HOLIDAY SALE! 40% off all available books—plus free shipping on orders over $40—with code PENN-HOLIDAY24 through December 31!

X

This Week’s New Books–Augustine, Sri Lanka, Landscape Architecture

Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2
Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2: Making a "Catholic" Self, 388-401 C.E.


Jason David BeDuhn

584 pages | 6 x 9

Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4494-6 | $79.95 | £52.00

A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series

Demonstrating that as Augustine defined and became a "Catholic" self, he also intently engaged with his former Manichaean faith, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 2 explores the close interplay of these two processes in Augustine's works up to and including the Confessions.

When Counterinsurgency Wins
When Counterinsurgency Wins: Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers


Ahmed S. Hashim

280 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.

Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4452-6 | $59.95 | £39.00

When Counterinsurgency Wins is the first book to analyze the final campaign that won the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009. Ahmed Hashim traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations and military strategy that led to a decisive finish. Read more . . .

Unearthed
Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates


Karen M'Closkey

256 pages | 8 x 10 | 125 color, 30 b/w

Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4480-9 | $59.95 | £39.00

A volume in the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series

Unearthed examines how one of America's most significant landscape architecture firms approaches the redesign of public places to meet a range of ecological and social needs. With more than one hundred and fifty color and black-and-white images, this study uncovers the methods behind many canonical works of international landscape design. Read more . . .


Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact Saunders Robinson.
Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, click here.