Month: October 2015

Rebecca Seib and Mott Greene speak at the Johns Hopkins Club, November 3 & 4

Next week, JHU Press will host two special programs in our lunch and lecture series at the Johns Hopkins Club on the university’s Homewood campus. Descriptions are below, along with links to more information about the books and authors. Reservations are required, and the cost is $20 per person for each lunch and talk. Books…

Rebecca Seib and Mott Greene speak at the Johns Hopkins Club, November 3 & 4

Next week, JHU Press will host two special programs in our lunch and lecture series at the Johns Hopkins Club on the university’s Homewood campus. Descriptions are below, along with links to more information about the books and authors. Reservations are required, and the cost is $20 per person for each lunch and talk. Books…

Pope Francis inspired a “trust community”

Guest post by Irene S. Wu The visit of Pope Francis to the United States reminded us what is good about the Church: the pull of an ancient creed, the call to a purpose bigger than ourselves, and the comfort of belonging to a caring community. There are many leaders of important institutions, indeed heads of…

Pope Francis inspired a “trust community”

Guest post by Irene S. Wu The visit of Pope Francis to the United States reminded us what is good about the Church: the pull of an ancient creed, the call to a purpose bigger than ourselves, and the comfort of belonging to a caring community. There are many leaders of important institutions, indeed heads of…

Meet Us In Houston: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

If you are in Houston for the ASBH annual meeting, be sure to stop by Booth #408 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% discount when your use the discount code HNAF. Check out…

Meet Us In Houston: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

If you are in Houston for the ASBH annual meeting, be sure to stop by Booth #408 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% discount when your use the discount code HNAF. Check out…

Three November events for “The Philadelphia Country House”

Next month, JHU Press publishes The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America, and authors Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean will be celebrating with talks and book signings in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The book is gorgeous, the history fascinating, and you are cordially invited to attend any and all of these events; details…

Book trailer: Mott Greene on his new biography of Alfred Wegener

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 contributions to geology, geophysics, astronomy, geodesy, atmospheric physics, meteorology, and glaciology. So why isn’t…