Joseph Henry Press (JHP) is an American publisher which is an imprint of the
National Academies Press
The US National Academies Press (NAP) was created to publish the reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly known as the National Research Council (United States), National Research Council), the Na ...
, 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 physicist and inventor 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 ...
.
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 an American journalist and political commentator. He was one of the last paleoconservatives at the ''National Review'', until he was fired in 2012 for writing an article for '' Taki's Magazine'' that was ...
's ''
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics'' (2003);
J. Michael Bailey's ''
The Man Who Would Be Queen'' (2003);
Edmund Blair Bolles's ''Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution'' (2004); and
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco José Ayala Pereda (March 12, 1934 – March 3, 2023) was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Davis.
Ayal ...
'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 Press* (archived 4 April 2006)
Barbara Kline Pope
Publishing companies of the United States
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