Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Health, Disease, and Illness
Concepts in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust...
Sovereignty
Moral and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nation’s borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability. From the Middle Ages until well into the Modern Period, however, another concept of sovereignty held sway: responsibility...
En otras palabras
Perfeccionamiento del español por medio de la traducción, segunda edición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Students of advanced Spanish share a desire to use and understand the language, even as their backgrounds and goals for the language may vary widely. En otras palabras provides advanced learners of Spanish with hands-on manipulation of grammatical, lexical, and cultural detail through the practice of...
Analyzing the Grammar of English
, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Analyzing the Grammar of English offers a descriptive analysis of the indispensable elements of English grammar. Designed to be covered in one semester, this textbook starts from scratch and takes nothing for granted beyond a reading and speaking knowledge of English. Extensively revised to function...
Love and Christian Ethics
Tradition, Theory, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the recording of the Christian gospels, and in recent decades teachers and students of Christian ethics have...
Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny
Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a record of the 2012 Building Bridges seminar for leading Christian and Muslim scholars, convened by Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore what the Bible and Qurʾān—and the Christian...
Monotheism and Its Complexities
Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion....
Tradition and Modernity
Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Tradition and Modernity focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking especially at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability
L'Arche, Medical Ethics, and Christian Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Drawing on the controversial case of “Ashley X,” a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever small—a procedure now known as the “Ashley Treatment”—Reconsidering Intellectual Disability explores...
Restored to Earth
Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Ecological restoration integrates the science and art of repairing ecosystems damaged by human activities. Despite relatively little attention from environmental ethicists, restoration projects continue to gain significance, drawing on citizen volunteers and large amounts of public funds, providing an...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust
An Endangered Connection
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again.
Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this link between the Holocaust,...
Spying in America
Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Can you keep a secret?Maybe you can, but the United States government cannot. Since the birth of the country, nations large and small, from Russia and China to Ghana and Ecuador, have stolen the most precious secrets of the United States. Written by Michael Sulick, former director of CIA’s clandestine...
Insincere Commitments
Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States, and Citizen Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Pakistan, which since 9/11 has come to be seen as one of the world’s most dangerous places and has been referred to as “the epicenter of international terrorism,” faces an acute counterterrorism (CT) challenge. The book focuses on violence being perpetrated against the Pakistani state by Islamist...