Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Accreditation on the Edge
Challenging Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Accreditation is essential to colleges and universities. Without it, they are unable to participate in federal student aid programs or confer legitimate degrees. In Accreditation on the Edge, Susan D. Phillips and Kevin Kinser bring together the expertise of different stakeholders to illustrate the...
Authoritarianism Goes Global
The Challenge to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Leading authoritarian countries—including China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela—have developed new tools and strategies to contain the spread of democracy and challenge the liberal...
The Carbon Code
How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Our world is getting hotter, and it’s our fault. Our addiction to fossil fuels is destroying not only our ancient planet, but our modern civilization. How can we protect our fragile ecosystems while preserving our way of life? How can we respond to climate change deniers who mock the fact that environmental...
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy
Fifteen Contentious Questions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy...
Planting an Empire
The Early Chesapeake in British North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Planting an Empire explores the social and economic history of the Chesapeake region, revealing a story of two similar but distinct colonies in early America.
Linked by the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Maryland formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America before...
by George Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions...
A History of Global Health
Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health...
Eating Smoke
Fire in Urban America, 1800–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations...
Other People's Money
How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something... or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people...
Baltimore
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and...
Palace of Ashes
China and the Decline of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In addition to possessing the world’s largest economies, China and the United States have extensive higher education systems comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive educational traditions, Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence that American colleges and universities are...
FastLane
Managing Science in the Internet World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing came together...
Liberation Technology
Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation helped spark the massive protests...