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A Holiday Gift Guide for Hopkins Press Books

A selection of books from Hopkins Press

Celebrate the holiday season with a good book. Whether you're shopping for yourself or your loved ones, Hopkins Press offers a wide and exciting variety of books to satisfy any reader.

For the science lovers

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Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands
Our Place Is in Our Soul
by edited by Serra J. Hoagland and Steven Albert
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Life in the Dark
Illuminating Biodiversity in the Shadowy Haunts of Planet Earth
by Danté Fenolio
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Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City
by Leslie Day
illustrated by Mark A. Klingler
foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg
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The Killer Whale Journals
Our Love and Fear of Orcas
by Hanne Strager
foreword and photographs by Paul Nicklen
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Things That Go Bump in the Universe
How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos
by C. Renée James
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For the art and literature lovers

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Harlem World
How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
by Jonathan Mael
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Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
introduction by Judith Butler
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The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
by Patrick Hastings
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How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now
by Walter Stephens
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For the history buffs

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Abraham Lincoln
A Life
by Michael Burlingame
edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White
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I Dread the Thought of the Place
The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign
by D. Scott Hartwig
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The Black President
Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
by Claude A. Clegg III
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The Contagion of Liberty
The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
by Andrew M. Wehrman
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For educators and parents

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The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions
A Conversation about Education, Parenting, and Race
by Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown
foreword by Akil Bello
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Shortchanged
How Advanced Placement Cheats Students
by Annie Abrams
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Relationship-Rich Education
How Human Connections Drive Success in College
by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
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Connections Are Everything
A College Student's Guide to Relationship-Rich Education
by Peter Felten, Leo M. Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, and Oscar R. Miranda Tapia
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For the policy wonks

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The Black Butterfly
The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
by Lawrence T. Brown
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-science
A Scientist's Warning
by Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD
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For the Marylanders

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The New Chesapeake Kitchen
by John Shields
photographs by David W. Harp
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Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia
by Bruce M. Beehler
photography by Middleton Evans
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Cover image of Who Speaks for You?
Who Speaks for You?
The Inside Story of the Prosecutor Who Took Down Baltimore's Most Crooked Cops
by Leo Wise
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Written by: Kris Lykke
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