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    First Folio, the book that gave us Shakespeare:  On tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016
      
    
  
                Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Johns Hopkins University Press released Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger on the Ides of March in 2014, the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. In 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death...
          
  
  
    Digging Into Graphic Narrative
      
    
  
                Late in 2015, the journal South Central Review published a special issue on "Graphic Narrative." The issue featured seven essays and two book reviews on the growing field of scholarship focused on this area of publishing. Nicole Stamant, assistant professor of...
          
  
  
    Thomas Edison: Measuring the days of an extraordinary life
      
    
  
                Guest post by Louis Carlat "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day," said American essayist Alexander Woollcott. Anything might happen. But of course, some days turn out to be more important than others. With the publication of its...
          
  
  
    Four Journals Join JHUP Collection
      
    
  
                The Johns Hopkins University Press will add a quartet of journals to its list. The diverse additions - ASAP/Journal, Dante Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities and Lutheran Quarterly – now bring the JHUP journals list to 83. "The addition of these titles...
          
  
    Pro-Nuclear Environmentalism
      
    
  
                In the final issue for 2015, the journal Technology and Culture included an essay from Danish-based researchers Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest called "Pro-Nuclear Environmentalism: Should We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Energy?" Sylvest, an...
          
  
  
    Podcast with Paul R. Josephson
      
    
  
                New Books in Science, Technology, and Society featured Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies in an article and podcast interview with author Paul R. Josephson. Read the article and listen to the podcast here. Use...
          
  
  
    Birds are going extinct: Entire species are hanging on by their wingtips
      
    
  
                "Deforestation and the pet trade have ravaged avian populations, and the consequences for mankind could prove dire." That's how Salon introduced an excerpt recently posted from The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo...
          
  
  
    Spring books preview: politics and policy
      
    
  
                We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this spring—and we're pleased to start off the new year with a series of posts that highlight our forthcoming titles. Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Spring 2016 catalog, and remember...
          
  
  
    John Wyver, Shakespeare Bulletin
      
    
  
                Shakespeare Bulletin devoted much of the Winter 2015 issue (Volume 33, Issue 4) to a series of essays on "Television and the Anti-Realist Theatricality of 'not Shakespeare.' John Wyver, an award-winning producer and director, collected the four essays and one...
          
  
  
    Spring books preview: religion
      
    
  
                We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this spring—and we're pleased to start off the new year with a series of posts that highlight our forthcoming titles. Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Spring 2016 catalog, and remember...