The Evolution of the Origin
02/09/2007
As schools, universities, museums and (yes) churches around the world prepare to celebrate Darwin Day, it’s a great time to study the evolution of the book that started it all… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
More Praise for Up South
02/06/2007
In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE
The Education of Jane Addams–Now in Paperback
02/02/2007
The Education of Jane Addams Victoria Bissell Brown 432 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 30 illus. Cloth 2003 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3747-4 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Reactions to Radical Music
02/01/2007
This Is Our Music by Iain Anderson appears in the Noted section of the February/March Bookforum. Reviewer Douglas Mullin says, "The crooked line Anderson draws from the maverick [Cecil] Taylor…. READ MORE
Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus
A review of Daniel Cottom’s Unhuman Culture appears in the January/February 2007 Bloomsbury Review. Critic Larry T. Shillock writes: Unhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other,… READ MORE
Now Available–Her Life Historical
01/31/2007
Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3986-7 | $55.00… READ MORE
American Capitalism– Now in Paperback
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century Nelson Lichtenstein, Editor 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3923-2 | $49.95… READ MORE
The Origins of Freemasonry–Now in Paperback
01/26/2007
The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions Margaret C. Jacob 176 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3901-0 | $26.50 | £17.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Schoolcraft in the News
01/25/2007
From The Chicago Reader’s Daily Harold: Hot off the presses at the University of Pennsylvania is what might be a Midwestern blockbuster, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the… READ MORE
Child Soldiers in Africa–Now in Paperback
Child Soldiers in Africa Alcinda Honwana 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3911-9 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1987-6 |… READ MORE