Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

He offers detailed descriptions of just what the naval doctor did, and examines the influence of health on readiness, morale, promotions, and retention.

'- from Land and Labor in the Greek World.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in gerontology and adult development.

Alopecia Areata includes a chapter devoted to the special needs of children with this condition and concludes with an epilogue that tells the story of a day in the life of a woman with alopecia areata, illustrating the various challenges she faces and the strategies she uses to cope with these challenges.

Umble's analysis of the social meaning of the telephone explores the effect of technology on community identity and the maintenance of cultural values through the regulation of the means of communication.

She examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed, and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.

And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

They may be sad too, but it is a dry-eyed melancholy that is no relation-or perhaps just a poor relation-to the air of "Danny Boy."

Serving as both a standard against which to examine the effectiveness of proposed reforms and as a methodological "how tofor the evaluation of system changes, the book will be of interest to professionals and students of health policy as well as to HMO administrators and practitioners.

A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided Americans in these critical years and still do today, Redeeming the Republic shows how local failures led to federalist resolve and ultimately to a totally new frame of central government.

Leslie examine every aspect of academic work unexplored: undergraduate and graduate education, teaching and research, student aid policies, and federal research policies.

He shows how Webb's performance reflected important changes in twentieth century public life, including the concentration of political power in Washington; expansion of the federal bureaucracy; the rise of big science; and visions of cooperation among government, industry, and higher education.

As a result, their fine education and superb reputations as scholars and critics may in some cased actually subvert their ability to understand knowledge as a social construct, learinng as an adult social process, and teaching as a role of leadership among adults.

Like the physicist who works within the bounds of an unfathomable universe, Elsasser argues, the biologist must seek answers within a system that is no less unfathomable.

She presents a detailed view of the gendered development of management and male-female job segmentation, while examining the role of gender in such areas as architectural space, office clothing, and office workers' leisure activities.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.

In his new preface, Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors' lives and their works.

It includes two indexes, one by subject and one by author.

Written in the aftermath of Prohibition, this is an idiosyncratic account of the people and places that defined New York's night life during the era of "the great American madness". Readers meet murderers and millionaires, gangsters, bartenders, celebrities and a host of other characters.

Lowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.

If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks,it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

Anyone who wants to learn how to write, how to think, and how thinking and writing are related will want to read this book.

Ample notes, beautiful illustrations and amps, and a lengthy bibliography make this book a lasting treasure.

Webb's The Garies and Their Friends."-from the 1997 introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr

Then a mulatto named Friday appears and teaches Robinson that there are, after all, better things in life than civilization.

Kerrigan's approach reflects his interests in literary formalism, historical scholarship, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis.

The accusations, denials, and confessions of this legal story eventually resurrect the tangled internal tensions that lay at the bottom of the Salem witch hunts.

Jeffrey Bolster, Laura Tabili, Lillian Nayder, and Melody Graulich, in addition to Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling.