Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans
Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on...
by David A. Perry, Ram Oren, Stephen C. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
This acclaimed textbook is the most comprehensive available in the field of forest ecology. Designed for advanced students of forest science, ecology, and environmental studies, it is also an essential reference for forest ecologists, foresters, and land managers.
The authors provide an inclusive...
Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction
The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, reworked ideas about portraiture to promote...
Pain
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In this history of American political culture, Keith Wailoo examines how pain has defined the line between liberals and conservatives from just after World War II to the present. From disabling pain to end-of-life pain to fetal pain, the battle over whose pain is real and who deserves relief has created...
When Someone You Know Has Depression
Words to Say and Things to Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other people. Family...
When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community
Words to Say and Things to Do
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Life changes dramatically for the entire family when the decision is made to move a person who has dementia from home to community care. Rachael Wonderlin, a gerontologist, dementia care expert, and popular dementia care blogger, helps caregivers cope with the difficult behaviors, emotions, and anxieties...
The Science of Mom
A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
It seems like every time a new mother turns on her computer, radio, or television, she is greeted with news of yet another scientific study about infancy. Ignoring good information isn’t the right course, but just how does one tell the difference between solid studies, preliminary results, and snake...
Drug Dealer, MD
How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening...
Gap Year
How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
With some of the most prestigious universities in America urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed...
The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease
Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas....
Bipolar Disorder
A Guide for Patients and Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore's pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its third edition, Bipolar Disorder has been thoroughly updated with new information about the causes of the disorder, tools for diagnosis,...
Introduction to Biosocial Medicine
The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
While 40 percent of premature deaths in the United States can be attributed to such dangerous behaviors as smoking, overeating, inactivity, and drug or alcohol use, medical education has generally failed to address how these behaviors are influenced by social forces. This new textbook from Dr. Donald...
The Lupus Encyclopedia
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Systemic lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that can affect any system and organ in the body. For the 1.4 million people in the United States who have lupus, an overactive immune system senses that different parts of the body do not belong, and it attacks these parts. The immune system may...
Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Identify Your Risk, Understand Your Options, Change Your Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
"Be informed. Be empowered. Be well."
If you are concerned that the cancer in your family is hereditary, you face difficult choices. Should you have a blood test that may reveal whether you have a high likelihood of disease? Do you preemptively treat a disease that may never develop?...