Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Of Virgins and Martyrs
Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments....
Nudging Health
Health Law and Behavioral Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed....
The Price of Progress
Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 to 1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Between the Civil War and the Great Depression, twin revolutions swept through American business and government. In business, large corporations came to dominate entire sectors and markets. In government, new services and agencies, especially at the city and state levels, sprang up to ameliorate a...
Building Coalitions, Making Policy
The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
In an age when partisan politics has reached a deafening—and arguably impotent—pitch, how does the real work of politics get done? This book opens the door on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to...
The 160-Character Solution
How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes. Although many communities have expanded school choice, for example, families often choose to keep their children in...
The Foot Book
A Complete Guide to Healthy Feet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Aching or painful feet make it hard to stand or walk—not to mention dance, play sports, and take part in other activities. To keep you on your feet, this book offers a rich resource for understanding what can go wrong and how disorders, diseases, and injuries to the foot are diagnosed and treated.
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Diversifying Digital Learning
Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Many schools and programs in low-income neighborhoods lack access to the technological resources, including equipment and Internet service, that those in middle- and upper-income neighborhoods have at their fingertips. This inequity creates a persistent digital divide—not a simple divide in access...
Taking It to the Streets
The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Higher education scholars often conduct research on topics about which they care deeply, but to what extent should they be advocates for reform and social change? One school of thought believes researchers should remain dispassionate and data focused; the other, that a researcher, by the very questions...
Lights On!
The Science of Power Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Today, modern civilization is wholly dependent on the production and distribution of power. Without it, our way of life would be extinguished.
In Lights...
The Inevitable Hour
A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine’s imperative to cure disease increasingly took priority over the demand to relieve pain and suffering at the end of life. Filled with heartbreaking stories, The Inevitable Hour demonstrates that professional attention and resources gradually were diverted...
by Daniel E. Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, health-care attorney Daniel E. Dawes explores the secret backstory of the Affordable Care Act, shedding light on the creation and implementation of the greatest and most sweeping equalizer in the history of American health care. An eye-opening and authoritative narrative...
Competing with the Soviets
Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself,...
Flawed Logics
Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
James H. Lebovic explores the logic of seeking peace in an arms race. Flawed Logics offers a compelling intellectual history of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms control.
Lebovic thoroughly reviews the critical role of ideas and assumptions in U.S. arms control debates, tying them to controversies...
Collecting Shakespeare
The Story of Henry and Emily Folger
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug.
Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging,...