Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Engineering Victory
How Technology Won the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering—not superior military strategy or industrial advantage—as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome.
Army...
A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging
Stay Smart, Strong, and Active
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
As they reach middle age, most men begin looking forward to "what's next." They gear up to experience renewed productivity and purpose and are more conscious of their health. A Man's Guide to Healthy Aging is an authoritative resource for them, and for older men, as well. In collaboration...
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society
From Generation to Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Kinship and Cohort in an Aging Society brings together scholars whose common link is their intellectual intersection with the work of Vern Bengtson, an esteemed family sociologist whose accomplishments include foundational theoretical contributions to the study of families and intergenerational relations...
The Space Station Decision
Incremental Politics and Technological Choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Outstanding Academic Title, 1991, Choice Magazine
Although building a space station has been an extraordinary challenge for America's scientists and engineers, the securing and sustaining of presidential approval, congressional support, and long-term funding for the project was an enormous...
Plane Crash
The Forensics of Aviation Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
One of the most amazing feats of modern life is the frequency with which airplanes safely take off and land: about 40,000 times a day in the United States alone. Commercial aviation is by far the safest mode of transportation and is becoming safer all the time. But on the exceedingly rare occasion...
The Transformation of Governance
Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The traditional theory of public administration is based on entrenched notions of hierarchy and authority. However, as the structure of public work has grown less hierarchical, managers have adopted a wide variety of non-authoritarian strategies. This growing gap between theoretical ideas and actual...
by Anand M. Saxena
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
We have learned not to take food seriously: we eat as much as we want of whatwe want when we want it, and we seldom think about the health and environmental consequences of our choices. But the fact is that every choice we make has an impact on our health and on the environment. In The Vegetarian...
Back on Track
American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1965–2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Throughout the early twentieth century, railroad safety steadily improved across the United States. But by the 1960s, American railroads had fallen apart, the result of a regulatory straightjacket that eroded profitability and undermined safety. Collisions, derailments, worker fatalities, and grade...
Diploma Mills
How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These online and storefront institutions lure students with promises of fast degrees and "guaranteed" job placement, but what they deliver is often something...
Nonprofits and Advocacy
Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Susan G. Komen foundation pulled funding for Planned Parenthood’s breast exam program, the public uproar brought new focus to the high political and economic stakes faced by nonprofit organizations. The missions of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations, political action committees, and...
Flickering Treasures
Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Baltimore has been home to hundreds of theaters since the first moving pictures flickered across muslin sheets. These monuments to popular culture, adorned with grandiose architectural flourishes, seemed an everlasting part of Baltimore’s landscape. By 1950, when the city’s population peaked,...
Chasing Sound
Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first practical devices to the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting the technical development of studio equipment, the professionalization of...
by Kathleen Waters Sander
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers...
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education
Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes, including retention, number of credits accrued, graduation, and job placement. The theory is that introducing market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient...