Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Sharks
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide), and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their critical role...
The PKU Paradox
A Short History of a Genetic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey...
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
Transnational Peasants
Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Why do two groups from the same country pursue radically different economic strategies of transnational mobility? David Kyle examines the lives of people from four rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Migrants from the southern province of Azuay shuttle back and forth...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Since the late 1990s, when Latin American countries began making a "turn to the left," political parties and candidates on the right end of the partisan spectrum have had a difficult time achieving electoral success. Although the left turn can be seen as a natural reaction to the public’s...
Instrumental Intimacy
EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From Fitbits to GPS trackers, wearables promise to help us understand and improve ourselves in quantified ways. We count our steps, track our location, and even monitor our brain waves as we strive to achieve better fitness, clearer direction, or a more focused mind. But why do we rely on wearables...
Democracy's Schools
The Rise of Public Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked...
by Daniel Kilbride
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
While visiting Europe In 1844, Harry McCall of Philadelphia wrote to his cousin back home of his disappointment. He didn’t mind Paris, but he preferred the company of Americans to Parisians. Furthermore, he vowed to be "an American, heart and soul" wherever he traveled, but "particularly...
Growing Up Amish
The Rumspringa Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later they begin Rumspringa—that brief period during which they are free to date and explore the outside...
Selling the Amish
The Tourism of Nostalgia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
More than 19 million tourists flock to Amish Country each year, drawn by the opportunity to glimpse "a better time" and the quaint beauty of picturesque farmland and handcrafted quilts. What they may find, however, are elaborately themed town centers, outlet malls, or even a water park....
Thrill of the Chaste
The Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Browse the inspirational fiction section of your local bookstore, and you will likely find cover after cover depicting virtuous young women cloaked in modest dresses and wearing a pensive or playful expression. They hover innocently above sun-drenched pastures or rustic country lanes, often with a...
by Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Steven M. Nolt
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait...
The Amish and Technology
An Excerpt from The Amish
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Limits on technology are the signature mark of twenty-first century Amish identity. Riding in horse-drawn buggies and living unplugged from the public grid unmistakably separate Amish people from mainstream Americans. Yet the Amish do not categorically condemn technology. Nor are they technologically...
From Rumspringa to Marriage
An Excerpt from The Amish
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Rumspringa, literally translated as "running around," is a time when Amish youth socialize with their peers and are allowed some autonomy before officially joining the church as young adults. It has become one of the most recognized aspects of Amish life, both real and mythologized. During this time...