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
A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts...
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic...
A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley
Paul Meyer and Edward Barnard
Contributions by Catriona Bull Briger and William Cullina
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512823905
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Philadelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pennsylvania,...
Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
David Vaughn
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812225273
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Discovery and Healing: Reflections on Five Decades of Hematology/Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, David Vaughn describes the history of the Perelman...
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or...
For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell. Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the cobblestone are...
Edited by Kurt W. Carr, Christopher A. Bergman, Christina B. Rieth, Bernard K. Means, Roger W. Moeller and Elizabeth Wagner
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9780812250787
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
960 Pages
The definitive reference guide to artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolutionPennsylvania is geographically, ecologically, and culturally diverse. The state is situated at the crossroads...
Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston
Andrew T. Simpson
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780812251678
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced...
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812251265
Pub Date: April 2019
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned...
In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world's great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics...
