Hot Off Penn Press: April’s New Books
05/06/2015
Spring, long-awaited, is here. And April, as well as showers, brought books! Read on for all the new books released by Penn Press last month. Jump to: Medieval Studies |… READ MORE
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Hot Off Penn Press: March’s New Books
04/08/2015
Spring in Philadelphia is tentative, to say the least, but there's nothing tentative about the books we published last month! Read on to see new offerings in American History, Political… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Clayton Hurd, Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California
10/03/2014
The next installment of our author Q&As is with Clayton Hurd. His book, Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California, investigates the struggles in a central California school district, where a… READ MORE
Growing from our Strengths: Penn Press Builds on Its Distinguished Traditions
11/12/2013
Penn Press Log is a proud stop on the AAUP University Press Week 2013 Blog Tour. The theme for today's leg of the tour, "Subject Area Spotlight," was a bit… READ MORE
Mirjam Zadoff’s Next Year in Marienbad Wins Salo Baron Prize
10/08/2013
Congratulations to Mirjam Zadoff. Her book, Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture won this year’s Salo Baron Prize the best first book in Jewish studies…. READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Blind Impressions, The Breakthrough, and Toronto
09/27/2013
Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History Joseph A. Dane 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4549-3 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors on Chechen History and Politics
04/22/2013
As the Boston Marathon bombing investigation continues, journalists and a concerned public are turning to historians, political scientists, security researchers, and other scholars for a deeper understanding of the suspects'… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: a Free Article on the Cost of Higher Education from Dissent
11/16/2012
When our current period of slow economic growth will end is anybody’s guess, but even when it does end, colleges and universities will certainly not be rolling back their prices. These days, it is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization.
Around the World with Penn Press
11/12/2012
You may not need a map to see that scholarly publishers like Penn Press contribute to the world's knowledge and understanding, but it does provide an interesting perspective. As part… READ MORE
School Reform Then and Now: Legacies of the Civil Rights Era
10/25/2012
Revisiting the 1960s shows us that the civil rights era left a dual legacy in school reform, half of which echoes loudly today and half of which is too often ignored. The part that still echoes is an ethos of accountability: sixties-era activists and educators helped to pioneer the idea that urban schools should be held accountable for student achievement. The part that is being ignored is a recognition that achievement is also powerfully shaped by what goes on outside of schools—especially the effects of poverty. Unfortunately, neglect of the latter lesson is seriously undermining the potentially useful impact of the former one.
