Books published by Georgetown University Press

Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centred business. By explaining why people skills matter, this work provides advice on how policy analysts can develop and use their people skills. Each chapter provides a Skill Building Checklist, discussion ideas, and suggestions for further reading.

Whether joining forces to address tobacco legislation or proposed air safety regulations, Washington lobbyists with little in common are combining their clout to get results. This book examines why coalition strategies have emerged as a dominant lobbying technique, when lobbyists use them, and how these strategies affect their activities.

Woodstock launched this project on lobbying in 1998 for reasons such as lobbying has grown exponentially over the years to exercise enormous influence on American politics; and, lobbying has simultaneously fallen under suspicion and engendered critical resentment in some quarters.

The 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 Center and the Pentagon, U.S.

This title 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 religion threatens American democracy and could lead to a global clash of civilizations and new wars of religion.

Charts the ancient Greek and Roman foundations of Western medical ethics. Surveying 1500 years of pre-Christian medical moral history, this book applies insights from ancient medical ethics to developments in contemporary medicine such as advance directives, gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, and surrogate motherhood.

Used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with mental or physical impairments, prenatal tests arguably reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. This title presents a debate about prenatal testing and selective abortion.

Trying to do good deeds does not guarantee that a nonprofit organization can succeed. The organization must do good deeds well. This book offers a blueprint for nonprofit success, adopting a strategic perspective that assumes vision, mission, strategy, and execution as the pillars upon which success is built.

Public management involves leading, coordinating, and stimulating public agencies and programs to deliver excellent performance. This title address topics such as: the nature and impact of public management; reform, reinvention, innovation, and change; and, models and frameworks for understanding and improving public management.

Reflecting Iraqi Arabic as spoken by Muslims in Baghdad, this title covers the phonology, morphology (word formation of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and numerals, achieved by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots), and syntax, teaching the reader how to make the sounds, form words, and construct sentences.

Studies the motivation, strategies, and electoral success of Christian Right school board candidates. Based on interviews, and using a national survey of candidates as well as case studies of two school districts in which conservative Christians ran and served on local boards, this title gives us a complex picture of these candidates.

Identifying four essential evaluative criteria for a democracy that genuinely works, this work asks us to examine the degree to which our system promotes political stability, what the problems are with voter turnout and how to improve it, and asks for a meaningful scrutiny of governmental policy.

Introduces students to the special moral and ethical burdens of social marketing, and challenges practitioners to address difficult issues that are easily minimized or avoided. This book focuses on such complex issues as unintended consequences, ethical marketing alliances, and professional ethical codes.

The optimism that arrived at the end of the cold war and marked the turn of the Millennium was shattered by September 11. Terrorism is but one aspect of many other wider concerns for national and international security. This title provides an assessment of the prospects for peace and security in the 21st century.

Despite its increasingly routine nature - or perhaps because of it - transplantation offers enormous ethical challenges. This title explores a variety of questions that vex the transplantation community, offering solutions in many cases. It offers an account of the ethical and policy controversies surrounding organ transplants.

Presents the core vocabulary of everyday life in Morocco - from the kitchen to the mosque, from the hardware store to the natural world of plants and animals. This title contains myriad examples of usage, including formulaic phrases and idiomatic expressions.

While stressing the Catholic tradition in health care ethics, this title incorporates a broader Christian tradition as well as humanistic approaches, and takes as common ground for mutual understanding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations.

Why does peace fail? More precisely, why do some countries that show every sign of having successfully emerged from civil war fall once again into armed conflict? What explains why peace sticks after some wars but not others? This title examines the factors behind 15 cases of civil war recurrence in Africa, Asia, the Caucasus, and Latin America.

Explores the moral and religious dimensions of the challenges involved in shaping a just and peaceful post-Cold War world. This title covers such topics as: morality and foreign policy; human rights, self determination, and sustainable development; global institutions; the use of force; and, education and action for peace.

Provides Syrian terms for the language spoken in everyday life by Muslims primarily in Damascus, but understandable throughout Syria as well as in the broader linguistic areas of present-day Lebanon, Jordan, and among the Palestinians and the Arabic-speaking population of Israel.

In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis met to share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real-world contexts in private and public domains. This work covers topics by the plenary speakers only.

Although the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves are central to Christianity, few theologians or spiritual writers have undertaken an extensive account of the meaning and forms of these loves. This title develops an original account of love as the theological foundation for Christian ethics.

A collection that is based on the notion that the future of bioethics is inseparable from its past. It features a number of the pioneers in bioethics who reflect on their early work and how they fit into the past and future of bioethics. It provides a broad overview of the history and the state of the field.

An answer key that includes: text of the audio sentences included in the vocabulary section of each lesson; text of the basic 'story' of Maha and Khaled in each lesson; and, answers to most vocabulary, grammar and review drills included in each lesson.

Analyzes how Islamic tradition and Islamic states understand humanitarian intervention. This title advocates the use of military force for humanitarian purposes in Yugoslavia. It discusses how international organizations may become hamstrung in the ability to use force due to bureaucratic inertia.

Offering an introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, it links morality to the protection of basic human goods.