Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The diamond-backed terrapin is not only a uniquely evolved and beautiful turtle, it also has a long history as a vital American food source. Once so numerous that people reportedly grew tired of eating them, diamond-backed terrapins are greatly reduced in numbers today and have become an icon of salt...
Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The concept of "shifting baselines"—changes in historical reference points used in environmental assessments—illuminates a foundational challenge when evaluating the health of ecosystems and seeking to restore degraded wildlife populations. In this important book, Victor S. Kennedy examines...
Controversial Bodies
Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Controversial, fascinating, disturbing, and often beautiful, plastinated human bodies—such as those found at Body Worlds exhibitions throughout the world—have gripped the public's imagination. These displays have been lauded as educational, sparked protests, and drawn millions of visitors. This...
Walker's Mammals of the World
Monotremes, Marsupials, Afrotherians, Xenarthrans, and Sundatherians
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Since its first publication in 1964, Walker's Mammals of the World has become a favorite guide to the natural world for general readers and professionals alike. This new Walker's volume is a completely revised and updated compendium of information on five of the earliest clades to diverge from ancient...
Dear Parents
A Field Guide for College Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Written for parents and families of college-bound students, Jon McGee’s Dear Parents is an essential tool you’ll need to navigate the complex and often emotional challenge of getting your daughter or son prepared for—and through—college. Organized chronologically, the book takes readers through...
Patently Mathematical
Picking Partners, Passwords, and Careers by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
How do dating sites match compatible partners? What do cell phones and sea coasts have in common? And why do computer scientists keep ant colonies? Jeff Suzuki answers these questions and more in Patently Mathematical, which explores the mathematics behind some of the key inventions that have changed...
by Paul J. Croce
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
During a period of vocational indecision and deep depression, young William James embarked on a circuitous journey, trying out natural history field work, completing medical school, and studying ancient cultures before teaching physiological psychology on his way to becoming a philosopher. A century...
The Chesapeake in Focus
Transforming the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake Bay. In the centuries that followed, the Bay changed vastly—and not for the better. European landowners and enslaved Africans slashed, burned, and cleared the surrounding forests to grow tobacco. Watermen...
Peripheral Neuropathy
What It Is and What You Can Do to Feel Better
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Nearly one in fifteen people—that's 20 million people in the United States—suffers from peripheral neuropathy, or nerve damage. Caused by such conditions as diabetes, cancer, vitamin deficiencies, and kidney disease as well as certain drugs and toxins, neuropathy brings numbness, tingling, and...
Nature's Calendar
A Year in the Life of a Wildlife Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Flocks of waterfowl exploding into steely skies above frozen marshland, salamanders creeping across the forest floor to vernal pools, chorusing frogs peeping their ecstasy while warblers crowd budding trees, turtles sunning on floating logs, the ecological engineering of beavers—these are but a...
by Adrianne Harun
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
It’s all about loss. Don’t kid yourself. Even a simple game of catch is hinged on the moment the ball leaves the glove, the moment it returns. Don’t even try to think this story or any other story is about something else.
In Catch, Release, Adrianne Harun’s second story collection,...
Pure Products of America, Inc.
A Narrative Poem
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This propulsive narrative poem tells the extended story of the popular born-again televangelist Ray Bob Elray—better known to all his fans as Big Bubba—his twin sons, Nick and Jesse, and his niece and adopted daughter, Donna.
The comic tragedy of Big Bubba’s family begins to unfold when...
Sublime Noise
Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How—and why—did...
by Richard Burgin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin’s stories have been praised by the New York Times Book Review as "eerily funny, dexterous, and too haunting to be easily forgotten," with "characters of such variety that no generalizations about them can apply." In Don’t Think,...