This Came to You from Chicago explores the unique traits, style, and practices of "Chicago Television" from World War II to the 1990s. Jason J. Nebergall traces how, unlike mainstream stations, city-based broadcasters, who often worked day jobs, provided a platform for underrepresented groups to share their perspectives and allowed citizens to experiment with storytelling, representation, and engagement. In analyzing the idea and follow-through of "to and from Chicagoans," Nebergall also illuminates how Chicago Television promoted civic engagement, fostered a sense of belonging and solidarity among residents, and contributed to the evolution of technological advances through the artistic risks of local and independent producers.

This Came to You from Chicago presents an ideological framework that analyzes Chicago Television as being deeply rooted in the political beliefs of its creators. Issues involving labor rights, women's liberation, the civil rights struggle, LGBTQ communities, and anti-capitalist activism appeared throughout the history of television in the Windy City. By bringing attention to the locality and widespread function of this programming system, Nebergall reveals how independent television developed with the vibrancy and diversity of Chicago's cultural landscape and local advocacy for social justice.

Contemporary Marketing Practices in Africa: Technological and Strategic Perspectives is the first volume in a series of two published to honor Professor Kofi Q. Dadzie's enduring contributions to African business and development scholarship and his leadership in advancing research capacity and elevating global visibility of African scholarship.

This first volume offers a context-rooted examination of how digital technologies, evolving consumer behaviour, and strategic decision-making are reshaping marketing practice and theories across African markets to create and deliver customer value. Departing from traditional Western-centric marketing approaches and drawing on contributions from leading African and international scholars, it presents multidisciplinary insights that address the continent's institutional complexity, cultural diversity, and uneven technological adoption, preparing readers for the ethical and sustainability debates addressed in Volume 2.

This volume will appeal to scholars, graduate students, practitioners, and policymakers seeking a grounded understanding of evolving consumer behaviour, shifting marketing strategies, and technology-driven marketing transformation in African contexts.

This book examines various case-based learning approaches, including the use of simulations and collaborative learning. It highlights how modern technologies are reshaping accounting practices, emphasizing real-world applications and industry advancements, and explores the integration of technological elements into pedagogical approaches, showcasing innovative teaching methods and tools. It also examines the use of active learning and project-based instruction, as well as various methods for assessing and evaluating accounting education programs, including the use of rubrics and student feedback, and delves into the role of experiential learning and real-world applications in accounting education. This book serves as a valuable resource for accounting educators, students, and professionals seeking to stay up-to-date with trends and techniques in the field.

The first signs of corporate collapse rarely appear in balance sheets.

They appear in latency. They appear in hiring delays, in meetings that solve nothing, and in the weeks it takes to make a decision that a machine could have made in seconds.

For the last century, business moved at the speed of human cognition. We gathered data, deliberated, and executed. That cycle took quarters. Today, AI has compressed that cycle to hours.

Historically, organizational design has always accounted for latency, but only within the constraints of a human-centric hierarchy. Today, the fundamental unit of the enterprise has changed. An organization is no longer just a collection of people; it is a complex network of nodes, some human, some autonomous AI agents. To build for this reality, traditional management theory must be re-evaluated. We must now look to system architecture and human-computer interaction, hardwiring their rigorous principles of latency and data flow directly into organizational design.

In No One Works Here, Paul Cheek, MIT Senior Lecturer, software engineer, and entrepreneur, delivers a provocative and urgent roadmap for the post-human organization. He argues that we are witnessing a fundamental shift in the physics of business: moving from an era where humans do the work to an era where humans design the intent.

This book redefines how we think about the structure of work, the meaning of enterprise, and the future of capitalism itself. Similarly, it presents how incumbent organizations and economies have a new threat presented in the opportunity for underdog companies and economies to leapfrog them. It is both a visionary manifesto and a practical playbook for the AI era...one that reframes not only how we build organizations, but how we define them.

This is not a book about mass unemployment. It is a manual for the greatest organizational design pivot since the Industrial Revolution.

Inside, you will discover:

• The Latency Trap: Why the most dangerous metric in your company isn't burn rate, it's the time cost of human involvement.
• The New Operating System: How to build AI-Driven Enterprises that allow your organization to run, learn, and optimize while you sleep.
• From Operator to Architect: A tactical guide for leaders who need to stop working in their business so they can start programming it.

The companies that thrive in this new age will be the ones that delegate cognitive work to intelligent systems. The ones that die will be the ones that insist on keeping a human in the loop for decisions that were obsolete yesterday.

For companies competing on scale and speed, you are now on borrowed time from your last human-gated decision. This book is your guide to buying that time back.

Making Freedom Work tells the stories of five free women of color in antebellum New Orleans. The lives of Eulalie Mandeville, Henriette Delille, Marie Couvent, Cecille Bonille, and Marie Dolores Laveaux reveal the economic, legal, and cultural strategies free Black women used to move through a racially stratified, patriarchal slave society. Janet Morrison argues that free women of color could play a crucial role in the city's economic, religious, and communal life, even as they navigated and contested the restraints placed upon them by their race and gender. Foregrounding the voices of these women and their families, Morrison recovers stories that have long been marginalized in New Orleans history.

During a period of profound transformation in New Orleans-including French and Spanish colonial legacies, imposed American racial hierarchies after the Louisiana Purchase, and increased mobility within the Atlantic world-these five women found numerous ways to exercise their agency in a world that was not designed for them. They owned businesses, accumulated property, pursued litigation, engaged in philanthropy, and provided religious leadership, all while building durable networks of care, education, and spirituality. Avoiding the dangers of outright rebellion, the women employed strategies of gendered resistance-refusal, adaptation, collaboration-that often proved very successful, carving out space for survival in ways that confounded societal expectations of who they could be and what they could accomplish.

Morrison draws on a rich trove of archival sources such as censuses, city directories, notarial records, wills, successions, and court cases. Recognizing that these records were produced within white-controlled bureaucratic systems, Making Freedom Work attends closely to both their evidentiary value and their silences. It also confronts the complexities of slaveholding by free people of color, interpreting it as part of a broader struggle for security, status, and distance from enslavement, while emphasizing the uneven and contingent relationships between enslavers and the enslaved.

Making Freedom Work reintroduces these women-so often dismissed and devalued in their own time-as central historical actors, highlighting their influence as entrepreneurs, community builders, educators, and mothers of the next generation.

This volume is a collection of short, classroom-friendly case studies on Indian entrepreneurship, emphasizing inclusion across social, rural, cultural, and technological contexts. It addresses the gap in pedagogical resources that reflect India's entrepreneurial ecosystem, offering grounded narratives relevant for both educators and learners. The cases cover a range of themes, including stories of rural and social enterprises (e.g., Bhungroo, Shivganga Jhabua), cultural ventures(e.g., Sutradhar, Tamaala), technology-driven initiatives(e.g., DIGIIT, Neurosynaptics), entrepreneurship support organizations(e.g., NSRCEL IIM Bangalore, Jagriti Yatra), and reflective accounts of entrepreneurial journeys rooted in local contexts. The shorter cases are tailored to enhance engagement in classroom discussions and encourage critical thinking around opportunity recognition, resource constraints, stakeholder alignment, and impact measurement, especially in settings outside of mainstream urban markets. The book provides a valuable resource for courses including New Venture Creation, Social/Rural Entrepreneurship, Cultural Entrepreneurship, and Doing Business in Emerging Markets. Arising from a Government of India-funded SPARC grant project, the volume champions SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, inspiring future entrepreneurs and contributing to sustainable economic growth.

The book analyses the legal conditions for the use of insurance in waste management. The main focus of the study is the regulations of the EU and selected European countries, supplemented by a comparison with the legal regulations in the USA. The choice of the EU as the main subject of the research is due to the concept of rational ecological waste management developed in EU law. However, national and international legal instruments regulating waste management are not precisely reflected in insurance concepts covering waste risks. It proves necessary to develop a conceptual apparatus related to the definition of insurance waste risks. It seems valuable to define the role of insurance in a comprehensive waste risk management system at local and regional level.

The book examines the legal conditions for the use of insurance as a method of waste risk management. Therefore, part of the book is devoted to the application of EU environmental and waste management rules to the interpretation of financial collateral requirements and the use of insurance as a financial instrument. A special place in the book is occupied by considerations devoted to a less well-known insurance activity than the insurance contract, namely the insurance guarantee. Its qualities are increasingly recognised in the insurance market. The book draws attention to the attractiveness of the insurance guarantee for solving problems arising from the financing of waste management. The book will be of interest to both lawyers and economists, academics and practitioners in the insurance and waste management industry.

