Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Attainment Agenda
State Policy Leadership in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Although the federal government invests substantial resources into student financial aid, states have the primary responsibility for policies that raise overall higher educational attainment and improve equity across groups. The importance of understanding how states may accomplish these goals has...
by Amy E. Slaton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings—little studied by historians of engineering, architecture,...
by Kevin J. Dougherty, Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Seeking greater accountability in higher education, many states have adopted performance funding, tying state financial support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance based on specific outcomes such as student retention, progression, and graduation. Now in place in over...
Free Clinics
Local Responses to Health Care Needs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In community after community, pro bono and student-run health clinics have sprung up over the past 30 years, providing critically needed care to medically underserved populations. Free Clinics is a mosaic formed by accounts of such clinics around the United States. These wide-ranging narratives—from...
by Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."—Albert Einstein
The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just...
Reading Galileo
Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became...
North Korean Nuclear Operationality
Regional Security and Nonproliferation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Despite near-universal opposition to North Korea's moves to acquire nuclear weapons, Pyongyang is determined to succeed. It is only a matter of time before the North Koreans are able to combine their extant nuclear weapons capabilities with a viable delivery system. The threat multiplies in light...
Taking to the Streets
The Transformation of Arab Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Taking to the Streets critically examines the conventional wisdom that the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings happened spontaneously and were directed by tech-savvy young revolutionaries. Pairing first-hand observations from activists with the critical perspectives of scholars, the book illuminates the concept...
by John R. Thelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Picture going to college in the sixties: the protests and marches, the teach-ins and sit-ins, the drugs, sex, and rock 'n’ roll—hip, electric, psychedelic. Not so fast, says bestselling historian John R. Thelin. Even at radicalized campuses, volatile student demonstrations coexisted with the "business...
China's Rising Research Universities
A New Era of Global Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This timely study charts the intentional and accelerated rise of China’s research universities by analyzing how state policy has transformed key institutions. Specifically, it addresses how state initiatives have influenced faculty life and academic culture at these campuses. Based on empirical...
The American Lab
An Insider’s History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Nobel laureate Ernest O. Lawrence and renowned physicist Edward Teller founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1952. A new ideas incubator, the Lab was at the heart of nuclear testing and the development of supercomputers, lasers, and other major technological innovations of the second...
The Two-Body Problem
Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that "the two-body problem" has become a common way of referring to the situation....
Sending Your Millennial to College
A Parent's Guide to Supporting College Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Whether it is knowing when to ground your helicopter or park your snowplow, parenting a college student today means giving them the independence they need to make their own decisions. In this companion to his best-selling Dean's List: Ten Strategies for College Success, John Bader offers up key strategies...
by AAUP
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
For the past century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has developed standards for sound academic practice while working for the acceptance of these standards by the higher education community. The Association has long been viewed as the authoritative voice of the academic...