Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

"-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"Ably tells the story of the New York rail system's most active and visible symbol: the architectural and engineering masterpiece, with its grand public concourse, in the heart of Midtown."-New Scientist

More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.

With a firm grasp on the hard truths of real-world problems, Tapping into 'The Wire' helps undo misconceptions and encourage a dialogue of understanding.

Offers fresh analysis and insight into: fundamental shifts in the global energy balance; the revolution in shale gas and oil; new energy frontiers, from ultra deepwater to the Arctic; the rising agenda of safety concerns across the energy complex; energy poverty; and infrastructure for modernizing power grids.

Pietsch has spent decades collecting and researching the origin and meaning of these evolutionary trees and presents a visually breathtaking and intellectually brilliant history of the form.

While we may like the idea of Einstein as a genius besotted by extra dimensions and too out-of-this-world to wear socks, The Practical Einstein gives ample evidence that this characterization is both incomplete and an unfair representation of a man who sought to explore the intricacies of nature, whether in theory or in practice.

Gathers top most foreign policy and energy experts and leaders to assess how the United States can integrate its energy and national security interests. This book offers analysis and insight into: fundamental shifts in the global energy balance; the revolution in shale gas and oil; and new energy frontiers, from ultra deepwater to the Arctic.

This book will serve as a valuable guide for those unfamiliar with trade policy and provides a challenging critique of trade policy for those already knowledgeable in the field.

He analyzes the geopolitical causes of conflict and prospects for resolution, assesses implications of the impasse over economic zones in the eastern Mediterranean where Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Turkey all have claims, and reflects on the meaning of borders and frontiers today.

Olesker's doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge.

Case studies look in detail at the Chinese space and missile industry.

Case studies look in detail at the Chinese space and missile industry.

These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.

A chapter devoted to health literacy helps people and caregivers make the best use of the medical care system and a chapter on driving helps evaluate when it is no longer safe to be behind the wheel.

Cobb's The Fire Eaters"Cobb's short stories, printed in the New Yorker and other magazines, hinted at the power he displays in this beautifully controlled and convincing debut, winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel."-Publisher's Weekly

Thus does Dent, a little-known Supreme Court case, influence how Americans receive health care more than a hundred years after the fact.

By turns playful, contemplative, humorous, and subversive, these poems appeal to modern sensibilities while giving scholars a revised picture of the nineteenth-century literary landscape.

One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's translations."-Anglican Theological Review, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Hymns of Prudentius

By exploring new ideas, offering bold proposals, and identifying emerging lessons, the authors consider the unique position these schools can play in their communities and in the larger world.

The questions it raises touch on ongoing controversies about newborn screening and what happens to blood samples collected at birth.

Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. This book represents an important bridge between Homer's works in Greek and Vergil's Aeneid.

Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.

His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making.

It will interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature.

Ideal for students, this book will form a solid foundation for courses in higher education, but it will be a welcome addition to faculty and administrators' personal libraries.

Because a key aspect of any political system is how its actors and citizens communicate, this book will be invaluable for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in political communication, party competition, party organization, and the study of the contemporary media landscape writ large.

Addresses the questions people most frequently ask, including how IBS develops, how it is diagnosed, how to distinguish symptoms of IBS from symptoms of other medical disorders, how the symptoms are affected by stress, and more. This is a guide for people with IBS and their families.

This book is for pediatric psychologists, pediatricians, family medicine practitioners, physician's assistants, nurse specialists, pediatric subspecialists, and students in these fields-and for family members dedicated to helping their children cope with medical procedures and to getting the best possible medical care.

Rees shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world.