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Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya with DVD: A Textbook for Beginning ArabicPart One by Kristen Brustad
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $75.27Al-Kitaab: Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic. With new video material and revised and updated text and exercises,... -
Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution by Robert M. Clark
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $120.74A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence. Although geospatial intelligence is a term of recent origin, its underpinnings have a long and interesting... -
Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought by Daniel K. Finn
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $42.96A comprehensive overview of the contribution of Catholic social thought to business ethicsCan a religion founded on loving one's neighbor give moral approval to profit-seeking business firms in a... -
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America by Cass R. Sunstein
Booksplease Price: $5.28Never in history have 1,322 words held out such extraordinary determination to be free as those found in the Declaration of Independence. In 1787, "We the people" were the three words that not only... -
A Student's Reference Grammar of Modern Formal Indonesian by R. Ross MacDonald
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $35.68Intended for the general student of the Indonesian language and the professional linguist, this short descriptive grammar is a useful guide as a well as a point of departure for more intensive study... -
A Call to Fidelity: On the Moral Theology of Charles E. Curran by James J. Walter 9780878403806
Booksplease Price: $69.62"A Call to Fidelity" seeks to thoughtfully examine and critically evaluate the contributions that Charles E. Curran has made to the field of Catholic moral theology over the past forty years. It also... -
Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice by Michael Mintrom 9780878407712
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $55.91Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. In this book, Michael Mintrom explores the... -
Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy: Political Decision Making in Modern Democracies Nikolaos Zahariadis 9780878401352
Booksplease Price: $69.25Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present - a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue. Expanding and extending... -
American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr by William Werpehowski 9780878403837
Booksplease Price: $67.63In this careful analysis and evaluation of the monumental influence of Niebuhr, Werpehowski traces four streams that flow from Niebuhr's theology, particularly as it deals with ethics. In a tightly... -
Dam Politics: Restoring America's Rivers by William R. Lowry 9780878403905
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36The politics of building dams and levees and other structures are just part of the policies determining how American rivers are managed or mismanaged. America's well-being depends upon the health of... -
Greater Good: The Case for Proportionalism by Garth L. Hallett 9780878405985
Booksplease Price: $68.99In this title, Garth L. Hallett provides the first thorough, systematic exposition and defense of proportionalism in Christian ethics. Prominent in both philosophical and theological ethics,... -
Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics by John J. Audley 9780878406517
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36Environmental groups for the first time formalized their role in shaping U.S. and international trade policy during their involvement in NAFTA negotiations. John J. Audley identifies the political... -
After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events by Thomas A. Birkland 9780878406531
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $32.35Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This... -
Natural Law and Moral Inquiry: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Politics in the Thought of Germain Grisez by Robert P. George 9780878406746
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $34.00Germain Grisez has been a leading voice in moral philosophy and theology since the Second Vatican Council. In this book, such major thinkers as John Finnis, Ralph McInerny, and William E. May... -
Lobbying Together: Interest Group Coalitions in Legislative Politics by Kevin W. Hula 9780878407217
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36Today organized interests fight most of their major battles within coalitions. Whether joining forces to address tobacco legislation or proposed air safety regulations, Washington lobbyists with... -
Advancing Public Management: New Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice by Jeffrey L. Brudney 9780878408597
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36Public management involves leading, coordinating, and stimulating public agencies and programs to deliver excellent performance. Research and practice of public management have developed rapidly in... -
The Ground Beneath the Cross: The Theology of Ignacio Ellacuria by Kevin F. Burke 9781589010215
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the thought of Ignacio Ellacuria, the Jesuit philosopher - theologian martyred for his work on behalf of Latin America's oppressed people. While... -
Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform Virginia A. Sharpe 9781589010239
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or... -
Taking Advance Directives Seriously: Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life by Robert S. Olick 9781589010291
Booksplease Price: $69.43In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become a cornerstone of... -
The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration by Patricia W. Ingraham 9781589010345
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36Public administration has evolved into an extraordinarily complex form of governance employing traditional bureaucracy, quasi-government public organizations, and collaborative networks of... -
