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Exploring ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel, this new edition includes critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings to fight insurgencies.

This book explains why and how the U.S. and NATO military gains have not produced the expected political victory, and calls for rethinking U.S. policy toward promoting Afghanistan as a regional economic hub in Southwest and Central Asia as it fits within the broader national security interest of the regional states.

The text focuses on three interrelated subject areas that are at the heart of the current foreign and national security dilemma: the Middle East, energy policy, and military manpower policy. Remedying these obvious cases of policy dysfunction would create opportunities for less confrontational, adversary-driven foreign and defense posture.

This book integrates a number of multinational, multiregional, and historical cases of piracy, maritime crime, and seaborne terrorism.

Examining the role of mass media and information technology in contemporary society, this introductory sociology text emphasizes the increasing diversity and globalization of societies everywhere.

The second edition features the latest critical scholarship and fresh examples, while providing an excellent overview of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Showing the links between methodology and epistemology, the book highlights the power of research to make a difference and offers practical suggestions for researchers across disciplines.

Building Academic Literacy is a coach-in-a-pocket for educators seeking to build strong academic literacy and higher-order thinking. This book is for anyone with responsibility for instruction - teachers, instructional coaches, professional developers, principals, curriculum leaders, teacher preparation faculty. It provides pathways to developing higher-order thinking in every student and setting.

This book invites readers into the Bible by offering guidance on what, how, and why to read Scripture as a source of spiritual nourishment. The second edition features two new chapters introducing key theological concepts and exploring biblical spirituality in the early Christian church. It is ideal for classroom, parish, or individual reading.

The focus of this book is the inclusion of informational texts in primary-grade teaching and learning. Each chapter references particular Common Core State Standards that are connected to the chapter and includes techniques to aid students in obtaining mastery of the Standards.

This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, can offer for understanding objectivity and impartiality in the contemporary world.

A Toolkit for College Professors is designed to give new and established faculty members the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical advice, and problem-solving activities, this book offers college professors a valuable resource for excelling in the classroom, lab, studio, library, and beyond.

Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States.

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century.

This walking tour of the neighborhood where the Georgetown Set lived includes recent photos of each house, anecdotes of it's inhabitants --from Phillip and Katharine Graham to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Kennedys--as well as a map to guide you down the historical brick sidewalks of Georgetown.

What do faculty members, academic administrators, or development officers need to know if they want to be successful fundraisers in higher education? Going for the Gold demystifies these worlds for anyone interested in higher education fundraising and provides practical, field-tested tools that everyone involved in academic development will want in his or her toolkit.

This book offers a procedural and exemplified guide to metacognitive mapping and is built upon the central purpose of student-generated connections between life and literature.

The Enlightened College Applicant presents a no-nonsense account of how students should approach the college search and admissions process. Instead of providing recycled entrance statistics or anecdotal generalizations about campus life, authors Belasco and Bergman incorporate cutting-edge data and research to pull back the curtain on critical topics.