Beyond the Good Death–Now in Paperback
05/29/2012
Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying James W. Green 272 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4042-9 | $29.95 | £19.50 Paper… READ MORE
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The Revolution Is Now Begun – Now in Paperback
05/29/2012
The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776 Richard Alan Ryerson 328 pages | 7 x 10 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2213-5 | $29.95 | £19.50 Ryerson… READ MORE
Priscilla Yamin Asks: What Role Should Marriage Play in Defining the Rights of Citizens?
05/29/2012
North Carolina's recent constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and the White House's response to that measure continue to reverberate through personal and public conversations across the nation. In this post,… READ MORE
Shame and Honor–Now Available
05/22/2012
Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter Stephanie Trigg 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4391-8 | $55.00… READ MORE
Literacy in the Persianate World–Now Available
05/21/2012
Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order Edited by Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway 456 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-1-934536-45-2 |… READ MORE
John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom–Now Available
05/21/2012
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire Geoffrey Plank 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4405-2 |… READ MORE
Natural Light on Natural History: Rosamond Purcell’s Notes on Photographing Artifacts for A Glorious Enterprise
05/21/2012
The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.
5 Penn Press Books Chosen for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Bookshelf
05/18/2012
Five University of Pennsylvania Press books made Perspectives on Terrorism's list of top books on terrorism and counterterrorism. Mia Bloom's Bombshell: Women and Terrorism, Allison Pargeter's The New Frontiers of… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick for May, a Free Article on the Paris Mosque from The Jewish Quarterly Review
05/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for May… READ MORE
Astounding Wonder–Now Available
05/09/2012
Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America John Cheng 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 Illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4383-3 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
