LIGAMENTS: Holding Us Together, Roy A. Meals MD
A lively tour through the biology, health, human performance, and popular culture of our bodies’ essential connective tissue. Ligaments are the quiet workhorses of the human body. They anchor our bones, guide our movements, and protect our joints―yet they remain largely unseen and misunderstood. In Ligaments: Appreciating the Bands that Bind Us, orthopedic surgeon and acclaimed […]
LIGAMENTS, Roy A. Meals MD
Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at UCLA and author of BONES and MUSCLE sheds light on a body system of fibrous connective tissues that quite literally holds us together. Ligaments attach bone to bone, providing structure, support and stability. (World English, Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2026)
CAN SCHOOLS SAVE DEMOCRACY? Civic Education and the Common Good, Michael J. Feuer
How can education protect and strengthen democracy? In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system―already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic―to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools […]
Meals
Roy Meals M.D. grew up in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. He attended Rice University, majored in biology. At Vanderbilt University Medical School, he explored the workings of human tissues, especially those of the musculoskeletal system. Dr. Meals completed an orthopedic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by a hand surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He […]
Commons Sense: A Strategy for Civic Education, Michael Feuer
The Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University presents a powerful argument for reviving and rethinking a civic education curriculum at the high school and college level–one that encompasses tools for understanding current and future threats to democracy. (Johns Hopkins University Press, World Rights, 2023)