Category: Science

Bananas, Blight, and Biotechnology

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

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

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

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

Download the Spring 2015 catalog now

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

Changing attitudes on incest

Today we have a guest post from Penn author Brian Connolly, whose new book, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America, gives a history of incest and… READ MORE