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Fixing American Cybersecurity: Creating a Strategic Public-Private Partnership by Larry Clinton
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.81Advocates a cybersecurity “social contract” between government and business in seven key economic sectors Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the United States are extensive, affecting everything from... -
Mastering Italian through Global Debate by Marie Bertola
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.40Critical engagement with complex global issues that provides an effective approach to promoting linguistic proficiency and social responsibility Mastering Italian through Global Debate is a... -
Preventing Prenatal Harm: Should the State Intervene? by Deborah Mathieu
Booksplease Price: £24.83Arguing that the state must meet strict conditions to justify interfering in at-risk pregnancies, Deborah Mathieu examines the legal and ethical concerns that arise when governments mandate the... -
Ethics in Light of Childhood by John Wall
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £27.80Childhood faces humanity with its own deepest and most perplexing questions. An ethics that truly includes the world's childhoods would transcend pre-modern traditional communities and modern... -
Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests by Gregory Allen Smith 9781589011939
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75For well over a century the Catholic Church has articulated clear positions on many issues of public concern, particularly economics, capital punishment, foreign affairs, sexual morality, and... -
Capitalism and Christianity: The Possibility of Christian Personalism by Richard C. Bayer 9780878407316
Booksplease Price: £53.79With socialism in eclipse and market economies gaining acceptance worldwide, a new kind of ethics is needed to address social injustice and inequity. Richard C. Bayer debunks the present direction of... -
Images of America in Revolutionary France by Michele R. Morris 9780878404971
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30This bilingual collection of essays, the fruits of a conference held in 1989 to commemorate the join Bicentennials of Georgetown University and the French Revolution, illuminates the various ways in... -
The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics by David Hollenbach 9780878401390
RRP: £29.50Booksplease Price: £27.80"The Global Face of Public Faith" addresses the hotly debated question of the role religion should play in politics in both the American and international contexts. It engages the fears that public... -
Grave New World: Security Challenges in the 21st Century by Michael E. Brown 9780878401420
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.05The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. In the aftermath of that event it is not unwarranted pessimism that lines the... -
De la oracion simple a la oracion compuesta: Curso superior de gramatica espanola by Hector Campos 9780878402403
Booksplease Price: £33.50This comprehensive reference grammar of the different types of Spanish coordination and subordination includes numerous examples and exercises.ReviewsCombines a detailed study of the problem of verb... -
Attacking Terrorism: Elements of a Grand Strategy by Audrey Kurth Cronin 9780878403479
RRP: £30.50Booksplease Price: £28.97The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World Trade... -
Theology for a Liberating Church: The New Praxis of Freedom by Alfred T. Hennelly 9780878404742
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75Freedom is a fundamental Christian theological category, as much a challenge to construct a new way of seeing oneself and others as it is an announcement of what Christ has already done for us in his... -
The Political Economy of Special-Purpose Government by Kathryn A. Foster 9780878407538
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75In recent decades, local governments across America have increasingly turned specialized functions over to autonomous agencies ranging in scope from subdivision-sized water districts to multi-state... -
The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of Enterprise Zones by Karen Mossberger 9780878408016
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75This book explores how policy ideas are spread - or diffused - in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study... -
The State of Democracy in America by Michael Dukakis 9780878408610
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80In this wide-ranging assessment of democracy in America today, fifteen respected scholars of American politics chart the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic mechanisms and outline the... -
Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective by David F. Kelly 9781589011120
Booksplease Price: £30.98For 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... -
Let Them Go Free: A Guide to Withdrawing Life Support by Thomas A. Shannon 9781589011403
Booksplease Price: £8.14"Let Them Go Free" offers families a way to cope with a problem particular to our time: what to do when medical treatment sustains life but does not cure or resuscitate a critically ill loved one... -
Climate Change and National Security: A Country-Level Analysis Daniel Moran 9781589017412
Booksplease Price: £56.14In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the... -
Implementing Innovation: Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance by Toddi A. Steelman 9781589016279
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21Over the past three decades, governments at the local, state, and federal levels have undertaken a wide range of bold innovations, often in partnership with nongovernmental organizations and... -
Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military: An International Comparison by Robert Egnell 9781626166257
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the women, peace, and security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and... -
Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life by Michael Lamb 9781626167063
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.64What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the world's... -
