Sageman Offers “Common Sense”
01/22/2008
"[Marc] Sageman takes the common sense view that you can’t defeat an enemy until you know them and understand what drives them," writes David Isenberg in an Asia Times review… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
“Human Rights and the 2008 Presidential Campaign” Video
01/17/2008
On January 9th, The Center for American Progress Action Fund and the University of Pennsylvania Press cosponsored a program called "Human Rights and the Presidential Campaign." William F. Schulz, coeditor… READ MORE
An Election Year Quote from Ben Franklin
In honor of Benjamin Franklin on his birthday, here’s a quote from his song "Fair Venus Calls." In Power is Pleasure, no Tongue can tell.By Crouds tho’ you’re teased, your… READ MORE
Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.
Conn Chides Romney on HNN
12/17/2007
Penn Press author and editor Steven Conn criticizes Mitt Romney’s recent speech on the place of religion in politics. According to Conn, Romney’s attack on "’the religion of secularlism’. …. READ MORE
Expert Quotes from Penn Press Authors
11/27/2007
This month, print journalists quoted our authors on subjects ranging from faith-based initiatives to romance novels to terrorism. A recent Wall Street Journal article cited the work of Ram Cnaan,… READ MORE
The Age of Apology–Now Available
10/31/2007
The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, and Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner, Editors 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 |… READ MORE
Remembering Historian and Innovator Roy Rosenzweig
10/15/2007
The staff of the University of Pennsylvania Press is saddened by the news of the death of Roy Rosenzweig, historian, head of the Center for History and New Media, and… READ MORE
Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina–Now in Paperback
Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina Antonius C. G. M. Robben 480 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 5 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3836-5 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Burma (Myanmar) Cut Off from the Net
09/28/2007
Ko Htike, a Burmese blogger now living in the United Kingdom, has been cut off from his source of images from home. Today he wrote in his blog ko htike’s… READ MORE
