Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Making the Moments Count is a valuable resource for professional caregivers and volunteers, and for family and friends who provide care for a loved one, whether in the home or in an institutional setting.

He then draws parallels between the expression of kinship and covenant among the Israelites and that practiced by other ancient societies, as well as in primitive societies.

Named one of the Ten Best Books about New York City by the New York Times

Melnick, University of Oregon; Patricia M. O'Donnell, Historic Preservation Consultant, Charlotte, Vermont; David Schuyler, Franklin & Marshall College

This study explores how the professionalization of planning affected practice and how the idea of decentralization became a major force in shaping the environment and on the process of community building. The book uses Los Angeles as a case study, revealing its national implications.

In Nadler's account, Mithnagdism emerges as a highly developed religious outlook that is essentially conservative, deeply dualistic, and profoundly pessimistic about humanity's spiritual potential-all in stark contrast to Hasidism's optimism and aggressive encouragement of mysticism and religious rapture among its followers.

A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.

In Heuretics-a word defined as "the branch of logic that treats the art of discovery or invention"-Gregory Ulmer sets forth new methods appropriate for conducting cultural studies research in an age of electronic hypermedia.

The book draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators as they articulate and reflect on the social, economic, political, and ideological contexts in which they work and the multiple influences on their professional and personal lives.

Examining the role of law in promoting social change, Bumiller contends that antidiscrimination law has perpetuated victimization. She describes why the social identity of victims reinforces their sense of powerlessness, and reveals failure of legal action to address sexual and racial oppression.

Sebeok, and others.

Historian Margaret A Lowe examines the process by which women at Cornell University, Smith College, and Spelman College emancipated themselves between 1875 and 1950, creating models of "body image."

Seeking to explain why these dreams were not realized, Stephen Aron shows us what did happen during Kentucky's tumultuous passage from Daniel Boone's world to Henry Clay's.

Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage-asking if the Jewish people, having already endured so much, will survive America's freedom and affluence as well.

She examines the works of Chartist poets, dialect writers, and two "factory girlpoets who wrote about their experiences in the mills.

Written by a thoughtful critic of the historical profession, Objectivity Is Not Neutrality calls upon historians to think deeply about the nature of historical explanation and to acknowledge more fully than ever before the theoretical dimension of their work.

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Explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. This collection of essays is suitable for historians of medicine and public health as well as health policy analysts, medical sociologists and anthropologists, and medical researchers and practitioners.

In so doing, he transforms the way we see our world and revitalizes our ability to change it for the better.

Drawing heavily on Pasteur's own scientific notebooks and writings, Debre presents a complete critical account of his discoveries and the controversies they raised with other scientists and occasionally with his closest associates.

Brilliantly written and thoroughly researched, Dickens provides an absorbing and perceptive account of its subject as a singularly complex man and a consummate artist, offering readers new insights into Dickens's-and literature's-greatest works, works such as Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Oliver Twist.

The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement.

Her research recovers the specific concerns of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South, broadening our understanding of the evolution of preventive medicine in the United States.

The end of the Cold War and the global advance of democracy have altered security evironments of many of the world's militaries. This volume examines questions of civil-military relations and democracy as they relate to Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Next, four critics examine production of cultural objects: Fernando Unzueta investigates novels; Sara Castro-Klaren, archeology and folklore; Gustavo Verdesio, suppression of unwanted archeological evidence; and Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan, national literary histories and international expositions.

The essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.

, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Rick Surpin, Independence Care System.

Red Feminism provides a more complex view of the history of the modern women's movement, showing how key Communist activists came to understand gender, sexism, and race as central components of culture, economics, and politics in American society.