Category: For Everyone
guest post by Margaret Humphreys In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir explore the public health implications of natural disasters. At first the fact that wars and disasters kill people may provoke an eye-roll response—“Oh, gee, I didn’t know that”—but a closer reading evokes a broader…
guest post by Margaret Humphreys In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jennifer Leaning and Debarati Guha-Sapir explore the public health implications of natural disasters. At first the fact that wars and disasters kill people may provoke an eye-roll response—“Oh, gee, I didn’t know that”—but a closer reading evokes a broader…
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…
By john
November 4, 2013
American History, American Studies, Baltimore, Biography, Conferences, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Journals, Literature, Popular Culture, Press Events, Social media, Sports, Uncategorized, University Press Week
With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…
By john
November 4, 2013
American History, American Studies, Baltimore, Biography, Conferences, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Journals, Literature, Popular Culture, Press Events, Social media, Sports, Uncategorized, University Press Week
With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…
JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…
JHU Press author Michael Olesker delivered a terrific talk at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library on October 21 about his new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age, which tells the stories of Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Barry Levinson, and other famous Charm City personalities as they came of age during…
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 My association with penguins began with a singular encounter of three emperor penguins in the early austral spring of 1961. It…
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 My association with penguins began with a singular encounter of three emperor penguins in the early austral spring of 1961. It…