A unique interactive CD-ROM designed to help students learn about Spanish culture while increasing vocabulary and listening skills.

With thoughtful and reasoned analysis, NATO in Search of a Vision offers both an assessment of NATO’s recent evolution and an analysis of where the Alliance must go if it is to remain relevant in the twenty-first century.

"[F]eatures some of the most intelligent, articulate, and accessible scholarship on the crucial issue of memory's profound role in shaping key aspects of contemporary politics, both domestic and foreign, all over the world. A must read for academics and practitioners!"—Andrei Markovits, The University of Michigan

"Weimer's thoughtful analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of alternative medical governance models could not be more timely. This significant book deserves to find a wide audience among policymakers, analysts, and concerned citizens."—Eric Patashnik, University of Virginia

"[T]his collection advances the theoretical landscape and expands the study of narrative into an array of new domains. [It] makes a significant contribution to the field of narrative in particular and discourse analysis in general."—Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University

Confucius’s Analects is an innovative textbook for teaching and learning Chinese language and culture at the advanced level.

"A wonderfully practical, thoroughly analyzed, and simply written and presented story that anyone wanting to improve environmental practice should read with interest and care."—Garry Brewer, Yale University

What are human rights? Can theology acknowledge human rights discourse? Is theological engagement with human rights justified? What place should this discourse occupy within ethics?

"There is no finer introduction to the fascinating, frustrating, and tangled web of problems that religion poses for American law and vice versa." —Kenneth D. Wald, University of Florida

"This edition of Boundaries maintains its outstanding features: an in-depth overview of environmental ethics theories as well as global religions and ecology, that inform substantive case studies. Four new cases are engaging and timely additions to this essential text."—Pamela Brubaker, California Lutheran University

"A splendid re-visioning of the vocations of marriage and family for Catholics in today's world. . . . This book will satisfy everyone from scholars to students to all those working out connections between faith and family."—Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

"Working Portuguese for Beginners offers . . . vocabulary, exercises, and grammatical concepts . . . in a Brazilian business context. With added ancillary materials, the text may well be suited for self-guided study . . . a welcome addition."—Carmen Tesser, University of Georgia and Middlebury College

In this new edition of Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, students will find an innovative integration of colloquial and formal (spoken and written) Arabic. The book and new interactive online component provide learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of Arabic, write its letters, and begin speaking Arabic.

"An excellent book that makes a distinctive contribution to a critically important and timely issues, and advances the task and agenda of Christian environmental ethics. . . . The scientific scholarship and ethical analysis are both first-rate."—Dan Spencer, University of Montana