Hot Off Penn Press: August’s New Books
09/02/2015
As students return to campus, get your brain back up to speed with the last books we published this summer. To receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign up… READ MORE
Category: Ancient Studies
Announcing our Fall 2015 catalog
07/24/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2015 catalog. This season's offerings include Margaret O'Mara's Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century; the fourth… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: June’s New Books
07/08/2015
It may not be harvest time yet, but June yielded a bumper crop of new books. Check them out below, and to receive subject-specific email announcements about new books, sign… READ MORE
The return of Paul’s Picks: Read a free article from Penn journal Change Over Time
06/01/2015
Change Over Time Volume 5 (2015) Here at Penn Press we are rightly known for the depth and quality of scholarship we publish in book form. But Penn also publishes… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Philippe Buc, Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror
04/07/2015
Today's Q&A is with Philippe Buc, author of Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West, which examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict… READ MORE
Download the Spring 2015 catalog now
01/09/2015
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies
12/04/2014
The Fall 2014 Author Q&As return today with Naoíse Mac Sweeney, editor of Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies, which looks at the many different ways that origin stories were told… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: October’s New Books
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant, The Neoplatonic Socrates
10/21/2014
Today's author Q&A is with the editors of The Neoplatonic Socrates, Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant. Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that… READ MORE
Author Q&A: E. N. Anderson, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
10/16/2014
Today's Q&A is with E. N. Anderson, author of Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China. In it, Anderson provides an account of the development of the food systems… READ MORE
