Month: February 2014
With the wonderful reviews we are receiving, it’s hard not to feel the love this Valentine’s Day! To read the articles and reviews or listen to the podcasts mentioned in this piece , click on the respective hyperlinks below. Happy Valentine’s Day from JHUP! We’d like to extend our 30% discount to you on all…
With the wonderful reviews we are receiving, it’s hard not to feel the love this Valentine’s Day! To read the articles and reviews or listen to the podcasts mentioned in this piece , click on the respective hyperlinks below. Happy Valentine’s Day from JHUP! We’d like to extend our 30% discount to you on all…
Guest post by Dr. Mark Denny Sports science is an expanding industry, judging by the number of scholarly journals out there that are dedicated to one aspect or another of sports. I get emails inviting me to contribute to this or that journal, or to attend specialist conferences on specific topics within the field (sports…
Guest post by John Eric Goff, Ph.D. I take a slight risk with this blog post’s title because the one question I’m most often asked by someone in the media is: aren’t you taking something away from a great athletic moment by subjecting it to scientific analysis? My full-throated response is, “Absolutely not!” Viewing the…
Guest post by John Eric Goff, Ph.D. I take a slight risk with this blog post’s title because the one question I’m most often asked by someone in the media is: aren’t you taking something away from a great athletic moment by subjecting it to scientific analysis? My full-throated response is, “Absolutely not!” Viewing the…
By Lauren Anderson Marketing Assistant Angela Moore has lived a life full of challenges. Since birth, she has suffered from acquired spastic cerebral palsy. Although the odds were stacked against her, she never let her condition get the better of her or allowed it to define her entire life. After being diagnosed with breast cancer at…
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. Guest post by Gerald L. Kooyman According to Dee Boersma and Ginger Rebstock’s recent article in the open access online journal PLOS-one, the population of the world’s largest…
On Tuesday, February 4, PBS’s American Experience will air The Amish: Shunned. In light of this documentary, we asked Karen Johnson-Weiner, one of the co-authors of Johns Hopkins University Press’s The Amish, to explain the practice of shunning. Guest post by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner In Lancaster County, a group of us ate dinner with an Amish couple who had two…
On Tuesday, February 4, PBS’s American Experience will air The Amish: Shunned. In light of this documentary, we asked Karen Johnson-Weiner, one of the co-authors of Johns Hopkins University Press’s The Amish, to explain the practice of shunning. Guest post by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner In Lancaster County, a group of us ate dinner with an Amish couple who had two…