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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.
Why Women Can't Get Ahead in Science and Health Care
Examines the systemic obstacles limiting women's advancement in science and health care careers. Sexism in science and health care rarely announces itself as a single, dramatic event. More often, it appears as a steady accumulation of slights, exclusions, and unequal expectations that shape careers over time. In Harsh Medicine, Jennifer Rubin ......
Coming soon! Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (volume 55) edited by George Boulukos. Coming soon! Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (volume 55) edited by George Boulukos.
Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work
When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning? What is a university for? Is it a sanctuary for disciplined study, or has it become something else entirely? In After the University, Chad Wellmon traces the long and often uneasy relationship between higher learning and the institutions that claim to ......
An essential guide to understanding tensors through physics. Understanding tensors is essential for physics students who encounter phenomena where direction matters. A jet stream rushing overhead can trigger vertical convection that leads to thunderstorms. An unbalanced car wheel spinning around a horizontal axis produces a wobble in the vertical ......
An essential guide to understanding tensors through physics. Understanding tensors is essential for physics students who encounter phenomena where direction matters. A jet stream rushing overhead can trigger vertical convection that leads to thunderstorms. An unbalanced car wheel spinning around a horizontal axis produces a wobble in the vertical ......
Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence
The forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee offers a crucial reframing of America's origin story. Americans remember 1776 as the year liberty was declared, the moment they cast off tyranny and proclaimed the self-evident truths of equality and freedom. But that same summer, as patriots celebrated their defiant new nation, American ......
Approaching Health Care with a New Faith-Based Vision
A bold and compassionate vision of what health care can become if we allow it to be shaped by our moral imagination. In a country where more than one in five hospital beds belong to religious institutions, amid skyrocketing costs, deepening inequities, and burnout across the health care system, Growing Our Moral Imagination challenges us to see ......
A compelling call to reimagine public health by addressing human behavior and systemic barriers to prevent pandemics. We are doomed to live through pandemics as long as we rely on biomedical advances to save us. In Humanizing Public Health, Perry N. Halkitis explores how human behavior, societal structures, and flawed public health approaches ......
An essential textbook on how the environment influences our health and well-being.The Environment and Your Health Everything around us-air, water, food, buildings, neighborhoods-shapes our health in profound ways. Edited by Megan Weil Latshaw and Joseph P. Bressler, this essential textbook offers a comprehensive foundation in environmental health ......
