Anonymous Is Terrible, But We’re to Blame, says Shakespearean Scholar James Marino
11/01/2011
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
Category: Current Affairs
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
“Don’t Leave”: Brian Glyn Williams on Afghanistan’s Future After Troop Reductions
10/25/2011
Brian Glyn Williams, historian, military advisor, and author of Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War, recently spoke on the future of that central Asian country and the possible… READ MORE
Causes of the Crisis Blog Shifts Focus to Government Bank Regulations
10/20/2011
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus of the Critical Review Foundation have shifted the focus of their blog, Causes of the Crisis, to concentrate on the role of regulation in the… READ MORE
Engineering the Financial Crisis–Now Available
10/04/2011
Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4357-4… READ MORE
This Month’s Penn Press Podcast: Mitchell D. Silber on The Al Qaeda Factor
10/03/2011
In the October podcast, Mitchell D. Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York Police Department, talks about his forthcoming book, The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West…. READ MORE
The Research Triangle Author William M. Rohe on the Air with North Carolina’s D. G. Martin
09/22/2011
At first glance, William M. Rohe, bone fide professor and author of The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence, doesn' t seem to have much in common with… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts Author Hits the Air and the Web Today
09/08/2011
Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, hits the public radio airwaves and web sites today to discuss America's emergency preparedness ten years after… READ MORE
Susan M. Wachter on Home Sales and Slow Growth
08/19/2011
“We can not depend on new home sales to get us out of this slow growth, in fact the best that we can hope for is continued slow growth,” said… READ MORE
A Penn Press Podcast Interview with The Disaster Experts Author Scott Gabriel Knowles
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
