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Alfred Wegener is the greatest scientist you've never heard of. The author of the theory of continental drift—one of the key scientific concepts of the past century and the direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics—Wegener also made major...

If you are in Toronto for the ASA annual meeting, be sure to stop by Booth #208, to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and and take advantage of special meeting discounts. Throughout the meeting and after, JHUP books will be available at a 30%...

Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Authors are blessed when their books are published on important anniversaries. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger hit the stands in the spring of 2014, coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare...

Interview by Yasmine Kaminsky You mentioned in an interview with the Tennessee Literary Project that although your parents raised you in a cultured household, you initially did not believe you would become a writer. How, then, did your path to poetry form? I...

Guest post by John C. McManus Recently the Anti-Defamation League conducted a worldwide survey designed to measure the extent of anti-Semitic attitudes and knowledge of the Holocaust. Over 53,000 adults in 102 countries were queried by professional pollsters...

If you are heading to Washington, D.C. for the GSA annual meeting, be sure to stop by our booth, located right by the registration desk, to meet our staff, browse our latest publications, and and take advantage of special meeting discounts. Throughout the...

JHUP author Dr. Adam L. Kushner will be signing copies of Operation Health in Chicago next week at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress 2015. Meet Adam and get your signed copy of at the Exhibit Hall Resource Center Book Signing Booth on Monday...

In the June 2015 issue of Leviathan, Steven Olsen-Smith edited a section called "Recovering Melville's Hand," which featured three articles on digital discovery and analysis of works found on the Melville's Marginalia Online website. Olsen-Smith, a faculty...

Guest post by Yasmine Z. Kaminsky Kathy Alexander, the publicity manager in the books marketing department at JHU Press, is retiring this October after fourteen years at JHUP. In her retirement, Kathy is looking forward to spending time with her family...

American military power in the War on Terror has increasingly depended on the capacity to see the enemy. The act of seeing—enhanced by electronic and digital technologies—has separated shooter from target, eliminating risk of bodily harm to the remote warrior...