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There were a lot of famous novels published during the 1950s: Invisible Man, On the Road, The Recognitions, Lolita, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Things Fall Apart, Atlas Shrugged, all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, The...

Our book Dizziness: Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better, has just been published, and several people have asked me why my co-author, Dr. Robert W. Baloh, and I wrote the book. What’s so important about dizziness, anyway? All agree it’s common...

We all take it for granted that clicking on an underlined word on a web page will magically transport us to a new site on the Internet almost instantly, but the concept of hyperlinking had a legacy well dating decades earlier. In July of 1945, Vannevar Bush...

Three new journals have joined the JHU Press collection for 2017. One of the new titles - Twentieth-Century China - fits into our list very well. TCC editor Kristin Stapleton said the journal has a compatible relationship with Late Imperial China. Director of...

1. What are sauropod dinosaurs? Sauropods, perhaps even more than the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, are among the most iconic of all dinosaurs in the public mind, typified by their huge bodies, long necks/ tails and small heads.They were among the most long-lived...

“A man, a van, and a crazy plan.” That’s how my editor described it. My coauthors, American’s Larry Heaney and Eric Rickart, knew me well enough to believe I could pull it off. Having spent months in the field by myself studying Philippine mammals, the idea of...

Last March, I received an unusual email. It came to the Press’s general mailbox and was passed around until it landed on my desk. The email was from a high school student on a speech and debate team who was preparing a performance on Hollywood’s...

Like many of my colleagues that study horses and zebras and asses, when I take off my objective scientist hat, what remains is someone who genuinely loves horses. I love the smell of them. I love hearing my horse’s nicker when I go to feed him in the morning...

A reviewer of my just released fourth book, Faces of the Civil War Navies, asked me a question that I found difficult to answer. What’s your favorite story? The question seems simple and straightforward on is face. But I’ve spent the last four years immersed...

Perhaps it’s the election of 2016. More and more of us, it seems, are obsessively checking the news on cable channels and websites several times a day. Or we haunt Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates. We typically think of this obsession with the news...