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Дополнительные действия Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
Аллан Хорвиц
ISBN:9781421446103
Год издания:2023
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press

The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders. The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently…

Дополнительные действия Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America
Jordan E. Taylor
ISBN:9781421444499, 1421444496
Год издания:2022
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.…

Дополнительные действия The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
Claude A. Clegg III
ISBN:9781421441887, 1421441888
Год издания:2021
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

In The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his…

Дополнительные действия Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates
Frederick Law Olmsted, Irene Mills
ISBN:1421438674, 9781421438672
Год издания:2020
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society.…

Дополнительные действия Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
Valerie Trouet
ISBN:1421437775
Год издания:2020
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Нидерландский (Голландский)

Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to…

Дополнительные действия Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama
О. Б. Хардисон-мл.
ISBN:1421430460, 978-1421430461
Год издания:2019
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Originally published in 1965. The European dramatic tradition rests on a group of religious dramas that appeared between the tenth and twelfth centuries. These dramas, of interest…

Дополнительные действия Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763-1789
Joseph M. Adelman
ISBN:1421428601, 9781421428604
Год издания:2019
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In Revolutionary…

Дополнительные действия After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe
Lydia Barnett
ISBN:1421429519, 9781421429519
Год издания:2019
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of…

Дополнительные действия Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
Dan Edelstein, Anton M. Matytsin
ISBN:1421426013, 978-1421426013
Год издания:2018
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment,…

Дополнительные действия Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era
Kimberly S. Alexander
ISBN:142142584X, 9781421425849
Год издания:2018
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

In Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn…

Дополнительные действия The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
Trevor Owens
ISBN:1421426978
Год издания:2018
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press

Many people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"?where records of the recent past become…

Дополнительные действия Subcortical
Lee Conell
ISBN:1421424223
Год издания:2017
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Recipient of the 2018 Story Prize Spotlight Award

Lee Conell's linguistically deft stories examine the permeability between the real and the imagined, the stories buried…

Дополнительные действия The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox
Phillip Hamilton
ISBN:1421423456, 9781421423456
Год издания:2017
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in…

Дополнительные действия Why Can't I Stop?: Reclaiming Your Life from a Behavioral Addiction
Jon E. Grant, Brian L. Odlaug, Samuel R. Chamberlain
ISBN:978-1421419664
Год издания:2016
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press

At some point in our lives, we all engage in behaviors that are risky, irrational, or unwise. We might find it exciting and temporarily rewarding to gamble on the lottery or…

Дополнительные действия Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives
Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu
ISBN:1421417723
Год издания:2015
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press

Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them―sometimes too late.

Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back…

Дополнительные действия The Slain Wood: Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Уильям Бойд
ISBN:1421418789, 9781421418780
Год издания:2015
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets,…

Дополнительные действия Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Джонатан Куперсмит
ISBN:1421415917, 9781421415918
Год издания:2015
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Язык:Английский

Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine--the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts…

Дополнительные действия Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age
Thomas Leitch
ISBN:978-1421415352
Год издания:2014
Издательство:Johns Hopkins University Press
Серия:Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print…

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