on a book, are you writing all the time, or do you procrastinate and then write it all in one rush? gd As you get older you come to dread starting a book because you know all the effort that will be involved. So I find it more and more difficult to get started. One thing to emphasize is that I don't do book proposals...

Muscular Dystrophy: A Banana? At This Time of the Night?

In Japan, specialized wards for muscular dystrophy have been established in national hospitals since 1964, and opportunities for medical care, rehabilitation training, and education have been provided. Since the 90s, advances in ventilatory therapy and heart failure pharmacotherapy have resulted in increased life expectancy in patients with muscular dystrophy. The social infrastructure has also improved, but it still took long to develop support systems for the social lives of individuals with disabilities. A Banana? At This Time of the Night? is a non-fiction book about a muscular dystrophy patient who led an independent life and of the volunteers who supported him, which was adapted into a film.

Pompe Disease: Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures is a 2010 film about parents who tried to develop a drug with a glycobiology scientist to save their children suffering from a milder subtype of infantile Pompe disease (non-classic infantile-onset form), which can be said as an intermediate type between infantile onset and late-onset types. This movie is based on a nonfiction book The Cure by Geeta Anand. Pompe disease (glycogen storage disease type 2) is a myopathy, that affects the diaphragm. Infantile Pompe disease presents cardiomyopathy and hepatomegaly. Enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease with Myozyme was approved by FDA in 2006. Activities of the patients and their families association, including fund-raising, were pictured in the film, as well as (1) negotiation with a venture capital firm, (2) management of a pharmaceutical company for an orphan drug development for a rare genetic disorder, and conflicts of the father who works for the pharmaceutical company and desperately wants to provide the products to his own children.

Night Becomes Day: Changes in Nature

This nonfiction book for ages 3 to 8 is richly illustrated by photographs showing a variety of changes that happen across the natural world. It’s a great book for introducing younger children to the idea that nature is constantly at work, transforming everything on earth. Night Becomes Day includes a few pages at the end that give a closer look at the science of change for places including beaches and canyons, forests, deserts, caverns, and the big sky full of clouds—with connections to biology, geology, chemistry, and environmental science. Our children were transfixed by the photographs and excellent font choices, making this a compelling and soothing bedtime book on difficult evenings. ~ Kirstin Milks

A Mobile-Based Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Vertical Marketing System

It is simpler for vendors to advertise and market their goods to a larger audience online. Due to how simple it is to get information online, sales of fiction and non- fiction books are one of the industries that have begun to decline. Therefore, an online sales system is required to assist both purchasers and sellers of books, notably fiction and non-fiction books. It will be possible for resellers to market their books with the aid of this method for selling fiction and non-fiction books. The SDLC approach and the business process system employ UML as their tools to develop or construct a book selling system. The system created for this study is web- and mobile-based, including web-based administrators and a mobile system for resellers and clients. As a consequence of this study, a system that can handle all online book sales procedures for both fiction and nonfiction books has been developed.