Now Available-Dark Age Bodies
11/10/2010
Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West Lynda L. Coon 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 42 b/w, 8 color illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
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A Predictable Tragedy–Now Available
A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe Daniel Compagnon 368 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4267-6 | $39.95 | £26.00 "Daniel Compagnon's book… READ MORE
Lost History of Piers Plowman–Now Available
11/02/2010
The Lost History of "Piers Plowman": The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work Lawrence Warner 144 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4275-1 | $49.95… READ MORE
Intellectuals Incorporated–Now Available
11/01/2010
Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire Robert Vanderlan 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4271-3 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses
In the latest Penn Press podcast, Anne Trubek of Oberlin College recounts her visits to America's many literary house museums. Trubek shares her insights on sites including Walt Whitman's home… READ MORE
Stanley Fish in Philadelphia Tomorrow
10/29/2010
As part of the homecoming weekend celebration, the Penn Bookstore will host reknown scholar Stanley Fish for a special discussion of The Fugitive, the classic TV show in which Dr…. READ MORE
Penn Press Welcomes New Rights Administrator Katherine McGuire
10/27/2010
Katherine McGuire has joined Penn Press as Rights Administrator and Assistant to the Director. Kate comes to the Press from a job at Penn’s Graduate School of Education. Before her… READ MORE
Anne Trubek Comes to the Kelly Writers House
10/21/2010
It's only natural that Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, is coming to the Kelly Writers House tomorrow at noon for an Arts Crawl Lunch Talk…. READ MORE
Paula Deitz’s Of Gardens in the Times Literary Supplement
10/15/2010
Attention for Paula Deitz's Of Gardens: Selected Essays is sprouting, at least in the Times Literary Supplement. Of Gardens is "a collection that repays slow and caref'ul reading as Deitz… READ MORE
Ten Thousand Years of Pottery–Now in Paperback
10/14/2010
Ten Thousand Years of Pottery Emmanuel Cooper Fourth Edition 360 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 315 color illus. Cloth 2000 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3554-8 | $69.95 | £45.50 Paper… READ MORE
