04/08/2008
Sara S. Poor’s Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority has received another award. The Medieval Academy selected this study of a thirteenth-century mystic… READ MORE
04/07/2008
Judith S. Schwartz, author of the forthcoming Penn Press release Confrontational Ceramics, recently received an Honors Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The award… READ MORE
04/02/2008
In the April 7 Critic’s Notebook section of The New Yorker, Peter Schjedahl writes: Do not miss "Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster," at the Whitney, a small,… READ MORE
04/01/2008
A review of Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies, by William C. Kashatus, appeared in the March 30 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In this… READ MORE
03/31/2008
Today is opening day of the Philadelphia Phillies 2008 season. Time to announce the final results of the Almost A Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. The weekly trivia challenge winners… READ MORE
03/27/2008
Congratulations to Ron Rosen of Massachusetts, winner of the fourth and final round of the Almost a Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. For having his entry drawn from all of… READ MORE
03/26/2008
Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices Edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy 336 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2032-2 | $24.95 | £16.50… READ MORE
03/25/2008
Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden Vera Schwarcz 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4100-6 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume… READ MORE
03/24/2008
This week, Time magazine became the latest major publication to review Marc Sageman’s new study of Islamist terrorism, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. Time’s Aryn Baker writes,… READ MORE
03/21/2008
Congratulations to Rodney Reuter of Nebraska, winner of round three of the Almost a Dynasty Spring Training Trivia Challenge. For having his entry drawn from all of the correctly answered… READ MORE
