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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.
Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers, revised and augmented edition (POD)
The Sighted Singer makes available a revised and significantlyexpanded version of Against Our Vanishing and includes Grossman's recent treatise ''Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Commonplaces in Speculative Poetry.'' This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion--across generations--of ''the fundamental discourse of poetic ......
Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938
''A spirited and absorbing history of emancipation, oppression, and rebellion in the British empire.''--C. Vann Woodward.''Holt greatly extends and deepens our understanding of the emancipation experience when, for just over a century, the people of Jamaica struggled to achieve their own vision of freedom and autonomy against powerful conservative ......
In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till -- a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth -- was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed wire, Till, an eighth-grader, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The ......
Anatomy of a Decision, revised and expanded edition (POD)
In this new edition of his highly acclaimed work, Jiri Valenta adds his assessment of Soviet military decisionmaking in the 1980s to his earlier analysis of decisionmaking and crisis management in the Soviet bureaucracy and Warsaw Pact. Comparing the events of 1968 to the Kremlin's very different reaction to reforms now under way in Czechoslovakia ......
''This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval `literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us . . . This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the ......
A Study in Romantic Literature and Contemporary Culture (POD)
In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role--and our ......
''Well written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike.''--Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Journal of the American Medical Association.''The best brief history of health care in America since Richard H. Shryock's classic survey appeared over thirty years ago.''--Ronald ......
In Our Changing Cities some of the nation's most eminent urban geographers bring their special expertise to bear on the American urban scene. They describe how our cities have evolved, assess their current character, and look ahead to the momentous changes yet to come.
