Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British...
Torture and State Violence in the United States
A Short Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The war on terror has brought to light troubling actions by the United States government which many claim amount to torture. But as this book shows, state-sanctioned violence and degrading, cruel, and unusual punishments have a long and contentious history in the nation.
Organized around five...
The Fate of the Revolution
Virginians Debate the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In May 1788, the roads into Richmond overflowed with horses and stagecoaches. From every county, specially elected representatives made their way to the capital city for the Virginia Ratification Convention. Together, these delegates—zealous advocates selected by Virginia’s deadlocked citizens—would...
Parkinson's Disease
A Complete Guide for Patients and Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new medications, have significantly improved the lives of people who have Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, patients and families continue to face many challenges. They have long relied on this book for reliable advice about medical, emotional,...
A Loving Approach to Dementia Care
Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia or Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however—and that is where A Loving Approach to Dementia Care can help. The book offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming...
Leaving without Losing
The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
As the United States withdraws its combat troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, politicians, foreign policy specialists, and the public are worrying about the consequences of leaving these two countries. Neither nation can be considered stable, and progress toward democracy in them—a principal aim of...
Suing Alma Mater
Higher Education and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Although much has been written about U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving higher education, little has been said about the foundational case law and litigation patterns emerging from the lower courts. As universities become increasingly legislated, regulated, and litigious, campuses have become...
On the Other Hand
Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmatized. In On the Other Hand, Howard I. Kushner traces the impact of left-handedness on human cognition, behavior, culture, and health.
A left-hander...
More Than Hot
A Short History of Fever
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression...
Artificial Hearts
The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century American medical community’s view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this...
The Class of '74
Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In November 1974, following the historic Watergate scandal, Americans went to the polls determined to cleanse American politics. Instead of producing the Republican majority foreshadowed by Richard Nixon’s 1972 landslide, dozens of GOP legislators were swept out of the House, replaced by 76 reforming...
Civil-Military Relations and Shared Responsibility
A Four-Nation Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Dale R. Herspring considers the factors that allow some civilian and military organizations to operate more productively in a political context than others, bringing into comparative study for the first time the military organizations of the U.S., Russia, Germany, and Canada. Refuting the work of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Crustaceans—familiar to the average person as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, krill, barnacles, and their many relatives—are easily one of the most important and diverse groups of marine life. Poorly understood, they are among the most numerous invertebrates on earth. Most crustaceans start life as eggs...
Reproduction in Mammals
The Female Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Newborn mammals can weigh as little as a dime or as much as a motorcycle. Some receive milk for only a few days, whereas others nurse for years. Humans typically have only one baby at a time following nine months of pregnancy, but other mammals have twenty or more young after only a few weeks in utero....