Edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Contributions by Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt and Susan Weiler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829563
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Illustrated by nearly fifty of Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa’s stunning photographs as well as color photographs, archival drawings, blueprints, maps, plans, and diagrams, Penn’s Sylvania not only showcases the critical importance of trees to University of Pennsylvania urban campus but also introduces the people responsible for establishing and conserving its rich botanical heritage.
Edited by Rita Axelroth Hodges and Michael Zuckerman
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827651
Pub Date: June 2025
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Community-Engaged Scholarship is a collection of stories told by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania who, as students, participated in the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia community.
Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909) is best remembered for his histories of the Inquisition. In this first biography of Lea since 1931, Richard L. Kagan offers a comprehensive yet critical overview of his many achievements together with new insights into his often troubled personal life.
History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
Laura Wolf-Powers
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826913
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
204 Pages
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.
The first example of engaged sociological scholarship, and one of a major American thinker’s earliest works, with a newly updated introduction by Elijah Anderson
Edited by Lynn Marsden-Atlass and André Dombrowski
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781734733846
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
130 Pages
Published on the occasion of the exhibition At the Source: a Courbet Landscape Rediscovered at the Arthur Ross Gallery, this heavily illustrated catalog highlights the rediscovered Courbet painting, not shown in public for close to 100 years, and emphasizes the process of authenticating and conserving this historic work.
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
David Vaughn
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Since its founding in 1972, the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has made important contributions to the fields of blood disorders and cancer medicine. Both a memoir and a historical account, Vaughn's book demonstrates the good that can be accomplished when an innovative and dedicated medical faculty are committed to discovery and healing.
A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that modern American architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Shira Brisman and Eric Jorink
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781734733808
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
60 Pages
The exhibition An Inner World features exceptional paintings by seventeenth-century Dutch artists working in or near the city of Leiden. In this heavily illustrated catalog, essays illuminate the exhibition's themes and shed new light on the fijnschilders, or fine painters, of Leiden.
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.
