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This work identifies our two-party, comparatively non-representative form of democracy as the main culprit of why American politics are so dysfunctional-and shows us how to fix it--Author: Maxwell L...

This work uses the history of American funeral homes to reimagine the beginnings of our decentralized consumer landscape--Author: Dean G. LamprosPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date: Mar 26,...

This work takes a unique slant on the concept of privacy-not in terms of threats or law, but as it manifested in physical spaces--Author: Laura Walikainen RouleauPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date:...

By telling the story of six medical students, this work shows the readers how we have trained physicians, how it feels to become a physician, and how we can train future physicians so they know...

This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science and religion in early twentieth century America--Author: Edward B. DavisPublisher:...

This work is the first in a three-book series that will observe the past and the future of public university systems and what is unique about them--Author: James R. JohnsenPublisher: JHU...

This work is a practical guide to strategic planning for nonprofits: what it is, why you should be doing it, and how to get it done--Author: Alicia M. SchattemanPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date:...

This work lays bare the cornerstones of the sociology of diagnosis, and what they add to our understandings of medicine in society by drawing together a number of threads that contribute to the...

This work explores how and why individual states choose to regulate abortion in different ways--Author: Deborah R. McFarlane, Wendy L. HansenPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date: May 28, 2024Number...

This book makes cancer understandable to a wide audience by combining science with humor, while accurately capturing the current state of knowledge in this rapidly changing field of medicine--Author:...

This work describes how pests have shaped the production of knowledge, in addition to their relationship with nature in rural South Africa--Author: Jules Skotnes-BrownPublisher: JHU PressPublication...

This is a work for the couple that drinks too much-a guide to getting sober, strengthening relationships, and living a life of mindful sobriety--Author: Joseph NowinskiPublisher: JHU PressPublication...

An urgent call to action on a rising?and preventable?trend. Each year in the United States alone, nearly 50,000 individuals die by suicide; more than 1.2 million others attempt it. John Bateson,...

This work uses public health laws as a tool to counter efforts to mask the health hazards that come with playing tackle football--Author: Daniel S. GoldbergPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date: Oct...

This book highlights the rich social and cultural history of the transportation revolution--Author: Aaron W. MarrsPublisher: JHU PressPublication Date: Apr 09, 2024Number of Pages: 273 pagesLanguage:...

This book will educate Black families on the college admission process and provide them with the information, tools, and knowledge they need to explore college options--Author: Timothy L. Fields,...

This work examines James Monroe's efforts to build, dismantle-and then later rebuild-a system of political parties in the early American republic--Author: Brook PostonPublisher: JHU PressPublication...

The author examines the implications of this liberty reset for the ways we negotiate freedom's boundaries as we tend to our unending preoccupations of wealth, work, health, happiness, security,...

Comprising eight revised essays and seven new pieces, this work provides a comprehensive resource for students, scientists, bioethicists, physicians, and laypeople to better understand and discuss...

This work provides a new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that, in its political and diplomatic aspects, planted the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower--Author:...

This work provides a comprehensive review of the natural history of the 58 species living tortoises, the majority of which are threatened by extinction--Author: George R. Zug, Devin A...

This work is a collection of stories from emergency medicine physicians, as well as a brief, surface-level historical account of the intersection between emergency medicine, science, and...

The fascinating story of a British army chaplain's buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America. On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of...

Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth...

This work is a compelling collection of essays on the war in Ukraine and its profound global impacts--Author: Hal Brands, Henry a Kissinger Distinguished Professor Hal BrandsPublisher: JHU...

Explore the mind of a bee and learn what drives its behavior. Have you ever observed a bee up close and wondered what was going on inside its head? Like ours, insects' brains take up most of the...

This work presents the beneficial roles of fungi along with their mischievous and deadly impacts, and illustrates how committed experts in the field can research ways to make use of these...