Human Rights NGOs in East Africa–Now Available
12/04/2008
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions Edited by Makau Mutua 400 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4112-9 | $79.95… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Talking Points Memo on Mapping Decline, Gordon on StLMag.com
12/02/2008
Talking Points Memo Café blogger Kenneth Thomas calls Colin Gordon's Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City "an outstanding overview of the decline of America's cities."… READ MORE
Schulz’s Human Rights Tip Sheet for Obama
11/25/2008
In a new op-ed in The Boston Globe, William F. Schulz, senior fellow in human-rights policy at the Center for American Progress and former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA,… READ MORE
Blum Sees Little “Sublime Mystery” in Obama Victory
11/06/2008
In "Neither Christ Nor Antichrist: A Reflection on the Election of Barack Obama," an essay for www.religiondispatches.com, historian Edward J. Blum warns against assigning too much sublime mystery to the… READ MORE
The Arts of Democracy–Now in Paperback
The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State Edited by Casey Nelson Blake 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 45 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4029-0 |… READ MORE
Aceh, Indonesia Book Receives Currey Award
Elizabeth F. Drexler has accepted the Association of Third World Studies Cecil B.Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008 for her book, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State. This award is… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Learning from Greensboro
10/31/2008
Visit the new Penn Press Podcast website to listen to our podcast discussion with Lisa Magarrell and Joya Wesley, authors of Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United… READ MORE
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa–Now Available
10/30/2008
The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa René Lemarchand 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in… READ MORE
Exile and Return–Now in Paperback
10/29/2008
Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews Edited by Ann M. Lesch and Ian S. Lustick 368 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3874-7… READ MORE
Human Rights–Now in Paperback
10/27/2008
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique Makau Mutua 256 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3653-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2008 | ISBN… READ MORE
