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The Penn Press fall 2008 catalog announces Volume 3 of the Life of Benjamin Franklin, by J. A. Leo Lemay; Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought, by Moshe Idel; the second edition of Depression: Causes and Treatment, by Aaron Beck and Brad Alford; the fourth edition of Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, by Geri-Ann Galanti; and Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia, by Emily Toth. Among other new paperback offerings are these: Growing Greener Cities, edited by Eugenie Birch and Susan Wachter, In Search of Progressive America, edited by Michael Kazin, and an updated Price of Citizenship, by Michael Katz.
Complete Catalog: Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Studies

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Afshari, Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (2001)

Allsen, The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (2006)

Alter, Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border (2000)

Alter, Asian Medicine and Globalization (2005)

An-Na'im, Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves (2002)

An-Na'im, African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006)

Appadurai/Korom, Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (1991)

Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (2002)

Babb/Wadley, Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia (1995)

Baruah, India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (1999)

Besteman, Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (1999)

Bienkowski/Millard, Dictionary of the Ancient Near East (2000)

Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (2001)

Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1972)

Breckenridge/van der Veer, Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (1993)

Chance/Davis, Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection (2007)

Du Bois, The Negro (2001)

Ensalaco, Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 (2007)

Fairbank, Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past (1994)

Falls, Armageddon, 1918: The Final Palestinian Campaign of World War I (2003)

Fuchs, Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain (Dec 2008)

Hannas, The Writing on the Wall: How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity (2003)

Heath, Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ): With a Translation of the Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven (1992)

Hodgson, The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâî'lîs Against the Islamic World (2005)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (2001)

Joseph/Slyomovics, Women and Power in the Middle East (2000)

Kale, Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean (1998)

Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History, 3/e (1981)

Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, r/e (1998)

Kuzmina/Mair, The Prehistory of the Silk Road (2007)

Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria (2001)

Lesch/Lustick, Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews (2005)

Ludden, Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (1996)

MacGaffey, The Real Economy of Zaire: The Contribution of Smuggling and Other Unofficial Activities to National Wealth (1991)

Mahmood, Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants (1996)

Messaoudi/Schemla, Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism (1998)

Mikell, African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (1997)

Montet, Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great (1980)

Mutua, Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (Sep 2008)

Narayan, Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989)

Ness, Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism (2002)

Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (1997)

Nurse/Spear, The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 (1985)

O'Leary/McGarry, The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (2005)

Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (2004)

Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (2008)

Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998)

Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005)

St John, Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife (2002)

Stoller, The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (1989)

Thorp, China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization (2005)

van der Veer, Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora (1994)

Washington, The Story of the Negro (2005)

Welch, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (1995)

Yamamuro/Fogel, Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion (2006)

Zeleza/McConnaughay, Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa (2004)




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