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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: Biography, Autobiography

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Alter, Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism (hc 2000)

Auerbach, Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress (hc 1999, pb 2002)

Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (hc 2000)

Becker/Betancourt, Richard Berry Seager: Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman (hc 1997)

BeDuhn, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E. (hc Dec 2009)

Blum, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (hc 2007, pb Nov 2009)

Body/Simon, Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years (hc 2005, pb 2009)

Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (hc 2003, pb 2007)

Contosta, A Philadelphia Family: The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill (hc 1988, pb 1992)

Crane, The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman, Abridged Edition (pb Nov 2009)

David, Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life (hc 2007)

Dreiser, Dreiser's Russian Diary (hc 1996)

Emerson, Mark Twain, A Literary Life (hc 1999)

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

Foster, Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (hc 1997)

Franklin/Conn, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition (pb 2005)

Galperin, The Historical Austen (hc 2002, pb 2005)

Goodman, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin (hc 1956, pb 1974)

Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (hc 2006, pb 2009)

Jackson, Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (hc 2009)

Jefferson/Ford, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790 (pb 2005)

Kafer, Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic (hc 2004)

Kaldellis, Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (hc 2004)

Kuklick, Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine (hc 2008)

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730 (hc 2005)

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 (hc 2005)

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757 (hc 2008)

Liss, Isabel the Queen: Life and Times, 2/e (pb 2004)

Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (hc 1992, pb 1994)

Marshall/Smith, Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings (hc 2002)

McHugh, Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming To Know Another Culture (hc 2001, pb 2001)

McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights (hc 1983, pb 1984)

Miller, Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South (hc Apr 2009)

Montgomery, Brothers, Sing On!: My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club (hc 2005)

Poirier/Balinski, Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist (hc 1996, pb 1998)

Pryor, Clara Barton, Professional Angel (hc 1987, pb 1988)

Ragionieri, Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth (hc 2008, pb 2008)

Rainey, Reflections of a Digger: Fifty Years of World Archaeology (hc 1992)

Rosner, The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier (hc 1999)

Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (hc 2001, pb 2006)

Schoolcraft, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (hc 2002)

Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (hc 2007)

Scruggs/VanDemarr, Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History (hc 1998)

Shapira/Abel, Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography (hc 2007)

Skemp, First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence (hc 2009)

Slaughter, The Natures of John and William Bartram (pb 2005)

Stone, Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity From Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (hc 1982, pb 1982)

Stroud, The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World (hc 2000)

Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph (hc 2005)

Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (hc 2002, pb 2002)

Thomas, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock (pb 1998)

Trix, The Sufi Journey of Baba Rexheb (hc 2009)

Westheimer, Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song (hc 2003)




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