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Analyzes and assesses the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. This book is organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities.

Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest. This book provides teachers with both the theoretical underpinnings for using debate in the foreign language classroom as well as advice for developing reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills through debate.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was an intervention of historic proportions in the US economy during the Great Recession. What lessons for the future can we learn from this massive federal program? In this book, scholars from public administration and public policy analyze the fraught politics and complex implementation of ARRA.

Analyzes and assesses the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. This book is organized into three areas: influential sources and exponents of Western Christian thought about the ethical significance of love, theoretical questions attending that consideration, and the implications of Christian love for important social realities.

Combining innovative language learning techniques with authentic materials, this textbook develops the four primary language skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing - by integrating them into a clear, balanced whole. It also includes a multimedia CD with videos filmed on location highlighting key elements of Uyghur culture and language.

Scholars and policy-makers alike increasingly see the Asia-Pacific region as the center of twenty-first-century international affairs. Merging a strong theoretical component with scholarship, this book examines the region's key players and security challenges, as well as a spectrum of proposed solutions for improving regional stability.

An annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic that serves scholars in the United States and abroad. It includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. This volume offers a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security.

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. This volume offers a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security.

Is political Islam the heir of radical Arab nationalism? If political Islam succeeds, will it face the same challenges faced by radical Arab nationalism? Will it be able to implement modernity? This book assesses the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.

The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the comprehensive portrait of rules in public organizations and seeks to find the balance between rules that create red tape and more.

Provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. This book explores the identities, organization, strategies and influence of transnational actors involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking.

Provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. This book explores the identities, organization, strategies and influence of transnational actors involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking.

Provides practitioners' insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. This book is suitable for students of US national security and foreign policy as well as career policymakers.

Provides practitioners' insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. This book is suitable for students of US national security and foreign policy as well as career policymakers.

Field research - the collection of information outside a lab or workplace setting - requires skills and knowledge not typically taught in the classroom. This book provides a practical guide to planning and executing fieldwork and presenting the results.

Climate change is viewed as a primarily scientific, economic, or political issue. While acknowledging the legitimacy of these perspectives, the author argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence.

Reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations' War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II.

Explores the theological underpinnings of al-Qaeda and related Islamic movements such as ISIS. The author demonstrates how this marginal narrative transformed al-Qaeda from a relatively hierarchical and regional organization to a globalized, decentralized, and diffuse system of networks.

Provides adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as a second language with the tools to learn the other language as a third language. This book is suitable for students, travelers, and budding multilinguals.

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. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.

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. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.

With research-based articles, this volume is suitable to high school and university language and culture educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.

With research-based articles, this volume is suitable to high school and university language and culture educators, program directors, linguists, and anyone looking to design LSP courses or programs in any world language.

Cyberattacks are one of the greatest fears for governments and the private sector. The attacks come without warning and can be extremely costly and embarrassing. This book offers a strategic vision for how governments, in partnership with the private sector, can deter cyberattacks from both nonstate and state actors.

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. In this book, the author argues that the steps needed to consolidate a political order are not separate from war but they are instead an essential component of war and victory.

Examines the creation of Israel's neo-revisionist consensus about security threats and regional order, which took hold of Israeli politics and society after 2000 and persists today.

Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. This book examines the conflicting values and interests in the practice of "biosecurity," the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies.

While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. In this volume, the authors propose a framework in which context influences the types of managerial actions that can be used effectively in public organizations.

Shows that scholars must find a better way to account for political, environmental, and organizational contexts to build a more general model of public management. This volume propose a framework in which context influences the types of managerial actions that can be used effectively in public organizations.