Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Speaking Honestly with Sick and Dying Children and Adolescents
Unlocking the Silence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Talking openly with sick and dying children about their illness is always difficult and often agonizing. It is honesty, however, that these children deserve and need. Dietrich Niethammer, a prominent pediatric oncologist, explains why it is so important to speak frankly and respectfully to young patients...
Coxsackie
The Life and Death of Prison Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Should prisons attempt reform and uplift inmates or, by means of principled punishment, deter them from further wrongdoing? This debate has raged in Western Europe and in the United States at least since the late eighteenth century.
Joseph F. Spillane examines the failure of progressive reform...
The Coming of Democracy
Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
After the "corrupt bargain" that awarded John Quincy Adams the presidency in 1825, American politics underwent a fundamental shift from deference to participation. This changing tide eventually propelled Andrew Jackson into the White House—twice. But the presidential race that best demonstrated...
Geopolitics in Health
Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In recent years, political leaders in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as the BRICS, have worked to reformulate international discussions and policies on issues ranging from fair and free trade to human rights. When it comes to health epidemics, however, the BRICS...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align...
The Textbook and the Lecture
Education in the Age of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech future, but by examining a well-documented past—a...
Sharks of the Shallows
Coastal Species in Florida and the Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Agile, sleek, and precise, sharks display many qualities we can admire and appreciate. These marvels of evolution have adapted to thrive in every major aquatic realm on the planet, from frigid Arctic waters through temperate but stormy seas and on into the tropics. However, few places on Earth are...
Wildlife Habitat Conservation
Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
"Habitat" is probably the most common term in ecological research. Elementary school students are introduced to the term, college students study the concept in depth, hunters make their plans based on it, nature explorers chat about the different types, and land managers spend enormous time...
Ornithology
Foundation, Analysis, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Aves, the birds, is the wildlife group that people most frequently encounter. With over 10,000 species worldwide, these animals are part of our everyday experience. They are also the focus of intense research, and their management and conservation is a subject of considerable effort throughout the...
by Jaimie Bleck
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Primary school enrollment has nearly tripled in Mali since 1991, when the country made its first transition to multiparty democracy. Jaimie Bleck explores the effect of this expanded access to education by analyzing the relationship between parents’ and students’ respective experiences with schooling...
by Linda Farber Post, Jeffrey Blustein
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees...
Privateering
Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
During the War of 1812, most clashes on the high seas involved privately owned merchant ships, not official naval vessels. Licensed by their home governments and considered key weapons of maritime warfare, these ships were authorized to attack and seize enemy traders. Once the prizes were legally...
Science and Religion
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Written by distinguished historians of science and religion, the thirty essays in this volume survey the relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the Christian era to the late twentieth century. This wide-ranging collection also introduces a variety of approaches...
Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
From the Greek Fathers to the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the literature in the history and philosophy of science and religion in Western civilization. Science and Eastern Orthodoxy is a departure from that vast body...