06/28/2007
It looks like good news for this week’s featured wildlife species, the Bald Eagle (Halieaeetus leucocephalus). This morning, the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, flanked by an eagle named … READ MORE
06/20/2007
World Refugee Day is an event created by United Nations General Assembly resolution as an expression of solidarity with refugees and those who offer aid to them. While today, June… READ MORE
05/11/2007
A recent debate between Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton prompted the following essay from Penn Press author Edward J. Blum. Is God Great? Is God a Delusion?: How W. E…. READ MORE
04/25/2007
Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure Sonia Cardenas 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3999-7 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
04/13/2007
In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, political communications scholar and Penn Press author Kathleen Hall Jamieson expressed her views on the cancellation of Imus in the Morning: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of… READ MORE
03/26/2007
Ian S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, noticed something familiar in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s recent Washington Post editorial. In his blog, Lustick wrote: In a long op-ed… READ MORE
03/08/2007
To mark International Women’s Day, here’s a list of our recent books on women’s rights and women’s history. Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor Venomous Tongues: Speech and… READ MORE
02/22/2007
February 23 is a special day in American, African American, and world history. It is the birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the nation’s greatest intellectual and activist…. READ MORE
02/09/2007
As schools, universities, museums and (yes) churches around the world prepare to celebrate Darwin Day, it’s a great time to study the evolution of the book that started it all… READ MORE
01/19/2007
The work of Understanding Terror Networks author Marc Sageman is featured in Azzam the American: The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown, a recent New Yorker article about jihadism in… READ MORE
