Introduces authentic texts and audio files from a wide variety of media sources. This book helps students develop analytical and translation skills in Arabic and expand their reading, writing, listening, and speaking capabilities. It provides important vocabulary; examples of language in context; exercises for reading and more.
Introduces authentic texts and audio files from a wide variety of media sources. This book helps students develop analytical and translation skills in Arabic and expand their reading, writing, listening, and speaking capabilities. It provides important vocabulary; examples of language in context; exercises for reading and more.
Presents an examination of the office of the German chancellorship as it has evolved under six post-war chancellors analyzes both the nature of executive leadership as institutionalized in the constitutional order or political system and the evolution of the office during the course of individual incumbencies.
Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century
Explores the social changes that have affected higher education and American Catholicism. This title explains why the significant growth of Catholic colleges and universities was not always matched by concomitant academic esteem in the larger world of American higher education.
According to a Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, or breast cancer. This book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law and medical structure should be replaced by ethically informed institutional policies.
Explains how DNA works, what the Human Genome Project is, what these genetic technologies are and what they promise, and how they could disrupt our democratic society. This book is of interest to those who wish to learn more about the Human Genome Project and the genetic revolution that it may create.
In this volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, leading Christian and Muslim scholars respond to the global crisis of inequality by demanding and modeling interreligious dialogue and exploring how the two faiths can work together to address inequality.
In this volume of the Building Bridges Seminar, leading Christian and Muslim scholars respond to the global crisis of inequality by demanding and modeling interreligious dialogue and exploring how the two faiths can work together to address inequality.
An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology
Provides an introduction to Karl Rahner's theology as a whole. This book features chapters that present commentaries on the corresponding chapters of Foundations, beginning with Rahner's method and anthropology and concluding with his theology of the church and eschatology.
