This book illuminates issues in medical ethics revolving around the complex bond between healer and patient, focusing on friendship and other important values in the healing relationship. Embracing me
Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a rich collection of essays, scriptural texts, and personal reflections featuring leading scholars analyzing the meaning and function of prayer within thei
India's nuclear profile, doctrine, and practices have evolved rapidly since the country’s nuclear breakout in 1998. However, the outside world's understanding of India's doctrinal debates, forward-loo
India's nuclear profile, doctrine, and practices have evolved rapidly since the country’s nuclear breakout in 1998. However, the outside world's understanding of India's doctrinal debates, forward-loo
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 altogeth
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 altogeth
Despite the high demand to learn Arabic, the field of Arabic second language acquisition remains underinvestigated. Second language acquisition findings are crucial for informing and advancing the fie
Despite the high demand to learn Arabic, the field of Arabic second language acquisition remains underinvestigated. Second language acquisition findings are crucial for informing and advancing the fie
Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodi
In this original study, Jonathan Jacobs provides a new account of ethical realism that combines both abstract meta-ethical issues defining the debate on realism and concrete topics in moral psychology
In this collection of recent essays (1988-92), all but one previously unavailable in English, noted theologian Josef Fuchs, SJ, examines key issues in normative morality. Identifying two strains, one
Gaylin (psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) and Jennings (The Hastings Center and Yale U. School of Public Health) combine psychological and political theory in their argument tha
Cyberattacks are one of the greatest fears for governments and the private sector. The attacks come without warning and can be extremely costly and embarrassing. Robert Mandel offers a unique and comp
Cyberattacks are one of the greatest fears for governments and the private sector. The attacks come without warning and can be extremely costly and embarrassing. Robert Mandel offers a unique and comp
Landman (government and human rights, U. of Essex) focuses attention on what he sees as a significant and persistent gap between principle and practice in human rights protection. Using theories and m
An invaluable text in language and linguistics because it has a unique scope: a one-volume description of the Spanish language and its differences from English, and ranges from pronunciation and gramm
Editors George (national security policymaking, Georgetown U. and National War College), Rishikof (law and national security studies, National War College), and 15 contributors offer a broad overview
A report from the Woodstock Theological Center that distills conversations among the business, government, and academic communities to offer an evaluation and recommendations for creating and maintain
The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss -- in English and in Spanish -- the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico
However exciting new technologies and educational tools may seem, they can become classroom distractions unless their design, use, and evaluation are guided by educational and language developmental p
Tested in the classroom and featuring the latest pedagogical thinking, Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook provides superior language instruction in a cultural context and features authentic audio and video
A political scholar and commentator evaluates the American electoral system and finds it lacking, applying four key standards for evaluating any democracy, and offers practical suggestions for improvi
Honest, objective, and informed political debates are all too rare in today’s polarized and partisan climate. Public policy is increasingly driven by ideology while political spin, distortions, and ev
Ucko specializes in counterinsurgency, stability operations and conflict analysis at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin and the RAND Corporation, and he has written this guide on military
Cohen (public administration and environmental science and policy, Columbia U.) and Eimecke (deputy commissioner, Fire Department of New York City) have written this guide to best practices of contrac
Carrick (philosophy, Gettysburg College) explores the origins and development of medical ethics as practiced by physicians in ancient Greece and Rome, and the relevance of their ideas to contemporary
Koontz (environmental and natural resources policy, Ohio State U.) explores how American federal and state forest management policies differ and how effective the policies are on both levels. He also
Al- ' Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad.Al- ' Arabiyya includes scholarly articles and reviews that a
In a reference for teachers, scholars, and others, Lipski (Spanish and linguistics, Pennsylvania State U.) describes the Spanish spoken in the US by people from various Latin American and Caribbean co
For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatmen
