Popular Books Research Articles

Ethnobotany of Limnocharis Flava (L.) Buch in Bakumpai Dayak Community of Bagus Village, Barito Kuala District as A Popular Scientific Book

Ethnobotany describes the relationship between plant benefits and communities over generations. Limnocharis flava (L.) Buch. is one of the plants utilized by Bakumpai Dayak community in Bagus Village and can be studied ethnobotanically. This research aims to describe the ethnobotanical study of Limnocharis flava (L.) Buch. in the Bakumpai Dayak community of Bagus Village, Barito Kuala District, and to determine the validity and readability of the content of the popular scientific book developed on the ethnobotany of genjer. This research used the development research method based on Plomp's model (1997) to develop teaching materials in the form of a popular scientific book. The results of this development research show six aspects/studies of genjer ethnobotany: genjer botanical study has a round stem (globosus), genjer ethno-pharmacological study as a remedy for tonsillitis and appetite enhancer supplement, genjer ethno-ecological study based on its growing conditions already meeting optimal conditions, genjer ethno-socioanthropological study as a complementary vegetable for wedding and celebration events, genjer ethno-economic study used as a mixture for raw vegetables and sold in markets, and genjer ethno-linguistic study named "genjir" by the Bakumpai Dayak community due to its aligned growth. The validity test results for developing the popular scientific book show highly valid results with an average score of 3.5. The readability test results for the content of the popular scientific book show very good results, with an average score of 89.5%.

O przysłówkach w przekładzie i o wartościowaniu w tekście – na przykładzie wybranych fragmentów polskich tłumaczeń książek Richarda Dawkinsa

ON ADVERBS IN TRANSLATION AND ON EVALUATION IN TEXT – BASED ON SELECTED FRAGMENTS IN THE POLISH TRANSLATIONS OF BOOKS BY RICHARD DAWKINS The use of adverbs can be related to the expression of evaluative meanings, which play a key role, for example, in the argumentative discourse of popular science. The way evaluative elements are rendered in translation may be important for maintaining the persuasive power of the original text. The aim of the paper is to look at selected fragments of the Polish translations of two popular science books by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion and Outgrowing God, and to see how English adverbs expressing evaluative and volitional meanings were rendered in them, and how the choices made may affect the perception of the text. The analysis uses models of appraisal in language and discourse developed by researchers in the field of English-language text linguistics and discourse studies.

The Role of Martyrdom and Victimhood in the Memory of the Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia through the Prism of ‘Refugee’ Literature

This article focusses on the narratives of collective victimhood and martyrdom in the memories of refugees from the Greek Civil War (GCW, 1946–1949) to post-1948 communist Czechoslovakia (later, the Czech Republic). It analyses literary production by refugees, that is, ego-documents, popular history books and fiction, assessing refugees’ motivations in writing their own histories. It investigates the role of collective victimhood and its effect on the diaspora's identity, its aims and its functions. It determines that the narratives of martyrdom were an early representation by GCW refugees to portray themselves as heroic partisans and anti-fascist fighters and gain the high ground on the moral side of the conflict. Such perceptions, however, have in some cases persisted among communist-oriented authors to this day. This article distinguishes them from more personal expressions of collective victimhood, allowing for a plurality of interpretations of their refugee experience as well as a greater variety of motivations for capturing it in written form for a broader audience. This study aims to show how fluid and permeable these narratives of collective victimhood have been and how fundamentally they have affected the constitution of the GCW diaspora's identity.

Features of book naming in classical and modern Russian literature

The title is the most important element of every book, it attracts the reader's attention and creates a first impression. The reader first pays attention to the title, so the title should be catchy, clearly convey the idea and content of the book. The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the characteristic features of book naming (titles) in classical and modern Russian literature. In the course of the work, the patterns of book naming, the opinions of famous scholars, and the classification of the titles of books of Russian classical literature were studied. The research method for classification was 84 titles of books from the classics. Further, to identify distinctive features, a classification of the titles of books of modern Russian literature was given. To confirm the idea 71 modern popular books were selected. The study uses the method of the situational analysis and the method of classification and generalization. The author comes to the main conclusion that classic writers approach book naming with special care, and modern authors use various experiments with book title techniques.

The Development of Popular Scientific Book Mangrove Diversity Base on Contextual Learning Material of Biodiversity in Senior High School

The biology of learning closely related to human life, so that in the learning process process can be implemented in the natural environment, in other words learning not only predicated on the provided text books in school but can also utilize the surrounding environment as a learning resource. Learning that so called contextual learning. One of the environment that can be used as a source for learning is the mangrove. Therefore, the need for innovation learning resource utilization is around students who could potentially be used as an ingredient for the manufacture of learning media for students. In addition to the availability of the media has not discussed the specifics about the mangrove. The media is a popular scientific book on Mangrove Diversity which discusses mangrove diversity that is clearly packaged in an interesting way to overcome the limitations of space and time. This popular scientific book developed to help students better understand about the diversity of mangroves around its environment. This type of research is research development using development model ADDIE. ADDIE development model consists of several stages, namely analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The subject of the tests in this study consisted of 2 biology teachers and 8 students of class X SMA Maqwa and 2 biology teachers of SMA Maqwa. Data collection instrument on this research is questionnaire. Shape data obtained quantitative data and qualitative data. The results of the validation by an expert of the material retrieved percentage 78.7% with the "good" category and the results of the validation by an expert media obtained the percentage of 91% with the category "very good". Furthermore, the test by the teacher obtained percentage 84.58% by category "very good" and small group trials obtained percentage 81.76 % by category "very good". Based on the results of the study it can be concluded that the media of popular scientific books learning diversity of mangrove is worth is used in the process of learning both in schools as well as self learning. This media can be used as an alternative media learning material on biodiversity.

Identifying and Addressing Disparities in Public Libraries with Bayesian Latent Variable Modeling

Public libraries are an essential public good. We ask: are urban library systems providing equitable service to all residents, in terms of the books they have access to and check out? If not, what causes disparities: heterogeneous book collections, resident behavior and access, and/or operational policies? Existing methods leverage only system-level outcome data (such as overall checkouts per branch), and so cannot distinguish between these factors. As a result, it is difficult to use their results to guide interventions to increase equitable access. We propose a Bayesian framework to characterize book checkout behavior across multiple branches of a library system, learning heterogeneous book popularity, overall branch demand, and usage of the online hold system, while controlling for book availability. In collaboration with the New York Public Library, we apply our framework to granular data consisting of over 400,000 checkouts during 2022. We first show that our model significantly out-performs baseline methods in predicting checkouts at the book-branch level. Next, we study spatial and socioeconomic disparities. We show that disparities are largely driven by disparate use of the online holds system, which allows library patrons to receive books from any other branch through an online portal. This system thus leads to a large outflow of popular books from branches in lower income neighborhoods to those in high income ones. Finally, we illustrate the use of our model and insights to quantify the impact of potential interventions, such as changing how books are internally routed between branches to fulfill hold requests.

Why we do science—marine ecosystems in context

Abstract Any scientific career is a mix of planning and stochastic events, often with a fair share of the latter. I illustrate this by the evolution of my own career. Ecosystem studies of food webs under the impact of eutrophication (Master), and carbon cycling in DOC (Dissolved Organic Carbon)-rich lakes (PhD) led me to elemental ratios in organisms and the establishment of ecological stoichiometry. The role of phosphorus (P) in cellular processes again led to research on the evolution and regulation of genome size. As climate came higher on the agenda, it was time to apply the basic research on the C-cycle and climate in a wider context. As natural scientists, we should also engage in even wider contexts, and I have enjoyed discussions and co-operation with philosophers, psychologist, and social scientists. This helps seeing our own work in context. We should also reflect on why we do science. I have always felt that science should also add purpose to life by giving something back to society, and I have devoted much time to outreach, public talks, debates, and writing popular science books. It takes some time, but it is also rewarding and important—perhaps even more so than yet another paper.

Book studies in Poland after the Second World War

The paper presents an overview of research on books and their types conducted after the Second World War by Polish bibliologists. The scholars were mostly interested in academic books, popular books, as well as books for children and young adults. They explored their characteristic features, presented them as elements of the publishing repertoire and of serial publications, and discussed their development in various periods. Less interesting to them were the structure and typology of books. In recent years, studies devoted to electronic books as objects of bibliological research have begun to appear. Research on books and their types is also conducted by scholars from other disciplines: historians, historians of literature and historians of education. Their findings are also of interest to bibliologists.

Development of the popular scientific book of Nepenthes diversity in Tanta District forest areas, Tabalong Regency: Validity and Practicality

Developing teaching materials based on local potential is necessary for introducing objects in the surrounding environment to support student learning. This is expected to broaden the insights and knowledge of students so that they become more familiar with and know the object of the material being taught. Wetlands are the dominant area in the South Kalimantan region and can be one of the learning resources in producing a product that can support learning at all levels of education; this can be in the form of local potential-based teaching materials, one of which is a popular scientific book. This study aims to describe the validity and practicality of popular scientific books based on the results of research on the Diversity of Semar Pockets (Nepenthes) Forest Areas in Tanta District, Tabalong Regency ". The validity and practicality tests were carried out at the Preliminary field testing stage used in the Borg and Gall model development research at the validity test stage involving two validators, while the practicality test involved 30 students who had passed the Phanerogamae course. The results showed that the Popular Scientific Book "Diversity of Semar Bag Species (Nepenthes) in the Forest Area of Tanta District, Tabalong Regency," obtained a very valid and very practical category. The results of this study indicate that the popular scientific book prepared can be used further to test its effectiveness on the learning process and outcomes.Abstrak. Pengembangan bahan ajar yang berbasis potensi lokal sangat perlu dalam memperkenalkan objek yang ada di lingkungan sekitar dalam menunjang pembelajaran peserta didik. Hal ini diharapkan memperluas wawasan dan pengetahuan peserta didik lebih mengenal dan mengetahui akan objek materi yang dibelajarkan. Lahan basah merupakan kawasan yang dominan di wilayah Kalimantan Selatan, dapat menjadi salah satu sumber belajar dalam menghasilkan suatu produk yang dapat mendukung pembelajaran di semua tingkat pendidikan, hal ini dapat berupa bahan ajar berbasis potensi lokal salah satunya yaitu buku ilmiah populer. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kevalidan dan kepraktisan buku ilmiah popular berbasis hasil penelitian Keragaman Kantong Semar (Nepenthes) Kawasan Hutan di Kecamatan Tanta Kabupaten Tabalong”. Uji kevalidan dan kepraktisan dilaksanakan pada tahap Preliminary field testing yang digunakan dalam penelitian pengembangan model Borg and Gall pada tahap uji kevalidan melibatkan dua validator, sedangkan uji kepraktisan melibatkan 30 mahasiswa yang sudah lulus mata kuliah Phanerogamae. Hasil penelitian menunjukan Buku Ilmiah Populer ”Keanekaragaman Jenis Kantong Semar (Nepenthes) di Kawasan Hutan Kecamatan Tanta Kabupaten Tabalong” yang dikembangkan memperoleh kategori sangat valid dan sangat praktis. Hasil penelitian tersebut menunjukkan bahwa buku ilmiah popular yang disusun dapat digunakan lebih lanjut untuk uji efektivitasnya terhadap proses maupun hasil belajar.

Library Circulation Patterns among Social Sciences and Humanities Students: A Case Study at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka

This study aims to explore the Circulation Patterns within the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) at Rajarata University in Sri Lanka. The problem identified is the lack of knowledge about the circulation patterns and user demand for different subjects within the library. It seeks to address the existing research gap about the Library user circulation pattern among students associated with the above faculty level. The study specifically investigates the period from 2015 to 2019, taking into account the progressive growth and diversity of the Library collections. The rest of the objectives of the study are to determine the user demand for different subject disciplines and to assess the circulation trends. To achieve these objectives, the primary data was gathered from the Report Module of the Integrated KOHA Library Management System of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, and the retrieved data was then analyzed statistically by Microsoft Excel. The findings of the study offer valuable insights into Library circulation and the book usage patterns of students. The research reveals a significant demand for Textbooks in the field of Social Sciences among students, retrieving huge hits for the main subject disciplines such as Religion, Philosophy, and Psychology instead of the disciplines such as Computer Science, Information Technology, and General Works. It is recommended that the Library allocate additional resources and prioritize budget allocation toward the Social Sciences field. This would involve acquiring popular books that cater to the diverse needs of students and faculties across various disciplines, ultimately contributing to the development of a comprehensive collection that effectively addresses the requirements of individuals from diverse backgrounds.

Ultra-Brief Breath Counting (Mindfulness) Training Abolishes Negative Affect–Induced Alcohol Motivation in Hazardous Community Drinkers

ObjectivesMindfulness therapy improves drinking outcomes arguably by attenuating negative mood–induced drinking, but this mechanism has not been demonstrated in hazardous community drinkers. To address this, three studies tested whether a key ingredient of mindfulness, breath counting, would attenuate the increase in motivation for alcohol produced by experimentally induced negative mood, in hazardous community drinkers.MethodIn three studies, hazardous community drinkers were randomized to receive either a 6-min breath counting training or listen to a recited extract from a popular science book, before all participants received a negative mood induction. Motivation for alcohol was measured before and after listening to either the breath counting training or the control audio files, with a craving questionnaire in two online studies (n = 122 and n = 111), or an alcohol versus food picture choice task in a pub context in one in-person study (n = 62).ResultsIn Study 1, breath counting reduced alcohol craving. However, since the mood induction protocol did not increase craving, the effect of breath counting in reversing such increase could not be demonstrated. Online breath counting eliminated the increase in alcohol craving induced by negative mood (Study 2) and eliminated the stress-induced increase in alcohol picture choice in the pub environment (Study 3).ConclusionsBriefly trained breath counting attenuated negative mood–induced alcohol motivation in hazardous community drinkers. These results suggest that breath counting is a reliable and practical method for reducing the impact of negative emotional triggers on alcohol motivation.PreregistrationThese studies are not preregistered.

The error of John Horgan: the author of the prediction of 3 K temperature of the Universe was McKellar and not McCullough

This short communication was written to the interest of the Astronomy teaching or the dissemination of the Astronomy Science to correct an information present in the popular book wrote by John Horgan (originally in 1996), The end of science: facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the science age, respect to the prevision of the CBR temperature prior to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. Horgan quoted Andrew McCullough. The correct name is Andrew Mckellar. Another error is the year of the publication of the McKellar’s paper: 1940 (in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific journal) and not 1941 as he quoted in his book. It is also discussed the good predictions of the CBR temperature made prior to Penzias & Wilson using a not Big Bang’s model of the Universe.

Krakowskie tradycje badań nad dziejami Wysp Brytyjskich w XX i XXI wieku

The article is devoted to the presentation of the achivements of historians working in Kraków, which are devoted to the history of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the early modern period. In the inter‑war period (1918‑1939) the works of Władysław Konopczyński and Stanisław Kot are mentioned. The former authored several articles devoted to the English Parliament and English reactions to the partitions of Poland. The latter studied traces of the Polish Brethren in Britain and the consequences of their influence. After World War II it was Stanisław Grzybowski who should be named as the first historian who undertook serious research on British topics. He published a number of popular books, several of which were widely circulated and read, and one original source study on Tudor and early Stuart colonial policy. It is Grzybowski's student, Mariusz Misztal who has published the most widely on the early modern history of England, especially on Mary Stuart, James Stuart to move to 19th century topics connected with Queen Victoria. Andrzej Kuropatnicki is ‑ in turn ‑ Misztal's student. He works and publishes on early modern English cookery and medicine.

Analysis of The Most Popular Book Types Among Students In Finance and Economics Colleges

Analysis of The Most Popular Book Types Among Students In Finance and Economics Colleges

Validitas Buku Ilmiah Populer Etnobotani Adenostemma lavenia Pada Masyarakat Dayak Bakumpai Desa Bagus Kabupaten Barito Kuala

Validity is an action taken in research to find out the weaknesses and strengths of a product developed in the form of teaching materials. The validated teaching material is a popular scientific book on ethnobotany Adenostemma lavenia in the Bakumpai Dayak community, Bagus Village, Barito Kuala Regency. The validator consists of 2 experts from Lambung Mangkurat University. The research method used is development research with an education Research and Development (RnD) with the Plomp model validity test. The results of the validity of this popular scientific book have a value of 3.6 with very valid criteria.

Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us

Considerable progress has been made in the field of leadership in recent years. However, we argue that this is undermined by a strong residual commitment to an older set of ideas which have been repeatedly debunked but which nevertheless resolutely refuse to die. These, we term zombie leadership. Zombie leadership lives on not because it has empirical support but because it flatters and appeals to elites, to the leadership industrial complex that supports them, and also to the anxieties of ordinary people in a world seemingly beyond their control. It is propagated in everyday discourse surrounding leadership but also by the media, popular books, consultants, HR practices, policy makers, and academics who are adept at catering to the tastes of the powerful and telling them what they like to hear. This review paper outlines eight core claims (axioms) of zombie leadership. As well as isolating the problematic metatheory which holds these ideas together, we reflect on ways in which they might finally be laid to rest.

A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey

AbstractIn this article, we investigate the reasons behind the puzzling enthusiastic reception of a book about Finland’s national development by Turkish nationalist intellectuals in the early Republic of Turkey. Published in Turkish in 1928, the developmental model laid out in Petrov’s The Country of White Lilies resonated with the Turkish intelligentsia and has remained a popular book in Turkey throughout the twentieth century, and even today. First, we compare the fictionalized developmental model presented by Petrov in his book with Finnish development under the Russian Empire, before its independence in 1917. Second, we show that this reception was largely based on a comparison of Turkey and Finland’s geopolitical positions in global imperial politics, and a constructed racial affinity between the two nations in the minds of Turkish readers. Third, we argue that this national developmental model served three ideological purposes; distancing the Turkish Republic from the Ottoman Empire, showing the developmental capacity of nations outside the linear and paternalistic developmental model proposed by Western European empires, and last, presenting a model that glosses over Ottoman-Turkish state violence and ethnic cleansing, as well as democratic processes, as irrelevant to considerations of progress and development. Finally, we discuss the implications of our study for re-evaluating the sociological literature on nation formation, largely taking its “model cases” (Krause 2021) from the Western European experience, through a more encompassing inter-imperial approach (Doyle 2014).

Missing voices: Latin American perspectives in International Relations

Abstract Academics working in International Relations (IR) often portray the discipline as predominantly American. The traditional orthodox narrative of the discipline, told through the ‘Great Debates’, reinforces this, as it depicts the main scholars in the history of the discipline as primarily originating from either the United States or the United Kingdom. In fact, the most popular books covering key thinkers in the discipline feature virtually no Latin American theorists. The marginalization of voices from the global South, including women, and of non-traditional perspectives has created a knowledge gap within the discipline. To address this, this special section of International Affairs, ‘Missing voices: Latin American perspectives in International Relations’, delves into the rich tapestry of international thought on world affairs, encompassing the works of several intellectuals from Latin America. We are convinced that highlighting these perspectives is vital to dispelling myths and positioning IR in the path of a truly global discipline.

1874-1875: The Birth of a Fashion Heritage Consciousness in France

The first exhibition about the history of costume, the “Musée historique du costume” was inaugurated in France in 1874. One year later, the historian and archaeologist Jules Quicherat (1814-1882) published the first popular book about French dress history, l'Histoire du costume en France depuis les temps reculés jusqu'à nos jours (Hachette, 1875). The exhibition and the book were immensely popular. This article seeks to understand the nascent interest in the material culture of fashion that they both revealed. A closer examination of how the organizers chose to display the objects in the “Musée historique du costume”, as well as the way they instructed the visitor to see what was in the exhibition, reveals the very first institutional framework for public interaction with historical fashion objects. The analysis of the Histoire du costume, and in particular a careful examination of the method used by Quicherat, shows how Quicherat succeeded in integrating fashion objects as sources into a larger historic narrative.

Crimes and Neuroimaging: Essay Refuting the Biological Factors of Criminal Minds Part II

In the previous paper, a description of a common phenomenon among popular neuroscience books authors was highlighted. In this paper, the philosophical roots of these ideas will be dissected and this paper will examine the strongest two cases these authors postulate to the public as hard evidence that sleepwalkers have no consciousness or free will.