Old Roles in New Books
10/09/2006
Cooking for Your Man, Cooking for Mr. Right, and Saucepans & the Single Girl sound like titles you might find at a used book table of a flea market. Yet… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Now Available–Civic Engagement
10/06/2006
Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City John Louis Recchiuti 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3957-1 | $59.95… READ MORE
Now Available–Abraham in Arms
10/06/2006
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England Ann M. Little 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3965-2 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Now in Paperback–Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America
09/28/2006
Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America Helen A. Berger, Editor 216 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3877-X | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1971-6… READ MORE
Now Available–Unhuman Culture
09/28/2006
Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3956-3 | $34.95 | £23.00 Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and… READ MORE
Lustick on The Brian Lehrer Show
09/22/2006
WNYC Radio’s Brian Lehrer will interview Ian. S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, on Monday, 9/25 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Listeners can call in comments and… READ MORE
Common Knowledge Review of God and the Goddesses
09/22/2006
A short but thought-provoking review of Barbara Newman’s God and the Goddesses appears in the Fall 2006 Issue of Common Knowledge.
Now Available–Before Harlem
09/22/2006
Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I Marcy S. Sacks 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3961-X… READ MORE
Now Available–African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam
09/22/2006
African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im 216 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3962-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE
CT Landmarks “Hung Out to Dry?”
09/20/2006
“The curing shed of the New England tobacco fields is the area’s most characteristic architectural form, and it is fast vanishing from the agricultural landscape,” writes James F. O’Gorman in the September 17th Hartford Courant.
“Hung out to Dry,” his commentary on the historic value of Connecticut’s curing sheds and strategies to preserve these structures, is available at courant.com.
