Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Scholars, students, and policymakers will appreciate the volume's timely overview of the evolution of aging policy.

The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.

Aimed at college-level geography students, the book will be of great interest to general readers, historians, politicians, and anyone involved in making policies relating to Maryland places.

Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history.

In the end, this volume addresses not only the role of women's colleges in their own countries but what these institutions can teach us that would benefit higher education worldwide.

This book is a vital teaching tool and a comprehensive reference for social science and medical professionals.

Anyone working in the area of disease transmission, particularly those employing predictive maps, will find Peterson's book both inspiring and indispensable.

This volume is an ideal introduction to the complex and fascinating history of colonies too often neglected in standard textbook accounts.

She combines one-on-one interviews with detailed observations of how song provides a window into Amish cultural beliefs, values, and norms.

Students of democracy and institutional performance, both Latin Americanists and comparativists more generally, will find this essential reading.

Gerber reflects on whether American colleges and universities will be able to retain their position of global preeminence in an increasingly market-driven environment, given that the system of governance that helped make their success possible has been fundamentally altered.

Students of democracy and institutional performance, both Latin Americanists and comparativists more generally, will find this essential reading.

The single greatest way to improve health and quality of life is not by developing new medical approaches, but by addressing harmful personal behaviors. This book is designed to teach students and practitioners strategic principles for creating positive behavioral change on a population level.

Offering important insights into the changing higher education policy context in an age increasingly defined by globalization, China's Rising Research Universities will appeal to higher education leaders and policymakers; students, faculty, and scientists who interact with Chinese counterparts; and scholars of international and comparative studies.

Based on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land.

A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to the Grady Nia Project for abused, suicidal, and low-income African American women.

The Siddhantasundara is the last major treatise of Indian astronomy and cosmology to receive serious scholarly attention, Knudsen's careful effort unveils the 500-year-old Sanskrit verses and shows the clever quirkiness of Jnanaraja's writing style, his keen use of mathematics, and his subtle philosophical arguments.

This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.

The capstone of Clifford's distinguished career and the definitive book on women teachers in America, Those Good Gertrudes will engage scholars in the history of education and women's history, teachers past, present, and future, and readers with vivid memories of their own teachers.

Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.

Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan and colonial institutions, this volume is the capstone of a research endeavor spanning nearly sixty years.

Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.

Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.

Written in clear, accessible prose, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars in the fields of political science, social movements, anthropology, Latin American studies, and labor studies.

This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.

Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.

Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.