Making Seafood Sustainable–Now Available
04/09/2012
Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective Mansel G. Blackford 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4393-2 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
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A Glorious Enterprise–Now Available
04/03/2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell 464 pages |… READ MORE
Eugenic Design author Christina Cogdell Talks about the History of Sterilization on CNN
03/16/2012
A new CNN report on California's history of forced sterilizations includes an interview with Christina Cogdell, author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. According to the report, in… READ MORE
Two New Exhibits, Two New Books
03/02/2012
This weekend, two new exhibits feature artwork connected to new and forthcoming Penn Press books. A Singular View—The Art and Words of John Paton Davies, Jr. opens Saturday, March 3… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts Author Hits the Air and the Web Today
09/08/2011
Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, hits the public radio airwaves and web sites today to discuss America's emergency preparedness ten years after… READ MORE
The Anatomy Murders–Now in Paperback
08/25/2011
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America–Now Available
08/18/2011
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America Scott Gabriel Knowles 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4350-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
A Penn Press Podcast Interview with The Disaster Experts Author Scott Gabriel Knowles
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic–Now Available
03/16/2011
A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic Andrew J. Lewis 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4308-6 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Three Researchers from the Penn Museum on Sustainable Lifeways
10/01/2010
In the October Penn Press podcast, Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss human strategies for coping… READ MORE
