Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
by Michael L. Power, Jay Schulkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As the active interface of the most biologically intimate connection between two living organisms, a mother and her fetus, the placenta is crucial to human evolution and survival. Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin explore the more than 100 million years of evolution that led to the human placenta...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
For decades, the creationist movement was primarily situated in the United States. Then, in the 1970s, American creationists found their ideas welcomed abroad, first in Australia and New Zealand, then in Korea, India, South Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere—including Europe, where creationism plays...
The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino
Understanding the Roman Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus’s passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed...
Andrew Jackson
The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1998
Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume...
The Poetry of Weldon Kees
Vanishing as Presence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though...
Small Wild Cats
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Did you know that most wild cat species are small and that lions, tigers, and other large cats are the exception? That adult bobcats, clouded leopards, and other small wild cats are completely asocial? And that they fight only as a last resort? This entertaining and informative book reveals these...
Revolution and Resistance
Moral Revolution, Military Might, and the End of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In this provocative history, David Tucker argues that "irregular warfare"—including terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and other insurgency tactics—is intimately linked to the rise and decline of Euro-American empire around the globe. Tracing the evolution of resistance warfare from the age...
Mobilizing Democracy
Globalization and Citizen Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against...
by George Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A deanship in higher education is an exciting but complex job combining technical administration and academic leadership. On one hand, the dean is an institutional leader, standing up for the faculty, staff, and students. On the other, the dean is a middle manager, managing personnel, curriculum,...
Prelude to Revolution
The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercantile and fiscal policies, they had to believe that they could stand up to the fully armed British soldier. Prelude to Revolution uncovers one story of how the...
Science and Religion
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Since its publication in 2002, Science and Religion has proven to be a widely admired survey of the complex relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the Christian era to the late twentieth century. In the second edition, eleven new essays expand the scope and enhance...
Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today’s expecting parents to choose to test prenatally...
The Bleeding Disease
Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
By the 1970s, a therapeutic revolution, decades in the making, had transformed hemophilia from an obscure hereditary malady into a manageable bleeding disorder. Yet the glory of this achievement was short lived. The same treatments that delivered some normalcy to the lives of persons with hemophilia...
Africa and Global Health Governance
Domestic Politics and International Structures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over the local structure and authority of the countries in which they work. Far from powerless, however, African states play complex roles in...