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Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the Nation bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

Philadelphia: A Narrative History presents a comprehensive portrait of the city’s history, from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century. Understanding Philadelphia’s past, Paul Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.

Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around West Philadelphia’s University City, advocating a reorientation of redevelopment practice around the recognition that, despite their negligible worth in real estate terms, the time, care, and energy people invest in their local environments are precious urban resources.

Dick Allen is considered by some to be the best baseball player not in the Hall of Fame and by others to be the game's most destructive and divisive force—ever. God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen unveils the strange and maddening career of a man who fulfilled and frustrated expectations all at once.

After World War II, the University of Pennsylvania became one of the world's most celebrated research universities. John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd trace Penn's rise to eminence amid the postwar social, institutional, moral, and civic contexts that shaped American research universities.

Almost A Dynasty details the rise and fall of the World Champion 1980 Phillies. Based on personal interviews, newspaper accounts, and the keen insight of a veteran baseball writer, the book convincingly explains how a losing team was finally able to win its first world championship.