06/28/2007
Marc Sageman, national security consultant , forensic psychiatrist, and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security yesterday at a hearing entitled… READ MORE
DECEMBER Derrick R. Spires, The Practice of CitizenshipTalkWednesday, December 1, 2021, 5:30 p.m. ETHosted by eCornell at Cornell UniversityVIRTUAL EVENT!Register Shaul Bar-Haim, The MaternalistsTalkWednesday, December 8, 2021, 5:00 p.m…. READ MORE
It looks like good news for this week’s featured wildlife species, the Bald Eagle (Halieaeetus leucocephalus). This morning, the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, flanked by an eagle named … READ MORE
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
"[Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 by Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe] is an enlightening read, the prose calmly literate and the organizational strategy a satisfying… READ MORE
06/22/2007
The Economist’s recent review of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life begins: A friend of Fanny Kemble once apologised for declining a visit by explaining: “I could not see so many… READ MORE
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman, Editors 456 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4012-2 | $65.00 |… READ MORE
06/21/2007
This week’s featured creature from John H. Rappole’s Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic, the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), will occasionally grace the mid-Atlantic coastal states between May and July. This bird… READ MORE
Deirdre David, author of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life, will be at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square to discuss the life of the unconventional Victorian actress… READ MORE
06/20/2007
Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future Pamela L. Geller and Miranda K. Stockett, Editors. Foreword by Louise Lamphere 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3940-9 |… READ MORE