By highlighting the interplay between esotericism, conspiracy theory, and fandom, Cypher Culture examines how marginalized and embattled groups learn to read cultural texts for hidden meanings in hostile environments. Drawing on Leo Strauss's theory of esotericism, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman argue that "reading between the lines" has moved from classical philosophy into popular culture, where queer fandoms, political extremists, and others uncover whispered messages in mass media. The result is a shared interpretive practice with radically different ethical and political consequences.

Cypher Culture presents a series of case studies capturing a wide spectrum of esoteric fandom, from interpretations of Shakespeare and Disney to analyses of Taylor Swift, The Dark Knight trilogy of Batman films, and the QAnon phenomenon. Exploring the ways groups interact with these texts helps uncover the dynamics of fan culture and its political dimensions. The book's focus on the interplay of scene, surface, and receiver provides a nuanced framework for understanding how esoteric interpretations take hold and circulate within fan communities, particularly online.

Pairing close readings of popular media with cultural analyses of their dedicated communities of esoteric readers, Cypher Culture diagnoses the stylistic, contextual, and authorial elements of a text that invite esoteric interpretations. This approach goes beyond traditional views of esotericism, as formulated by Strauss, demonstrating its evolution in the digital age as not just an authorial strategy but a hermeneutic lens through which fans interpret popular culture.

Offering an in-depth examination of the political philosophy of Plato's Republic, Stephen O. Peprah challenges the prevalent scholarly interpretation that misreads and underestimates Plato's view of the status and role of non-philosophical citizens. Rather than seeing the ordinary human beings who make up the civic population as servile to the select philosophical elite, the argument is not only that they make an important contribution to the polis based on their moral, epistemic, and somatic competences, but that the political community serves their well-being.

Grounded in recent work on Plato's political philosophy and within Plato's contractarian commitment (koinonia) in Book II of Republic, this study shows that the individual and the polis have positive, if not equal, standing. Each is positively dependent on the other, and political authority of the philosopher-rulers is justified to create enabling conditions to facilitate this mutual interdependence. And so, by arguing that Plato's just society - Kallipolis - evolves from the collaborative efforts of individuals who aim to deal with a common human predicament (insufficiency), Peprah reveals that Platonic political theory is engineered to be a more inclusive system than previously thought. This study is an important reassessment that shows the artisans of Republic as possessing individual and political agency.

Beyond Ballot Boxes explores how social media has transformed electoral politics by influencing voter behavior, political communication, and democratic integrity. The book introduces Digital Democracy Disruption (D (3)) Theory to analyze how misinformation, algorithmic bias, and computational propaganda shape elections worldwide. By comparing case studies from the United States, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, the authors examine the impact of digital media in both developed and emerging democracies. The book also discusses regulatory challenges, misinformation countermeasures, and policy recommendations for preserving democratic resilience in the digital era. Tracing the historical evolution of media from print to digital platforms, the book highlights the role of traditional media in shaping public opinion before examining how social media has democratized access to information while simultaneously fostering misinformation and ideological divides. It explores the mechanisms of digital propaganda, distinguishing between misinformation (false but unintentional content) and disinformation (deliberate manipulation). The authors discuss the rise of deepfakes, troll farms, and bot-driven campaigns, with case studies including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the spread of WhatsApp-driven misinformation in South Asia.

James O. Heath's Deep South Democrats is the story of three men who redefined the southern political landscape through unique voting records in health, housing, labor, and education. Olin Johnston of South Carolina and John Sparkman and Lister Hill of Alabama contributed to the massive impact of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the southern states, though the reforms didn't affect just their constituents: the New Deal's characteristics of federal intervention and economic empowerment influenced their own political outlook for decades. While the senators' consistent defense of segregation stood in stark contrast to the purported "reluctance" of their racism in their election campaigns, the benefits of their economic liberalism benefited Black communities in their states. This, in turn, ensured a remarkable measure of support among Black southerners who were registered to vote and gave the three of them an unbeatable edge over opponents who were economically and racially conservative.

In focusing on the paradoxical politics of three Deep South Democrats, Heath avoids the pitfalls of overcategorization while entertaining two possibilities. The first is that Johnston, Sparkman, and Hill privately supported the advancement of Black rights but were restrained from doing so publicly by the political realities in their states, which forced them to maintain a strict adherence to racial segregation, albeit while pursuing reforms in social policy that benefited Black and white residents alike. The second is that the three of them held racist beliefs but avoided the racist hyperbole of their contemporaries because they possessed a sense of duty to their communities. Heath's analysis considers the influence of region, rather than state, alongside tradition and family history, to explain how the reluctant racism of these three men proved unusually influential in the age of civil rights.

