Food Chains–Now in Paperback
08/11/2010
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart Edited by Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4128-0 | $55.00… READ MORE
Category: Business & Economics
Purposes of Paradise–Now Available
07/20/2010
The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i Christine Skwiot 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4244-7 | $39.95… READ MORE
Penn Press at the AAUP Annual Meeting
06/21/2010
The 2010 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has come and gone, but it has left the scholarly press community with much to think about. With… READ MORE
Press Director Eric Halpern on eBook Developments
06/02/2010
Ebooks. Talk of them seems to fill the media these days. While prognosticators in the past have made many wild-eyed claims for ebooks that never became reality, ebook sales now constitute a rapidly growing share of books sold. In today’s more promising ebook environment, we are exploring opportunities to reach new readers in the digital realm.
Forthcoming Fall 2010 Books
06/01/2010
The Penn Press catalog of books for fall 2010 is now available in print and online. In the coming season Penn Press will continue to publish scholarly and general interest… READ MORE
Freud on Madison Avenue–Now Available
04/26/2010
Freud on Madison Avenue: Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America Lawrence R. Samuel 232 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4251-5 | $29.95 | £19.50 Freud… READ MORE
Commerce By A Frozen Sea–Now Available
04/23/2010
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2010… READ MORE
Spring Overstock Sale–Save 70%
04/01/2010
It's a beautiful day (at least in Philadelphia) and the perfect time for the Penn Press Spring Overstock Sale to begin. Hundreds of titles have been marked down by 70… READ MORE
A Big Wednesday on Campus: Penn Press author Panels on Poverty and Human Rights
03/16/2010
Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty…. READ MORE
Matthew Dennis on a New American Indian / NY Gov’t Tobacco Controversy
03/15/2010
In an essay for History News Network, historian Matthew Dennis weighs in on the controversial mail-order tobacco business run by the Seneca Nation of Indians of western New York. “Indians… READ MORE
