Georgetown University Press: 313 books
Allies That Count
Junior Partners in Coalition Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What qualities make an ally useful in coalition warfare, and when is an ally more trouble than it’s worth? Allies That Count analyzes the utility of junior partners in coalition warfare and reaches surprising conclusions.
In this volume, Olivier Schmitt presents detailed case-study analysis...
by Diana Neebe, Jennifer Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Wherever you are on the path to 1:1 teaching and learning, you need a guide that can help you make the best use of the powerful technology available in today's classrooms. In this inspiring and practical book, Diana Neebe and Jen Roberts draw on research and their extensive experience working with teachers...
Diversity and Super-Diversity
Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for...
Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French
A Short Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French provides adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as a second language with the tools to learn the other as a third language. Research in the growing fields of third-language acquisition and multilingualism documents how...
Spies, Patriots, and Traitors
American Intelligence in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Students and enthusiasts of American history are familiar with the Revolutionary War spies Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, but few studies have closely examined the wider intelligence efforts that enabled the colonies to gain their independence. Spies, Patriots, and Traitors provides readers with a...
Health Care Ethics
A Catholic Theological Analysis, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It aims to help Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture...
by Wendy E. Parmet
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Law plays a crucial role in protecting the health of populations. Whether the public health threat is bioterrorism, pandemic influenza, obesity, or lung cancer, law is an essential tool for addressing the problem. Yet for many decades, courts and lawyers have frequently overlooked law’s critical importance...
by Carol A. Klee
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 10, 2009
El español en contacto con otras lenguas is the first comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts—in Spain, the United States, and Latin America. In this significant contribution to the field of Hispanic linguistics,...
Medical Care at the End of Life
A Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
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 treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a...
Counterinsurgency Wars and the Anglo-American Alliance
The Special Relationship on the Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Andrew Mumford challenges the notion of a “special relationship” between the United States and United Kingdom in diplomatic and military affairs, the most vaunted and, he says, exaggerated of associations in the post-1945 era. Though they are allies to be sure, national self-interest and domestic...
Learning from the Secret Past
Cases in British Intelligence History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Identifying “lessons learned” is not new—the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of...
Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
The State of the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview...
Surrogate Warfare
The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Surrogate Warfare explores the emerging phenomenon of “surrogate warfare” in twenty-first century conflict. The popular notion of war is that it is fought en masse by the people of one side versus the other. But the reality today is that both state and non-state actors are increasingly looking...
New Armies from Old
Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Negotiating a peaceful end to civil wars, which often includes an attempt to bring together former rival military or insurgent factions into a new national army, has been a frequent goal of conflict resolution practitioners since the Cold War. In practice, however, very little is known about what works,...