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The Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis: Reform and Renewal in the Catholic Community by Paul R. Dokecki 9781589010062
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99The story of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests has sent shock waves around the nation and will not fade from consciousness or the news. We ask, "How could this happen?" And then we ask,... -
Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective by Mark Crispin Miller 9781589010253
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.37The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing... -
Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study by Todd Landman 9781589010635
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99Ours has been called a global "age of rights," an era in which respect for human rights is considered the highest aspiration of the international democratic community. Since the United Nation's 1948... -
Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America's School Districts by Michael B. Berkman 9781589010765
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99The essence of democracy is popular sovereignty. The people rule. In the United States, citizens exercise this right through elected officials who they believe will best represent their own values... -
From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic by J. Matthew Wilson 9781589011724
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €29.85Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? What is the relationship between religious... -
Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks: Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence by Jennifer E. Sims 9781589012677
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.73Decision 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... -
Medical Ethics: Sources of Catholic Teachings, Fourth Edition by Kevin D. O'Rourke 9781589017429
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €39.98In a single convenient resource, this revised and updated edition of a classic text organizes and presents clearly the documents of the Catholic Church pertaining to medical ethics. Introductory... -
Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa by David Hollenbach 9781589012028
RRP: €35.11Booksplease Price: €32.92Of the over 33 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world today, a disproportionate percentage are found in Africa. Most have been driven from their homes by armed strife,... -
Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management by Robert Agranoff 9781626164796
RRP: €105.91Booksplease Price: €94.61Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens' groups. This process of governance across levels of... -
Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management by Robert Agranoff 9781626164802
RRP: €35.11Booksplease Price: €32.92Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens' groups. This process of governance across levels of... -
Transplantation Ethics by Robert M. Veatch 9781626161689
RRP: €122.57Booksplease Price: €109.63Although the history of organ transplant has its roots in ancient Christian mythology, it is only in the past fifty years that body parts from a dead person have successfully been procured and... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects by James E. Alatis 9780878401314
Booksplease Price: €64.09This volume examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation, emphasizing their implications for teacher education and language education. A majority of the essays consider issues... -
Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: A Comparative Analysis by Aaron L. Mackler 9780878401468
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €29.85Leavened with compassion, common sense, and a readable style, this introduction to complicated bioethical issues from both Jewish and Catholic perspectives is as informative as it is undaunting... -
Coerced Contraception?: Moral and Policy Challenges of Long Acting Birth Control by Ellen H. Moskowitz 9780878403646
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €52.35Long-acting and reversible contraceptives, such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, have been praised as highly effective, moderately priced, and generally safe. Yet, as this book argues, the very... -
Place Me With Your Son: Ignatian Spirituality in Everyday Life, Third Edition by James W. Skehan 9780878405251
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.25Arranged 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... -
The Quest for Moral Foundations: An Introduction to Ethics by Montague Brown 9780878406135
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99A concise, yet engaging introduction to the field of ethics, this volume offers a systematic study of the foundations of moral responsibility. Montague Brown guides the reader on an examination of a... -
Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era by Kenneth P. Thomas 9780878408085
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €52.35As corporations search for new production sites, governments compete furiously using location subsidies and tax incentives to lure them. Yet underwriting big business can have its costs: reduction in... -
Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States by Susan B. Hansen 9781589010888
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99In the American federal system, states actively compete for jobs, business investment, and factory locations. Labor costs have played an important role in such interstate competition since the days... -
A Handbook of Bioethics Terms by James B. Tubbs 9781589012592
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.88The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of... -
A Revolution in Military Adaptation: The US Army in the Iraq War Chad C. Serena 9781589017832
Booksplease Price: €63.91During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this... -
New Terror, New Wars by Paul Gilbert 9780878403455
