Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Black Georgetown Remembered
A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of “The Town of George” in 1751 to the Present Day, 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
First published in 1991, Black Georgetown Remembered chronicles and celebrates the rich but little-known history of the Georgetown black community from the colonial period to the present. Drawing on primary sources, including oral interviews with past and current residents and extensive research in church...
Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with...
by Charles E. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Celebrated moral theologian Charles E. Curran examines and critiques Pope Benedict XVI’s contribution to Catholic social teaching in this Georgetown Digital Short, available exclusively in this concise digital format. In his eight-year pontificate (2005-13) Pope Benedict XVI wrote two encyclicals that...
Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks
Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating...
The Community of Believers
Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Community of Believers offers the proceedings of the 2013 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars under the stewardship of Georgetown University.These essays consider such themes as the Church as mystical body of Christ versus the Church as proclamation;...
Careers in International Affairs
, Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multinational corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and nongovernmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more. Careers in International...
by Lahouari Addi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam, Lahouari Addi attempts to assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction. While the revolutionary regimes promised economic and social development and sought the unity of Arab...
A Song to My City
Washington, DC
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This deeply felt memoir is a love letter to Washington, DC. Carol Lancaster, a third-generation Washingtonian who knew the city like few others, takes readers on a tour of the nation’s capital from its swamp-infested beginnings to the present day, with an insider’s view of the gritty politics, environment,...
Libya's Displacement Crisis
Uprooted by Revolution and Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Libya faces a bleak humanitarian crisis, the result of the country’s descent into civil war in the summer of 2014 following the 2011 revolution.
Hundreds of thousands of Libyan citizens are uprooted within the country and many more are sheltering in neighboring states, particularly Tunisia....
Tunisian Revolutions
Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation presented economic and political oppression by the Ben Ali regimes as the root causes of widespread social despair that...
by Marta González-Lloret
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
However exciting new technologies and educational tools may seem, they can become solely for entertainment unless their design, use, and evaluation are guided by principles of education and language development. Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) provides an excellent approach for teachers who want...
Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech
The Revival of Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In a time when citizens are deeply dissatisfied with the basic institutions and elected officials that govern them, the participatory budgeting movement empowers citizens to get results for pressing community needs. It creates a transparent process where citizens can propose projects through traditional...
DC Jazz
Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding across the globe. That telling of history, however, overlooks the pivotal role the nation's capital has played...
Loyal Dissent
Memoir of a Catholic Theologian
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Loyal Dissent is the candid and inspiring story of a Catholic priest and theologian who, despite being stripped of his right to teach as a Catholic theologian by the Vatican, remains committed to the Catholic Church. Over a nearly fifty-year career, Charles E. Curran has distinguished himself as the...