Looking Beyond the Political in China
08/04/2008
In this essay Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and author of Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden, hopes that… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Dangerous to Know–Now Available
08/01/2008
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic Susan Branson 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Aug 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4088-7 | $39.95… READ MORE
The New Frontiers of Jihad–Now Available
07/31/2008
The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe Alison Pargeter 256 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4146-4 | $34.95 | £23.00 Not for… READ MORE
Women’s Human Rights–Now Available
Women’s Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook Susan Deller Ross 688 pages | 7 x 10 Cloth Jul 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4067-2 | $135.00 | £88.00 A volume… READ MORE
A History of the Gardens of Versailles–Now Available
07/30/2008
A History of the Gardens of Versailles Michel Baridon Translated by Adrienne Mason 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4078-8 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Dolan’s Book Makes for a Heavy Wedding Favor
07/29/2008
Chronicle of Higher Education reviewer Carlin Romano sees many contemporary applications for the lessons found in Frances E. Dolan’s Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy. "Oh, how the quality… READ MORE
Change Isn’t Coming
07/23/2008
In a recent article for The National Interest online, Nikolas K. Gvosdev cites Thomas M. Nichols in his argument that foreign policy change in the form of a return to… READ MORE
A Sageman Newsweek Preview
07/21/2008
An excerpt of Christopher Dickey’s interview with Marc Sageman is available at www.newsweek.com. The complete interview is scheduled to appear in print in the July 28 edition of Newsweek.
Sageman Cited in Two Economist.com Articles
07/18/2008
In yesterday’s Economist.com, two articles on the state of terrorism mention the work of forensic psychiatrist and counterterrorism expert Marc Sageman. In one article, "Winning or losing," The Economist credits Sageman’s… READ MORE
The TLS on Minnis’s Chaucer Study
07/17/2008
"In pages rich with explication of scholastic, literary and historical material, [Alistair] Minnis recovers a medieval notion of authorial fallibility," wrote Seth Lerer in his The Times Literary Supplement review… READ MORE