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Johns Hopkins University Press

    Energy and Security
    Science and Religion
    Dementia and Aging
    Miseducation
    Professorial Pathways
    Assessing the Quality of Democracy
    • 2024

      "This work comprises essays from a wide range of perspectives, from scholars to poets, to create an engaging text that challenges readers on both sides to move beyond a simplistic understandings of immigration history and policy"--

      New Narratives on the Peopling of America
    • 2024

      "James Densley collects articles from non-profit, independent news organization, The Conversation, to present an important primer on how the U.S. became so saturated with guns and its impact on American life"--

      The Conversation on Guns
    • 2023

      "This title collects the work of thirty top scholars, from client scientists to policy advocates to hydrogeologists, who have published articles for the independent news site The Conversation on critical water related issues, and packages them into the perfect introduction for readers who want to understand current and future threats to water management"--

      The Conversation on Water
    • 2022

      Providing answers to common questions, definitions of complex medical terms, and lists of helpful resources, this book also:; touches on expected, age-related changes in communication, memory, swallowing, and hearing abilities, to name a few; offers practical strategies for caregivers to cope with speech, language, and voice problems and to maximize their loved one's ability to communicate; reveals how caregivers can assist their loved ones with swallowing challenges to maintain good nutrition and hydration ; provides crucial information on how caregivers can handle grief and take care of themselves during the caregiving process; explains how to incorporate the arts, as well as a loved one's hobbies and interests, into their communication or memory recoveryThis comprehensive book will allow readers to take a more informed and active role in their loved one's care.Contributors: Marissa Barrera, Frederick DiCarlo, Lea Kaploun, Elizabeth Roberts, Teresa Signorelli Pisano

      A Caregiver's Guide to Communication Problems from Brain Injury or Disease
    • 2020

      The Homeric Hymns

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      4.0(46)Add rating

      A perennial classroom favorite, The Homeric Hymns embodies thrilling new visions of antiquity.

      The Homeric Hymns
    • 2020

      Phenomenology and Existentialism

      • 282 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Olafson on Merleau-Ponty,Herbert Spiegelberg on Phenomenology and psychology, and Albert William Levi on the alienation of man.

      Phenomenology and Existentialism
    • 2019
    • 2019

      Professorial Pathways

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Jones, Barbara M. Kehm, Dan Mao, Christine Musselin, Peter Scott, Fengqiao Yan, Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Maria Yudkevich

      Professorial Pathways
    • 2018

      Leading Colleges and Universities

      • 328 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Presidents and would-be presidents-as well as boards, search committees, state boards, legislators, and others involved in higher education-will find much helpful guidance in this timely book.

      Leading Colleges and Universities
    • 2018

      The Task Force for Child Survival

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Inspiring and accessible, this brief book combines the distilled advice of one of global health's major leaders with the history of an iconic public health program.

      The Task Force for Child Survival