Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Mammals of Mexico is the first reference book in English on the more than 500 types of mammal species found in the diverse Mexican habitats, which range from the Sonoran Desert to the Chiapas cloud forests. The authoritative species accounts are written by a Who’s Who of experts compiled by famed...
Mountain Lions of the Black Hills
History and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Mountain lions, sometimes called pumas or cougars, were once spread throughout the United States, occupying all 48 of the contiguous states. By the 1960s, though, they were almost extinct in central and eastern North America. In Mountain Lions of the Black Hills, Dr. Jonathan A. Jenks, who, along...
From Playgrounds to PlayStation
The Interaction of Technology and Play
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, senior historian of technology Carroll Pursell poses a simple but interesting question: What can we learn by studying the relationship between technology and play?
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The adage "think globally but act locally" defines the work of American wildlife professionals. Their contributions, from remote outposts to major cities, guard the natural world of the entire country. In State Wildlife Management and Conservation, Thomas J. Ryder brings together wildlife...
by David B. Snyder, George H. Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
The most comprehensive book about Florida's marine fishes ever produced, Marine Fishes of Florida includes hundreds of photographs and descriptions of species you'll encounter—plus many that are rare—when diving, snorkeling, kayaking, or fishing. Coverage includes both the Atlantic and Gulf coastline,...
by Maiah Jaskoski
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Military Politics and Democracy in the Andes challenges conventional theories regarding military behavior in post-transition democracies. Through a deeply researched comparative analysis of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian armies, Maiah Jaskoski argues that militaries are concerned more with the predictability...
Finding Your Emotional Balance
A Guide for Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others, trying to keep everyone happy while taking care of parents, spouses, and children. Sometimes, doing it all is doing too much.
In Finding Your Emotional...
Proving Ground
Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists,...
Origins of Intelligence
The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case for using human development theory (both Piagetian and neo-Piagetian)...
Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal
Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1991
The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous shipyards. This is the social history of the men and...
by David Joyner, Marshall Hampton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
David Joyner and Marshall Hampton's lucid textbook explains differential equations using the free and open-source mathematical software Sage.
Since its release in 2005, Sage has acquired a substantial following among mathematicians, but its first user was Joyner, who is credited with helping...
Hydrocarbon Nation
How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions—industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification—drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military potential.
Each...
The Cybernetics Moment
Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine...
The Electric Vehicle
Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car—neither a recent invention...