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With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles.
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The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. "I think we should definitely realize it just can't happen again.One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. "We should look back and think just what one bomb did, what two did and think about what just one hydrogen bomb would do," Ferebee said in the 1985 Sentinel interview. He thought of the bombing as a necessary duty that would help end the war, not as an act that would kill, she said. "He was pleased that high school and college students were interested in that part of history," Mary Ann Ferebee said. Hicks served as historian and coordinating producer for a film documentary on the Hiroshima bombing, titled The Men who Brought the Dawn, in 1995.įerebee spoke about the mission and WWII to students at Rollins College in Orlando and answered letters and e-mail inquiries on a regular basis. Hicks, executive director of the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. The crew members have remained close, said George E. Van Kirk said he met Ferebee in the nose of a B-17 in 1942 at Sarasota where they were training and became best friends, flying together in Europe as well as on the Hiroshima mission. All I said was they must have had a very, very large pickle barrel." In the middle stands the pilot of the Enola Gay, Col.
The bomber has just returned from its flight during which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. "The Norden bomb sight was supposed to put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 30,000 feet. The ground crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay before the plane at the Tinian airport on Mariana Islands in the Pacific. "He was like a magician with that bomb sight," Van Kirk recalled, noting the device was imprecise by present standards.