A World Refugee Day Reading List
06/20/2007
World Refugee Day is an event created by United Nations General Assembly resolution as an expression of solidarity with refugees and those who offer aid to them. While today, June… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Watson’s Back to Nature Wins First ASLE Book Award
06/18/2007
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment gave its first Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing Book Award to Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the… READ MORE
Up South–Now in Paperback
06/15/2007
Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia Matthew J. Countryman 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 14 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3894-5 | $42.50… READ MORE
The Native Ground–Now in Paperback
06/15/2007
The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent Kathleen DuVal 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Paper Jul 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1939-5 |… READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Eastern Spotted Skunk
06/14/2007
The Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius) is this week’s featured fauna from the forthcoming Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic by John H. Rappole. According to Rappole, "the purpose of the Spotted… READ MORE
The Pilgrim and the Bee–Now Available
06/12/2007
The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England Matthew P. Brown 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN… READ MORE
American Ethnologist Review of Female Circumcision
06/11/2007
American Ethnologist calls Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, "a provocative book, clearly written for both general and scholarly audiences" and "a respectful dialog that yet presses… READ MORE
This Is Our Music–Now in Paperback
06/08/2007
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3980-5 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Pine Barrens Treefrog
06/07/2007
In anticipation of John H. Rappole’s forthcoming Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic: A Complete Reference Manual, the Penn Press Log proudly presents Wildlife of the Week, a summer series of posts… READ MORE
Connecting the Covenants–Now Available
06/07/2007
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England David B. Ruderman 152 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4016-0 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
