Ian S. Lustick in the News and on the Air
09/06/2006
In the September 2006 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, national correpsondent James Fallows cites Penn Press author Ian S. Lustick in his call to declare an end to the War… READ MORE
Category: Books
Now Available–Power Play
08/31/2006
Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Jenny Adams
264 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3944-X | $49.95 | £32.50
Now Available–Ceramics with Mixed Media
Ceramics with Mixed MediaJoy Bosworth112 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1962-7 | $26.50 | £17.50 Ceramics with Mixed Media is a practical handbook that shows… READ MORE
Back in Print–The World of “Piers Plowman”
08/30/2006
The World of “Piers Plowman”
Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters, Editors
288 pages | 5 1/2 x 8
Paper 1975 | ISBN 0-8122-1085-9 | $19.95 | £13.00
A volume in the Middle Ages Series series
Now Available–The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
08/25/2006
The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3887-7 | $49.95s | £32.50 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1907-4 |… READ MORE
Now Available–Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art
08/23/2006
Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art Anne Gregory Terhune. With the assistance of Patricia Smith Scanlan. Foreword by Elizabeth Johns 296 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 46 color,… READ MORE
Indian Independence Day
08/15/2006
At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. READ MORE
Don’t Mess with the Titles
08/09/2006
Philadelphia Inquirer critic Carlin Romano praises the book Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past by Steven Conn. "Incisive, quirky, wry and boosterish without pulling appropriate punches, Metropolitan… READ MORE
Seneca Falls Perspectives
07/20/2006
Here, historian Katherine J. Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, considers why a student might chose grizzlier subjects over women’s history.
