Human Rights in Latin America–Now Available
12/22/2009
Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope Sonia Cardenas 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 | $59.95… READ MORE
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Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought–Now Available
12/22/2009
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought Moshe Idel 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4130-3 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in… READ MORE
Wolf Hall: Another Spin on the Other Boleyn?
12/21/2009
In this essay, Frances E. Dolan compares Hillary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, to Philippa Gregory’s popular The Other Boleyn Girl. Dolan is the… READ MORE
Divided Houses Author Sumption Gives and Receives Praise in TLS Books of the Year
12/18/2009
Just in case you missed it, the Books of the Year list in the Times Literary Supplement contains plenty of praise for Jonathan Sumption's The Hundred Years War, volume III:… READ MORE
Barbarian Tides–Now in Paperback
12/14/2009
Barbarian Tides: The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire Walter Goffart 384 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3939-3 | $69.95 | £45.50 Paper 2009 |… READ MORE
Speaking of the Moor–Now in Paperback
12/14/2009
Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello" Emily C. Bartels 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4076-4 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
Brenda Shaffer on the Trouble with Fossil Fuel Subsidies
12/11/2009
"World leaders at the Copenhagen climate summit should recognize that most nations still subsidize consumption of fossil fuels. Removal of these subsidies can be one of the most effective tools… READ MORE
Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives–Now Available
12/02/2009
Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack 288 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4214-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume… READ MORE
Welcome to Philadelphia, Anthropologists!
12/02/2009
This year, the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association takes place in Philadelphia just a few SEPTA stops away from Penn Press. As usual, Editor-in-Chief Peter Agree will be… READ MORE
The War on Welfare–Now Available
11/30/2009
The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America Marisa Chappell 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4204-1 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
