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By Vincent J. Burke, executive editor A hawk went aloft, stealing everyone’s attention. It was a familiar scene for the speaker, a wildlife manager whose back was turned to the soaring bird. You could see the slight smile form on his face as he recognized the...

Guest post by Don Lincoln The Big Bang Theory is a fun show. It follows the lives of four geeky and quirky scientists who are too improbable to be true. Howard is an engineer and lives with his overbearing mother. Raj is an astrophysicist who is afraid to talk...

The JHU Press October events calendar features the launch of the Healthy Living Series at Baltimore’s Ivy Bookshop, a program with the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for our new biography of pioneering psychiatrist Adolf Meyer...

Guest post by E. F. Shaw Wilgis, M.D. The Curtis National Hand Center, originally led by Dr. Raymond Curtis and three of his colleagues, was founded in a trailer on a porch of Union Memorial Hospital in 1975. This trailer, which housed a rudimentary therapy...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Great writers are great readers. And nothing dials up the magnification on a book like the green-eyed gaze of a fellow author. In 2014, many Jane Austen fans have been rereading what is arguably her darkest and most difficult novel...

Guest post by Natalie Gerber On Thursday at noon, Wallace Stevens’ poetry will be the focus of a program sponsored by the U. S. poet laureate Charles Wright. The program, which is free and open to the public, will present two poets, Jennifer Michael Hecht and...

Johns Hopkins University Press and the George Peabody Library are jointly hosting the JHU Press Book Sale along with talks, book signings, and special exhibits. Visit us at the 2014 Baltimore Book Festival in the beautiful Baltimore Visitor Center overlooking...

Guest post by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard Digital editions of the first two volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, a monumental work shepherded for many years by general editor Ronald Schuchard, will be officially published this week on...

Guest post by John M. Lawrence Starfish rarely receive widespread public notice. The explosion of populations of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) on the Great Barrier Reef in the 1960s, which received world-wide attention, is an exception. However...

Our occasional Friday series on the blog, The Press Reads, features short excerpts from recent JHUP books. We hope to whet your appetite and inspire additions to your reading list. Today's selection is drawn from the preface of Trees of Life: A Visual History...