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As a Georgetown resident for nearly a century, Britannia Kennon (1815-1911) of Tudor Place was close to the key political events and figures of her...

A comprehensive overview of the contribution of Catholic social thought to business ethicsEditor(s): Daniel K. Finn

Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on huma...

The essays, historical and scriptural texts, and reflections in Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives consider how these two faith communities...

DescriptionAre we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Can they express insights into aspects of reality, rather th...

Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how th...

Assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. This book includes chapters that highlight adv...

Reducere. The medical tradition that developed in the lands of Islam during the medieval period (c. 650-1500) has, like few others, influenced the fates and ...

In this volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, leading Christian and Muslim scholars respond to the global crisis of inequality by demanding and m...

Three scenarios for future approaches to peace and conflict diplomacy, explored through the lens of regional perspectives and security threatsIllus...

Of the Land presents a series of prints and poems that follow the life and work of master silkscreen printer Lou Stovall as he was developing his u...

DescriptionHailed by Mark Kuczewski as an "outstanding achievement, " and "must-reading for any serious student of bioethics, " Methods in Medical ...

DescriptionRussia's leadership in establishing the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is emblematic of its desire to end ...

DescriptionThis is a book about the art of strategic communication, how it's used, where, and why.It examines how people have thought about the not...

Reducere. This textbook introduces students to the critical role of the US intelligence community within the wider national security decision-making and poli...

DeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural "biography" of one of DC's most important boulevards. This north-south artery-...

Daly uses the lens of virtue and vice to reimagine a Catholic ethics that can better scrutinize the social forces that both affect our moral charac...

Informed by the latest research in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics, El espa ol y la ling stica aplicada responds ...

The idea of voting is simple, but the administration of elections in ways that ensure access and integrity is complex. In How We Vote, Kathleen Hal...

Reducere. Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God is the first thorough examination of Hezbollah's covert activities beyond Lebanon's borde...

America's Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances--categorized...

DescriptionBozeman challenges the dominance of the concept of economic individualism that drives policymaking and public management today, at the e...

A critical look at how China's growing strategic arsenal could impact a rapidly changing world orderIllustrations: 3 Tables, unspecified; 6 Figures...

An interpretation of human rights that centers on the rhetorical--and religious--power of testimony.Jeremy Bentham described the idea of human righ...

The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian-language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian l...

This guide provides a new approach to training and evaluating world languages online instructors, addressing all facets of learning online to expla...

Qualitative Comparative Analysis is a comprehensive guide to QCA that will teach students, scholars, and self-learners the fundamentals of research...

Jacob M. Kohlhaas's Beyond Biology is a breakthrough in the theology of parenthood, integrating Catholic social thought and social scientific studi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the ...

Reducere. What role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar fr...

In books making the argument for animal ethics, most works either do not address the religious tradition of ethics or use the religious tradition t...

Reducere. This latest edition of Discovering the Qur'an includes a new preface by the author. Used by students around the world as a reliable guide to readin...

Timely and authoritative, Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction provides crucial insight into why Mexico targets some drug networks...

Humans have always made decisions about war, but now machines are close to changing things - with implications for international affairs. Payne exp...

These essays, articles, and documents introduce readers to the history of Georgetown University's involvement in slavery and recent efforts to conf...

Reducere. In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, former Chief of CIA counterintelligence James M. Olson offers a wake-up call for the American pu...

A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy fro...

Reducere. Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have cl...

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber attack? We may be standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order. The increas...

DescriptionDavid Block asks the question "What is second language acquisition (SLA)?" by offering an extended critique of one of the main theoretic...

Reducere. In 1939, Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoyed a life of parties and pleasure. But when war broke out his familiar world was destro...

Reducere. A collection of personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, Voices of the Border brings us closer to this community of people an...

Rethinking the means through which we can achieve economic well-being for all.In this timely book, Christine Firer Hinze looks back at the influent...

Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula, i...

About the AuthorReem Bassiouney is professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo. Her books include Language and Identity in Modern ...

How aesthetic religious experiences can create solidarity in marginalized communitiesLatine Catholics have used Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol i...

DescriptionHoda Barakat's 2004 Arabic novel tells the story of Wadie, a young man who leaves school and becomes corrupted by crime, and his wife, S...

Torture doctors administer and invent techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars.Their knowledge of the body and its breaking p...

Reducere. Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

Reducere. In this new and thoroughly revised edition of Career Diplomacy, Foreign Service veterans Harry W. Kopp and John K. Naland lay out what to expect in...

In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically B...

International relations scholar David A. Cooper offers a reappraisal of classic arms control theory that advocates for reprioritizing deterrence ov...

This book is an abridged edition of the Arabic novel Saaq al-Bambuu (The Bamboo Stalk), written by Saud al-Sanousi, a living Kuwaiti writer. The ab...

Including contributions from twenty-two leading moral theologians, this volume is the most thorough assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teac...

A century ago, almost any state could be competitive at espionage. Fifty years ago, only the Cold War alliances clustered around the two superpower...

DescriptionWomen and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security...

DescriptionA concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral p...

In Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, editor Daniel K. Finn proposes a field-changing critical realist sociology that puts Christia...

Being Present offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices-budgeted, entitle...

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revuls...

International relations scholar David A. Cooper offers a reappraisal of classic arms control theory that advocates for reprioritizing deterrence ov...

DescriptionMohrmann spent 30 years as a pediatrician treating sick and dying children, and this collection of stories about her most memorable case...

DescriptionThis book explores the emerging phenomenon of "surrogate warfare" in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provides Congress with nonpartisan analysis of how proposed legislation will impact the feder...

Andrew Radin's Institution Building in Weak States introduces a domestic opposition theory that helps explain why institution building fails and wh...

DescriptionThis book provides the first comprehensive military history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah. It begi...

A history of Americans who spied against their country and what their stories reveal about national securityWhat's your secret?American Spies prese...

Incisive insights into the distinctive nature of Japanese foreign intelligence and grand strategy, its underlying norms, and how they have changed ...

DescriptionDuring the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would...

The first book to use the Catholic theological tradition to explore the importance of free time, The Fullness of Free Time provides a useful framew...