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.
New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.
Chance/Davis, Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection (2007)
Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (Jan 2008)
Ensalaco, Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 (Dec 2007)
Kuzmina/Mair, The Prehistory of the Silk Road (Dec 2007)
Sageman, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (Dec 2007)
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