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Guest post by Michele Callaghan As an editor, I like words. It is safe to say that I love them. But sometimes there are just too many of them. This can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Turning perfectly good verbs into nouns just so you can add a...

Guest post by Sara Palmer, PhD June is National Aphasia Awareness Month—the perfect time to celebrate people living with aphasia and the aphasia programs that help them, from traditional speech language therapy (offered by hospitals, outpatient clinics, and...

The long-anticipated fourth edition of the leading mammalogy textbook by George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, and Carey Krajewski is the featured book at this year’s Johns Hopkins University Press book display at the...

Guest Post by Kathy Ko Chin and Dr. Winston Tseng In 1985, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler’s landmark report, Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Black and Minority Health, shined a light on some of the pervasive and concerning...

Guest post by Dane A. Morrison Recently, the online journal Common-place published a roundtable on Kathleen Donegan’s Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America, a book that has garnered a good deal of attention among early...

By Melanie Schaffner, Project MUSE Staff Johns Hopkins University Press is delighted to announce the award of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of MUSE Open, a distribution channel for open access monographs through...

By Hilary S. Jacqmin, JHUP Staff How did you become a writer? What drew you to poetry specifically? What were your early poems like? It’s hard to imagine that my early poems weren’t a lot like those of many others. Long on adolescent angst and abstraction. A...

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are proud to offer this sampling of our many books on mental health and related topics—works which have informed, inspired, and comforted readers around the world. Finding Your Emotional Balance: A Guide...

Look for our new books in Latin American Studies at the Scholars’ Choice booth at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from May 27 to 30. Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest...

Guest post by Scott H. Podolsky, MD Antibiotic resistance has been framed by Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England, as “a ticking time bomb . . . arguably as important as climate change for the world.” Responding to the issue, on March 27th...