Death in the New World — Now in Paperback
11/05/2011
Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 Erik R. Seeman 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 28 b/w Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4229-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper… READ MORE
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Howard Pyle — Now Available
11/03/2011
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered Edited by Heather Campbell Coyle 192 pages | 9 x 11 | 129 color illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-9771644-3-1 | $45.00 | £29.50 This… READ MORE
Jeffrey Friedman Speaks at the Cato Institute
11/02/2011
Jeffrey Friedman, coauthor with Wladimir Kraus of Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation, spoke at a Cato Institute event on October 27, 2011. Here's a… READ MORE
The Catholic Calumet–Now Available
11/01/2011
The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America Tracy Neal Leavelle 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4377-2 | $39.95… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Anthropologists Explore Sustainable Lifeways
11/01/2011
For the November podcast, we dip into the archives for a second listen to Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology… READ MORE
Virtuousity in Business — Now Available
11/01/2011
Virtuosity in Business: Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand Kevin T. Jackson 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4376-5 | $79.95 | £52.00 Virtuosity in Business… READ MORE
Anonymous Is Terrible, But We’re to Blame, says Shakespearean Scholar James Marino
11/01/2011
When we condone myths about Shakespeare, or actually promote them, we create the fertile ground where conspiracy theories grow.
Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?
10/31/2011
My textbook’s translation from Old English seemed entirely cryptic, despite my painstaking efforts to parse out the intended meaning of the thousand-year-old work. As a result, I admit that I have since held a grudge against all things Beowulf.
The Fabrication of American Literature — Now Available
10/28/2011
The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Lara Langer Cohen 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth Nov 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4369-7 | $59.95… READ MORE
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
