Penn Press Log

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

Reparations to Africa — Now Available

07/11/2008

Reparations to Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. With Anthony P. Lombardo 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4101-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE

Public Culture — Now Available

07/11/2008

Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE

Sageman Warns of Web Wannabes

07/09/2008

"The world’s most dangerous jihadists no longer answer to al-Qaeda. The terrorists we should fear most are self-recruited wannabes who find purpose in terror and comrades on the Web. This… READ MORE