The Al Qaeda Factor–Now Available
12/19/2011
The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West Mitchell D. Silber 368 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4402-1 | $39.95 | £26.00 New York Police Department… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France — Now Available
Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France: A Comparative Framework Elaine R. Thomas 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4332-1 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
Why Don’t American Cities Burn–Now Available
12/07/2011
Why Don't American Cities Burn? Michael B. Katz 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4386-4 | $29.95 | £19.50 A volume in the… READ MORE
This Month’s Penn Press Podcast: Michael Katz Asks Why Don’t American Cities Burn?
12/01/2011
In the December 2011 Penn Press podcast, Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the history of urban inequality, the significance of… READ MORE
Political Repression–Now Available
11/29/2011
Political Repression: Courts and the Law Linda Camp Keith 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4381-9 | $75.00 | £49.00 A volume in… READ MORE
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights–Now Available
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery Edited by Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4382-6… READ MORE
Terrorism Experts Sageman and Silber on Anwar al-Awlaki
11/28/2011
A recent Daily Beast article quotes two Penn Press authors, security experts Marc Sageman and Mitchell D. Silber, on the influence of dead Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. In "Anwar… READ MORE
Penn Press Urban History Authors Katz and Schneider Published in Berfrois
11/10/2011
The literary and intellectual online magazine Berfrois recently published two new essays by Penn Press authors Michael B. Katz and Eric C. Schneider. Katz's essay, "Where's the Violence?," compares manifestations… READ MORE
Jeffrey Friedman Speaks at the Cato Institute
11/02/2011
Jeffrey Friedman, coauthor with Wladimir Kraus of Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation, spoke at a Cato Institute event on October 27, 2011. Here's a… READ MORE
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
