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The following is a modified excerpt from Leslie Day's Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City in celebration of National Bird Day. In New York City, birds are everywhere. They share the sidewalks with us. They build their nests on, above, and...

“Free college for all” was often in the news during the presidential campaign, and questions about the affordability of college can be expected to loom large whether any such proposal is enacted or not. There also will be new demands for accountability and...

My history with Athens Burning goes back 40 years to when I was doing research for my Ph.D. on Greek burial customs. Athens’ main cemetery, called the Cerameicus or Potters’ Quarter, lies just outside the city wall on the west side of the city. I used to go...

Regulations that govern the implementation and administration of federal programs and policies under the Higher Education Act are created through the higher education rulemaking process. In my book, “Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating...

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...