The University and Urban Revival–Now Available
07/25/2007
The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets Judith Rodin 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4022-1… READ MORE
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The Battle for Welfare Rights–Now Available
05/23/2007
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America Felicia Kornbluh 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4005-4 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
EH.Net Review of Brides Inc.
04/17/2007
"Well-written and engaging, Brides, Inc. is a welcome addition to the fields of twentieth-century business as well as cultural history, " wrote Janice Traflet in a recent EH.Net review. In… READ MORE
Parkin Wins Emily Toth Award
02/28/2007
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association has awarded Katherine J. Parkin’s Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, the Emily Toth Award for the best book in… READ MORE
American Capitalism– Now in Paperback
01/31/2007
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3923-2 | $49.95… READ MORE
Food Is Love–Now In Paperback
01/19/2007
Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America Katherine J. Parkin 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3929-4 | $47.50 |… READ MORE
Now Available–The Business of Tourism
10/24/2006
The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson, Editors 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3968-7 |… READ MORE
An Interview with Our Marketing Director
10/19/2006
"Laura Waldron’s life is publishing," writes Matt Steinmetz. "An author, a publisher and the marketing director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, Waldron offers a perspective on academic publishing… READ MORE
Old Roles in New Books
10/09/2006
Cooking for Your Man, Cooking for Mr. Right, and Saucepans & the Single Girl sound like titles you might find at a used book table of a flea market. Yet… READ MORE
The Organization Man at 50
07/28/2006
Why does Whyte’s cultural critique still resonate in our downsized globalized working world? A quote from Roger K. Miller’s recent review, which appeared in “The Washington Times” and “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” may have the answer.