A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence by Eli S. McCarthy 9781626167551
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.64The just peace movement offers a critical shift in focus and imagination. Recognizing that all life is sacred and seeking peace through violence is unsustainable, the just peace approach turns our... -
Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts by Brent L. Sterling 9781647120597
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Other People's Wars explores key US efforts involving direct observation missions and post-conflict investigations throughout its history. Sterling shows how initiatives to learn from other nations'... -
Al-'Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Volume 54 by Mohammad T. Alhawary 9781647121792
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75Al-'Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics,... -
United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response by Thomas J. Massaro 9781589011557
Booksplease Price: £88.66The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 drastically changed the delivery of social services in the United States for the first time in sixty years. More than a decade later, according to Catholic social... -
Modern Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey 9781589011359
Booksplease Price: £28.81In this succinct introduction to modern Arabic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Paul Starkey traces its development from the medieval Arabic literary tradition - beginning in the... -
African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity by Lawrence J. Prograis 9781589011632
Booksplease Price: £88.16Do people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently? And, if they do, should they? Are doctors and researchers taking environmental perspectives into... -
The Ethics of Discourse: The Social Philosophy of John Courtney Murray by J. Leon Hooper 9780878404162
Booksplease Price: £54.30The republication of "We Hold These Truths" is but one indication of the continuing importance of the thought of John Courtney Murray for the Catholic Church in the United States. More than any other... -
Champions of the Poor: The Economic Consequences of Judeo-Christian Values by Barend A. DeVries 9780878406654
Booksplease Price: £54.59Barend A. de Vries, a distinguished international economist, examines the economic roots of poverty, the actions that can be taken to eradicate it, and the ethical case for integrating the poor into... -
How Information Matters: Networks and Public Policy Innovation by Kathleen Hale 9781589017009
Booksplease Price: £54.10"How Information Matters" examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale... -
Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. 9780878403851
Booksplease Price: £54.26Policymakers and public managers around the world have become preoccupied with the question of how their goals can be achieved in a way that rebuilds public confidence in government. Yet because... -
Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics by Mark G. Kuczewski 9780878407545
Booksplease Price: £54.06Both communitarianism and casuistry have sought to restore ethics as a practical science - the former by incorporating various traditions into a shared definition of the common good, the latter by... -
Defending Probabilism: The Moral Theology of Juan Caramuel by Julia Fleming 9781589011137
Booksplease Price: £54.52Through the centuries, at the heart of Catholic moral theology is a fundamental question: How do we behave responsibly in the face of moral uncertainty? Attempts to resolve problems of everyday life... -
Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and Drift by Martin A. Levin 9781589010314
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21"Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity" integrates the study of politics and public policy across a broad spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and... -
Power, Knowledge, and Politics: Policy Analysis in the States by John A. Hird 9781589010499
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75If knowledge is power, then John Hird has opened the doors for anyone interested in public policymaking and policy analysis on the state level. A beginning question might be: does politics put... -
The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror by Stanley A. Renshon 9781589010673
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75The United States is the only nation in the world that allows its citizens to hold one or more foreign citizenships, vote in another nation's elections, run for or be appointed to office in another... -
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Fall/Winter 2005, volume 25, no. 2 by Christine E. Gudorf 9781589010772
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68"The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics" continues to be an essential resource for students, faculty, and scholars in search of the latest developments, thinking, and issues in the world of... -
Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation, Second Edition, Revised and Updated by Denise Scheberle 9781589011007
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75Giving particular attention to intergovernmental working relationships, this revised edition of "Federalism and Environmental Policy" has been significantly updated to reflect the changes that have... -
Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations by Joel E. Oestreich 9781589011595
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.75The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has instructed all UN specialized agencies and other affiliated organizations to consider how their work might advance the cause of human rights around the world... -
Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War by Dr. David L. Clough 9781589011656
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.51"This book began in an argument between friends surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the debate about whether the United States and the United Kingdom should invade Iraq in 2003...