Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Psychiatric Polarities
Methodology and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this companion volume to their widely acclaimed Perspectives of Psychiatry, Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., and Paul R. McHugh, M.D., argue that the discontinuity of brain and mind is the source of much of psychiatry’s discord, for it leads psychiatrists to think about their discipline in terms of...
Teaching Machines
Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate...
Cyberformalism
Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Linguistic forms are essential to meaning: like words, they make a semantic contribution to the things we say. We inherit them from past writers and speakers and fill them with different words to produce novel utterances. They shape us and the ways we interpret the world. Yet prevalent assumptions...
Science and Technology in World History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as "applied science" emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began...
by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this pathbreaking study Jeffrey L. Rubenstein reconstructs the cultural milieu of the rabbinic academy that produced the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, which quickly became the authoritative text of rabbinic Judaism and remains so to this day. Unlike the rabbis who had earlier produced the shorter...
Maryland
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
In 1634, two ships carrying a small group of settlers sailed into the Chesapeake Bay looking for a suitable place to dwell in the new colony of Maryland. The landscape confronting the pioneers bore no resemblance to their native country. They found no houses, no stores or markets, churches, schools,...
Otherworldly Politics
The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In Otherworldly Politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television shows: Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica.
Dyson explains how these shows offer alternative histories and future possibilities for humanity. Fascinated...
by Cathy Caruth
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance. At the heart of each chapter is the enigma...
by Nathan D. Grawe
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Higher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a result, the Northeast and Midwest—traditional higher education strongholds—expect to lose 5 percent of their college-aged...
Miseducation
A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Ignorance, or the study of ignorance, is having a moment. Ignorance plays a powerful role in shaping public opinion, channeling our politics, and even directing scholarly research. The first collection of essays to grapple with the historical interplay between education and ignorance, Miseducation...
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory.
David J. Lorenzo’s...
by Rachel Ahern Knudsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Traditionally, Homer's epics have been the domain of scholars and students interested in ancient Greek poetry, and Aristotle's rhetorical theory has been the domain of those interested in ancient rhetoric. Rachel Ahern Knudsen believes that this academic distinction between poetry and rhetoric should...
by Christopher Darnton
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Christopher Darnton’s comparative study of the nature of conflict between Latin American states during the Cold War, provides a counterintuitive and shrewd explanation of why diplomacy does or doesn’t work. Specifically, he develops a theory...
Democracy Delayed
The Case of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts and international relations scholars expected communist Cuba to undergo transitions to democracy and to markets as had the Eastern European nations of the former Soviet bloc. But more than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall,...