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X02/18/2013
Four times in the very brief statement outlining his decision to resign, Pope Benedict referred to the special relationship between his office and St. Peter the Apostle, whose privileged position in the apostolic community is believed by Roman Catholics to transfer mystically to the bishops of Rome, upon their assumption of the office.
02/15/2013
Paul’s pick for February is “Infecting, Simulating, Judging: Tolstoy’s Search for an Aesthetic Standard” by Tatyana Gershkovich. The article appears in latest issue of the Journal of the History of… READ MORE
Now in Paperback Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights Roland Burke 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8122-4219-5 | $55.00 | £36.00 EBook | ISBN… READ MORE
02/14/2013
Next week, Daniel Boyarin, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, will give a series of Mellon Lectures on the Babylonian… READ MORE
02/11/2013
Victoria Vantoch, historian and author of The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon, has just launched a tumblr site devoted to the history of flight… READ MORE
02/08/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America Ella Howard 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4472-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2013 |… READ MORE
02/04/2013
Here's a look back at recent awards, reviews, and other Penn Press news items from January, 2013. Michael Witgen’s An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North… READ MORE
02/01/2013
Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4470-0 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America examines how generations of urban dwellers have dealt with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents…. READ MORE
01/31/2013
The digital supplementary material from 18 books in our Penn Museum series is now available online through University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (PennMuseum) collection in tDAR. These… READ MORE
