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Making Sense of Advance Directives: revised edition by Nancy M. P. King
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.01Advance directives - such as living wills and health care proxies - are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own... -
The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government by Mark J. Rozell
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75The Clinton scandal consumed the better part of a year of American public life, bitterly dividing the nation and culminating in a constitutional crisis. In this book, thoughtful, nonpartisan essays... -
America's Path Forward: Conversations with Social Innovators on the Power of Communities Everywhere by Konstanze Frischen
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $48.09Critiques and solutions offered by social changemakers from all walks of life The United States is living through a period of polarization and upheaval. We hunger for answers, yet too often turn to... -
Indagaciones: Introduccion a los estudios culturales hispanos by Mary Ann Dellinger
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $150.57Indagaciones is a postintermediate Spanish textbook that introduces students to a wide variety of visual, audio, and written texts and teaches critical textual analysis in Spanish through a cultural... -
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest by Robert Chesney
RRP: $186.90Booksplease Price: $166.95A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber... -
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition by Evan S. Medeiros
RRP: $61.95Booksplease Price: $58.09Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a... -
Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition by Christian Nikolaus Braun
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $69.93A moral compass for the use of limited force that draws on the just war thought of Thomas Aquinas One of the most contentious developments in contemporary international relations has been the... -
Governance and Performance: New Perspectives by Carolyn J. Heinrich 9780878407996
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs - and how better... -
America's Entangling Alliances: 1778 to the Present by Jason W. Davidson 9781647120283
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $157.84A challenge to long-held assumptions about the costs and benefits of America’s allies. Since the Revolutionary War, the United States has entered into dozens of alliances with international powers... -
Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic by Christine Firer Hinze 9781647120252
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $179.68Rethinking the means through which we can achieve economic well-being for all. In this timely book, Christine Firer Hinze looks back at the influential teachings of priest-economist Monsignor John A... -
The Structures of Virtue and Vice by Daniel J. Daly 9781647120382
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $200.87Winner of the 2022 Catholic Media Association Award in Theology A new ethics for understanding the social forces that shape moral character. It is easy to be vicious and difficult to be virtuous in... -
Just Intervention by Anthony F. Lang 9780878403417
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a... -
Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality by Maxwell J. Mehlman 9780878406784
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.01Completion of the Human Genome Project will make possible a staggering array of new medical technologies, including new diagnostic and screening tests for inherited disorders, gene therapies, and the... -
Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics by Juliet F. Gainsborough 9780878408313
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.01Since the 1980s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States, Juliet F. Gainsborough argues in "Fenced Off". As suburbs have become less economically and socially... -
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. 9780878408825
Booksplease Price: $113.48Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. This volume begins its exploration of discerning... -
Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae James F. Keenan, S. J. 9780878405305
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.01This appraisal of two of the most fundamental terms in the moral language of Thomas Aquinas draws on the contemporary moral distinction between the goodness of a person and the rightness of a... -
Shaping the Moral Life: An Approach to Moral Theology by Klaus Demmer 9780878407910
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75Although he is one of the most influential Catholic theologians in Europe, very few of Klaus Demmer's writings are available in English. This translation of his well-known work on moral theology... -
Unsung Heroes: Federal Execucrats Making a Difference by Norma M. Riccucci 9780878405954
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75This book explores an important side of public employment that most Americans never get the opportunity to see - high-level career executives who make positive contributions to our quality of life... -
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2001: Linguistics, Language, and the Real WorldDiscourse and Beyond by Deborah Tannen 9780878409044
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $77.20GURT is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world's star gatherings for scholars in the fields of language and linguistics. In 2001, the best from around the world in the... -
The Sacred and the Sovereign: Religion and International Politics by John D. Carlson 9780878409082
Booksplease Price: $113.25Until September 11th, 2001, few in the West fully appreciated the significance of religion in international politics. The terrible events of that day refocused our attention on how thoroughly... -
A Basic Course in Iraqi Arabic with MP3 Audio Files by Wallace M. Erwin 9781589010116
