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Women, now is the time to build your enterprise. Jefa in Training is the only Spanglish project-launching toolkit and female entrepreneur planner specially made for a new generation of boss women. A solopreneur and small business guide. A business startup planner and toolkit for women in leadership, business, and beyond, Jefa in Training offers women entrepreneurs the female empowerment needed to take a side hustle to the next level. Whether it's learning to define your brand, set up a beta test group, or draft an LLC operating agreement, this compendium of lessons, anecdotes, and quotes teaches the next generation of women in business how to work for yourself and turn your ideas into something much bigger. A Latina book by Latinas, for Latinas. Solopreneurs and creatives, you are invited to let go of your fears and finally launch your blog, project, or platform. Jefa in Training isn't your typical small business book. Part Latinx book, it is a conversation with a special tribe of Latina immigrants, Hispanic American generations, and women of color in financial, media, entrepreneurial, and creative spaces. Throughout, you'll explore a more complex view of Latinidad, covering everything from imposter syndrome to micro-aggressions and bilingualism.

For the second time in human history, we are on the verge of broad new breakthroughs in health, productivity, and personal freedom. And many-to-many networks are the reason. In business, government, and war, information is no longer the privilege of a powerful few. Now everyone knows what anyone knows, and we are applying that diversity of experience and perspective to expand the frontiers of our lives. We are starting to think together. Social media networks, online forums, and guerilla broadcasting are connecting us in communities with fewer bureaucratic layers. In swarms, walkouts, strikes, and insurrections, people are sharing experience directly in real time, marching together into the public square, and demanding a greater voice in the new democracy. Networks Rising is the colorful story of unsung technology wizards waving us on, of philosophers struggling to free us from the dictates of church and state, and of sociologists, futurists, and even science fiction writers offering dozens of new schemes for living in a more connected world. At a time when so many of our institutions seem deeply challenged, Burns posits that we are poised at the beginning of what might be humanity's greatest leap forward in 25,000 years

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in ASEAN in the context of digital economy -- 2 Identifying success factors of digital transformation -- 3 How digital transformation connects knowledge exploration and exploitation with business model innovation: a fintech perspective -- 4 Is digital money an alternative to conventional money in the Asian emerging economy context of the pandemic? -- 5 Impact of digital connectivity on ease of doing business: the Asian experience -- 6 Application of knowledge management and digitalization in an Islamic view -- 7 Designing a simple house of knowledge management -- 8 Enterprise social media as knowledge management system in higher education institutions (HEIs) -- 9 The risk management of cryptocurrencies based on the prediction of VaR and ES under the quantum wave: outlook for ASEAN countries -- 10 Developing a digital business ecosystem in Singapore -- 11 P2P lending and philanthropy platform: a new face of Asian digital financial inclusion (evidence from Indonesia) -- 12 Antecedents of user acceptance of digital banking service: a qualitative study in Vietnam -- 13 The role of usability in business-to-customer digital transactions on multiservice platforms of Indonesian e-money providers -- 14 The next frontier towards Digital Sarawak: advancing into the future -- Index.

This book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015, within the framework of Critical Discourse Studies. In doing so, it brings together a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism and commemoration. While contradictory yet intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have often framed debates about European identities, the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 intensified and polarized these debates. The COVID-19 pandemic, as another major crisis, saw nation-states react by closing borders, while symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics-the way past events are collectively remembered and tied into current political discourses-are also linked to the dynamics of migration; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies, as well as fundamental human and constitutional rights, in relation to new trends of renationalization across Europe and beyond. --

Cover -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction: The Most Predictable, Unconventional Presidency -- 2. Reckoning with the Trumpian GOP -- 3. Remade in His Image: How Trump Transformed Right-Wing Media -- 4. The Crisis of Truth in the Age of Trump -- 5. Militant Whiteness in the Age of Trump -- 6. Latinos for Trump -- 7. "Send Her Back": Trump's Feud with Feminists and Conservative Women's Triumph -- 8. Immigration Policy and Politics under Trump -- 9. The Rhetoric and Reality of Infrastructure during the Trump Presidency -- 10. Against the Tide: The Trump Administration and Climate Change -- 11. From Color-Blind to Black Lives Matter: Race, Class, and Politics under Trump -- 12. The Gilded Elevator: Tech in the Time of Trump -- 13. No More Mulligans: Donald Trump and International Alliances -- 14. Trump's China Policy: The Chaotic End to the Era of Engagement -- 15. Trump's Middle East Legacy: Arms, Autocrats, and Annexations -- 16. "Nut Job," "Scumbag," and "Fool": How Trump Tried to Deconstruct the FBI and the Administrative State-and Almost Succeeded -- 17. The 60/40 Problem: Trump, Culpability, and COVID-19 -- 18. The Path of Most Resistance: How Democrats Battled Trump and Moved Left -- 19. Impeachment after Trump -- Notes -- Index.

