Category: Health, Medicine & Caregiving

The Joy of Aging

03/01/2017

Today we have an exciting guest post from the author of the just-published new book Aging in America: A Cultural History. Lawrence R. Samuel is founder of Boomers 3.0, a… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: New year, new books

02/13/2017

Welcome to 2017! With the new year in full swing, we've begun releasing our Spring 2017 books (with a few late arrivals from Fall 2016 in the mix as well). Take a look below… READ MORE

Bananas, Blight, and Biotechnology

07/19/2016

Today, we have an exciting guest post from Douglas Southgate, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and coauthor with Lois Roberts of  Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs, which challenges the perception that multinational… READ MORE

Announcing Penn Press’s Fall 2016 catalog

05/27/2016

Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2016 catalog. This season's offerings include Nicole Hemmer's Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American… READ MORE

Buddhist Medicine

04/27/2016

Today, we have a guest blog post by C. Pierce Salguero, author of Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China, published by Penn Press in 2014, who teaches Asian History and Religious… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: An end-of-year bonanza

12/21/2015

For our year-end post, we have a double-sized delivery of new books. Nearly thirty new releases dropped in November and the first part of December, in American History, Literature, Politics,… READ MORE

Penn Press Spring 2016 Catalog

12/17/2015

As 2015 draws to a close, we look ahead to the springtime, in more ways than one.  We are pleased to share our Spring 2016 catalog. Spring brings the first… READ MORE

Download the Spring 2015 catalog now

01/09/2015

Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2015 catalog. This season, read about the rise and fall of the American department store in Vicki Howard's From… READ MORE