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The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
Complete Catalog: Human Rights, Law, Political Science

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Adams/Emmerich, A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses (1990)

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

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

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

An-Na'im, Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives: A Quest for Consensus (1992)

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)

Andreopoulos, Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions (1994)

Andreopoulos/Claude, Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (1997)

Arat, Human Rights in Turkey (2007)

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

Article 19/Coliver, The Right to Know: Human Rights and Access to Reproductive Health Information (1995)

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

Bernstein, The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory (1978)

Blythe, On the Government of Rulers: De Regimine Principum (1997)

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

Boyte, Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (2004)

Cardenas, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007)

Chapman/van der Merwe, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (Dec 2007)

Chase/Hamzawy, Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices (2006)

Clark, The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Program: Formulation of Standards and Efforts at Their Implementation (1994)

Claude/Weston, Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, 2/e (1992)

Claude, Science in the Service of Human Rights (2002)

Claude/Weston, Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, 3/e (2006)

Compa/Diamond, Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade (1996)

Cook, Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives (1994)

Cotterrell, The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy (1992)

Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2005)

Daly/Sarkin, Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006)

Daniels/Kettl, On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (2006)

De Nike/Quigley, Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary (2000)

Dittenhoefer, How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections (2005)

Drew, The Burgundian Code: Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments (1972)

Drew, The Lombard Laws (1973)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (Dec 2007)

Ensalaco, Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth (1999)

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

Fitzpatrick, Human Rights in Crisis: The International System for Protecting Rights During States of Emergency (1994)

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

Gibney/Howard-Hassmann, The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past (Nov 2007)

Green, Bendectin and Birth Defects: The Challenges of Mass Toxic Substances Litigation (1996)

Green, A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (1998)

Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights and the United Nations (1990)

Halperin-Kaddari, Women in Israel: A State of Their Own (2003)

Hannigan, The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917 (2002)

Hannum, Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (1990)

Hannum, Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights, r/e (1996)

Hawkins/Ballard, Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues (1995)

Hegel/Knox, Natural Law: The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law (1975)

Heiberg/O'Leary, Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (2007)

Honwana, Child Soldiers in Africa (2005)

Howard-Hassmann/Welch, Economic Rights in Canada and the United States (2006)

Hughes, Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad (2007)

Jamieson/Waldman, Electing the President, 2000: The Insiders' View (2001)

Jamieson, Electing the President, 2004: The Insiders' View (2005)

Jasanoff, Learning from Disaster: Risk Management After Bhopal (1994)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (2001)

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

Kamminga, Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights (1992)

Kant/Ashton, On the Old Saw: That May be Right in Theory But It Won't Work in Practice (1974)

Kent, China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (1999)

Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (Dec 2007)

Kingfisher, Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (2002)

Kolodziej, A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights (2003)

Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (2007)

Kuttner, The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice (1987)

Landsman, Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (2005)

Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen, 2/e (2003)

Laursen/Nederman, Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment (1997)

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Critique: Review of the U.S. Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1993 (1994)

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, In Defense of Rights: Attacks on Lawyers and Judges in 1993 (1994)

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, In Defense of Rights: Attacks on Lawyers and Judges in 1992 (1993)

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

Leckie/Gallagher, Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide (2006)

Lempert/Sanders, An Invitation to Law and Social Science (1989)

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

Liachowitz, Disability as a Social Construct: Legislative Roots (1988)

Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (2000)

Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror (2006)

Macedo, Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under International Law (2003)

Marietta/Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (2006)

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

Martín Beristain, Humanitarian Aid Work: A Critical Approach (2006)

McCoy, Politics and Plea Bargaining: Victims' Rights in California (1993)

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

Merali/Oosterveld, Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (2001)

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

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

Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (2005)

Morgan/Michaels, Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (1999)

Morris, The Great Legal Philosophers: Selected Readings in Jurisprudence (1959)

Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent (1999)

Murphy, Humanitarian Intervention: The United Nations in an Evolving World Order (1996)

Mutua, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002)

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

O'Manique, The Origins of Justice: The Evolution of Morality, Human Rights, and Law (2002)

Onuf, The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787 (1983)

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

Peters, Torture, x/e (1996)

Phelps, Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions (2004)

Reardon, Educating for Human Dignity: Learning About Rights and Responsibilities (1995)

Reifen, The Juvenile Court in a Changing Society: Young Offenders in Israel (1973)

Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005)

Robinson/Boyle, A Voice for Human Rights (2005)

Rodin/Steinberg, Public Discourse in America: Conversation and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2003)

Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (2005)

Romer/Kenski, Capturing Campaign Dynamics, 2000 and 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey (2006)

Rossinow, Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America (Dec 2007)

Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (2002)

Sabin, Red Scare in Court: New York versus the International Workers Order (1993)

Sabin, In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday (1999)

Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (2004)

Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (Dec 2007)

Savelsberg, Constructing White-Collar Crime: Rationalities, Communication, Power (1994)

Schirmer, The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy (1998)

Schulz, The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (2007)

Schwarz/Thompson, Divided We Stand: Re-Defining Politics, Technology, and Social Choice (1990)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas (2000)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas, Volume 1: The Medieval Church: The World of Clerics and Laymen (Partida I) (2000)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas, Volume 2: Medieval Government: The World of Kings and Warriors (Partida II) (2000)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas, Volume 3: The Medieval World of Law: Lawyers and Their Work (Partida III) (2000)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas, Volume 4: Family, Commerce, and the Sea: The Worlds of Women and Merchants (Partidas IV and V) (2000)

Scott, Las Siete Partidas, Volume 5: Underworlds: The Dead, the Criminal, and the Marginalized (Partidas VI and VII) (2000)

Siegel, Employment and Human Rights: The International Dimension (1994)

Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004)

Skowronek/Glassman, Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making (2007)

Sluka, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (1999)

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

Smith, Jr, Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 (1993)

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

Stover, The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (2005)

Stølen, Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (2007)

Tolley, The International Commission of Jurists: Global Advocates for Human Rights (1994)

Wan, Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (2001)

Watson, Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity (1984)

Watson, The Digest of Justinian, Revised English-language Edition (1997)

Weissbrodt/de la Vega, International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (Dec 2007)

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

Welch, NGOs and Human Rights: Promise and Performance (2000)

Williams, Debt for Sale: A Social History of the Credit Trap (2004)

Yiftachel, Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine (2006)

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




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