Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Caruth thus reveals, in each of these authors, a tension between the abstraction of a conceptual language freed from reference and the compelling referential resistance of particular stories to abstraction.

Discusses day-to-day life in six different types of assisted living residence. From 'Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home' to 'Mr Sidney at Laurel Ridge', this work features detailed profiles of individuals that show the commonalities among the residences while highlighting the positive and negative aspects of each.

With public colleges and universities facing substantial budget cuts and increased calls for accountability, more institutions now rely on private revenue streams for support. In this collection of essays, economists, policy makers, sociologists, and researchers discuss the impact of privatization from their respective disciplinary perspectives.

" In doing so, Wimberley defines a new environmental philosophy and a new ecological ethic.

D., University of Washington

This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.

Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.

The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.

This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.

Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions.

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.

This is a must-own reference for space history buffs.

This insightful, concise story makes clearer the complexities of the revolutionary era and shows how the first president's political ideas shaped governmental institutions and instantiated the nation's foundational principles.

Murphy then offers an expository analysis of constitutional maintenance, adaptation, and, essentially, constitutional change.

Old Main is an essential book for anyone who shares Schuman's conviction that small colleges occupy a central place in American higher education.

This reissued edition brings this compelling portrait to a new generation of readers.

A final category, wealth at death, inventories the legislator's estate and notes any significant changes in wealth between first election and death.

For tourists and long-time residents, and for anyone interested in the Civil War or public art, Testament to Union is a wonderful guide to these tangible connections to the nation's past and an era when public monuments packed powerful messages.

The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science.

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Based on the latest research, this crisply written, sometimes provocative survey includes a glossary, timeline, and bibliography for further reading.

Miles of new trails are included, as is updated information on recent trail reroutes.

Outlines how board members, presidents, and administrators can identify their institutions' weaknesses, implement plans for improvement, and mitigate existing damage. This title also identifies the legal pitfalls that often accompany institutional change, offering solutions for how to overcome such obstacles or avoid them altogether.

Seligson, Sandeep Shastri, Doh C. Shin, Mark Tessler, Christian Welzel, Yogendra Yadav

A cancer survivor who has himself been treated at the center, Olson imbues this history with humor, passion, and humanity.

Many of the routines featured are coded in Matlab and can be downloaded from the Web for further exploration.

For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.

This volume is a useful resource for bioethicists, members of rural bioethics committees and networks, policy makers, teachers of health care providers, and rural practitioners themselves.

At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.