Guest post by Steven Gimbel We love Albert Einstein, and by “we” I mean most everyone. Fifty-seven years after his death and you can still find everything from T-shirts and bumper stickers to dolls and finger puppets bearing his likeness. Part of this is because he reshaped the way we see the universe in deep and …
By Brendan Coyne, exhibits and awards manager E-books and Amazon. If you're a reader (which presumably you are, since you're visiting the blog of a university press), and especially if you happen to work in the book publishing business, both e-books and Amazon.com are inescapable entities, and deservedly so. Though Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg created…
By Janet Gilbert, Direct Mail and Renewals Coordinator, Journals There is a volunteering group Here at the Hopkins Press, That was set up to foster Teamwork and togetherness. Yes, our adjacent buildings on North Charles Street in the city Are bridged by the activities of The Press Social Committee! One lunchtime meeting, long ago, We got…
By Janet Gilbert, Direct Mail and Renewals Coordinator, Journals There is a volunteering group Here at the Hopkins Press, That was set up to foster Teamwork and togetherness. Yes, our adjacent buildings on North Charles Street in the city Are bridged by the activities of The Press Social Committee! One lunchtime meeting, long ago, We got…
Guest post by E. Paul Zehr Or should we first see if we can build any kind of brain at all? On the surface it seems like an almost trivial exercise. All you need to do is figure out how the brain functions, then run some computer simulations, use the outcomes of the simulations to…