Georgetown University Press: 313 books
The Seven Keys to Communicating in Japan
An Intercultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The key to professional success in Japan is understanding Japanese people. The authors, seasoned cross-cultural trainers for businesspeople, provide a practical set of guidelines for understanding Japanese people and culture through David A. Victor's LESCANT approach of evaluating a culture's language,...
Place Me With Your Son
Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Arranged as a twenty-four week retreat in four phases, this edition is a guide to The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. It incorporates "centering" exercises of awareness patterned on Eastern or Buddhist meditation practices and devotional exercises similar to or drawn from those found in Sadhana,...
Sexual Ethics
A Theological Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Two principles capture the essence of the Catholic tradition on sexual ethics: that each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life, and that any human genital act must occur within the framework of marriage. In the Catholic tradition, moral sexual activity is institutionalized...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how language acquisition, in particular multilingual...
Power and Restraint
The Rise of the United States, 1898–1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States emerged as an economic colossus in command of a new empire. Yet for the next forty years the United States eschewed the kind of aggressive grand strategy that had marked other rising imperial powers in favor of a policy of moderation.In Power and...
Civil Disagreement
Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
How can we agree to disagree in today’s pluralistic society, one in which individuals and groups are becoming increasingly polarized by fierce convictions that are often at odds with the ideas of others? Civil Disagreement: Personal Integrity in a Pluralistic Society shows how we can cope with diversity...
Kidney for Sale by Owner
Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2005
If most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute resources, why should body parts be excluded?Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing...
Out and Running
Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Out and Running is the first systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics of state legislative campaigns and the influence of lesbian and gay legislators in the state policymaking process. By examining state legislative elections...
by Kenneth Cragg
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Kenneth Cragg (1913–2012) was one of the West's most gifted interpreters of Islam. In this deeply insightful, classic work of Qur’anic studies, he argues that the West must put aside a "spiritual imperialism" that draws on Western prescripts alien to Muslims and "learn to come within" Islam. Only...
To Catch a Spy
The Art of Counterintelligence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The United States is losing the counterintelligence war. Foreign intelligence services, particularly those of China, Russia, and Cuba, are recruiting spies in our midst and stealing our secrets and cutting-edge technologies. In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former...
Spy Chiefs: Volume 1
Intelligence Leaders in the United States and United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In literature and film the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence?
This first volume of...
Ethics & International Affairs
A Reader, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the...
Spy Chiefs: Volume 2
Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Throughout history and across cultures, the spy chief has been a leader of the state security apparatus and an essential adviser to heads of state. In democracies, the spy chief has become a public figure, and intelligence activities have been brought under the rule of law. In authoritarian regimes,...
Evolving Iran
An Introduction to Politics and Problems in the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Evolving Iran presents an overview of how the politics and policy decisions in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed since the 1979 revolution and how they are likely to evolve in the near future. Despite the fact that the revolution ushered in a theocracy, its political system has largely tended...