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.
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood, Series Editor
Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (2002)
Besteman, Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (1999)
Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (2001)
Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (Jan 2008)
Honwana, Child Soldiers in Africa (2005)
Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (2001)
Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (2005)
Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (1997)
Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (2005)
Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005)
Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004)
Sluka, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (1999)
Stølen, Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (2007)
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