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The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism offers cutting-edge research from a cadre of international experts who agree that human language learning is a process of learning how to create shared meaning. The articles collected here present a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.

A dialectal Arabic language resource that promotes successful daily communication with native Moroccan speakers. Created using fresh computational linguistics ideas, it represents a new generation of Arabic language reference materials designed to help English speakers gain proficiency in colloquial Arabic.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This boo is suitable for professionals in medicine, law, insurance and more.

Why just talk to Brazilians when you can connect with them? Supplemented by anecdotes, case studies, and photos, this book helps you learn key cultural differences between Brazil and North America that can enable you to overcome communication barriers to forging successful business relationships.

Examining issues like alliance commitments, nuclear weapons policy, nonproliferation, and missile defense, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of extended deterrence through the prism of NATO but with implications far beyond.

Examining issues like alliance commitments, nuclear weapons policy, nonproliferation, and missile defense, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of extended deterrence through the prism of NATO but with implications far beyond.

Brings together key experts from the United States, Europe, and Australia to provide a unique contribution to ongoing debates over the theory and practice of creating, measuring, and assessing public value. This book is suitable for stakeholders across society interested in creating public value to advance the common good.

Brings together key experts from the United States, Europe, and Australia to provide a unique contribution to ongoing debates over the theory and practice of creating, measuring, and assessing public value. The book is suitable for stakeholders across society interested in creating public value to advance the common good.

Provides readers an account of American intelligence activities during the era of the Revolutionary War, from 1765 to 1783. This book describes the intelligence sources and methods used and how our Founding Fathers learned and practiced their intelligence role.

Offering engaging ideas from business, marketing, and economics, this book takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society.

Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance.

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

Christians are taught that God is love and are commanded to love, their neighbors and their enemies. These truths are not controversial. What is controversial is the meaning of this love. This book explores the tradition of Christian reflection on the meaning, and experience of love, loving, and being loved.

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.

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.

What are the biomedical boundaries of acceptable treatment for those not able to give informed consent? Who gets to decide when a patient cannot communicate their desires and needs? This book answers these questions.

Drawing on sources only available since the Cold War ended, The Image of the Enemy breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries gathered, analyzed, and used intelligence to deepen their understanding of their adversaries.

Drawing on sources only available since the Cold War ended, The Image of the Enemy breaks new ground as it examines how seven countries gathered, analyzed, and used intelligence to deepen their understanding of their adversaries.

Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation.

Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation.

Drawing on the constructivist strand of political philosophy, the author shows that it is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians to keep faith with human rights. She argues, the Christian tradition as the wellspring of many of the ethical commitments considered central to human rights must embrace its role in the project.

Drawing on a plethora of sources, including decades of contact with senior Soviet figures, Raymond Garthoff offers the most authoritative assessment to date of how Soviet leaders and intelligence chiefs understood-and misunderstood-the United States during the Cold War.

Designated a critical language by the US Department of Defense, Pashto is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan and is commonly spoken in parts of Pakistan. This volume offers students with basic knowledge of Pashto with a thematically organized approach that develops strong speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills.

Analyzes twenty ethical issues that address education and culture, labor and economy, democracy and cosmopolitanism and life and death. In this book each chapter describes a concrete example showing the relevance of the fundamental ethical question. It provides an explanation between personal, professional, and institutional ethics.

Emphasising on human goods such as life, health, friendship, and knowledge and the wrongness of intentionally turning against them, the book provides a valuable approach to controversial bioethical questions at the beginning and end of life. Its approach contrasts with that of the dominant bioethical theories of utilitarianism and principlism.

Provides readers with a theoretical and practical overview of key aspects of regional integration and regional organizations.

Emphasizing their manhaj (methodology) toward politics, this book offers a survey on Salafists' ideological transformation from opponents to supporters of political engagement, while demonstrating how activists and jihadi Salafists have threatened regional and international security by endorsing violence and jihad.

Examines the question of whether the US Department of Defense (DOD) has assumed too large a role in influencing and implementing US foreign policy while confronting the challenges arising from terrorism, Islamic radicalism, insurgencies, ethnic conflicts and failed states.

Helps you examine the phenomena of blockade operations in cyberspace, large-scale attacks on infrastructure or systems that aim to prevent an entire state from sending or receiving electronic data.

Looks at the constitutional rights of federal employees from the nation's founding to the present. This book concludes that the current status of constitutional rights may reflect a shift to a model based on private sector practices.