Month: November 2013
We're please to open to "doors" to our 2013 Association for the Study of Higher Education virtual exhibit, where you can find everything we have on display in person at this year's meeting in St. Louis. Click the banner below to enter and you'll be able to take a look at our latest and forthcoming…
We're please to open to "doors" to our 2013 Association for the Study of Higher Education virtual exhibit, where you can find everything we have on display in person at this year's meeting in St. Louis. Click the banner below to enter and you'll be able to take a look at our latest and forthcoming…
Guest post by Robert C. Post What do Smithsonian curators do? For that matter, what is a curator? The dictionary says a curate is a clergyman, and in a museum a curator cares for artifacts and sees to their interpretation when they are displayed. “Keeper” is the British term, but in the U.S. that word…
Guest post by Robert C. Post What do Smithsonian curators do? For that matter, what is a curator? The dictionary says a curate is a clergyman, and in a museum a curator cares for artifacts and sees to their interpretation when they are displayed. “Keeper” is the British term, but in the U.S. that word…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine.Guest post by Gil Yosipovitch, M.D.Itch, either acute or chronic, shares many similarities with pain. Both conditions are bothersome and they follow the same neural pathway, traveling through the nervous system. When you encounter…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine.Guest post by Gil Yosipovitch, M.D.Itch, either acute or chronic, shares many similarities with pain. Both conditions are bothersome and they follow the same neural pathway, traveling through the nervous system. When you encounter…
Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…
Guest post by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, author of "Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War" On a Hutterite colony, meals are served without ceremony—and in a hurry. My introduction to Hutterite dining etiquette came several years ago on the Miller Colony near Choteau, Montana. A bell summoned all of us…
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editing What does science fiction have to do with postmodernism and its ilk? Apologies to friends and college sweethearts who make their living dissecting the writing of others, but when I edit a book on the topic of literary criticism, I pretend I am editing a science fiction novel. Since my…
By Michele Callaghan, Manuscript Editing What does science fiction have to do with postmodernism and its ilk? Apologies to friends and college sweethearts who make their living dissecting the writing of others, but when I edit a book on the topic of literary criticism, I pretend I am editing a science fiction novel. Since my…