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Everyday Nationalism--Now Available
6 November 2009, 11:08 am |
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Affective Meditation--Now Available
6 November 2009, 8:04 am |
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The Blacks of Premodern China--Now Available
5 November 2009, 2:09 pm |
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The Devil in the Holy Water--Now Available
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Economic Rights in Canada and the United States--Now Available
4 November 2009, 5:00 pm |
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University of Pennsylvania Press In honor of the Fightin' Phils, please share your thoughts about the history of the Phillies with a comment. Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EST, one Penn Press Facebook Fan's comment will be selected at random. That fan will receive a free copy of Almost a Dynasty by William C. Kashatus.
Source: www.upenn.edu
392 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 30 illus.Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4036-8 | $34.95t | £23.00 | Add to shopping cartView table of contents and excerpt
University of Pennsylvania Press Historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, editor of Imagining Philadelphia, discusses the legacy of urban planner Edmund Bacon in the latest Penn Press podcast.
Source: www.upenn.edu
Episode 2:Scott Gabriel KnowlesHistorian and editor of Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the Citydownload and listen (14 MB, 29 minutes)
University of Pennsylvania Press Lisa Rosner, author of The Anatomy Murders, will be at the Penn Bookstore tonight at 7:00 p.m.
Source: upenn.bncollege.com
University of Pennsylvania Press Don't be afraid to meet the author of The Anatomy Murders. Historian Lisa Rosner will be at the Doylestown Bookshop tomorrow and at many more Northeast locations in the coming days to discuss the infamous Burke and Hare killings.
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Did you catch 8: Ivy League Football and America (www.8ivyfootball.com) on WHYY TV or NESN? It was co-produced by Mark Bernstein, author of Football: The Ivy
League Origins of an American Obsession.
Source: www.upenn.edu
344 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 28 illus.Cloth 2001 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3627-9 | $45.00s | £29.50 | Add to shopping cartView table of contents and excerpt
University of Pennsylvania Press Fans in the DC Area, Getting Out editors Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills will be at Busboys and Poets this evening.
with editors Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills
Location:Busboys and Poets
Time:6:30PM Monday, October 5th
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Historian Lisa Rosner dispels myths surrounding the Burke
and Hare murders in the latest Penn Press podcast. Listen and learn some
fascinating details about nineteenth-century Edinburgh and how to avoid getting burked.
Source: www.upenn.edu
Episode 1: Lisa Rosner Professor of History at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and ...
University of Pennsylvania Press Penn Historian Eric Schneider's New York Newsday editorial on the abundance of cheap heroin today.
Source: www.newsday.com
Eric C. Schneider is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of "Smack: Heroin and the American City." Smack, horse, dope, H, whatever it is called, heroin is king of underworld
University of Pennsylvania Press Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills, editors of Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, in The New Republic
Source: www.tnr.com
The headlines of the last few months make it clear that there are going to be no free passes for America when it comes to getting its troops out of Iraq. The recent bombing of a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, like the internal warfare in Sunni-dominated Anbar
University of Pennsylvania Press Historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk joins the fray at The New York Times Room for Debate Blog. Blaszczyk's books include Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers and Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation.
Source: roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com
Why not emulate the Victorians, paying more for better-quality products and keeping them for a lifetime?
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Once you start to watch Horrible Histories fairly accurate and shockingly musical version of the story of Burke and Hare case on YouTube, you'll either turn up your speakers or turn them in. Thanks to Lisa Rosner for finding this jem. She's the author of The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Ed...inburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare, and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes.Read More
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This song is about a surgeon called Robert Knox He lived in Edinburgh in 1827. Below is some information on what William Hare and William Burke done. The crooks almost got away with it, but a few people prevented that. ...
University of Pennsylvania Press Michael Chertoff on C-Span's Washington Journal
Source: www.c-spanarchives.org
C-SPAN Video Library [Homeland Security] [289005-6] - Michael Chertoff talked about his new book, [Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years]. He responded to telephone calls, electronic communications, ...
University of Pennsylvania Press This month's creepy paperback release Double Feature: Monsters by David D. Gilmore and Misogyny by David D. Gilmore! Let's mark this very scary event with a give-away. The first 2 fans to comment about their favorite monster will receive their choice of a copy of Monsters or a copy of Misogyny.
University of Pennsylvania Press All Free Library of Philadelphia Branches Set to Close October 2.
Source: libwww.freelibrary.org
We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.
University of Pennsylvania Press Dissent Magazine Getting Out Event tonight in Berkeley, CA with Michael Walzer, co-editor of Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq. Click on the Dissent Link for details.
Source: dissentmagazine.org
Dissent magazine was founded in 1954 by Iriving Howe, and continues to be a vital voice of the democratic left. Co-edited by Mitchell Cohen and Michael Walzer, Dissent covers culture and politics in the U.S., Europe and around the world with incisive and in-depth articles.
