Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Cut These Words into My Stone provides an engaging introduction to this corner of classical literature that continues to speak eloquently in our time.

These "images of the fetus may be produced by machines,the authors write, "but they live vividly in the human imagination."

Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.

Wasson, Stephen A. Watts

Oliver's study is rigorous and detailed but contemplative in its approach, examining the larger meanings of mankind's first adventures in "the heavens."

Suitable for anyone working with problems of linear and nonlinear least squares fitting, this book includes an overview of computational methods together with their properties and advantages. It also includes topics from statistical regression analysis that help readers to understand and evaluate the computed solutions.

This provocative and wide-ranging study revises and refreshes our understanding of noir's characters, themes, and cultural significance.

Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.

Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time.

A guide to the Chesapeake's fishes. Suitable for both anglers and students of the Bay, it includes detailed descriptions of physical characteristics, range, occurrence in the Bay, reproduction, diet, and statistics from fisheries research.

Vaught's deeply researched exploration of baseball's rural roots helps explain its enduring popularity.

In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured on to Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later founded and ran the American Red Cross. This book tells the story of this charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, to its relief efforts of the 1930s.

Baker and McAdoo, in league with Wilson, offer Craig the opportunity to deliver a fresh and insightful study of the period, its major issues, and some of its leading figures.

Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 analyzes the texts and contexts of several major and minor authors, including Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Olaudah Equiano, Maria De Fleury, Lord George Gordon, Nathaniel Lancaster, Henry Sacheverell, Tobias Smollett, and Edward Synge.

As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.

Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.

Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

African American Faces of the Civil War makes an important contribution to a comparatively understudied aspect of the war and provides a fascinating look into lives that helped shape America.

Extensive reviews of the policies that have governed health care since Lyndon Johnson's administration are capped off with a prognosis for the future.Updates to the fourth edition of Governing Health include ; new examples and theory perspectives; recent statistics; discussion of the 2010 Obama health reform

Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe.

It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century "Tax Payer's Protection Pledge."

It will be a welcome addition to the library of any scholar of modernism and can easily be adapted for courses on Woolf and modern literature.

Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.

Epstein reveals the modern view of cultural, ethnic, and religious purity in the early modern Mediterranean as a mirage, and he offers new insights into how present-day conceptions about creed, color, ethnicity, and language originated.

The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor is among the most studied receptors in neuroscience. This book describes scientific research that informs our understanding of this receptor. It addresses the integration of the receptor into its synaptic membrane environment and its distribution, physiology, and regulation in brain functions and cognition.

Whether China will democratize-and if so, when and how-has not become any easier to answer today, but it is more crucial for the future of international politics than ever before.

He includes the next chapters in this eventful story: the fight to bring pro football back to the city, the dawn of the Ravens era, and the building of a new football stadium in downtown Baltimore.

Patient and parent narratives illustrate how people cope with itch and how, with medical and social support, itch can be managed.