Analyzing the Grammar of English: Third Edition by Richard V. Teschner 9781589011663
Booksplease Price: $47.02"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... -
Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God by Francis X. Clooney 9781589012110
Booksplease Price: $44.39Beyond Compare is a remarkable work that offers a commentary on spiritual learning for the twenty-first century rooted in two classic texts from the Hindu and Christian traditions: the Essence of the... -
The Responsible Contract Manager: Protecting the Public Interest in an Outsourced World by Steven Cohen 9781589012141
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $34.00Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the performance of private... -
Theology and the Boundary Discourse of Human Rights by Ethna Regan 9781589016422
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36What are human rights? Can theology acknowledge human rights discourse? Is theological engagement with human rights justified? What place should this discourse occupy within ethics? Ethna Regan seeks... -
Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation by Donald P. Haider Markel 9781589016996
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $32.74"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... -
Methods in Medical Ethics by Jeremy Sugarman 9781589017016
RRP: $44.51Booksplease Price: $41.67Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology,... -
Implicit and Explicit Language Learning: Conditions, Processes, and Knowledge in SLA and Bilingualism by Cristina Sanz 9781589017290
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36Over the last several decades, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical,... -
Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities by Rebecca M. Hendrick 9781589017764
RRP: $39.35Booksplease Price: $36.80"Managing the Fiscal Metropolis: The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities" is an important book. This first comprehensive analysis of the financial condition,... -
Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies by Ann O'M. Bowman 9781589010079
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $55.91Boon or blight? Ann Bowman and Michael Pagano define "vacant land" broadly, to include everything from brownfields (environmentally contaminated land) through trashed lots and abandoned buildings to... -
The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age by David Cloutier 9781626162709
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $102.56Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet it also faces criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society. Engaging with ideas... -
Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa by Imad Mansour 9781626167674
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $123.78Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa is the first book to examine issue-driven antagonisms within groups of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and their impact on... -
Finding Soldiers of Peace: Three Dilemmas for UN Peacekeeping Missions by Gary Uzonyi 9781626167759
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $53.56The United Nations, which lacks its own peacekeeping force, faces three dilemmas when organizing a peacekeeping mission: convincing member states to contribute troops, persuading states to deploy... -
Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care by Woodstock Theological Center 9780878405879
Booksplease Price: $68.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878405879Author Woodstock Theological CenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Georgetown... -
The Environment Goes To Market: The Implementations of Economic Incentives for Pollution Control by Carol Neves 9780964687400
Booksplease Price: $69.34Focusing on the practical aspects of using economic incentives to achieve environmental goals, this book analyzes the design and implementation of market based programs and identifies critical issues... -
Key Words in Christianity by Ron Geaves 9781589011267
Booksplease Price: $24.60Daily political events and the steady inevitability of globalism require that informed students and citizens learn something about religious traditions foreign to their own. Designed for both... -
Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics by David F. Kelly 9781589010307
Booksplease Price: $74.48As David Kelly writes, "Catholic moral theology has not been completely constant over the centuries; it has learned and developed". "In Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics" he demonstrates how... -
One America?: Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity by Stanley A. Renshon 9780878408702
Booksplease Price: $70.32With enormous numbers of new immigrants, America is becoming dramatically more diverse racially, culturally, and ethnically. As a result, the United States faces questions that have profound... -
More than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities by James H. Svara 9781589017092
Booksplease Price: $46.49Different forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States. The two most common structures are the mayor-council form and the council-manager form. In many large U.S. cities,... -
Justice and Nature: Kantian Philosophy, Environmental Policy, and the Law by John Martin Gillroy 9780878407965
Booksplease Price: $55.01Most decision making in environmental policy today is based on the economic cost-benefit argument. Criticizing the shortcomings of the market paradigm, John Martin Gillroy proposes an alternative way... -
School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics by Melissa M. Deckman 9781589010017
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $56.36If there is a "culture war" taking place in the United States, one of the most interesting, if under-the-radar, battlegrounds is in local school board elections. Rarely does the pitch of this battle...