"Practical advice for raising authentic, self-reliant teenage girls in the age of the Internet from the experienced clinical psychologist Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler It may feel as though your preteen or teenage daughter is growing up in a different universe than you did. Between smartphones, social media, and cyberbullying, the world is changing. Technology is transforming how girls identify themselves, learn, develop social skills, and communicate with the people around them, and many mothers feel as though they are venturing into alien territory, with no idea how to navigate these unprecedented situations. But the good news is that regardless of your technological skill, you are still the best person to guide your daughter through all the chaos of adolescence. In Anything But My Phone, Mom! Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler shows mothers how to handle the modern challenges of parenting teenage girls, drawing upon interviews with teenagers and their mothers, decades of clinical experience, and her own experience as a mother. With clear, practical advice, she provides insights and strategies for how you can better understand your daughter, maintain a close and loving relationship with her, keep her safe, and help her become resilient, capable, confident, and healthy"--

"When we began writing this textbook, the United States was in the grips of an opioid epidemic in which overdose deaths have been ever-increasing, and perhaps amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the opioid epidemic took center stage in the media, there were also surges in cocaine and methamphetamine use and related deaths, as well as increases in cannabis vaping especially among adolescents and young adults. Additionally, behavioral addictions such as sex and pornography addiction, internet gaming addiction, and gambling continued to impact individuals and communities across the globe. History provides us with several lessons, one of those lessons is that substance use trends wax and wane over decades. For example, many say the "Summer of Love" of the late 1960's in which hallucinogens played a key role, ended when amphetamines surged in popularity bringing with it a whole new set of problems and deaths. Cocaine epidemics existed in the 1920's, coinciding with alcohol prohibition, only to resurface again in the 1980's. Morphine addiction was prevalent following the Civil War, especially among wounded soldiers and opioid addiction again surged in the past five years. Therefore, it is imperative that each new generation of mental health professionals are equipped to recognize and respond to addiction"--

It has been more a decade since people across the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments, demanding political empowerment, social reform and economic improvement. Pro-democracy protests, as they were called in common parlance, which spread rapidly through the mobilisation of social media calls, ended up overthrowing long-standing authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya. That gave rise to hope for a more representative future, as well as economic reforms, after decades of mismanagement and stagnation. However, such hopes were quickly dispelled, as the political vacuum created by the elimination of regional dictatorships deepened fractures in many of these societies along ethnic, religious and tribal fault lines. As Islamists and secularists jockeyed for power, Egypt's brief alliance with democracy was halted by a neo-militarist, counter-revolutionary takeover. Tunisia is a notable exception, where both factions in political society have resolved to settle their differences through dialogue and set the tone for democratic politics, while the country is struggling with economic growth and transformation. Very little, if anything, has changed in Yemen, Libya and Syria, where long-drawn and bloody civil wars are raging. The monarchies of the Gulf have not been untouched, but remain markedly unchanged.

After the shock of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which Hungarians perceived as an unfair dictate, the leaders of the country found it imperative to change Hungary's international image in a way that would help the revision of the post-World War I settlement. The monograph examines the development of interwar Hungarian cultural diplomacy in three areas: universities, the tourist industry, and the media—primarily motion pictures and radio production. It is a story of the Hungarian elites' high hopes and deep-seated anxieties about the country's place in a Europe newly reconstructed after World War I, and how these elites perceived and misperceived themselves, their surroundings, and their own ability to affect the country's fate. The defeat in the Great War was crushing, but it was also stimulating, as Nagy documents in his examination of foreign language journals, tourism, radio, and other tools of cultural diplomacy. The mobilization of diverse cultural and intellectual resources, the author argues, helped establish Hungary's legitimacy in the international arena, contributed to the modernization of the country, and established a set of enduring national images. Though the study is rooted in Hungary, it explores the dynamic and contingent relationship between identity construction and transnational cultural and political currents in East-Central European nations in the interwar period

In 2015, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was elected to govern Delhi promising to improve public services, including education through government schools that would be the equal of private-school provision. Media reports, along with the party's re-election in 2020, suggest strong public confidence that AAP are delivering on that promise. But is this success reflected by experience in schools?

Delhi's Education Revolution offers a critical evaluation of the AAP's education reforms by exploring policy and practice through the eyes of one key group: the government-school teachers tasked with making the AAP's pledge a reality. Drawing on 110 research interviews conducted via Zoom during the Covid pandemic in the summer of 2020, teachers explain how the reforms have changed their profession and practice, and whether education really has improved for children of all backgrounds. Analysis of views about critical issues such as inclusion and the pressure of achievement targets in classrooms that often contain more than 50 students, informs their observations about the reform programme itself. The study paints a more qualified picture of success than suggested elsewhere and makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of education reforms in India, and most especially, in Delhi.

