Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
by John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, John T. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable...
Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans
The Politics of Everyday Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima...
Slap Shot Science
A Curious Fan's Guide to Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
From the moment the first player steps onto the ice, every conceivable principle of science is in play. To understand hockey—fully understand it—Alain Haché argues that you must first learn how ice reacts to a passing blade, how the trajectory and aerodynamics of the puck affect its chances of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
As the average age of the U.S. population continues to increase, age-related policies have come under intense scrutiny, sparking heated debates. In the past, older people were seen as a frail, dependent population, but major policies enacted or expanded on their behalf have made them major players...
Pluralism by Default
Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Pluralism by Default explores sources of political contestation in the former Soviet Union and beyond. Lucan Way proposes that pluralism in "new democracies" is often grounded less in democratic leadership or emerging civil society and more in the failure of authoritarianism. Dynamic competition...
The States and Public Higher Education Policy
Affordability, Access, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education—and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues.
As students and their...
Creative Destruction?
Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Throughout the twentieth century, financial shocks toppled democratic and authoritarian regimes across Latin America. But things began to change in the 1980s. This volume explains why this was the case in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
Taking a comparative historical approach, Francisco E....
Introduction to US Health Policy
The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews...
Reading the Market
Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Americans pay famously close attention to "the market," obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift...
Bureaucratic Ambition
Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations....
American Workers, American Unions
The Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
Taking into account recent important work...
Grand Central's Engineer
William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Few people have had as profound an impact on the history of New York City as William J. Wilgus. As chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, Wilgus conceived the Grand Central Terminal, the city’s magnificent monument to America’s Railway Age. Kurt C. Schlichting here examines the remarkable...
Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France
The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country’s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course...
Silicosis
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Despite the common perception that "black lung" has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now...