Academic philosophy confronts heavy metal for the first time

Previous scholarly treatments of heavy metal have originated outside philosophy or targeted popular audiences rather than professional scholars. The Heaviest Ideas in the Universe: A Philosophy of Heavy Metal is the first edited volume applying rigorous philosophical inquiry directly to the genre. Featuring newly written papers by established scholars worldwide, the collection draws on diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies.

Chapters engage aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, identity theory, and ethics as they operate within heavy metal's cultural and sonic landscape. The volume includes a foreword by D. Randall Blythe and a chapter by Dave Hunt, both lead vocalists of influential metal bands. Contributors draw on phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy to examine questions the genre raises.

Readers will also find:

• Sustained philosophical analysis of the relationship between heavy metal and religious themes, belief structures, and ritual practice
• Examinations of identity formation and authenticity as constructed through heavy metal fandom, performance, and subcultural participation
• Aesthetic arguments addressing questions of beauty, sublimity, noise, and artistic value specific to extreme musical forms
• Ethical inquiries into transgression, violence, and moral responsibility as expressed through heavy metal lyrics and imagery
• Epistemological investigations into how knowledge claims and skepticism function within heavy metal culture and discourse

Professional philosophers, advanced students in aesthetics and philosophy of music, and educated readers drawn to heavy metal's intellectual dimensions will find this volume opens sustained scholarly dialogue. The Heaviest Ideas in the Universe provides the philosophical framework for rigorous engagement with a genre long overlooked by academic philosophy.

This second edition handbook identifies critical perspectives in studying and practicing leadership for social justice. The co-editors have brought together over one hundred scholars, over sixty percent from outside of North America. Thus, the topics and methods vary greatly, critically expanding theoretical and methodological ways of knowing the constructs embedded in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. The handbook troubles the taken-for-grant ideas and norms that often act as barriers to realizing socially just practices within schools, universities, and societies around the world.

????Since the publication of the first edition in 2014, our world has seen a dramatic rise in populist authoritarian governments whose educational policies have exacerbated social injustices, such as criminalizing immigration and migration, banning books, increasing racism, including antisemitism, and excluding LGBTQ+ teachers and students, among many other social injustices. What will clearly distinguish this second edition of Educational Leadership and Social (In)justice is how we bring together fourth-generation international research knowledge of educational leadership for social justice.

This Open Access book explores the intersection of multilingualism and dementia, bringing together previous research on language, aging and cognitive change. It offers an accessible guide to studying multilingualism and dementia, with a focus on interaction, ethics, and real-world research design. It also provides a critical overview of existing research, highlighting key questions addressed so far, identifying persistent gaps, and outlining what is needed to move the field forward.

Across five chapters, it discusses the major ethical and practical challenges researchers are facing in this field and explores the complexity of managing variables in research involving older, multilingual individuals living with dementia. It then guides readers through practical methodological decisions and concludes with future directions for research, policy, and practice.

This book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners working in applied linguistics and pragmatics, particularly those with a focus on multilingualism, and health communication, especially discourses relating to dementia.

This book examines the role and significance of Alternative (Education) Provision (AP) in England, with a central focus on the inclusion and well-being of disadvantaged young people who are increasingly educated outside mainstream settings. Drawing on the author's 35-year involvement as an AP student, practitioner, leader and researcher, it offers a rare insider-informed perspective combined with a critical application of Bourdieu's capital theory.

The distinctiveness of this title lies in its critical reframing of AP through the lens of capital theory, showing how social, cultural, human, and material resources are mobilized in ways that may sustain inequality while also opening spaces for agency and transformation. It situates AP within its historical, political, and policy contexts, exposing the hidden mechanisms that shape children and young people's experiences and unfolding futures.

Although rooted in England, the analysis speaks to an international audience. Equivalent forms of AP exist in Australia, the USA, and across Europe, where debates around school exclusion, youth and social justice, and educational inequality share striking similarities. By maintaining disadvantaged children and young people at the center of analysis, this book contributes to global scholarship on inclusive education and to practical debates on how AP can be reimagined for more just outcomes.