Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Spark from the Deep
How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges.
William J. Turkel...
Narrating 9/11
Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Narrating 9/11 challenges the notion that Americans have overcome the national trauma of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The volume responds to issues of war, surveillance, and the expanding security state, including the Bush Administration’s policies on preemptive...
The Return of Hans Staden
A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important...
In the Looking Glass
Mirrors and Identity in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
What did it mean, Rebecca K. Shrum asks, for people—long-accustomed to associating reflective surfaces with ritual and magic—to became as familiar with how they looked as they were with the appearance of other people? Fragmentary histories tantalize us with how early Americans—people of Native,...
Dead Women Talking
Figures of Injustice in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical...
Subverting Aristotle
Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"The belief that Aristotle’s philosophy is incompatible with Christianity is hardly controversial today," writes Craig Martin. Yet "for centuries, Christian culture embraced Aristotelian thought as its own, reconciling his philosophy with theology and church doctrine. The image of...
Fortune's Faces
The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from...
Renaissance Meteorology
Pomponazzi to Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Craig Martin takes a careful look at how Renaissance scientists analyzed and interpreted rain, wind, and other natural phenomena like meteors and earthquakes and their impact on the great thinkers of the scientific revolution.
Martin argues that meteorology was crucial to the transformation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Beginning in December 2010, a series of uprisings swept the Arab world, toppling four longtime leaders and creating an apparent political opening in a region long impervious to the "third wave" of democratization. Despite the initial euphoria, the legacies of authoritarianism—polarized...
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
A Psychological Exploration of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
First published in German in 1909, Otto Rank's original The Myth of the Birth of the Hero offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche. Like his mentor Sigmund Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon...
Living with Cancer
A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A. Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted the first...
Designing Our Descendants
The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Human Genome Project, discoveries in molecular biology, and new reproductive technologies have advanced our understanding of how genetic science may be used to treat persons with genetic disorders. Greater knowledge may also make possible genetic interventions to "enhance" normal human...