Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Illiberal Practices
Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Within subunits of a democratic federation, lasting political practices that restrict choice, limit debate, and exclude or distort democratic participation have been analyzed in recent scholarship as subnational authoritarianism. Once a critical number of citizens or regions band together in these...
by Lisa A. Eckenwiler
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Long-term care can be vexing on a personal as well as social level, and it will only grow more so as individuals continue to live longer and the population of aged persons increases in the United States and around the world. This volume explores the ethical issues surrounding elder care from an ecological...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire...
Stedman's Surinam
Life in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Society. An Abridged, Modernized Edition of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and...
by Charles E. Davis, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The last thing a world traveler wants is to get sick. To stay healthy, travelers need to protect themselves from viruses, bacteria, and parasites, including many they have seldom, if ever, encountered. With precise, simple explanations, this indispensable guide helps international travelers avoid...
Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic
A Guide for All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Winner of the Society for American Travel Writers’ Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism 2016 Gold Award in the Guidebook Category
Few regions of the United States boast as many historically significant sites as the mid-Atlantic. Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic brings to life...
Mammalogy
Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Reflecting the expertise and perspective of five leading mammalogists, the fourth edition of Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology significantly updates taxonomy, includes a new chapter on mammalian molecular phylogenetics, and highlights several recently described species.
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Cycle Maryland
A Guide to Bike Paths and Rail Trails
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
As off-road, family-friendly bike paths have increased in popularity, cycling has become a safe and healthy way to exercise out-of-doors and enjoy the beauty of nature. In Maryland, cyclists are fortunate to have access to a range of paved and unpaved recreational trails throughout some of the state’s...
by Sean Takats
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position...
Communities of Learned Experience
Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in industrial centers. Though famous for their...
Being Cool
The Work of Elmore Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka looks at what makes the dope-dealers, bookies, grifters, financial advisors, talent agents,...
Getting Inside Your Head
What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
We live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about each other's thoughts and feelings, what we want each other to think we know, and what we would dearly love to know but...
The Anatomy of Blackness
Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and...