W. W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking and finance, ......
The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics
Focuses on health care in the United States. This title redefines the moral obligations of both physicians and patients, traces the specific effects of these redefined obligations on clinical practice, and explores the implications for patients as individuals and for national health policy.
Have you lost or damaged the audio CD that came with "Beginning Urdu" (ISBN 9781589017788)? This is a replacement CD that is available to anyone who has misplaced, lost, or damaged their original CD.
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.
Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860
Explores how Maryland's Catholics drew upon their long-standing traditions - advocacy of separation of church and state, a sense of civic duty, and a determination 'to live at peace with all their neighbors,' in Bishop Carroll's phrase - to take a leading role in the early government, financing, and building of the new capital.
Aswaat mu'aSira introduces advanced level students to fifty-five contemporary stories in Arabic from twenty countries from across the Middle East. While most Arabic literature textbooks include only excerpts of longer works, these stories give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a complete piece of literature.
Aswaat mu'aSira introduces advanced level students to fifty-five contemporary stories in Arabic from twenty countries from across the Middle East. While most Arabic literature textbooks include only excerpts of longer works, these stories give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a complete piece of literature.
Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, this book examines wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics.
