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By Janet Gilbert, JHUP Journals Staff After two hours at the mall, my feet are burning in my pointy work shoes. I hoist my packages up the first set of ten and the second set of five steps to my front door, and toss the bags of gifts in the foyer. I’ll wrap...

The JHU Press has a beautiful selection of books on the natural world, from the amazing new edition of Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America, to our popular Animal Answer Guide series, to family-friendly guide books, to handsomely illustrated volumes on...

Guest post by Stephen H. Grant In forty years of book collecting, Henry Clay Folger managed to collect eighty-two of the 800 or so First Folios containing thirty-six Shakespeare plays compiled by two of the Bard’s actor friends, John Heminge and Henry Condell...

Guest post by Lara Freidenfelds Ask someone to talk about her experiences with menstruation for a couple of hours, and she will usually laugh: “What on earth would I have to say for that long, on that subject?” And then, as it turns out, she will tell story...

Our December calendar begins with some terrific author events and ends with preparations for the new year’s onslaught of academic meetings. As always, we appreciate your help in spreading the word about JHUP’s events and activities. And never forget, please...

Guest post by Garry L. Hagberg Denis Dutton (1944–2010) spent over more than thirty-five years editing or jointly editing Philosophy and Literature, the collective intellectual adventure in humane learning that saw its first issue in 1976, and was steadfastly...

  We are pleased to republish geneticist Megan Rokop’s account of how she uses The Story Within:Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity to teach her introduction to biology course. This article originally appeared in the September issue of MIT STEM Pals, a...

Post by Brian Shea Journals PR & Advertising Coordinator A grand jury will soon announce whether Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014. Protesters and police are trying to...

Guest post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Diseases are much more than the viruses which cause them. Even in the presence of well-defined physical illness, social and cultural beliefs and behaviors have a strong impact on how we can understand the disease and...

Guest post by Lawrence W. Green This was a year when Ebola and its one death in the United States has produced an American public riveted by the drama of tracing the infected and their contacts and frightened by the prospect, albeit remote, of the virus...