Goodbye, Alex
09/12/2007
In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
An Editor Looks Back at the APSA Meeting
09/11/2007
Penn Press editor Bill Finan recalls a few highlights from the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. For aspiring authors who see publishing as a black box,… READ MORE
History Matters–Now in Paperback
08/30/2007
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Ruggles Illuminates ‘Cities of Light’
08/29/2007
The film Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain examines a time during the Middle Ages when Christians, Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in southern Spain. D…. READ MORE
Air Kornbluh
08/23/2007
Felicia Kornbluh, author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, has been hitting the airwaves from coast to coast this summer in live radio interviews…. READ MORE
Learning from Mistakes: A Post from a Penn Press Intern
08/20/2007
In this post, Kristina Snader recalls her first assignment as a Penn Press intern. Sand in the Summer On my first day as an intern (and after getting horrendously lost… READ MORE
Sageman: “These guys were radicalizing themselves.”
08/17/2007
An article in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times outlines the threats posed by small groups of terrorists living in the United States. This article appeared shortly after the New York Police… READ MORE
The PMHB Review of Conn’s Metropolitan Philadelphia
08/16/2007
In the latest volume of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, reviewer Peter Siskind ranks Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past with Nathaniel Popkin’s Song of… READ MORE
Demuth Exhibition Opens this Saturday
08/14/2007
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX will present Chimneys and Towers: Charles Demuth’s Late Paintings of Lancaster, an intimate exhibition of the work of one of American’s greatest… READ MORE
The Plants of Pennsylvania–Now Available
08/08/2007
The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block. Illustrations by Anna Anisko Second Edition 1,056 pages | 7 x 10 | 2,645 line drawings,… READ MORE
