Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust
Salvaging the Automotive Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
What happens to automobiles after they are retired but before they are processed as scrap? In this fascinating history, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a tour of salvage yards and wrecked or otherwise out-of-service cars in the United States from the point of view of gearheads—the hot rodders,...
by Takashi Nishiyama
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Naval, aeronautic, and mechanical engineers played a powerful part in the military buildup of Japan in the early and mid-twentieth century. They belonged to a militaristic regime and embraced the importance of their role in it. Takashi Nishiyama examines the impact of war and peace on technological...
by Ian Burney, Neil Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Crime scene investigation—or CSI—has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to identify and secure physical evidence for laboratory analysis. But where did this...
by Ido Israelowich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire offers a fascinating holistic look at the practice of ancient Roman medicine. Ido Irsaelowich presents three richly detailed case studies—one focusing on the home and reproduction; another on the army; the last on medical tourism—from the point of...
Before and After Cancer Treatment
Heal Faster, Better, Stronger
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
A twelve-year cancer survivor and oncology rehabilitation specialist, Dr. Julie K. Silver wrote After Cancer Treatment to help others recover from the exhaustion and physical devastation that often follow treatment. This new edition of the book, retitled Before and After Cancer Treatment, describes...
Creatures Born of Mud and Slime
The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
We accept that, at some point in the history of our universe, living creatures emerged from nonliving matter. Yet from the time of Aristotle until the late nineteenth century, many people believed in spontaneous generation, that living creatures sprang into existence from rotting material. As Daryn...
by Marian Moser Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross....
Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps
Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972–2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA’s astronaut corps.
NASA...
Our Germans
Project Paperclip and the National Security State
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the...
Game On!
Gamification, Gameful Design, and the Rise of the Gamer Educator
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The changing student body in American higher education demands a new approach to teaching, one that moves toward inclusive, hyperpersonalized learning environments that have much in common with games and social media. Kevin Bell’s Game On! presents dynamic case studies of gamer educators and game-derived...
by Howard Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Nature awaits discovery at almost every turn in the complex ecosystem of Washington, D.C. In parks large and small, within the District's gardens, and on public streets, there is tremendous biodiversity. In Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C., naturalist Howard Youth takes us on an...
Hike Maryland
A Guide to the Scenic Trails of the Free State
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Maryland affords a rich variety of natural places for residents and visitors to enjoy, from the Chesapeake shores through expansive Piedmont farmland to the Appalachian Plateau. And whether you’re headed to the seashore or the mountains, there are few better ways to experience these landscapes than...
From Front Porch to Back Seat
Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
Changing the Face of Engineering
The African American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering,...