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Brian May, founding guitarist of the famous rock band Queen, is now a Press author! A longtime astrophysics enthusiast, Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, and recent Ph.D. recipient, May will be in Los Angeles this month promoting his book Bang!: The Complete History of the Universe.

On Monday May 5, he'll be on KLOS Radio for a mix of conversation and music from his days with Queen. On Tuesday, he'll be signing books at Book Soup on Sunset Blvd. And later in the week, he'll be taped for the NPR program Day to Day. The interview will air on May 8, and the archive audio will be availabe from NPR.

The Presidency Research Group organized section of the American Political Science Association named Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation, by Martha Joynt Kumar, cowinner of the 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Award. This coveted prize honors the best book on the U.S. Presidency published in the previous year.

Twenty-five years in the making, Managing the President's Message provides an insider's view of the history and evolution of White House communications. It features interviews with dozens of White House communications staffers and members of the news media and includes an in-depth look at the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The North American Society for Oceanic History named Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004, by Donald G. Shomette, cowinner of its 2007 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History. This vivid montage of tragedies at sea off of the mid-Atlantic Coast weaves together history, folklore, and legend to recount how twenty-five of the more than 2,300 vessels sunk in these waters met their end. The book includes an appendix of wreck sites with coordinates and location descriptions where available.

The NASOH awards the prize annually in six categories. This is the fourth time since 1995 that JHUP has taken a prize in the Lyman competition. JHUP's past Lyman award winners are: Civil War Ironclads, by William H. Roberts; Ships for the Seven Seas, by Thomas R. Heinrich, and History of Medicine in the Early U.S Navy, by Harold D. Langley.

Johns Hopkins authors testify before Congress on Venezuela's prospects.

Jennifer McCoy and David Myers, authors of The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela have been asked to appear before Congress regarding Venezuela. They are part of the July 17 open meeting of the Subcomittee on the Western Hemisphere, Committee of Foreign Affairs.

Our design and production team continues to rack up accolades. After picking up second place honors in the scholarly/reference book category at the Twenty-second Annual New York Book Show earlier this year for Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, the team won three prizes at the Washington Book Publishers 2008 Book Design and Effectiveness Awards ceremony on June 10. We took first and second place among large nonprofit publishers in the typographic text category for, respectively, Poets on Prozac and Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004, and received the second place nod in the jacket or cover illustration category for The State of Disunion.

The May 2008 edition of Foreign Policy devotes an article to its Top 100 Public Intellectuals. The list includes renowned philosophers, environmentalists, economists, historians, and religious leaders. Three JHUP authors are included: E.O. Wilson, Martin Wolf, and Francis Fukuyama. Visit Foreign Policy to read the magazine's critera for choosing the list and to vote for your top 5 intellectuals.

The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, by Michael Fazio and Patrick Snadon, won the 2008 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society for Architectural Historians. The Hitchcock prize is for the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar. This is the third honor for the book, having previously taken the Publications Award given by the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and an Honorable Mention in the Architecture and Urban Planning category of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards.

JHUP received three awards from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The 2007 PSP Awards for Excellence were chosen for their unique contribution to scholarly publishing by a 15-member panel consisting of librarians, academics, and working publishers. Constitutional Democracy, by Walter Murphy, received the first ever Best of Social Sciences Award and the Award for Excellence in Government and Politics. The Treasure of the San José, by Carla Rahn Phillips, won the Award for Excellence in World History and Biography/Autobiography.

Leslie Day, author of Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City was awarded the Earth Trustee Award by the Earth Society Foundation in a ceremony on March 20, 2008.

Tribe, Race, History, by Daniel R. Mandell, won the inaugural Lawrence W. Levine Award given by the Organization of American Historians. The prize is awarded annually to the best book on American cultural history.

Two JHUP titles have been included in Library Journal's list of Best Consumer Health Books for 2007: Take Your Pediatrician with You: Keeping Your Child Healthy at Home and on the Road by Christopher S. Ryder and From Crib to Kindergarten: The Essential Child Safety Guide by Dorthey A. Drago. Read the complete story in Library Journal.

Upcoming JHUP Author appearances and lectures, Spring 2008:

Summertime is here, and so is summer travel! JHUP offers a range of books to take with you on your journeys:

Choice Magazine, the official publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, has announced its list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007. Eight JHUP titles were selected for this year's list.

January 3, 2008, The Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) announced that it will provide promotion, marketing, warehousing, and order fulfillment services for books published by the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), effective January 1. MdHS Press will retain editorial autonomy and production control.

There is a natural affinity between America's oldest university press and Maryland's oldest continuously operating cultural institution, said JHUP Director Kathleen Keane. "In many ways our lists complement each other," she said. "Both presses are committed to scholarship and substance, and both presses publish in history and the Chesapeake Bay region."

In welcoming the agreement, MdHS Director Robert W. Rogers said "While the MdHS Press has consistently produced books that have made significant scholarly and cultural contributions to the study of Maryland history, we have lacked the ability to market our books as widely as they deserve. This agreement will put the powerful marketing expertise of JHUP behind our publications, thereby bringing them to the attention of a much wider audience."

The Maryland Historical Society, located in the Mount Vernon area of downtown Baltimore, houses the most extensive collection of fine and decorative arts, prints, photographs, maps, books, documents, manuscripts and other artifacts relating to Maryland history in the world. Since its founding in 1844, the Society has been committed to publishing new scholarship on the state's history and culture. MdHS publications provide a forum for Maryland topics of scholarly and general interest. Recently published MdHS Press titles include A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860 by premier textile scholar Gloria Seaman Allen; and Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865 by T. Stephen Whitman. Both books provided the intellectual underpinning for two major exhibitions at MdHS in 2006.

The Hopkins Review was featured on WYPR 88.1's Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast. Susan McCallum-Smith reviews the first edition (Winter, 2008) of the resurrected literary quarterly journal The Hopkins Review, a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the Johns Hopkins University Press. McCallum-Smith raved, "Baltimore finally has a magazine that proves it does read, and it reads way, way beyond the 3rd grade level." For more information and to hear the audio from the show visit WYPR's website.
For more information on the journal visit The Hopkins Review.

JHUP announces the launch of three new journals in 2008.

The Hopkins Review, edited by John T. Irwin, is the culmination of years of labor and inspiration from the halls of the Writing Seminars of the Johns Hopkins University Press. The first issue, January 2008, features works by Max Apple, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Basford, Karol Berger, Wayne Biddle, Logan Browning, Stephen Dixon, Edward Hirsch, John Hollander, Christine Jowers, Millard Kaufman, Frank Kermode, Sharon Kopriva, Charles Martin, Erin McGraw, Ronald Paulson, Mary Jo Salter, and Richard Wilbur.

The Journal of Late Antiquity, edited by Ralph Mathisen, will fill a gap in academic literature. A multi-disciplinary journal covering the world of Late Antiquity, broadly defined as the late Roman, western European, Byzantine, Sassanid and Islamic worlds ca. AD 250-800 (i.e. the late and post-classical world up to the Carolingian period). JLA will provide a voice for scholarship dealing with both practical and theoretical issues and will bridge the gap between literary and material culture scholarship.

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, edited by Brian Bunk, Laura Lovett, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, and Martha Saxton, is the official journal of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. This new, exciting journal explores the development of childhood and youth cultures and the experiences of young people across diverse times and places.

JHUP now publishes the NWSA Journal.

The NWSA Journal the flagship publication of the National Women's Studies Association, now makes its home at the JHUP. In its nineteenth year of publication, NWSA Journal, edited by Becky Ropes-Huilman, provides a forum that fosters research and dialogue among those dedicated to feminist education and change. The Journal has made its stellar reputation through publication of the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary, multicultural feminist scholarship.

JHUP author and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program, Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, returned home September 6, 2007 after a 105-day confinement in Tehran. She was inprisoned in May due to allegations of endangering Iranian national security. More is available from The Woodrow Wilson Center site.

JHUP author Robert Pallitto was the special guest on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart. He discussed his new book Presidential Secrecy and the Law. A webcast of the program is available from Comedy Central.

Four JHUP books were honored at the June 12 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness Awards ceremony, according to Martha Sewall, JHUP art director.

Hopkins was awarded first place in the large nonprofit publishers category for the cover of Blind Landings. The Press swept the awards for illustrated text winning first place for Feeling Like a Kid, second place for Birds of the World, and third place for Worthy of the Nation.

Washington Book Publishers is a membership organization created in 1976 to nurture and celebrate book publishing in the Washington, D.C. area.

Tim Flannery, coauthor of Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea was named Australian of the Year 2007 by the National Australia Day Council and the governmant of Australia. Each year the country celebrates the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians through the Australian of the Year Awards. More coverage of this event is found at Australian of the year.

  • 7 June 2008, 2 p.m.: Naturalist and author Leslie Day will give a talk at the Museum of the City of New York in support of her book Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City. Visit MCNY.org or contact Kathy Alexander for more information.
  • 12 June 2008, 7 p.m.: Baltimore Sun columnist and WYPR commentator Fraser Smith discusses Here Lies Jim Crow in the Wheeler Auditorium of the Enoch Pratt Library. For more information contact Jack Holmes at 410-516-6928. The talk is free and open to the public.

    • June is Home Safety Month, and JHUP has the perfect resource. Check out Dorothy Drago's, From Crib to Kindergarten: The Essential Child Safety Guide.

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    The Johns Hopkins University Press will receive a gift of $750,000 from the Hodson Trust to fund a monumental publishing project,The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot. The project will be developed under the editorial direction of Ronald Schuchard, the renowned Eliot scholar and professor at Emory University, and co-published with Faber and Faber, the literary publisher founded by Eliot in the 1920s.

    Schuchard anticipates that there will be significant discoveries and impact resulting from the project, noting that only about 10 percent of Eliot's prose writing has ever been published and available

    The Press envisions a seven-volume work to be compiled, edited, and annotated by a team of scholars led by Professor Schuchard and published by Hopkins and Faber over a nine year period. In addition, the Press will develop an electronic edition that will enormously enhance access to the work and its usability for scholars and students around the world.

    With the publication of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, the Press continues a long tradition of publishing significant documentary editions, including The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition , The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Papers of Thomas Edison, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.

    Inspired by the success of Project MUSE, the Press has been increasingly committed to creating electronic editions of these large documentary works. A portion of the Hodson Trust funding allows the Press to develop the electronic edition of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot.

    The Hodson Trust, established in 1920 by the family of Beneficial Corporation founder Colonel Clarence Hodson, benefits four Maryland educational institutions: the Johns Hopkins University, Hood College, St. John's College, and Washington College. For more than 86 years, the Hodson Trust has awarded in excess of $166.2 million in support of higher education in the State of Maryland.

  • 9 September 2007 from 10 am to 5 pm, Bryan MacKay, author of Baltimore Trails and Hiking, Cycling, and Canoeing in Maryland will appear at the Catonsville Arts and Crafts Fair, Catonsville, MD. The event is free and open to the public.
  • 15 September 2007, Evelyn Edson will sign copies of her new book The World Map, 1300—1492 at the New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville, VA. For information about this event, contact ndb@ncstone.net or 434-295-2552.
  • 18 September 2007, the New York Public Library hosts a lecture and book-signing with Graham Russell Gao Hodges for his new book, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. This event is free and open to the public. For information about this event, contact NYPL or (212) 340-0849.
    • September health awareness includes many topics, from leukemia to addiciton recovery. Discover these great resources from JHUP:

    The Baltimore Book Festival returns to Mount Vernon Square, 28-30 September. Visit the Johns Hopkins University Press tent in historic Mount Vernon, browse books, and meet these favorite Press authors. For the full schedule of festival events, please visit the The Baltimore Office of Promotion. For more information on JHUP events during the festival, please email Jack Holmes or phone (410) 516-6928.

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    Author and Mellon Professor in the Humanities Mary Lefkowitz was one of the distinguished recipients of the 2006 National Humanities Medal. During a White House ceremony on November 9, President Bush presented the awards to nine individuals and one institution for their contributions to the humanities.

    The Modern Language Association is pleased to announce that it has awarded the thirty-seventh annual James Russell Lowell Prize to Paula R. Backscheider for her book Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry. She shares the prize with W. J. T. Mitchell, of the University of Chicago. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book-a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography-written by a member of the association.

    The 7 September issue of Library Journal Academic Newswire includes its 2006 list of best selling books in mathematics. JHUP makes a proud showing with 4 books in the top 20, including the number one selling book, John M. Henshaw's Does Measurement Measure Up?. Other Press titles include The Art of Conjecturing, Arthur Cayley, and James Joseph Sylvester. The complete story is available through Library Journal Online.

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