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.
John Dixon Hunt, Series Editor
Baridon/Mason, A History of the Gardens of Versailles (Jun 2008)
Berrizbeitia, Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este, 1956 - 1961 (2004)
de Jong/Langenakens, Nature and Art: Dutch Garden and Landscape Architecture, 1650-1740 (2001)
Evelyn/Ingram, Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (2000)
Giannetto, Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (Mar 2008)
Hirschfeld/Parshall, Theory of Garden Art (2001)
Hunt, The Afterlife of Gardens (2004)
Hunt, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000)
Hunt/Conan, Tradition and Innovation in French Garden Art: Chapters of a New History (2002)
Hyde, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (2005)
Laird, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800 (1999)
Lassus, The Landscape Approach (1998)
Leatherbarrow, Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture (2004)
Mariage/Larkin, The World of André Le Nôtre (1998)
Morgan, Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design (2006)
Olin, Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (1999)
Origo/Livingston, La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany (2001)
Ruggles, Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (Dec 2007)
Rybczynski/Olin, Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers (2006)
Schwarcz, Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden (Mar 2008)
Swaffield, Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (2002)
Treib, The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-1960 (2002)
Watelet/Danon, Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque (2003)
Weller, Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (2005)
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