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With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, health and wellness, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world.
How a Natural Fiber Survived the Synthetic Revolution
How chemistry, culture, and industry remade a natural fiber-and reshaped our closets. Wool once shaped daily life in the United States. The ubiquitous textile clothed soldiers and filled civilian wardrobes; sheep even grazed on the White House lawn. Today, however, wool apparel represents a sliver of the global textile market. In Reinventing ......
A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth
A compassionate guide to supporting a young person through medical transition. When transgender and nonbinary youth pursue gender-affirming medical care, the adults supporting them play a crucial role in their journey. Gender-Affirming Care: A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth offers the clarity caregivers need at a moment when ......
A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth
A compassionate guide to supporting a young person through medical transition. When transgender and nonbinary youth pursue gender-affirming medical care, the adults supporting them play a crucial role in their journey. Gender-Affirming Care: A Guide for Families of Medically Transitioning Youth offers the clarity caregivers need at a moment when ......
Child-Rearing Experts and Female Novelists, 1860-1940
How women novelists reshaped the rules of motherhood and claimed authority over the future. Debates about how to raise children have always been debates about power, authority, and the future. In Holding the Reins of the Future, Jackie E. Stallcup examines the vigorous nineteenth- and early twentieth-century arguments over child-rearing and shows ......
Nutrition for National Defense in World War II and the Cold War
Nutrition science, national power, and the politics of feeding the world. In the twentieth century, nutrition became a matter not only of health, but of national security, economic development, and global governance. In Fortified Bodies, Hannah F. LeBlanc traces how nutrition science moved from laboratories and kitchens into military planning ......
How intelligent systems are redefining the human side of health care. Health care stands on the precipice of extreme transformation. In The Machines Will See You Now, MIT-trained computer scientist and pioneering entrepreneur in digital health Anmol Madan explores how artificial intelligence, automation, and personalized data are reshaping the ......
The Forgotten Story of the Mechanical Voting Machine, and Why It Matters
How a hulking machine helped build and sustain American democracy in the mid-twentieth century. For more than a century, the mechanical lever voting machine stood in polling places across the United States. Unwieldy, unloved, and eventually discarded, it rarely attracted admiration. Yet as Bryan Pfaffenberger shows, this "lowly lever" shaped ......
The Survivornomics of America's Neglected Neighborhoods
A searing portrait of young Black people's day-to-day lives growing up in marginalized communities-and how to help. In underserved communities across the United States, violence, food insecurity, unstable housing, lead poisoning, and other factors such as racist redlining policies negatively impact young people's everyday experiences-and their ......
What does it mean for a modernist novel to fail? Modernism famously celebrates rupture, difficulty, and deviance from literary norms-but that very embrace of formal experimentation creates a paradox: how can we tell the difference between daring innovation and genuinely bad writing? Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel takes up this long-overlooked ......
