SUMMER READING SALE! Through Friday, June 12, use code PENN-SUMMER26 to save 40% on available titles!
(Please note that the three-volume set of Greater Philadelphia is excluded, although the individual volumes are eligible for the discount.)
X03/20/2013
Kathy Peiss, Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme StyleThe University of Pennsylvania History Department presents The Zoot Suit in American CultureWednesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.The Free Library of… READ MORE
03/01/2013
Lost Letters of Medieval Life English Society, 1200-1250 Edited by Martha Carlin and David Crouch 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 19 illus. Cloth Mar 2013 |… READ MORE
02/28/2013
George E. Demacopoulos, associate professor of theology at Fordham University and author of The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity, spoke with ABC News on… READ MORE
02/25/2013
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 just arrived in the Penn Press warehouse. Translated from Latin by the editors Martha Carlin and David Crouch, this collection of correspondence… READ MORE
02/18/2013
Four times in the very brief statement outlining his decision to resign, Pope Benedict referred to the special relationship between his office and St. Peter the Apostle, whose privileged position in the apostolic community is believed by Roman Catholics to transfer mystically to the bishops of Rome, upon their assumption of the office.
02/15/2013
Paul’s pick for February is “Infecting, Simulating, Judging: Tolstoy’s Search for an Aesthetic Standard” by Tatyana Gershkovich. The article appears in latest issue of the Journal of the History of… READ MORE
02/15/2013
Now in Paperback Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights Roland Burke 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8122-4219-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 EBook | ISBN… READ MORE
02/08/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America Ella Howard 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4472-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2013 |… READ MORE
01/25/2013
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo Thomas F. Mayer 392 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1 | $79.95… READ MORE
01/18/2013
Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges Edited by Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 104 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5… READ MORE
