Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Born in the Country
A History of Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Throughout most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and still is the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully...
Teaching Online
A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
It is difficult to imagine a college class today that does not include some online component—whether a simple posting of a syllabus to course management software, the use of social media for communication, or a full-blown course offering through a MOOC platform. In Teaching Online, Claire Howell...
Chickenizing Farms and Food
How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization—big agriculture’s...
Is Graduate School Really for You?
The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master's or Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Landing a job in today's academic job market is no easy feat. Is graduate school the answer? This informed and candid book provides anyone thinking about pursuing an advanced degree—and those who support them—with the inside scoop on what to expect in graduate school.
Amanda I. Seligman...
Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple
Global Discord in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Just what exactly will follow the American century? This is the question Randall L. Schweller explores in his provocative assessment of international politics in the twenty-first century.
Schweller considers the future of world politics, correlating our reliance on technology and our multitasking,...
Aging Together
Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age—roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.
Susan H. McFadden and John...
Golf by the Numbers
How Stats, Math, and Physics Affect Your Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
How do the world’s greatest golfers improve their game? Practice, sure, but Roland Minton says mathematics and statistics are also key to their success. Golf by the Numbers analyzes the mathematical strategies behind the sport, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how numbers drive the game.
Computers,...
by Richard (Buz) Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients...
The Case of the Green Turtle
An Uncensored History of a Conservation Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The journals of early maritime explorers traversing the Atlantic Ocean often describe swarms of sea turtles, once a plentiful source of food. Many populations had been decimated by the 1950s, when Archie Carr and others raised public awareness of their plight. One species, the green turtle, has been...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
This volume initiates a much-needed conversation about the ethical and policy concerns facing health care providers in the rural United States. Although 21 percent of the population lives in rural areas, only 11 percent of physicians practice there. What challenges do health care workers face in remote...
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, "Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else!" With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports,...
Home Fires
How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs...
Making Tobacco Bright
Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant’s many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation.
Hahn focuses her study on the most popular...
by Robert A. Rhoads
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs)...