Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Plutocracy in America
How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an infrastructure of inequality, both open and hidden,...
Higher Education Rulemaking
The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Many higher education academics and administrators have only vague notions about how the federal government makes regulations governing colleges and universities in the United States, and yet these regulations control many important aspects of the operation of these institutions. What happens after...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
While China has achieved extraordinary economic success as it has moved toward open markets and international trade, its leadership maintains an authoritarian grip, repressing political movements, controlling all internet traffic, and opposing any democratic activity. Because of its huge population,...
That Swing
Poems, 2008–2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with engaging rhythm fittingly signaled by the book’s title, which echoes Duke Ellington’s jazz classic "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)." Kennedy’s poems, infused with verve and...
Success on the Tenure Track
Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity about tenure and experience higher levels of job satisfaction? And what makes an institution a great place to work?
In 2005–2006, the...
by David F. Allmendinger Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton...
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging
Challenges in Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The graying of the U.S. population draws increasing focus to historically unattended segments of society, including sexual and gender minorities. In this first comprehensive volume to address the challenges of aging in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations, this text presents...
Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Paris has always fascinated and welcomed writers. Throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, writers of American, Caribbean, and African descent were no exception. Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic considers the travels made to Paris—whether literally or imaginatively—by black...
Beatlemania
Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The fame, talent, and success of the Beatles need no introduction. Nor does the world need another book exploring the band's skill and its influence on music and society in the United States, Britain, and the rest of the world. André Millard instead studies the Beatlemania phenomenon from an original...
Voices at Work
Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at Work explores...
Wikipedia U
Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopedia—in which most entries...
Epic in American Culture
Settlement to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking study, Christopher N. Phillips shows in often surprising...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States....
English and Catholic
The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to be English and Catholic was to face persecution, financial penalties, and sometimes death. Yet some English Catholics prospered, reconciling their faith and loyalty to their country. Among the most prominent was George Calvert, a talented and ambitious...