Sageman Offers “Common Sense”
01/22/2008
"[Marc] Sageman takes the common sense view that you can’t defeat an enemy until you know them and understand what drives them," writes David Isenberg in an Asia Times review… READ MORE
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Islamic Gardens and Landscapes–Now Available
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes D. Fairchild Ruggles 296 pages | 7 1/2 x 10 | 28 color, 177 b/w illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4025-2 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE
“Human Rights and the 2008 Presidential Campaign” Video
01/17/2008
On January 9th, The Center for American Progress Action Fund and the University of Pennsylvania Press cosponsored a program called "Human Rights and the Presidential Campaign." William F. Schulz, coeditor… READ MORE
Jackson’s Book Part of new MLK “Scholarly Synthesis”
As schools and other cultural institutions prepare to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with service, ceremony, and perhaps a little sleeping in, "The Prophet Reconsidered," a book review in… READ MORE
An Election Year Quote from Ben Franklin
In honor of Benjamin Franklin on his birthday, here’s a quote from his song "Fair Venus Calls." In Power is Pleasure, no Tongue can tell.By Crouds tho’ you’re teased, your… READ MORE
Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.
Culture Front–Now Available
01/11/2008
Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe Edited by Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4055-9 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
Shapira’s Allon Biography Raises Questions
01/10/2008
In a Daily Jewish Forward review of Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography, Miriam Shaviv asks why the former "golden boy" of Israel has faded into relative obscurity.
Fanny Kemble Makes Foreword’s Outstanding List
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
Schoolcraft Overshadowed No Longer
01/03/2008
The most recent volume of The Michigan Historical Review praises Robert Dale Parker, editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,… READ MORE