Image: logo: Listing: The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley Branch, Michael P. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801856914 456 pages paperback $33 Pub Date: 4/6/1998 Author picture: 30 b&w illus.. This is an anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing about one of America's premier regions—the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Michael P. Branch is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Daniel J. Philippon is a Ph.D. candidate in the English at the University of Virginia. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Reno NV (Michael P. Branch - University of Nevada, Reno) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780801856914.jpg Branch, Michael P.jpg logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 30 - the Geography of Enlightenment Erwin, Timothy (editor) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801866746 320 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: 4/30/2001 Author picture: Always interdisciplinary, the field of eighteenth-century studies has recently become genuinely international. To reflect this global emphasis, this volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture gathers four essays under the rubric of The Geography of Enlightenment. Timothy Erwin is an associate professor of British literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and current vice-president of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Ourida Mostefai is an associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Boston College. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Las Vegas NV (Timothy Erwin - University of Nevada, Las Vegas) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780801866746.jpg Erwin, Timothy.jpg logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Erwin, Timothy and Burnham, Michelle (editors) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421413761 300 pages hardcover $45 Pub Date: 3/26/2014 24 figures Author picture: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture reflects new and highly promising directions of research in the field. Timothy Erwin is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also edited volumes 28–30 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Las Vegas NV (Timothy Erwin - University of Nevada, Las Vegas) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9781421413761.jpg Erwin, Timothy and Burnham, logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS Guinan, Mary (with Anne D. Mather) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421439815 144 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 8/3/2021 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Author picture: In Adventures of a Female Medical Detective, Guinan weaves together twelve vivid stories of her life in medicine, describing her individual experiences in controlling outbreaks, researching new diseases, and caring for patients the world over. Mary Guinan, PhD, MD (INCLINE VILLAGE, NV), is the founding dean emerita of the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was the first woman to serve as the chief scientific advisor to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anne D. Mather (HOSCHTON, GA) was the managing editor of the CDC newsletter, the MMWR, during the years when smallpox was eradicated and AIDS was discovered. Discount: 0.46 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Incline Village NV (Mary Guinan) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9781421439815.jpg Guinan, Mary.jpg logo johns hopkins u prfess.jpg Image: logo: Listing: A Fractured Profession: Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science Johnson, David R. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421423531 192 pages hardcover $49.95 Pub Date: 9/22/2017 1 line drawing Author picture: Exploring the growing division among academic scientists over a profit motive in research. David R. Johnson is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Nevada, Reno. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9781421423531.jpg Johnson, David R.jpg logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri Ketchell, Aaron K. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801886607 344 pages hardcover $35 Pub Date: 8/15/2007 26 b&w photos Author picture: In this lively and engaging study, Ketchell explores Branson's unique blend of religion and recreation. He explains how the city became a mecca of conservative Christianity—a place for a spiritual vacation—and how, through conscious effort, its residents and businesses continuously reinforce its inextricable connection with the divine. Aaron K. Ketchell, who writes on American popular religion, teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780801886607.jpg Ketchell, Aaron K.jpg logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770 Marshall, Ashley Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421419855 456 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 4/26/2016 Author picture: An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Ashley Marshall is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Swift and History: Politics and the English Past Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9781421419855.jpg Marshall, Ashley.jpg logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases across State Systems Richardson Jr., Richard and Martinez, Mario Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801891618 282 pages hardcover $50 Pub Date: 5/5/2009 Author picture: 1 line drawing Policy and Performance in American Higher Education presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy. Richard Richardson, Jr., is a professor of higher education at New York University and senior author of Designing State Higher Education Systems for a New Century. Mario Martinez is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Postsecondary Participation and State Policy: Meeting the Future Demand. Discount: 0.40 Distro: HFS Group: Wilcher Author location: Las Vegas NV (Mario Martinez - University of Nevada, Las Vegas) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780801891618.jpg Richardson Jr., Richard and logo johns hopkins u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Slings & Slingstones: The Forgotton Weapons of Oceania and the Americas York, Robert and York, Gigi Kent State University Press . 9781606351079 224 pages hardcover $55 Pub Date: 1/31/2012 Author picture: A fascinating examination of an overlooked weapon. Robert York and Gigi York are fellows of the University of Wyoming's Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology in Laramie. They also hold research associate appointments at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and at the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Museum of History and Culture in Saipan. Between them, they share some sixty years of professional experience in the fields of archaeology, museum collections, and cultural resources management. They have written and published numerous reports and articles about their work. Discount: 0.40 Distro: Kent State Group: BRG Author location: Laramie WY and Carson City NV image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9781606351079.jpg York, Robert and York, Gigi.jpg logo kent state u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast Stiles, Erin E. and Thompson, Katrina Daly (editors) Ohio University Press . 9780821421871 400 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 10-15-2015 Author picture: 2 illustrations. Indian Ocean Studies Series In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. Erin E. Stiles is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she chairs the minor program in religious studies. Her research interests include Islam and law in East Africa. Katrina Daly Thompson is associate professor in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Discount: 0.20 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher Author location: Reno NV (Erin E. Stiles) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780821421871.jpg Stiles, Erin E. and Thompson, logo ohio u press.jpg Image: logo: Listing: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer Bowers, John M. Oxford University Press . 9780198842675 336 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2019