Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
A Fractured Profession
Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The commercialization of research is one of the most significant contemporary features of US higher education, yet we know surprisingly little about how scientists perceive and experience commercial rewards. A Fractured Profession is the first book to systematically examine the implications of commercialization...
Undisciplining Knowledge
Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Interdisciplinarity—or the interrelationships among distinct fields, disciplines, or branches of knowledge in pursuit of new answers to pressing problems—is one of the most contested topics in higher education today. Some see it as a way to break down the silos of academic departments and foster...
The Athletic Trap
How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors...
Uncompromising Activist
Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US...
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
Professionalization and the Modern American University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in...
The Provost's Handbook
The Role of the Chief Academic Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administration’s spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has...
Rebellion in Black and White
Southern Student Activism in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Rebellion in Black and White offers a panoramic view of southern student activism in the 1960s. Original scholarly essays demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world peace, gender equity, sexual liberation, Black Power, and the personal...
Becoming an Academic
How to Get through Grad School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the university...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Intercollegiate athletics continue to bedevil American higher education. At once tied closely with their institutions, athletic programs often operate outside the traditional university governance structure while contributing significantly to a school’s culture, identity, and financial outlook....
Generous Thinking
A Radical Approach to Saving the University
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities—the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation—are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative...
Professorial Pathways
Academic Careers in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great "brain race" as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized university—one that has radically expanded,...
by Scott Haltzman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Along with changes in the workplace and the explosive growth of electronic communications, there has been a skyrocketing rate of infidelity. Today, up to forty percent of American marriages endure the pain of a cheating partner. The media is filled with stories of married politicians finding their...
by Massimo Mazzotti
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular...
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era—which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression—there was a special belligerence to...