Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Austerity Blues
Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating...
by John V. Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United States. John V. Lombardi gives readers an insider’s view of the academy, describing the structure, logic, dynamics, and operational styles of both public...
College Athletes’ Rights and Well-Being
Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
College athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely...
Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs
Finding Common Cause
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Scholars, Policymakers, and International Affairs shows how to build mutually beneficial connections between the worlds of ideas and action, analysis and policy. Drawing on contributions from top international scholars with policy experience in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Latin America,...
by Philip G. Altbach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider...
Dean's List
Ten Strategies for College Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
All of your hard work in high school has paid off: you have a solid GPA, numerous extracurricular achievements to your name, and an acceptance letter from an excellent college. Now what? What can you expect from the college experience, and how can you get the most out of it? This book will answer...
Piers Plowman
The A Version
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The fourteenth-century Piers Plowman is one of the most influential poems from the Age of Chaucer. Following the character Will on his quest for the true Christian life, the three dream narratives that make up this work address a number of pressing political, social, moral, and educational issues...
Children's Medicines
What Every Parent, Grandparent, and Teacher Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Most parents have worried about the side effects and possible long-term consequences of administering a particular medication to their child. The medication may be available over-the-counter, like cough syrup, or it may be prescribed by a doctor, like an antibiotic. Parents want to know: Is the medication...
Postsecondary Play
The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The college application process—which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and deadlines—can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney, Tracy Fullerton, and their teams...
by Jeremy Braddock
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression—the art collection, the anthology, and the archive—and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.
Using extensive archival research, Braddock's...
Alfred Wegener
Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Alfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at the University of Berlin, Wegener found himself drawn not to observatory science but to rugged fieldwork, which allowed...
Maryland Geography
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
When he first laid eyes on the countryside around Chesapeake Bay in 1608, records reveal, Captain John Smith exclaimed, "Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation." In Maryland Geography, James DiLisio—another admirer of the Free State—pays...
Cheating in College
Why Students Do It and What Educators Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating.
The...
Getting to Graduation
The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently...