Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
by Anne Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Each year, more than 500,000 people are diagnosed with dementia in the United States. As stunning as that figure is, countless family members and caregivers are also affected by each diagnosis. Families are faced with the need to make vital end-of-life decisions about medical treatment, legal and...
Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long...
Hysterectomy
Exploring Your Options
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many disorders...
The Science of Navigation
From Dead Reckoning to GPS
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In today’s world of online maps and travel directions delivered wirelessly to hand-held devices, getting from place to place requires little thought from most of us—which is a good thing, since accurate navigation can be tricky. Get your bearings with Mark Denny—an expert at explaining scientific...
Freedom's Laboratory
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom’s Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes...
Combating Proliferation
Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems—and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments—illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment,...
National Security through a Cockeyed Lens
How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, National Security through a Cockeyed Lens.
Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research...
Respiratory Physiology of Newborn Mammals
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Respiratory Physiology of Newborn Mammals: A Comparative Perspective emphasizes common trends among mammalian species in an effort to extract general rules about both the structure and the mechanisms of neonatal respiration. Jacopo P. Mortola outlines the key aspects of developmental respiratory physiology...
North Atlantic Right Whales
From Hunted Leviathan to Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of whales. Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean products. To meet this growing demand,...
Concepts of Alzheimer Disease
Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, history, ethics, and health policy, Concepts of Alzheimer Disease looks at the ways in which Alzheimer...
Your Child's Teeth
A Complete Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Children's dental health involves much more than a toothbrush. Dental disease is the number one chronic childhood illness, and avoiding dental disease means paying scrupulous attention to our children's teeth.
In Your Child's Teeth, health writers Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss...
Eating Disorders
A Guide to Medical Care and Complications
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In this new edition of their best-selling work, Drs. Philip S. Mehler and Arnold E. Andersen provide a user-friendly and comprehensive guide to treating and managing eating disorders for primary care physicians, mental health professionals, worried family members and friends, and nonmedical professionals...
by Henry Segerman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Wouldn’t it be great to experience three-dimensional ideas in three dimensions? In this book—the first of its kind—mathematician and mathematical artist Henry Segerman takes readers on a fascinating tour of two-, three-, and four-dimensional mathematics, exploring Euclidean and non-Euclidean...
by Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through...