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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.
''The fascinating story of how Hippocrates and the Oath (which is unlikely to have been written by the great Coan doctor himself) became Christianized is the theme of this wise and humane book . . . Historians, theologians, and doctors alike will benefit from this clear, learned, and courteous exposition of an enthralling theme.''--Vivian Nutton, ......
''An eminently readable, nicely researched tour de force that goes on my must-reading list for anyone interested in knowing the Chesapeake Bay.''--Tom Horton, Baltimore Sun.''This excellent book about the Susquehanna River is as good as, and maybe better than, the celebrated Rivers of America series books . . . Much more comprehensive than most ......
United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After 2ed
Did the United States ''win'' the Cold War? In its self-congratulatory euphoria, argues Thomas McCormick in this new edition of his highly acclaimed study, America neglected a twenty-year process of political and economic devolution--the real threat to global peace and prosperity. Revised andupdated through 1993, it describes how the end of the ......
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''The quality of the contributors alone is enough to make this an excellent book. It is a valuable compendium--and bibliography--of recent thinking on the historical context of current discussions of educational reform.''--Robert A. McCaughey, Barnard College.Contributors: David Angus, Patricia Albjerg Graham, Carl F. Kaestle, Joseph F. Kett, ......
In January 1927 Gus Comstock, a barbershop porter in the small Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, drank eighty cups of coffee in seven hours and fifteen minutes. The New York Times reported that near the end, amid a cheering crowd, the man's ''gulps were labored, but a physician examining him found him in pretty good shape.'' The event was part of a ......
Volumes 12 and 13 of this highly acclaimed documentary edition cover the first Congress's second session, from January to August 1790. Among other important issues in this critical period, Congress debated Hamilton's report on the public credit, federal assumption of state Revolutionary War debts, and antislavery petitions from Pennsylvania ......
''The intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic in 1965 has inspired several books, and this one is clearly the best.''--Review of Politics.Drawing on nearly 150 personal interviews with individuals in the DominicanRepublic and the United States, on rare access to classified U.S. government documents, and on his own first-hand ......
Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not ''Senecan'' in its absurdity, melodrama, and ......
