03/16/2012
A new CNN report on California's history of forced sterilizations includes an interview with Christina Cogdell, author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. According to the report, in… READ MORE
03/02/2012
In the March Penn Press podcast, historian and patent-holder John Cheng discusses the early culture of popular science fiction. Cheng's new book, Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar… READ MORE
This weekend, two new exhibits feature artwork connected to new and forthcoming Penn Press books. A Singular View—The Art and Words of John Paton Davies, Jr. opens Saturday, March 3… READ MORE
09/22/2011
At first glance, William M. Rohe, bone fide professor and author of The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence, doesn' t seem to have much in common with… READ MORE
08/29/2011
The Jewish Enlightenment Shmuel Feiner. Translated by Chaya Naor 456 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2003 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3755-9 | $65.00 | £42.50 Paper 2011 | ISBN… READ MORE
08/25/2011
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India Eugenia W. Herbert 432 pages | 7 x 10 | 30 color, 60 b/w illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4326-0 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most… READ MORE
08/18/2011
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America Scott Gabriel Knowles 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4350-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
03/16/2011
A Democracy of Facts: Natural History in the Early Republic Andrew J. Lewis 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4308-6 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
06/15/2010
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Michael Solomon 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
