Love and Baseball
02/14/2008
This Valentine’s Day, the hearts of devoted Phillies fans are hovering somewhere over Clearwater, Florida, where spring training begins for Phils pitchers and catchers. The local blog, High Cheese reports… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Fashion from the Runway to the Highway
02/13/2008
A recent Wall Street Journal article connects New York’s Fashion Week to Detroit and Bavarian automakers. Today, car companies are sponsoring Fashion Week and the hit reality show Project Runway…. READ MORE
Blum’s Tours Campuses to Discuss Du Bois
02/06/2008
This month, Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, will visit campuses across the country to discuss the legacy of the renown scholar and activist…. READ MORE
Sacks Guides NYT through Historic San Juan Hill
02/05/2008
Marcy Sacks, author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, guides New York Times reporter John Strausbaugh through the Manhattan’s San Juan Hill… READ MORE
Leaderless Jihad–Now Available
02/05/2008
Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century Marc Sageman 208 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4065-8 | $24.95 | £16.50 Building on his… READ MORE
Leaderless Jihad Reviewed in The Economist
02/04/2008
Here’s a bit of what the January 31st Books & Arts section of The Economist had to say about Marc Sageman’s Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century. It might… READ MORE
Globe and Mail Looks at Post 9/11 Books
02/01/2008
The Globe and Mail’s January 26th Books section featured critiques of the new crop of major books examining the social and political issues surrounding terrorism. Leaderless Jihad, the forthcoming book… READ MORE
Eve of Destruction–Now Available
02/01/2008
Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War Thomas M. Nichols 192 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Feb 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4066-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 In an… READ MORE
Aceh, Indonesia–Now Available
01/31/2008
Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State Elizabeth F. Drexler 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4057-3 | $59.95 | £39.00A volume in the… READ MORE
TLS Review of Howard’s Theater of a City
01/31/2008
A review of Jean E. Howard’s Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 appears in the January 18th Times Literary Supplement. In the review, Duncan Salkeld praises… READ MORE
