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X06/23/2010
In this week’s much discussed McChrystal piece in Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings cites Penn Press author Marc Sageman in his commentary on the complex and messy nature of the counterinsurgency… READ MORE
06/22/2010
An op-ed piece on Robert Darnton’s research on French libel recently appeared in the National Post. Columnist Robert Fulford writes: When we chronicle the struggle for literary freedom we too… READ MORE
06/21/2010
The 2010 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has come and gone, but it has left the scholarly press community with much to think about. With… READ MORE
06/17/2010
The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by Alex J. Novikoff 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus…. READ MORE
06/16/2010
Times Literary Supplement reviewer Lucy Beckett calls Thomas F. X. Noble's Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians, "an immensely scholarly and interesting book on the Carolingian response to the drama of… READ MORE
Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France Susan Hiner 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4259-1 | $47.50 | £31.00… READ MORE
06/15/2010
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Michael Solomon 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
06/14/2010
Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath continues to dig for the truth behind the killing fields in his writings and on screen. He coauthored Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader… READ MORE
06/11/2010
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett 344 pages… READ MORE
06/10/2010
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities Kirsten A. Fudeman 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4250-8 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
