University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Blind Impressions
Methods and Mythologies in Book History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object...
by Henri Murger
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
"Today, as of old, every man who enters on an artistic career, without any other means of livelihood than his art itself, will be forced to walk in the paths of Bohemia."—from the Preface
Based largely upon Henri Murger's own experiences and those of his fellow artists, The Bohemians...
The People of This Generation
The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists...
Poetry Wars
Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as...
Connecting Histories
Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to...
Greater Portland
Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and...
Deborah and Her Sisters
How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British...
Let Us Fight as Free Men
Black Soldiers and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks. In the years after World War II, the integration of the armed forces was a touchstone in the homefront...
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding...
Kinesics and Context
Essays on Body Motion Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures—some more legal...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Mutuality
Anthropology's Changing Terms of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Why do people do social-cultural anthropology? Beyond professional career motivations, what values underpin anthropologists' commitments to lengthy training, fieldwork, writing, and publication? Mutuality explores the values that anthropologists bring from their wider social worlds, including the...
by Edward L. Bradley III, Editors of Consumer Reports Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery.
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