Books published by Georgetown University Press

Suitable for courses in advanced Chinese and Chinese culture, this title presents an approach to cultural integration and immersion. It features a distinctive topic of Chinese culture that serves as a portal to Chinese perceptions and perspectives.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. This title introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization.

Advance 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 decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them.

Bringing in a unique historical and critical analysis to the study of Catholic moral theology, the authors focuses on differentiating Catholic moral theology from other forms of Christian ethics, include sin and the manuals of moral theology. He also shed light on how strands have developed and changed our understanding of moral theology.

Integrating environmental sciences and theological ethics into problem-based engagements with philosophy, economics, and other disciplines, this book illustrates the wide understanding and moral creativity needed to live well in the new conditions of human power.

What is driving political extremism in Pakistan? How should the US and other Western nations engage with Islamist political parties in nations where they hold both political and moral authority? This book analyzes the origins, ideologies, bases of support, and electoral successes of the largest influential Islamic confessional parties in Pakistan.

Drawing connections between Augustine and Aristotle, this book emphasizes forming altruistic habits that can lead us to better moral choices throughout the course of our lives.

Containing more than 800 moral terms, this book offers definitions, historical context, and illustrations for their use in the Catholic tradition, including Church teaching and documents.

Suitable for learners of Arabic at the advanced low proficiency level, this supplementary text adds variety and fun to a regular course on Arabic and is complete with exercises in order to guide learners, improve their Arabic reading skills, and increase their knowledge of Arabic culture.

Examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though warnings in many cases had been available beforehand. This book offers a new understanding of cases such as Pearl Harbor, and provides comprehensive analysis of the intelligence picture just before the 9/11 attacks, challenging some of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report.

Providing a comprehensive examination of the religious and ethical dimensions and significance of contemporary restoration practice, this book brings together insights and examples from restoration ecology, environmental ethics, religious studies, and conservation and Christian thought.

Bringing together many of the most important contemporary writers on just war to consider questions of authority surrounding the just war tradition, this collection offers a compelling reassessment of the authority issue's centrality in how we can, do, and ought to think about war in contemporary global politics.

Modern Uyghur is spoken by about 11 million people in Xinjiang, China and 2 million people in Central Asia and elsewhere. This book offers beginning students a thematically organized and integrative approach to the Uyghur language that emphasizes communicative activities, development of linguistic skills, and elements of Uyghur culture.

Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book illuminates the processes and consequences of these reforms at the state, national, and international levels.

A comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. It provides a nuanced description of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for greater cross-dialect comprehension.

Offers a descriptive analysis of the elements of English grammar. This title includes exercises that test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, and glossary of over 200 technical terms.

Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and economic and agricultural demand for water make it the most water-scarce continent on a per capita basis. This book a pioneering study of Asia's murky water politics and the relationships between fresh water, peace, and security.

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. This title explores evolutionary implications affecting other subjects of Christian belief, including the Church, the Eucharist, priesthood, and moral behavior.

Given the realities of the Taliban's persistence and the desire of US policymakers - and the public - to find a way out, what can and should be the goals of the US and its allies in Afghanistan? This title provides a comprehensive assessment of the alternatives for restoring peace and stability to Afghanistan.

A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to focus on the state of the field and its future. This book examines the ideas of previous Minnowbrook conferences, which are reflective of the 1960s and 1980s.

Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. This title draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country - contractual and covenantal.

Provides learners and instructors with a wide selection of materials and task-oriented activities to facilitate the development of language learning. This book offers a thematically organized and integrative approach to the Uzbek language and its culture, including a functional approach to grammar, and more.

Tajiki, a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia, is the official language of Tajikistan; most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. This book is designed to cover the first semester of beginning-level language instruction; and also includes an extensive glossary, maps of the world labeled in Tajiki.

Compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese.

Integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of translation.

Enables students to communicate effectively using Moroccan Arabic. This title helps students to: greet people; introduce themselves; ask and reply to simple questions; use days and numbers in context; order food; shop; make appointments and reservations; give directions; talk about future plans; and, use common idiomatic expressions.