Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Aha! Moment
A Scientist's Take on Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This book is about having ideas and—a much longer haul—making them work. David Jones, best known for his Daedalus column, tells a multitude of stories about creators and their creations, including his own fantastical-seeming contributions to mainstream science such as the unrideable bicycle and...
by John Shields
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Twenty-five years ago, Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields introduced the world to the regional cuisine of the Mid-Atlantic. Nominated for a James Beard Award, the book was praised for its inspiring heritage recipes and its then-revolutionary emphasis on cooking with local and seasonal ingredients....
Gamer Nation
Video Games and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players...
Aluminum Upcycled
Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money—particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling Aluminum, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal’s...
This Cold House
The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Does turning the thermostat down on a winter's night offset the costs of reheating the house in the morning? What will best prevent energy loss: new windows or insulation in the attic? Is heating oil cheaper than natural gas?
Blending science with anecdote and example, Colin Smith answers questions...
Knowledge Games
How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier’s Knowledge Games,...
Harry Potter and the Millennials
Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Without a doubt the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard—reading the books, dressing up in costume to attend midnight book release parties, watching the movies, and even creating and competing...
by Stan Luger, Brian Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
It has become all too easy to disparage the role of the US government today. Many Americans are influenced by a simplistic anti-government ideology that is itself driven by a desire to roll back the more democratically responsive aspects of public policy. But government has improved the lives of Americans...
Stealing Cars
Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license plates and serial numbers remain basic...
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the...
Engineering Rules
Global Standard Setting since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. In Engineering...
To Antietam Creek
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In early September 1862 thousands of Union soldiers huddled within the defenses of Washington, disorganized and discouraged from their recent defeat at Second Manassas. Confederate General Robert E. Lee then led his tough and confident Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in a bold gamble to force...
William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country
Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In his study of William Henry Harrison, David Curtis Skaggs sheds light on the role of citizen-soldiers in taming the wilderness of the old Northwest. Perhaps best known for the Whig slogan in 1840—"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"—Harrison used his efforts to pacify Native Americans and defeat...
Native Memoirs from the War of 1812
Black Hawk and William Apess
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American...