Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
STEM the Tide
Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage...
Nature's Path
A History of Naturopathic Healing in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path—the first comprehensive book to examine the complex...
The Branding of the American Mind
How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or student who created or discovered it in the course...
A Time of Scandal
Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes,...
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State
Character and Governance in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith offer a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary literature through...
Thinking beyond Boundaries
Transnational Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Written under the direction of West Point social sciences faculty for its Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA), Thinking beyond Boundaries introduces undergraduates to aspects of transnational conflict that extend beyond traditional political and intellectual boundaries, providing context to...
One for the Road
Drunk Driving since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Don’t drink and drive. It's a deceptively simple rule, but one that is all too often ignored. And while efforts to eliminate drunk driving have been around as long as automobiles, every movement to keep drunks from driving has hit some alarming bumps in the road.
Barron H. Lerner narrates...
The Webster-Hayne Debate
Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne and others of his mindset, only the vigilant protection of states’ rights could...
Dying and Living in the Neighborhood
A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances...
Listening to Trauma
Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth’s subjects include literary theorists...
Making the Most of the Anthropocene
Facing the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Ever since Nobel Prize–winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the term "Anthropocene" to describe our current era—one in which human impact on the environment has pushed Earth into an entirely new geological epoch—arguments for and against the new designation have been raging....
Wavelets
A Concise Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Introduced nearly three decades ago as a variable resolution alternative to the Fourier transform, a wavelet is a short oscillatory waveform for analysis of transients. The discrete wavelet transform has remarkable multi-resolution and energy-compaction properties. Amir-Homayoon Najmi’s introduction...
American Hieroglyphics
The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of...