Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

A foundational text of the leading school of law in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.

Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, Roeber's study of German-American settlements and their ideas about liberty and property provides an unprecedented view of how non-English culture and beliefs made their way from Europe to America.

The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats-including increased student violence and competition from religious schools-ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to build the space shuttle, McCurdy shows how public officials responsible for long-term science and technology policy maneuvered in a political system that demanded short-term flexibility.

"A timely and well-conceived collection of six essays that contributes to the history of the growth of the modern American state by focusing on the development of bureaucracies in selected areas of public policy since 1945."--'Perspective'

Schulz, Brandeis University; Michael Sherraden, Washington University; Alvar Svanborg, University of Illinois-Chicago and Goteburg University, Sweden; Brent A. Taylor, San Diego State University

Reverby. Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale

Now in paperback, In the Crevice of Time brings together 176 new and previously published poems by one of the most accomplished and most widely acclaimed poets of our time.

In American Anticommunism Heale examines the various forms American reactions to this perceived threat have taken, from the attacks on workers in the Haymarket Riot to the widespread "witch huntsof Senator Joe McCarthy.

He calls on baby boomers to create institutional structures that promote productive, vital growth for the common good, and he invites people of all ages to think more boldly about what they will do with the long lives ahead of them.

Bioethics in a Liberal Society is essential reading for all those interested in understanding how bioethics is practiced within our society.

His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm.

Monteiro.

Sunflowers drenched in early evening sun; icy blue, explosive waves along the rocky shores of Maine; September cotton "like strange anachronistic snowin Tennessee-Anderson forges these images into deep ruminations on love, shame, delight, loss, and estrangement.

In analyzing these shifts he proposes a new model for understanding how seemingly unabridgeable theories legitimately coexist in our intellectual conception of the world, and he suggests a new ethics for managing this coexistence.

Despite the expansion of education opportunities world-wide and evidence that the education of girls and women promotes both individual and national well-being, women in most developing countries still receive less schooling than men. This volume addresses how educational decisions are made.

These two enterprises are worthy and profitable, but a knowledge of these facts will not help you understand this city any more truly than the study of those long lists of products once diligently conned in school gave you an inkling of Tunis, Singapore and Wilkes-Barre."-from Baltimore: A Not too Serious History

Technology is an entry point for American studies scholars to find ways to think through social and cultural problems. This book presents a collection of essays that provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways scholars of culture use the study of technology to examine the flows, conflicts, tensions, and hazards of American culture.

His objective, comprehensive, and definitive study reveals a dynamic-and incredibly complex-series of relationships underpinning a troubled and tenuous peace.

Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal offers new evidence on the ways in which large, state-run manufacturing operations furthered the industrialization process, as well as on the extent of workers' influence on the social dynamics of the early modern European city.

Written in 1941-42, these highlights capture the excitement of newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.

With a renowned style, Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. This collection of 70 political pieces drawn from Mencken's Monday columns in the "Baltimore Evening Sun" during the 1920s and 1930s shows the "Sage of Baltimore" at his satirical best.

Controversial even before it was published in 1930, Treatise on the Gods collects Mencken's scathing commentary on religion.

These thirty-five essays-each a stick of dynamite with a burning fuse-have been selected from six volumes originally published between 1919 and 1927.

In the second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a young reporter.

Mencken covers a range of subjects, from Hoggie Unglebower, the best dog trainer in Christendom, to his visit to the Holy Land, where he looked for the ruins of Gomorrah.

Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.