Georgetown University Press

12/02/2025

For decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. Ultimately, they were successful, yet the history of the Amazigh Cultural Movement and its profound impact on North African society have remained largely inaccessible to English speakers. The Amazigh Revival is the memoir of Brahim Akhiate, an Amazigh academic, writer, and organizer, who was a leader of the Amazigh movement. Translated into English for the first time, it offers unprecedented insight into the Amazighs' fight for recognition and a place in Moroccan society.
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12/01/2025

When Doing Good Isn't Good Enough offers an unprecedented look at the significance of Catholic Social Teaching, particularly its teaching on justice, for transforming Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in a time of institutional crisis after the Rwanda genocide. Villanova University professor emerita Suzanne Toton traces the process by which CRS arrived at the decision to adopt justice as its operating lens and its methodical effort to integrate justice into every region and level of its operations. This book provides a window into CRS's deep commitment to the people it serves; the challenges of implementing right relationships while working within diverse ethnic, cultural, and religious contexts; the lessons learned; and the institutional changes it catalyzed.

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11/05/2025

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Covert action is the most consequential and controversial form of secret statecraft, and it has become a ubiquitous feature of international politics. However, it is often sensationalized or seen through a narrow, US-centric lens. In Covert Action a team of leading scholars from around the world challenge this conventional narrative and redefine secret statecraft by offering a groundbreaking comparative perspective that explores the practice of unacknowledged intervention across twenty countries and a range of eras.

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11/04/2025

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The development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West. In Russian Military Thought, Stockholm University associate professor and renowned scholar Gudrun Persson offers novel insights into Russian thinking on doctrine and strategy, from the Crimean War to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on meticulous archival research, Persson dismantles the simplistic notion that Russian military thought is "backward," instead presenting a deeper analysis of the drivers that influence the changes in Russian military strategy. This book is essential reading for understanding Russia today.
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11/03/2025

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Every workplace operates according to a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. Discerning these informal rules and navigating them effectively are essential to career advancement, and doing so requires the sort of strategic thinking that is needed to succeed in a game of chess. Mastering the Corporate Chess Game—edited by leadership and career planning coach Cynthia Groves and featuring a foreword by Emmy-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell—is an essential guide for anyone seeking to get ahead in the workplace. Bringing together a diverse group of successful professionals across various fields and industries, this book provides real-world examples that show how to navigate corporate culture and achieve one’s goals.

A playbook for decoding unspoken rules of work culture and accelerating up the corporate ladderEvery workplace operates on a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. While business schools and management programs can provide excellent training in finance, marketing, strategy, and rese...

10/06/2025

La santé globale by University of Rhode Island professor Lars Erickson and Pennsylvania State University teaching professor Heather McCoy bridges from advanced French language learning to the pressing issue of global health, allowing learners to connect with topics and to develop practical skills that matter outside the classroom.

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10/03/2025

East Asia's Grand Strategies, edited by King's College London professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Dr. Jung H. Pak, offers the first comparative analysis of the grand strategies of twelve East Asian powers and reveals how they shape their foreign policies, balancing external pressures with domestic political realities. In this edited volume, experts from the region provide fresh insights into the unique factors influencing each case's grand strategy. Together, the chapters illuminate patterns that are critical for understanding East Asia's role in global politics today.

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10/02/2025

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In 1831 Sister Gertrude Wightt, the directress of Georgetown Academy (now Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School), donned the hat and cape of one of her students and abruptly left the academy and life as a nun. She soon became a fixture on the Washington social scene and an intimate of Dolley Madison.

The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt by Indiana University of Pennsylvania associate professor Joseph Mannard is the first comprehensive biography of the enigmatic Wightt. Drawing from a rich cache of previously overlooked primary sources, the book meticulously explores Wightt’s transformation from respected academy directress to celebrated DC “parlor politician."

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10/01/2025

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Washington, DC’s punk rock scene flourished from the mid-1970s. Bands like Fugazi, Minor Threat, the Nation of Ulysses, and many others served as a foil to the status quo—counter-cultural touchstones that were as intelligent and innovative as they were fast and fierce. The fanzines that sprang up at the same time reflected punk’s egalitarian, DIY ethic. In Keep Your Ear to the Ground, University of Maryland archivist and former Q and Not U drummer John Davis documents the history of fanzines as they evolved alongside DC’s punk music scene.

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09/30/2025

Now in Paperback

The history of America is deeply intertwined with the history of Catholicism. And no account of American Catholicism is complete without delving into the fascinating story of the American Jesuits. In The Jesuits in the United States, Georgetown University professor David J. Collins, SJ, presents an overview of the Jesuits in America from the colonial era to the present day and reflects on what the past means for the present and the future of the order.

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09/29/2025

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Argentina's 2001 default on $100 billion in bonds and the messy litigation that followed has had an outsized impact on sovereign debt markets, sovereign debt law, and the International Monetary Fund's policies. This is the sovereign debt case study that scholars, legal practitioners, investors, and over-indebted countries must understand—and Default by Greg Makoff provides the first comprehensive account.

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09/28/2025

Who Will You Become? reimagines an introduction to Catholic theology through the framework of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. In this textbook, Marquette University associate professors Ryan G. Duns, SJ, and Conor M. Kelly draw on the concept of discernment—praying and meditating before making decisions—in the Jesuit tradition, and they invite readers to engage with the formative potential of theological studies.

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