Búsqueda de Editorial : JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

59 resultados

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • THE NEW CHESAPEAKE KITCHEN
    ebook
    THE NEW CHESAPEAKE KITCHEN
    JOHN SHIELDS
    The latest cookbook by the "Culinary Ambassador of the Chesapeake" encourages us to cook in a way that is not only healthy for us but also for the Bay.Captain John Smith, upon entering the Chesapeake, wrote in his diaries that the fish were so plentiful "we attempted to catch them with a frying pan." That method sums up classic Chesapeake cooking—fresh and simple. In The New Ch...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • CHARGING UP SAN JUAN HILL
    ebook
    CHARGING UP SAN JUAN HILL
    JOHN R. VAN ATTA
    How Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders exemplified "manhood" and civic virtue.Below a Cuban sun so hot it stung their eyes, American troops hunkered low at the base of Kettle Hill. Spanish bullets zipped overhead, while enemy artillery shells landed all around them. Driving Spanish forces from the high ground would mean gaining control of Santiago, Cuba, and, soon enough, ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • ATHENS BURNING
    ebook
    ATHENS BURNING
    ROBERT GARLAND
    The gripping story of how the Athenians survived the Persian invasion of their homeland—one of the central events in ancient Greek history.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLBetween June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FACES OF THE CIVIL WAR NAVIES
    ebook
    FACES OF THE CIVIL WAR NAVIES
    RONALD S. CODDINGTON
    Archival images and biographical sketches of common sailors on both sides of the conflict reveal the human side of the Civil War.During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the chara...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE REVOLT OF 1916 IN RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA
    ebook
    THE REVOLT OF 1916 IN RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA
    EDWARD DENNIS SOKOL
    The definitive study of a nearly forgotten genocide, reissued with a new foreword.During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians—Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks—perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar’s World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • JUST AND LASTING CHANGE
    ebook
    JUST AND LASTING CHANGE
    DANIEL C. TAYLOR / CARL E. TAYLOR
    The classic guide to transforming developing communities sustainably—and for the better.How can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid, cost-effective, and locally appropriate ways? In Just and Lasting Change, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor present readers with an innovative, prove...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
    ebook
    THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
    MONIQUE O'CONNELL / ERIC R DURSTELER
    An interdisciplinary approach to the Mediterranean’s rich, multicultural history.Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intense economic, cultural, and political interaction. Greek temples in Sicily, Roman ruins in North Africa, and Ottoman fortifications in Greece serve as rem...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • RETHINKING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PRESIDENCY
    ebook
    RETHINKING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PRESIDENCY
    WILLIAM G. RESH
    The first book to explore the tension between presidents and federal agencies from the perspective of careerists in the executive branch.Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science AssociationWhy do presidents face so many seemingly avoidable bureaucratic conflicts? And why do these clashes usually intensify toward the end of presidential adminis...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • EMBEZZLEMENT AND HIGH TREASON IN LOUIS XIV'S FRANCE
    ebook
    EMBEZZLEMENT AND HIGH TREASON IN LOUIS XIV'S FRANCE
    VINCENT J. PITTS
    Louis XIV’s vendetta against his disgraced finance minister exposed dark truths about the state's finances.From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country’s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the ma...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE GLOBAL WAR ON TOBACCO
    ebook
    THE GLOBAL WAR ON TOBACCO
    HEATHER WIPFLI
    The first in-depth review of the World Health Organization’s groundbreaking Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.The tobacco industry has capitalized on numerous elements of globalization—including trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, and global communications—to expand into countries where effective tobacco control programs are not in place. As a consequence, to...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE
    ebook
    THE BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE
    DEBRA HAMEL
    A harrowing, immersive introduction to a violent turning point in the conflict between Sparta and Athens.A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • COXEY'S ARMY
    ebook
    COXEY'S ARMY
    BENJAMIN F. ALEXANDER
    The engrossing tale of the first audacious protest march on Washington—a precursor of the Occupy movement.In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a serious economic depression. Unemployment rose, foreclosures climbed, and popular unrest mounted. By the following spring, businessma...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • HYSTERECTOMY
    ebook
    HYSTERECTOMY
    EDWARD E. WALLACH / ESTHER EISENBERG / ISABEL GREEN / STACEY A. SCHEIB
    This patient-oriented guide helps women of all ages understand their options and make informed decisions about their health care.Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, dis...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • TRUE YANKEES
    ebook
    TRUE YANKEES
    DANE A. MORRISON
