This Week’s New Books
12/08/2012
Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes Ellen F. Arnold 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2 | $65.00… READ MORE
Category: Anthropology
This Week’s New Books: Matching Organs with Donors, Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Not in This Family, Sweet Liberty
09/21/2012
Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants Marie-Andrée Jacob 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8122-4432-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0650-0 |… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: a Free Article from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
09/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for September… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Regulatory Breakdown and Healing Secular Life
08/17/2012
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation Edited by Cary Coglianese Description, Table of Contents, and More "Everybody talks about regulatory failure, but no one does much about… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana,” The Conversion of Herman the Jew, The Folkstories of Children,
08/03/2012
Now in Paperback “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana”: Two Plays of Captivity Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika 208 pages… READ MORE
Positive Transformation: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/31/2012
"Every Thursday a man comes in and takes stories from the children. . . This man is a very weird man."–Maynard, ten-years-old. This weird man was part of a team… READ MORE
New Points of View: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/20/2012
The following excerpts look at the world through the eyes of a Jet, a pot, and grandfather who has a lot to say about Richard Nixon.
The Plot Thickens: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/13/2012
Once there was a tiger
he was in the zoo
someone said “can I buy that tiger?”
“no you can’t, know why? because he’s wild”
and the end
–Garrett, four-years-old
Preschool Verse by Gen Xers: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/06/2012
In the introduction to the collection, Sutton-Smith wrote, “Part of the function of this book is to show that when given the opportunity, children are inveterate tale tellers, and the tales they tell have considerable similarity to traditional folktakes.” Hence, the title.
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports V–Now in Paperback
06/05/2012
The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports VIII: The Sanctuary's Imperial Architectural Development, Conflict with Christianity, and Final Days Donald White. Appendix by Joyce Reynolds… READ MORE