"Keeping the Republic gives students the power to · examine the narrative of what's going on in American politics, · distinguish fact from fiction and balance from bias, and · influence the message through informed citizenship. Keeping the Republic draws students into the study of American politics, showing them how to think critically about "who gets what, and how" while exploring the twin themes of power and citizenship. Readers are pushed to consider how and why institutions and rules determine who wins and who loses in American politics, and to be savvy consumers of political information. This approach is thoroughly updated in the tenth edition to consider the influences of today's technology and social media on politics and civic engagement. With the communication of ideas and information easier than ever, it's increasingly challenging to filter through all the voices and biases to assess the facts and find balance. Throughout the text and its features, authors Christine Barbour and Gerald Wright show students how to effectively apply the critical thinking skills they develop to the political information they encounter every day. Students are challenged to deconstruct prevailing political narratives and effectively harness the political power of the information age for themselves"--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction Samuël Kruizinga -- 1 Belittling Spain. Hispanophobia and the mirror of greatness Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez -- 2 Dealing with smallness in Habsburg Bohemia, Ottoman Albania and Tsarist Georgia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Adrian Brisku -- 3 Smallness and the East-West binary in nationalism studies. Belgium and Romania in the long nineteenth century Raul Carstocea and Maarten Van Ginderachter -- 4 'Poor Little Belgium'. Food aid and the image of Belgian victimhood in the United States Marjet Brolsma and Samuël Kruizinga -- 5 Science, health and American money. Small state strategies in interwar Czechoslovakia and Denmark Elisabeth Van Meer, Casper Andersen and Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen -- 6 Neutral news. Forging a small states' transnational media network, 1914‒40 Vincent Kuitenbrouwer -- 7 'Whoever says that Serbia is small is lying!' Serbia, ontological (in)security and the unbearable smallness of being Christian Axboe Nielsen -- 8 Iceland's smallness. Acceptance or denial? Baldur Thorhallsson and Guðmundur Hálfdanarson -- 9 Great Britain and Little Ireland. Reimagining British and Irish relations in BIPA, Brexit and beyond Sara Dybris McQuaid -- 10 From David to Goliath? The question of size in Israel's identity politics Alexei Tsinovoi -- Conclusions Samuël Kruizinga and Karen Gram-Skjoldager -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Plan 2020 are governmental initiatives to diversify Saudi Arabia's economy and implement nationwide social changes. Media and scholarly attention often describe the success or failure of these ambitious visions. This book shifts the focus to instead examine and evaluate the actual processes of domestic policymaking and governance that are being mapped out to achieve them. The book is unique in its breadth, with case studies from across different sectors including labour markets, defence, health, youth, energy and the environment. Each analyses the challenges that the country's leading institutions face in making, shaping and implementing the tailored policies that are being designed to change the country's future. In doing so, they reveal the factors that either currently facilitate or constrain effective and viable domestic policymaking and governance in the Kingdom. The study offers new and ground-breaking research based on the first-hand experiences of academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who have privileged access to Saudi Arabia. At a time when analysis and reportage on Saudi Arabia usually highlights the 'high politics' of foreign policy, this book sheds light on the 'low politics' to show the extent to which Saudi policy, society, economics and culture is changing."

"In 2015, a group of 21 young people came together to sue the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe that has already begun to deprive them of life, liberty and property without due process of law. The path breaking litigation, Juliana v United States, has had more success in the courts than many expected, but the federal government has repeatedly delayed the case from getting to trial. The case is now pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Whatever its judicial outcome, the litigation has received a great deal of media attention and public acclaim. Youth activists now central to climate advocacy say that they were influenced by this early example of young people stepping up. Our Children's Trust (OCT), the group that has brought the children's climate lawsuit, has now authorized the author, Gus Speth, to proceed with publication of an updated, 2020 version of the Expert Report he prepared for the litigation in 2018. The original Speth report was prepared in his capacity as an expert in the subject. In the view of many who have seen it, the report is the most compelling indictment of federal climate action and inaction yet written"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Mapping Deathscapes -- PART I: Deathscapes intersectionalities -- Overview -- 1 Violence and intersecting power relations -- 2 The colonial debtscape -- 3 "You have to pay with your body": sexual violence, border violence and the settler state -- PART II: Making Indigenous women visible in the deathscape -- Overview -- 4 Data silence in the settler archive: Indigenous femicide, deathscapes and social media -- 5 "Say her name": naming Aboriginal women in the justice system -- 6 Close the Inquest -- PART III: Refugees in the deathscape: Crimes of peace -- Overview -- 7 The confined sea and the wavering of sovereignty -- 8 Racialized violence in Europe: the Genealogy of Amnesia Project and the immobilization of refugees? -- 9 Life and death at the digitalized border: "Access denied" -- 10 Fatal prescriptions: immigration detention, mismedication and the necropolitics of uncare -- PART IV: Aesthetic witnessing in the deathscape -- Overview -- 11 Artistic responses to historical and ongoing genocidal violence against Aboriginal women -- 12 Looking into the world from somewhere else: mapping and the visualisation of racial violence in Australia -- 13 Perpetual trauma: witnessing deathscapes of the colonial project -- PART V: Afterwords -- 14 After Abolition -- 15 Transformative justice -- Index.