Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Weekend Pilots
Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
In 1960, 97 percent of private pilots were men. More than half a century later, this figure has barely changed. In Weekend Pilots, Alan Meyer provides an engaging account of the postWorld War II aviation community. Drawing on public records, trade association journals, newspaper accounts, and private...
The Better End
Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions here, too. Through compelling...
Fuels Paradise
Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies—Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States—have sought to enhance their energy security since the oil shocks of the 1970s and in...
The Digital Literary Sphere
Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era—widely discussed and reviewed in online readers’ forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably...
Health Care in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health...
Coal and Empire
The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in...
Marsupial Frogs
Gastrotheca and Allied Genera
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This scientific masterpiece reveals many aspects of the lives of marsupial frogs and closely allied genera. Native to Central and South America, these amphibians differ from other frogs in that they protect their eggs after oviposition by either adhering them to the female’s back or placing them...
Intolerant Bodies
A Short History of Autoimmunity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid...
Dead Tree Media
Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Popular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim that some have taken to calling them "dead tree media" as a way of invoking the medium’s imminent demise. There is a literal truth hidden in this dismissive expression: printed newspapers really are material goods made from...
Facing Empire
Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The contributors to Facing Empire reimagine the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous peoples as distant and passive players in the political struggles of the time, this book argues that they helped create and exploit the volatility that marked...
Four Guardians
A Principled Agent View of American Civil-Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
When the US military confronts pressing security challenges, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps often react differently as they advise and execute civilian defense policies. Conventional wisdom holds that these dynamics tend to reflect a competition for prestige, influence, and dollars. Such...
by Jesse Matz
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope—or the fantasy—at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of stewardship of time, these fictions constitute...
Writing to the World
Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition...
Tears for My Sisters
The Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Millions of women suffer from obstetric fistula, a catastrophic childbirth complication that exists today mainly in the world’s poorest countries. Fistulas are created by the prolonged pressure of the fetal head in the birth canal during obstructed labor, which grievously injures a woman’s bladder,...