Category: conservation

Wild Thing: The pleasures of green turtles and the kindness of sisters

Wild Thing is a monthly series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest post by Alison Rieser Judith M. Heimann, one of the people I interviewed for my newly released book, wrote in The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom…

Wild Thing: The pleasures of green turtles and the kindness of sisters

Wild Thing is a monthly series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest post by Alison Rieser Judith M. Heimann, one of the people I interviewed for my newly released book, wrote in The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom…

JHU Press July news

JHU Press Welcomes Three New Journals The Journals Division will add three new journals to its collection later this year, announced Journals Publisher Bill Breichner. This brings the total number of journals published by the JHU Press to 78. The three new titles will be The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English…

Happy International Polar Bear Day

Guest post by Andrew E. Derocher, Ph.D. February 27 is International Polar Bear Day but it’s a safe bet that polar bears throughout the Arctic aren't paying much attention. Nonetheless, any bear living at the northern reaches of land near Ellesmere Island or northern Greenland might be celebrating: celebrating the return of the sun. Given that the…