Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

It is a book for the educated layperson, who will find it replete with insights into the realm of human sexuality.

The results help to identify both the accuracies and hidden biases of forecasting techniques, information that should be of vital interest to all policy-makers and planners.

In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.

In this systematic study, Professor Achinstein analyzes such concepts as definitions, theories, and models, and contrasts his view with currently held positions that he finds inadequate.

This volume, first published in 1955, introduces readers to an array of poetry produced in Spain since the 11th century. The editor provides a concise introduction to each poet or genre, tracing the evolution of Spanish literature. It includes "El Cid" and the religious works of Gonzalo de Berceo.

His account serves as an introduction to some of the concerns and methods of modern biblical scholarship.

Alexandre Koyre interprets this revolution in terms of the change that occurred in our conception of the universe and our place in it and shows the primacy of this change in the development of the modern world.

Augustine and Proust-the passion for God and the passion for creation.

Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.

Through romance, these writers mirror the extremes of American culture-the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or the pastoral idyll inspired by the American wilderness.

Wilden expands and amplifies the text with extensive notes and a commentary that places Lacan's work in the context of contemporary thought.

Written near the turn of the century, these works speak today in ways both remarkable and familiar.

"Internationally hailed upon its original publication Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater was revised and updated for this English translation.

Hokanson and Kratz's introduction and biography update the reader, incorporating stories gleaned from recent interviews with the author.

Throughout, editor Peter Makin expands upon and annotates the lectures with additional comments drawn from Bunting's writings.

Mesa-Lago focuses on the three diverse socioeconomic models that these countries represent during these periods.

Intertextuality is a matter of reading.

An underlying question, Ezell notes, is whether the Internet will inspire the reemergence of the "socialauthor, whose work can be circulated to readers without the assistance of a publishing firm.

Readers with an interest in rhetoric, urban culture, or communications in any period will find the book informative, as will those working in art history, archaeology, history, and philology.

That, Stevens concludes, is the next urgent task of social policy.

Games Colleges Play provides historical background that will inform current policy discussions about the proper place of intercollegiate athletics within the American university.

Edney, Carole Fabricant, Peter Hulme, Betty Joseph, Kay Dian Kriz, Philip D. Morgan, Anna Neill, Neil Rennie, Joseph Roach, Nicholas Rogers, Benjamin Schmidt, Kate Teltscher, Beth Fowkes Tobin, and Glyndwr Williams

Kibria suggests further developments may resolve this situation-especially the emergence of a new kind of pan-Asian American identity that would complement the Chinese or Korean American identity rather than replace it.

Shakespeare's Promises is a unique and valuable resource, providing a fresh perspective that will benefit all readers of Shakespeare.

Transnational Peasants provides an intriguing historical and sociological exploration of a contemporary migration mystery.

William Trotter concentrates on combinatorial topics for finite partially ordered sets, and with dimension theory serving as a unifying theme, research on partially ordered sets or posets is linked to more traditional topics in combinatorial mathematics.

In the final essays, with their focus on the fourth and third centuries, Adele Scafuro discusses the process of citizen identification in Athenian society; Cynthia Patterson examines the position of women in the maintenance of civic ideology; and David Konstan considers the relationship between sexual attitudes and civic status.

A lasting and stable world order, he argues, cannot rely just on governments and power politics; it depends upon the open exchange of cultures among peoples in pursuing common intellectual and cultural interests.