Goodbye, Alex
09/12/2007
In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE
Category: European & World History
History Matters–Now in Paperback
08/30/2007
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE
Ruggles Illuminates ‘Cities of Light’
08/29/2007
The film Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain examines a time during the Middle Ages when Christians, Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in southern Spain. D…. READ MORE
A Voice for Human Rights–Now in Paperback
08/02/2007
A Voice for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Kevin Boyle, Editor. Foreword by Kofi Annan. Afterword by Louise Arbour 456 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2005 | ISBN… READ MORE
AAR Award for Bynum’s Wonderful Blood
07/20/2007
Caroline Walker Bynum’s Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond has been selected to receive the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the… READ MORE
Colonial Botany–Now in Paperback
07/18/2007
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, Editors 352 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 54 illus. Cloth 2004… READ MORE
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text–Now Available
07/11/2007
The Censor, the Editor, and the Text: The Catholic Church and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon in the Sixteenth Century Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. Jackie Feldman, Translator 328 pages | 6… READ MORE
Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad–Now Available
07/10/2007
Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad James Hughes 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4013-9 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume in the National… READ MORE
Revista’s New Direction
07/02/2007
Revista Hispánica Moderna has just released its first volume as a Penn Press publication. This established journal has a solid research tradition that goes back seven decades. Revista Hispánica Moderna‘s… READ MORE
Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues Takes Berks Book Prize
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
