Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Licensed to Practice
The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Licensed to Practice begins with an 1891 shooting in Wheeling, West Virginia, that left one doctor dead and another on trial for his life. Formerly close friends, the doctors had fallen out over the issue of medical licensing. Historian James C. Mohr calls the murder "a sorry personal consequence...
Medicine and Religion
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian...
Courtrooms and Classrooms
A Legal History of College Access, 1860−1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that American courts historically deferred to institutions of higher learning in most matters involving student conduct and access. Historian Scott M. Gelber upends this theory, arguing that colleges and universities never really enjoyed an overriding judicial privilege.
Focusing...
Maternal Megalomania
Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Ancient authors emphasize dramatic moments in the life of Julia Domna, wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). They accuse her of ambition unforgivable in a woman, of instigating civil war to place her sons on the throne, and of resorting to incest to maintain her hold on power. In imperial...
Information at Sea
Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC). Data about friendly and enemy forces pour into this nerve center, contributing to command decisions about firing, maneuvering, and coordinating. Timothy S. Wolters has written the first book to investigate the history of the CIC...
Light It Up
The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
American military power in the War on Terror has increasingly depended on the capacity to see the enemy. The act of seeing—enhanced by electronic and digital technologies—has separated shooter from target, eliminating risk of bodily harm to the remote warrior, while YouTube videos eroticize pulling...
War Isn't the Only Hell
A New Reading of World War I American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army’s unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men—except, notoriously, African Americans—to positions and ranks...
Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a thinly cloaked fascination...
Pacifists in Chains
The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment "thou shalt not kill" and Jesus’s admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of four young men—Joseph Hofer,...
by Nancy Easterlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation.
Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still...
American Crossings
Border Politics in the Western Hemisphere
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
In summer 2014, US agencies responsible for the border with Mexico were overwhelmed by tens of thousands of unaccompanied children arriving from Central America. Unprepared to address this unexpected kind of migrant, the US government deployed troops to carry out a new border mission: the feeding,...
Calming Your Anxious Child
Words to Say and Things to Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Ten million children in the United States—two million of them preschoolers—suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents’ sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks such as brushing...
by Eric J. Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Child and family psychotherapist Eric J. Green draws on years of clinical experience to explain his original model of Jungian play therapy. The empathic techniques he illuminates in The Handbook of Jungian Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents can effectively treat children who are traumatized...
Metaphors of Mind
An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
An encyclopedic dictionary along the lines of Voltaire’s classic Dictionnaire Philosophique, Metaphors of Mind provides an in-depth look at the myriad ways in which Enlightenment writers used figures of speech to characterize the mind. Drawn from Brad Pasanek’s massive online archive, http://metaphorized.net,...