Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Inventing Iron Man
The Possibility of a Human Machine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Tony Stark has been battling bad guys and protecting innocent civilians since he first donned his mechanized armor in the 1963 debut of Iron Man in Marvel Comics. Over the years, Stark’s suit has allowed him to smash through walls, fly through the air like a human jet, control a bewildering array...
Overcoming Destructive Anger
Strategies That Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Uncontrolled anger can be devastating, yet many people with serious anger issues don’t know how to change their behavior. In Overcoming Destructive Anger, psychologist Bernard Golden, an anger management specialist, offers concrete tools for turning destructive anger into healthy anger.
Dr....
Waterfront Manhattan
From Henry Hudson to the High Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country’s center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world’s busiest...
by Rubén Gallo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rubén Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maximilian as emperor...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education—including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property—is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful...
by George M. Hornberger, Patricia L. Wiberg, Jeffrey P. Raffensperger
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Among the many diverse aspects of environmental science, none is more critical to the future of society and nature than water. Understanding the role of water on Earth and making good decisions regarding water conservation and hydrological hazards depends on learning the fundamentals of physical hydrology....
Mapping Disease Transmission Risk
Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A. Townsend Peterson, one of the pioneers of ecological niche modeling, presents a synthesis that illuminates new and more effective infectious disease mapping methods. His work—the culmination of twelve years of refinement—breaks new ground by integrating biogeographic and ecological factors...
by Mark Golden
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of...
Starfish
Biology and Ecology of the Asteroidea
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Among the most fascinating animals in the world’s oceans are the more than 2,000 species of starfish. Called "Asteroids" by scientists who study them (after their taxonomic name, Asteroidea)—or sea stars in some parts of the world—starfish are easily recognized because of their star-like...
Reflections on Uneven Democracies
The Legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to democracy. No one in the field was more influential than Guillermo O’Donnell (1936–2011), whose...
Democracy's Double-Edged Sword
How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media grows omnipresent, it becomes more important for political scientists and communication scholars to understand its influence on all aspects of the political process,...
Democratic Transitions
Conversations with World Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
National leaders who played key roles in transitions to democratic governance reveal how these were accomplished in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. Commissioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International...
Tensor Calculus for Physics
A Concise Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Understanding tensors is essential for any physics student dealing with phenomena where causes and effects have different directions. A horizontal electric field producing vertical polarization in dielectrics; an unbalanced car wheel wobbling in the vertical plane while spinning about a horizontal...
The Environment
A History of the Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors...