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
Category: Philosophy
Author Q&A: Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant, The Neoplatonic Socrates
10/21/2014
Today's author Q&A is with the editors of The Neoplatonic Socrates, Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant. Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Len Krisak, translator of Ovid’s Erotic Poems
10/09/2014
Today's Q&A is with the poet Len Krisak, who has translated the classical poet Ovid's erotic poems Amores and Ars amatoria for new volume titled Ovid's Erotic Poems. Krisak captures… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Ann Marie Plane, Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England
09/23/2014
Today we have Ann Marie Plane, author of Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century. From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: July’s New Books
07/30/2014
The temperatures may have broken a bit over the past couple of days here in Philadelphia, but we are truly in the dog days of summer. While most of the… READ MORE
This Week’s New Book: From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, Now in Paperback
08/23/2013
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Editors "All eleven authors deserve overwhelming positive reviews . . . for bringing human rights back… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: The Jet Sex, Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture, Stuyvesant Bound, and Owning William Shakespeare
04/05/2013
Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture Edited by Gary Hatfield and Holly Pittman 496 pages | 6 x 9 | 27 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-1-934536-49-0 | $69.95 |… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Public Capitalism and Changing is Not Vanishing
08/31/2012
Public Capitalism: The Political Authority of Corporate Executives Christopher McMahon 208 pages | 6 x 9 Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4444-1 | $39.95 | £26.00 Ebook | ISBN 978-0-8122-0726-2| $39.95 |… READ MORE
Liberty of the Imagination–Now Available
06/21/2012
Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States Edward Cahill 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick for March, a Free Article from The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
03/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for the… READ MORE
