Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

Featuring new information based on more than 76,000 samples, novel long-term data, and an exhaustive analysis of more than 1,800 references, this invaluable resource is a complete compendium on estuarine fishes of the Western North Atlantic.

Its significant bearing on a number of fields-including religious studies, literary criticism, philosophy of history, political theory, and Jewish studies-encourages scholars to rethink and reassess the intellectual developments of the past 100 years.

A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic sphere (including politics, literature and philosophy, celebrities and social scandals, cookery and wine, sex, and wealth).

Larson shows how the seemingly broad-based eugenics movement was in fact a series of distinct campaigns by small groups of determined individuals for legislation at the state level.

Officer, Nurse, Woman brings to light the nearly forgotten contributions of brave nurses who risked their lives to bring medical care to soldiers during a terrible-and divisive-war.

Ghaemi shows how the historical role of the BPS model as a reaction to biomedical reductionism is coming to an end and urges colleagues in the field to embrace other, less-eclectic perspectives.

It offers information and insight to policymakers, medical and legal professionals, patients and other participants, and everyone else interested in the history and future direction of the field.

Macpherson's original insights continue to have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the novel.

Public Health Service's involvement in sex education provides new insights into one of the most contested subjects in America.

Get Smart will motivate and empower people of all ages to change their lives.

Accessibly written and featuring full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, The Rise of Horses is the complete chronicle of the evolution of the equids.

This book will help primary care and mental health professionals to understand and to more effectively address the complex concerns of patients with eating disorders.

Vermeule draws upon recent research in cognitive science to understand the mental processes underlying human social interactions without sacrificing solid literary criticism. People interested in literary theory, in cognitive analyses of the arts, and in Darwinian approaches to human culture will find much to ponder in Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?

It is a must-have reference for biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and readers interested in animal behavior, ecology, and evolution.

Fun, witty, and imbued throughout with admiration for the simple beauty of physics, Gold Medal Physics is sure to inspire readers to think differently about the next sporting event they watch.

Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World will both redirect scholarship in medievalism and inform approaches to temporality in postcolonial studies.

These stories of hardship and heroism, exploitation and endurance, anger and artistry illuminate a rich heritage and fascinating chapter in American history.

, Creighton University Medical Center.

Focusing on paternity as a category of family history, Contested Paternity emphasizes the importance of fatherhood, the family, and the law within the greater context of changing attitudes toward parental responsibility.

Thought-provoking and controversial, Lawless Universe is a complement to, even an antidote for, books that create the misimpression that science can explain everything.

Based on first-hand reporting, interviews, and original scholarship to produce analyses of the media and communications operations of the past four administrations, this book includes a postscript, in which the author compares Clinton, Bush, and Barack Obama, highlighting how Obama compares with his predecessors.

Weiss, Christopher Wyrod, Daniel J. Young

He urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling debate over evolution and creationism/intelligent design.

It not only celebrates Cavendish as a true figure of the scientific age but contributes to a broader understanding of the contested nature of the scientific revolution.

Includes essays that represent scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America.

Explains the science of heart failure. This book helps those with the disease understand the causes of the disease, normal and abnormal heart rhythms, the best treatments for different types of heart failure, the advantages and disadvantages of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and the foods to be taken.

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A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.

Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development, providing new insights for both political and economic historians of nineteenth-century America.