Month: July 2012

Since our building renovation was completed in 2010,  JHU Press staff have been given a chance to show off unknown talents. Staff and visitors have enjoyed seeing changing exhibits of art by brave members of the JHU Press staff. Who knew? The IT department’s Jim Fragomeni has shown his photography several times, most recently displaying…

By John Eric Goff Ponder for a moment how differently we all view the world.  All the lovely vibrations that tickle our eyes and ears are processed by a brain unique to each of us, a brain forged from genetic and environmental influences.  The following story, which I tell in the first chapter of my book, …

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  By Matt Cameron Scientists have long known that parrots possess individually distinct contact calls, the loudest and most commonly uttered vocalization. These are akin to parrots having…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  By Matt Cameron Scientists have long known that parrots possess individually distinct contact calls, the loudest and most commonly uttered vocalization. These are akin to parrots having…

By Peter Filkins Randall Jarrell famously said that writing poetry was like walking across an open field waiting to be struck by lightning. In reverse fashion, Robert Frost’s dictum, “No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader,” makes the same point about the need for the poet to be surprised by his own…

Update (and welcome NY Times readers): In celebration of Grand Central Terminal's Centennial we're offering a 40% discount on Kurt C. Schlichting's definitive histories of the railroad station: Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan (reg. $49.95) and Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City (reg. $32.00). Simply add…

Update (and welcome NY Times readers): In celebration of Grand Central Terminal's Centennial we're offering a 40% discount on Kurt C. Schlichting's definitive histories of the railroad station: Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan (reg. $49.95) and Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City (reg. $32.00). Simply add…

Earlier this week, the staff of the Press gathered to honor colleagues who have celebrated a special anniversary during the past fiscal year. The 21st Annual Employee Awards Ceremony  provided an opportunity for managers to sing the praises of the honorees, as well as embarrass them a little bit in a few instances. We're lucky…

JHU Press Welcomes Three New Journals The Journals Division will add three new journals to its collection later this year, announced Journals Publisher Bill Breichner. This brings the total number of journals published by the JHU Press to 78. The three new titles will be The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English…

By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editor Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student in Buffalo, New York, I heard a TV newscast that I have never forgotten. An important figure in the history of philosophy had died, and Eyewitness News was letting us know about it. “Jean-Paul Sartre, so-called founder of existentialism, dead today, in…