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In addition to the featured hardcover releases, the Penn Press fall 2009 catalog announces many new paperbacks, among them: From Civil Rights to Human Rights; W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet; Visions of Progress; Mapping Decline; The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa; Faculty Towers; Hitler's Face; Monsters; Used Books; Marriage and Violence; and The Crusades and the Christian World of the East.

Complete Catalog: Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Studies

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Abramson, Ethnic Identity in Tang China (hc 2007)

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

Allsen, The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (hc 2006)

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

Alter, Asian Medicine and Globalization (hc 2005)

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

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

Anderson/Stansfield, Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise (hc 2009)

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

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

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

Baldeck, Touching the Mekong (hc 2003)

Baldeck, Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion (hc 2008)

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

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

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

Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (hc 2001, pb 2003)

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

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

Canby, The "Ur-Nammu" Stela (hc 2001, pb 2006)

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

Childs, Society, Culture, and Technology in Africa (hc 1994)

Coon, Yengema Cave Report (pb 1968)

Danti, Hasanlu II: The Ilkhanid Heartland—Hasanlu Tepe (Iran) Period I (hc 2004)

Dimick, Memphis: The City of the White Wall (pb 1956)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (hc 2008, pb 2009)

Du Bois, The Negro (pb 2001)

Dusinberre, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (hc 2005)

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

Fairbank, Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past (hc 1994, pb 2009)

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

Fogel, The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State: Japan and China (hc 2004)

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

Githens/Wood, The Food Resources of Africa (pb 1943)

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

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

Hiebert, A Central Asian Village at the Dawn of Civilization: Excavations at Anau, Turkmenistan (hc 2003)

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

Howard-Hassmann, Reparations to Africa (hc 2008)

James/McGovern, The Late Bronze Egyptian Garrison at Beth Shan: A Study of Levels VII and VIII (hc 1994)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (hc 2001, pb 2001)

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

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

Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (hc 2007, pb 2009)

Kramer, History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History, 3/e (hc 1981, pb 1988)

Kramer, Sumerian Mythology, r/e (pb 1998)

Kushnareva/Michael, The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory: Stages of Cultural and Socioeconomic Development from the Eighth to the Second Millennium B.C. (hc 1997)

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

Latimer, The Bird Who Gave Milk (cassette 1999)

Latimer, The Magical Lion (cassette 1999)

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

Lemarchand, The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa (hc 2008, pb Dec 2009)

Lesch/Lustick, Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews (hc 2005, pb 2008)

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

Lyons/Peters, Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition (pb 1985, pb 1985)

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

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

Marcus, Hasanlu Special Studies III: Emblems of Identity and Prestige—The Seals and Sealings from Hasanlu, Iran (hc 1996)

Masson/Michael, Altyn-Depe (hc 1988)

McGovern, The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan: The Baq'ah Valley Project, 1977-1981 (hc 1987)

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

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

Miller, Economy and Settlement in the Near East: Analyses of Ancient Sites and Materials (pb 1990)

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

Muscarella, Hasanlu Special Studies II: The Catalogue of Ivories from Hasanlu, Iran (pb 1980)

Museum, Facing Antiquity: Canaan and Ancient Israel, A Postcard Book (pb 1998)

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

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

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

Newcomb, Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco (hc 2008)

Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (hc 1997, pb 1997)

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

O'Leary/McGarry, The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq (hc 2005, pb 2006)

Ochsenschlager, Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden (hc 2004)

Olszewski/Dibble, The Paleolithic Prehistory of the Zagros-Taurus (hc 1993)

Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (hc 2005, pb 2009)

Pietrusewsky/Douglas, Ban Chiang, a Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand, Volume 1: The Human Skeletal Remains (hc 2001)

Pigott, The Archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World (hc 1999)

Postel, The Mineral Resources of Africa (pb 1943)

Pritchard, The Cemetery at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan (pb 1980)

Pritchard, Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan: Excavations on the Tell, 1964-1966 (hc 1985)

Pritchard, Winery, Defenses, and Soundings at Gibeon (pb 1964)

Redeker Hepner, Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (hc 2009)

Rothman, Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq (hc 2001)

Sabloff, Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan (hc 2001, pb 2001)

Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (hc 2004)

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

Silverman/Wegner, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution and Restoration (hc 2006)

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

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

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

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

Sumner, Malyan Excavation Reports III: Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan, Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran (hc 2003)

ter Haar, How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought (hc 2009)

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

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

Voigt, Hasanlu I: Hajji Firuz Tepe, Iran—The Neolithic Settlement (hc 1983)

Washington, The Story of the Negro (pb 2005)

Welch, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations (hc 1995, pb 2001)

Winter, Hasanlu Special Studies I: A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu, Iran (pb 1980)

Woolley, Ur: The Buildings of the Third Dynasty (hc 1974)

Wyatt, The Blacks of Premodern China (hc Nov 2009)

Yamamuro/Fogel, Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion (hc 2006)

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

Zettler, Subsistence and Settlement in a Marginal Environment: Tell Es-Sweyhat, 1989-1995 (hc 1997)

Zettler/Horne, Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (hc 1998, pb 1998)




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