    After breaking free from British rule, American identity had more to do with sailing to the East than trekking into the West.Honorable Mention, US Maritime History, John Lyman Book AwardsWith American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past t...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • IMPROVING YOUR MEMORY
    ebook
    IMPROVING YOUR MEMORY
    JANET FOGLER / LYNN STERN
    An essential handbook packed with proven techniques for remembering what you don’t want to forget.In the years since the previous edition of Improving Your Memory was published, technology has dramatically changed how we keep track of life’s many details. Appliances and car lights turn themselves off, smartphones and computers remind us of appointments, and Google lets us searc...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • SOD BUSTING
    ebook
    SOD BUSTING
    DAVID B. DANBOM
    How settlers transformed America’s most inhospitable frontier into an economic powerhousePrairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before. Stretching beyond the sweeping...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • BLOOD ON STEEL
    ebook
    BLOOD ON STEEL
    MICHAEL DENNIS
    A pivotal moment in the history of the movement for working-class democracy, the "Memorial Day Massacre" vividly captured the conflicting ideals of workers’ rights and the sanctity of private property.On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • MUSIC IN THE SHADOWS
    ebook
    MUSIC IN THE SHADOWS
    SHERI CHINEN BIESEN
    Some musical films use film noir style and jazz to reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream.Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • NATIVE MEMOIRS FROM THE WAR OF 1812
    ebook
    NATIVE MEMOIRS FROM THE WAR OF 1812
    CARL BENN
    Rare firsthand accounts from Native Americans who fought in the War of 1812.Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • ZBIG
    ebook
    ZBIG
    CHARLES GATI
    The first comprehensive account of Zbigniew Brzezinski's complementary roles as author, academic, policy maker, and critic.Zbigniew Brzezinski’s multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • LURE OF THE ARCANE
    ebook
    LURE OF THE ARCANE
    THEODORE ZIOLKOWSKI
    Explore 2,000 years of conspiracy in fiction.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceFascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers of ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • BOOKER T. WASHINGTON REDISCOVERED
    ebook
    BOOKER T. WASHINGTON REDISCOVERED
    FREEMAN MILLER, MD
    Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use education to bridge the nation’s rac...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • A TOUR OF THE SENSES
    ebook
    A TOUR OF THE SENSES
    JOHN M. HENSHAW
    2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineEver wonder why some people have difficulty recognizing faces or why food found delicious in one culture is reviled in another? John M. Henshaw ponders these and other surprising facts in this fascinating and fast-paced tour of the senses.From when stimuli first excite our senses to the near-miraculous sense organs themselves to t...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FIELD GUIDE TO THE STREET TREES OF NEW YORK CITY
    ebook
    FIELD GUIDE TO THE STREET TREES OF NEW YORK CITY
    LESLIE DAY
    Imagine an urban oasis with hundreds of thousands of trees and whose mayor wants to plant a million more. That sylvan place is New York City, and this is a guide to the diverse trees that line its streets.Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City acquaints New Yorkers and visitors alike with fifty species of trees commonly found in the neighborhoods where people live, wo...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • WHEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MET THE REVEREND WHITEFIELD
    ebook
    WHEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MET THE REVEREND WHITEFIELD
    PETER CHARLES HOFFER
    In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought—the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement—the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield—as an opportunity to explore the meaning of the beginnings of modern science an...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • INVESTIGATING THE SUPERNATURAL
    ebook
    INVESTIGATING THE SUPERNATURAL
    SOFIE LACHAPELLE
    Séances were wildly popular in France between 1850 and 1930, when members of the general public and scholars alike turned to the wondrous as a means of understanding and explaining the world. Sofie Lachapelle explores how five distinct groups attempted to use and legitimize séances: spiritists, who tried to create a new "science" concerned with the spiritual realm and the after...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • BETWEEN CROWN AND COMMERCE
    ebook
    BETWEEN CROWN AND COMMERCE
    JUNKO THÉRÈSE TAKEDA
    Between Crown and Commerce examines the relationship between French royal statecraft, mercantilism, and civic republicanism in the context of the globalizing economy of the early modern Mediterranean world. This is the story of how the French Crown and local institutions accommodated one another as they sought to forge acceptable political and commercial relationships with one ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • MIXING RACES
    ebook
    MIXING RACES
    PAUL LAWRENCE FARBER
    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion that it would produce biologica...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • MIDNIGHT RIDE, INDUSTRIAL DAWN
    ebook
    MIDNIGHT RIDE, INDUSTRIAL DAWN
    ROBERT MARTELLO
    Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero's life, that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial revolution.Robert Martello combines a biographical examination of Revere with...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • INVESTING IN LIFE
    ebook
    INVESTING IN LIFE
    SHARON ANN MURPHY
    Winner, Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History ConferenceInvesting in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic instability of the pe...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 »