Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French provides adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as a second language with the tools to learn the other language as a thir
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of "biosecurity," the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity enco
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of “biosecurity,” the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity enco
Stories of government management failures often make the headlines, but quietly much gets done as well. What makes the difference? Ira Goldstein offers wisdom about how to lead and succeed in the fede
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 transplan
In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and re
In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and re
Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "natural law" philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its
Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a "natural law" philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its
Are NATO's mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied milita
Are NATO's mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied milita
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
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
According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threa
According to security elites, revolutions in information, transport, and weapons technologies have shrunk the world, leaving the United States and its allies more vulnerable than ever to violent threa
Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and the American Democracy argues that as escalating costs absorb a greater percentage of family income and government budgets, it is through the impleme
Health Care as a Social Good: Religious Values and the American Democracy argues that as escalating costs absorb a greater percentage of family income and government budgets, it is through the impleme
Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public. As they address the right or wrong of such action, it is
Call (international studies, American U.) analyzes causal patterns that explain the recurrence of organized political violence after civil wars seem to have ended. He challenges four dominant trends i
Describes the debate between those who find it acceptable to use drugs, surgery and technology to enhance human performance and those who are content to accept the limits of the human body and discuss
What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies after our cadavers are disposed of? Who controls our physical fate, and what legal and moral constraints apply? Legal scholar Norma
Life on earth is wildly diverse, but the future of that diversity is now in question. Through environmentally destructive farming practices, ever-expanding energy use, and the development and homogeni
Since the 2000 first edition, says Jelen (political science, U. of Nevada-Las Vegas), there have been important changes in the relationship between religion and politics in the US. Among these are Sup
Steelman (Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University) provides insight into the forces the affect innovations in environmental and natural resource govnernance
In this volume leading teachers of Arabic, many of whom have written influential textbooks for advanced learners, explore the realities and challenges of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Topics
Nelson (public and international affairs, U. of Pittsburgh) and Dorsey (executive director of the Wallace Global Fund and former chair of the board of Amnesty International USA) suggest that nongovern
In the middle 1990s, Grogan (social service administration, U. of Chicago) and Gusmano (health policy and management, Columbia U.) began investigating how state governments were trying to improve heal
Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care. This change is evidenced in courses on religion and medicine ta
Berkman and Plutzer (both political science, Pennsylvania State U.) apply concepts from their field to the needs of modern education in the US, taking a systematic look at whether or not local school
Cherry (philosophy, Saint Edward's U. in Austin, Texas) critically questions the broad global consensus against the creation of a for-profit market in human organs for transplantation and presents an
No one can deny how September 11, 2001, has altered our understandings of "Peace" and "Justice" and "Civil Conflict." Those have become words with startling new life in o
An analysis and criticism of modern Catholic social teaching examines the content of teaching documents while revealing significant historical developments of the past century as well as the weaknesse
Charles E. Curran offers the first comprehensive analysis and criticism of the development of modern Catholic social teaching from the perspective of theology, ethics, and church history. Curran studi
A concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas t
Kavanaugh (philosophy, Saint Louis U.) bases his treatise on the claims that human personhood is the foundation of ethics, and that doing ethics requires not repressing or negating the very personhood
Once hailed as a revolutionary change in U.S. federal aid policy that would return power to state and local governments, General Revenue Sharing was politically dead a decade later. Bruce A. Wallin no
Comprehensive in its approach yet written in plain language, The Moral Bond of Community offers a biblically-based concept of Christian justice that can be applied to moral questions in everyday life.
Catering to the increasing research interest in the major languages that originated in the Iberian peninsula: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish, this volume expands upon classical iss
Revolutions and aborted revolutions and bitter civil and "local" wars in the 1980s and since have raised new questions about national security, its definition, and its implementation
Offers a record of the Sixth Building Bridges Seminar, cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Archbishop of Canterbury in Singapore in December 2007, and includes thoughts from Christian and Mus