RRP: $78.75Booksplease Price: $72.66A comprehensive introduction to Iraqi Arabic for beginners (with Iraqi-English and English-Iraqi glossaries), this is the language spoken by Muslim Baghdad residents, transcribed and not in Arabic... -
The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform by Donald P. Moynihan 9781589011946
RRP: $61.95Booksplease Price: $58.09Efficiency, Innovation, Results, and Accountability - These, advocates claim, are the fruits of performance management. In recent decades government organizations have eagerly embraced the... -
What's Going On?: Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion by Katherine Tate 9781589017023
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75In political opinion surveys from the 1950s through the 1970s, African Americans were consistently among the most liberal groups in the United States and were much further to the left than White... -
Al-'Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Volume 44 and 45 by Reem Bassiouney 9781589019485
Booksplease Price: $111.99Al-cArabiyya is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad. Al-cArabiyya includes scholarly articles and reviews that... -
Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer by William R. Johnson 9781589012554
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $52.67A Classic in Counter intelligence - Now Back in Print . Originally published in 1987, "Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad" is a unique primer that teaches the principles, strategy, and tradecraft... -
Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies by David L. Weimer 9781589012578
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.75With budgets squeezed at every level of government, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds outstanding potential for assessing the efficiency of many programs. In this first book to address the... -
Organizational Learning at NASA: The Challenger and Columbia Accidents Julianne G. Mahler 9781589012660
RRP: $55.65Booksplease Price: $52.67Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive... -
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Spring/Summer 2009, volume 29, no. 1 by Mary Jo Iozzio 9781589012707
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $85.60The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed... -
Al-'Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, Volume 48 by Karin C. Ryding 9781626162488
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $91.01Al- ' 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... -
Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction by Nathan P. Jones 9781626162945
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $149.94Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities... -
The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era by T.V. Paul 9781626165991
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $179.68As the aspirations of the two rising Asian powers collide, the China-India rivalry is likely to shape twenty-first-century international politics in the region and far beyond. This volume by T.V... -
Online World Language Instruction Training and Assessment: An Ecological Approach by Carmen King Ramirez 9781647121044
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $157.84A new approach to training and evaluating world languages online instructors The rapid growth in online world language programs in the United States coupled with the widespread implementation of... -
Canadian Military Intelligence: Operations and Evolution from the October Crisis to the War in Afghanistan by David A. Charters 9781647122935
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $179.68The most comprehensive history of Canadian military intelligence and its influence on key military operations Canadian intelligence has become increasingly central to the operations of the Canadian... -
Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit by William C. Mattison 9781647123277
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $226.55A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer... -
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest by Robert Chesney 9781647123260
RRP: $61.95Booksplease Price: $56.18A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber... -
Searching for America's Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope by Peter Edelman 9780878409099
Booksplease Price: $112.73The New York Times Book Review said that Peter Edelman adheres "to a high-minded worldview" - and he does not hesitate to emphasize that in the Preface to this new paperback edition of Searching for... -
Language, Mind and Brain: Some Psychological and Neurological Constraints on Theories of Grammar by Ewa Dabrowska 9781589010475
Booksplease Price: $113.19Language, Mind and Brain is a delightfully readable, yet erudite exploration of how the human mind processes and orders sounds and words into meaning. It explores how properties of the human... -
The Ethics of Our Climate: Hermeneutics and Ethical Theory by William R. O'Neill 9780878405657
Booksplease Price: $113.34In this book, William O'Neill, SJ, offers an interpretation of the nature and scope of practical reasoning in light of postmodern philosophical criticism. He charts a via media between the abstract... -
Playing By the Rules: American Trade Power and Diplomacy in the Pacific by Michael P. Ryan 9780878405794
Booksplease Price: $113.99In this title, Ryan evaluates the nature and effectiveness of U.S. trade diplomacy with Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China in the 1970s and 1980s by examining the diplomatic strategies used by the U.S... -
Brain Policy: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics by Robert H. Blank 9780878407132
Booksplease Price: $112.62This title covers neural grafting, virtual reality, gene therapy, psychotropic drugs. As startling new treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, new concerns are arising along with them. In the...