Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Science of Conjecture
Evidence and Probability before Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin...
by Charles Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
To be modern is to live not in a single era, but in a churn of new technologies, deep history, myth, literary traditions, and contemporary cultural memes. In Future Perfect, Charles Martin’s darkly comic new collection, the poet explores our time and the times that come before and after, which we...
Burdens of War
Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In the World War I era, veterans fought for a unique right: access to government-sponsored health care. In the process, they built a pillar of American social policy. Burdens of War explores how the establishment of the veterans’ health system marked a reimagining of modern veterans’ benefits...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a peaceful...
Hesiod
Theogony, Works and Days, Shield
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and Days, address the divine and the mundane, respectively. The Theogony traces the origins of the Greek...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2016
Mary Blachford Tighe (1772–1810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805), along with her shorter poems, engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical. With remarkable...
The Large Hadron Collider
The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider (or what scientists call "the LHC") is one of the wonders of the modern world—a highly sophisticated scientific instrument...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude." With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within "a new school of poetry rising of late."
The...
by Beverly Lyon Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor’s 1933 movie; Mark English’s shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo—this time played by Sutton Foster—belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broadway musical flop:...
Literary Executions
Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue...
Distraction
Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Early novel reading typically conjures images of rapt readers in quiet rooms, but commentators at the time described reading as a fraught activity, one occurring amidst a distracting cacophony that included sloshing chamber pots and wailing street vendors. Auditory distractions were compounded by...
Cut These Words into My Stone
Ancient Greek Epitaphs
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Cut These Words into My Stone offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.
Three-year-old Archianax,...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that...
Why the Amish Sing
Songs of Solidarity and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Singing occurs in nearly every setting of Amish life. It is a sanctioned pleasure that frames all Amish rituals and one that enlivens and sanctifies both routine and special events, from household chores, road trips by buggy, and family prayer to baptisms, youth group gatherings, weddings, and "single...