Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books

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Weekend Pilots

Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America

by Alan Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private...
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The Better End

Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World

by Dan Morhaim, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions here, too. Through compelling...
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Fuels Paradise

Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States

by John S. Duffield
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in...
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The Digital Literary Sphere

Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era

by Simone Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably...
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by John C. Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health...
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Coal and Empire

The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America

by Peter A. Shulman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in...
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Marsupial Frogs

Gastrotheca and Allied Genera

by William E. Duellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

This scientific masterpiece reveals many aspects of the lives of marsupial frogs and closely allied genera. Native to Central and South America, these amphibians differ from other frogs in that they protect their eggs after oviposition by either adhering them to the female’s back or placing them...
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Intolerant Bodies

A Short History of Autoimmunity

by Warwick Anderson, Ian R. Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014

Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid...
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Dead Tree Media

Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America

by Michael Stamm
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

Popular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them "dead tree media" as a way of invoking the medium’s imminent demise. There is a literal truth hidden in this dismissive expression: printed newspapers really are material goods made from...
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Facing Empire

Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

The contributors to Facing Empire reimagine the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous peoples as distant and passive players in the political struggles of the time, this book argues that they helped create and exploit the volatility that marked...
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Four Guardians

A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations

by Jeffrey W. Donnithorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

When the US military confronts pressing security challenges, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps often react differently as they advise and execute civilian defense policies. Conventional wisdom holds that these dynamics tend to reflect a competition for prestige, influence, and dollars. Such...
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by Jesse Matz
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018

Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope—or the fantasy—at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of stewardship of time, these fictions constitute...
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Writing to the World

Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres

by Rachael Scarborough King
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition...
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Tears for My Sisters

The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula

by L. Lewis Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

Millions of women suffer from obstetric fistula, a catastrophic childbirth complication that exists today mainly in the world’s poorest countries. Fistulas are created by the prolonged pressure of the fetal head in the birth canal during obstructed labor, which grievously injures a woman’s bladder,...
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