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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843
Phone: (410) 516-7160 | Fax (410) 516-5251
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November 25, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT: Kathy Alexander
Johns Hopkins University Press
(410) 516-4162,
kathy.alexander@jhu.edu
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New Series Brings Local Authors
and Experts To Neighborhood
The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins
University Press announce the launch of the Neighborhood
Author Series, a program of free public lectures featuring
Baltimore-based writers of books published by the Johns
Hopkins University Press. Speakers will include doctors,
journalists, historians and photographers. After each talk,
the authors will take questions from the audience and sign
copies of their books, which will be available for
purchase.
Lectures will take place at 7:30 p.m. on the second
Wednesday of each month in the Peabody Room at the
Episcopal Diocesan Center on the corner of North Charles
Street and University Parkway. Parking is available.
Wednesday, Dec. 11
Find out when and why the Lexington Market moved indoors,
when the last Locust Point Ferry crossed the harbor, how
much Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin made to play the Club
Charles, which jazz luminaries attended "Chick" Webb's
funeral, who the city's best caterer was, and where past
mayors like to shoot craps. Baltimore's neighborhood
historian Gilbert Sandler discusses what life in Charm City
was like when it was Small Town Baltimore.
Wednesday, Jan. 8
Are you an on-again off-again dieter? Did you enjoy
yourself too much during the holidays? No longer able to
fit into your clothes? Do you need to drop a few pounds?
If you are tired of the continuous struggle to keep off
that excess weight, learn about Losing Weight for
Good with Lawrence J. Cheskin, founder and director of
the nationally renowned Johns Hopkins Weight Management
Center.
Wednesday, Feb. 12
We all know someone who is moody. But when does moodiness
indicate a more serous medical
condition? Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Francis Mark
Mondimore will discuss how to recognize depression and
bipolar disorder in your loved ones (or yourself); the
different types of depression; the causes, symptoms, and
treatment options; and how to find a good treatment team,
deal with health insurance, and cope with emergency
hospitalizations. Mondimore is the author of
Depression: The Mood Disease; Bipolar Disorder: A Guide
for Patients and Families; and Adolescent
Depression: A Guide for Parents.
Wednesday, March 12
In Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, veteran
journalist Michael Olesker writes about Baltimore's melting
pot in all its rollicking, sentimental, good-natured and
chaotic essence. The stories he tells come from
neighborhood street corners and front stoops, playgrounds
and school rooms, churches and synagogues and families
gathered late at night around kitchen tables. Olesker calls
his book a "love letter across the generations."
Wednesday, April 9
In Answering Their Country's Call, Michael Rogers
presents the World War II stories of 31 Marylanders, told
in their own words, each shedding new light on the large
role played by a small state in the great struggle against
tyranny. From harrowing accounts of combat to the vital
duties carried out just behind the front lines, Rogers
bring us veterans' personal views of the war that reveal
the mundane, unusual, and sometimes bizarre details of life
during wartime.
Wednesday, May 14
The 36-Hour Day has remained the "bible" for
families who are giving care to people with dementia.. The
book, by Nancy L. Mace and Peter V. Rabins, has offered
comfort and support to millions of people in North America
and, in translations and adapted editions, throughout the
rest of the world. Rabins will discuss updated terminology
and statistics, changes in laws on driving, hospice care,
assisted living facilities and financing care, the latest
findings on eating and nutrition, and new medical research
in areas such as drugs, genetics, and diagnostic tests.
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