Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Black Skyscraper
Architecture and the Perception of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
With the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Tall buildings emerged in growing cities to house and manage the large and racially diverse populations of migrants and immigrants flocking to their centers following...
Why Mars
NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Mars has captured the human imagination for decades. Since NASA’s establishment in 1958, the space agency has looked to Mars as a compelling prize, the one place, beyond the Moon, where robotic and human exploration could converge. Remarkably successful with its roaming multi-billion-dollar robot,...
Performing China
Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through...
Genealogical Fictions
Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel’s relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience...
by Leslie Tomory
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth...
Making Computers Accessible
Disability Rights and Digital Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind man expressed interest: One of the frustrating...
Encountering Ellis Island
How European Immigrants Entered America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal...
Ten Lessons in Public Health
Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer’s epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, Ten Lessons in Public Health is more than the story of one man’s work. It tells the tale of how...
Broken Hearts
The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics...
by Robert T. Maupin Jr., MD FACOG, Rebecca A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
What happens when vote buying becomes a means of social policy? Although one could cynically ask this question just as easily about the United States’s mature democracy, Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond ask this question about democracies in the developing world through an assessment of political...
by Sean P. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of shedding its limbs. The 60-plus species of snakes found in Sean P. Graham's American Snakes have this ancestral journey to thank for their ubiquity, diversity, and beauty. Although...
Renegade Amish
Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish neighbor, Mrs. Miller opened the door to her five estranged adult sons, a daughter, and their spouses. It wasn’t a friendly visit. Within moments, the...