Booksplease Price: €63.32A timely philosophical treatment of the current wave of international terrorism and armed conflicts around the world, New Terror, New Wars explores the ethical significance of September 11, and its... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject by Brian Davies 9780878406951
Booksplease Price: €65.81Authoritative and accessible, this book is a concise and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of religion. It shows how philosophers have used the tools of philosophy to examine the validity... -
The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: Strong Market, Weakening State by Xiaoming Huang 9780878408184
Booksplease Price: €64.50Since the 1960s, the Asian Tigers have combined economic success and autocratic politics. Now in the wake of a daunting financial crisis, these nations are moving toward political change as well as... -
Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy by Paul Gilbert 9780878408177
Booksplease Price: €63.91Wars of national secession and ethnic cleansing, based on the claims of supposedly distinct racial, ethnic, cultural, and national identities, have disfigured recent years. Probing the roots of these... -
Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy by Walter Williams 9780878401475
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99This is a reasoned but passionate look at how Reaganism - the political philosophy of Ronald Reagan - has severely damaged representative democracy as created by the nation's founders. According to... -
Analyzing Variation in Languages by Ralph W. Fasold 9780878402076
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99This collection of different perspectives on language variation serves as a companion volume to "New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English".Book InformationISBN 9780878402076Author Ralph W... -
Arabic Language Handbook by Mary Catherine Bateson 9780878403868
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.37The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that... -
The Christian Virtues in Medical Practice by Edmund D. Pellegrino 9780878405664
RRP: €35.11Booksplease Price: €32.92Christian health care professionals in our secular and pluralistic society often face uncertainty about the place religious faith holds in today's medical practice. Through an examination of a... -
Bridging the Sacred and the Secular: Selected Writings of John Courtney Murray by John Courtney Murray 9780878405718
RRP: €31.54Booksplease Price: €29.85John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967), is most renowned for his ethical writings, which distinguish between the secular and the sacred, and for his defense of civil religious freedom based on... -
La Espana que sobrevive by Fernando Diaz-Plaja 9780878406319
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99Students of Spanish language and culture can now benefit from a text that provides them with an understanding of contemporary Spanish history and society while refining their knowledge of the... -
Groups, Interests, and U.S. Public Policy by William P. Browne 9780878406821
Booksplease Price: €63.96Synthesizing theory, personal research, and prior studies on interest groups and other lobbies, William P. Browne offers a new, insightful overview of organized political interests and explains how... -
The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition David R. Blumenthal 9780878407156
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99People who helped exterminate Jews during the shoah (Hebrew for "holocaust") often claimed that they only did what was expected of them. Intrigued by hearing the same response from individuals who... -
Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas by Cristina L. H. Traina 9780878407279
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99Heated debates over such issues as abortion, contraception, ordination, and Church hierarchy suggest that feminist and natural law ethics are diametrically opposed. Cristina L.H. Traina now... -
Public Budgeting in the United States: The Cultural and Ideological Setting by Steven G. Koven 9780878407521
Booksplease Price: €63.43Budgeting has long been considered a rational process using neutral tools of financial management, but this outlook fails to consider the outside influences on leaders' behavior. Steven G. Koven... -
Budgeting Entitlements: The Politics of Food Stamps by Ronald F. King 9780878407972
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €64.72As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to... -
Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God by Franklin I. Gamwell 9780878408764
Booksplease Price: €65.53Western moral and political theory in the last two centuries has widely held that morality and politics are independent of a divine reality. Claiming that this consensus is flawed, prominent... -
You Call This an Election?: America's Peculiar Democracy by Steven E. Schier 9780878408955
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99Those who do not have their heads buried too deeply in partisan sands will know that there is something awry with the American form of electoral democracy. Florida's continuing ability to misplace... -
A Dictionary of Turkish Verbs: In Context and By Theme by Ralph Jaeckel 9781589010574
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €57.57One of the keys to learning the Turkish language is to understand the importance and function of the verb. The stem of the verb, together with various suffixes of mode, tense, person, along with a... -
Attending Children: A Doctor's Education by Margaret E. Mohrmann 9781589011076
RRP: €25.59Booksplease Price: €24.68In a fast-paced, complicated, and evermore dangerous world it is easy to become self-absorbed and consumed with our own problems. There is one place, however, where we put our self-centered concerns... -
Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State by David G. Frederickson 9781589011199
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €51.99"Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State" is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine...