Joseph Henry Press (JHP) is an American publisher which is an imprint of the
National Academies Press
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, publisher for the
United States National Academy of Sciences
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. The imprint is named after American scientist
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smit ...
.
The imprint publishes books on science, technology, and health for the science-interested general public.
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'' JHP books represent a broad range of topics, from modern physics and frontiers of medicine to scientific biography and early childhood development.
Notable publications have included
Neil de Grasse Tyson's ''One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos'' (2000);
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer. He was once known as a paleoconservative, until he was fired from the '' National Review'' in 2012 for ...
's ''
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'' (2003);
J. Michael Bailey's ''
The Man Who Would Be Queen
''The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism'' is a 2003 book by the American psychologist J. Michael Bailey, published by Joseph Henry Press.Bailey, J. Michael (2003). ''The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science o ...
'' (2003);
Edmund Blair Bolles's ''Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution'' (2004); and
Francisco J. Ayala's ''Darwin's Gift: to Science and Religion'' (2007).
Some Joseph Henry Press titles are available for free online reading; its parent press offers more than 4,000 reports online for free reading, and more than 2000
PDF
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s and ebooks for sale.
References
External links
National Academies PressJoseph Henry Press
(archived 4 April 2006)
Barbara Kline Pope
Publishing companies of the United States
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