Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

This short collection of essays is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the latest thinking on one of the most critical questions of our era.

Extensively updated, this edition includes a new chapter on Chesapeake libations, which features Shields's closely held recipe for his notorious Dirty Gertie, an authentic Chesapeake-style Bloody Mary.

This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.

In fact, the same institutional failures that facilitate political competition may thwart the development of stable democracy.

The book includes suggestions for further reading, including the latest material available online.

Along the way, master poet John Bricuth treats readers to a sly, sarcastic-and sometimes deeply moving-look at storytelling, old-time religion, and the American way.

Combining literary and intellectual history, it provides an account of British Romanticism in which high rhetoric, political prose, poetry, and poetics converge in a discourse of enlightenment and emancipation.

Paul argues that we must take advantage of cutting-edge technologies and promising new tools in immunological research.

universities counter these trends and restore the palace of American higher learning.

Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simulation, she details the many forms that interactivity has taken-or hopes to take-in digital texts, from determining the presentation of signs to affecting the level of story.

By the close of the book you'll see hockey in a more sophisticated and scientific light, and the reasons things happen the way they do will be clearer than ever.

Incorporating the latest research from the field of adolescent psychiatry, this guide answers questions that many parents have, including: what are the symptoms of depression in teenagers? How is depression diagnosed? What is the difference between depression and bipolar disorder, and which does my child have?

Left Behind provides crucial insights into the troubling trajectory of public policy while offering teachers and administrators effective strategies for overcoming barriers.

An essential study for readers interested in modern warfare, policy makers, and historians of technology, war, and visual and military culture.

Students of consumer studies and the history of technology, as well as scholars and general readers, will be captivated by Josephson's insights into the complex relationship between society and technology.

Furthermore, Bleck demonstrates that increasing levels of education are associated with increases in more engaged forms of political participation, including campaigning, willingness to run for office, and contacting government officials.

This book offers a clear-eyed perspective on the potential and peril of this new form of education.

Wherever they are in their own journey with cancer, readers will find here a personal, practical, and powerful guide to recovery.

Facts and figures have been thoroughly updated and the work includes a comprehensive Guide to Resources, incorporating the major published literature along with a vetted list of websites and Internet resources for students and lay readers.

The inaugural book in the Johns Hopkins Studies in American Public Policy and Management series, Governors, Grants, and Elections is a significant and accessible work of public policy scholarship that sits at the nexus of multiple fields within political science.

Although there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.

Although there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.

This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.

This unique book should be valuable for political leaders, civil society activists, journalists, scholars, and all who want to support democratic transitions.

Published while revolutionary changes are taking place in the treatment of hepatitis C, this authoritative guide will become the preferred reference for people with hepatitis C and their families.

Offering candor, compassion, and hope, this remarkable book explains how to add quality to your life and take care of medical and social needs while living with ovarian cancer.

Offering candor, compassion, and hope, this remarkable book explains how to add quality to your life and take care of medical and social needs while living with ovarian cancer.

Clearly written, conversational, and rationally argued, this book promotes sound and careful research while skewering the bogus ideological assertions that have been used to justify colonialism, slavery, gender discrimination, neoliberal economic policies, and the general status quo.

Fascinating, unfamiliar, and full of surprises, this book will appeal to historians and general readers alike.