This Week’s New Books: Homeless and International Bohemia
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
Penn Press Log
Awards and Acclaim
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
This Week’s New Books
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
Win a Free Copy of Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
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
Penn Museum Books Archaeological Data Sets Now Available Online
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
Medieval Monday: “Pangur Bán” or “the Monk and His Cat” in Animal Encounters
01/28/2013
from The Secret of the Kells Pangur Ban, the cat from the acclaimed animated film The Secret of the Kells, has an interesting lineage. The feline character was taken… READ MORE
Why Groundhog?
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
This Week’s New Books: The Roman Inquisition, Freud on Madison Avenue, and Ceramics in Print
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo Thomas F. Mayer 392 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1 | $79.95… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Agriculture, Love, and Archaeology
01/18/2013
Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges Edited by Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 104 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5… READ MORE
MLK Day Reading List for 2013
Many Penn Press publications, from the journal Humanity to our book series Politics and Culture in Modern America and Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, address the issues that Martin Luther… READ MORE
