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World Oceans Day: A celebration of marine fishes
Today is World Oceans Day. Hundreds of organizations around the globe are gathering for beach cleanups and education events for a cleaner ocean and a healthier future. In honor of the occasion, we’ve invited Marine Fishes of Florida authors David B. Snyder and...
"Going deep" for World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day is tomorrow, 08 June, but we just can't help ourselves. Check out two of our newest titles that pay homage to ocean life! A Field Guide to Coastal Fishes: From Alaska to CaliforniaVal Kells, Luiz A. Rocha, and Larry G. Allen A sequel of sorts...
Lessons learned, unlearned and never learned
Three years ago Johns Hopkins University Press published our book Presidencies Derailed: Why University Presidents Fail and How to Prevent It. College and University Presidencies have become more fraught since our book was published. Derailments occur with...
Four places to visit in Maryland this month
Planning your weekend excursions for the month of June? Author Bryan MacKay has the inspiration you need. The following is excerpted from his book, A Year Across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region. Be sure to check...
Before & After Cancer Treatment
Julie K. Silver, MD, is an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and a member of the medical staff at Spaulding Rehabilitation, Massachusetts General, and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. She developed the STAR...
The Army's Journey
Thomas F. Army, Jr., is an adjunct assistant professor of history at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His latest project, Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War is available now. In researching my book, Engineering Victory: How Technology Won...
More Than Campaign Promises: Health Reform and Health Equity
By Daniel E. Dawes and Erika Brown Pringle Attorney Daniel E. Dawes is the executive director of health policy and external affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine and a lecturer within Morehouse's Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Department of...
Faith and Pediatric Death
In a recent issue of the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, a pair of researchers at the University of Alabama Birmingham shared their study of "Physician Religion and End-of-Life Pediatric Care." The project took a look at how the religion and...
#BikeToWorkDay2016
Robin W. Coleman is our Acquisitions Editor for Public Health and Health Policy. He also regularly bikes to the office. In honor of #BikeToWorkDay2016, he shares his thoughts on biking and public health. There’s an old line that goes, “My car runs on money and...
Tackling Librarian Values
When the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the American Library Association’s (ALA) “Core Values of Librarianship” came and went without any scholarly or professional attention, University of Windsor librarians Selinda A. Berg and Heidi LM Jacobs, decided to...