Penn State University Press: 456 books
Sentenced to Science
One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert M. Kligman. While most of the experiments were testing cosmetics, detergents, and deodorants,...
Opposite Poles
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Opposite Poles presents a fascinating and complex portrait of ethnic life in America. The focus is Chicago Polonia, the largest Polish community outside of Warsaw. During the 1980s a new cohort of Polish immigrants from communist Poland, including many refugees from the Solidarity movement, joined...
Reimagining Advocacy
Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Domestic violence accounts for approximately one-fifth of all violent crime in the United States and is among the most difficult issues confronting professionals in the legal and criminal justice systems. In this volume, Elizabeth Britt argues that learning embodied advocacy—a practice that results...
Killing Detente
The Right Attacks the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1998
Killing Detente tells the story of a major episode of intelligence intervention in politics in the mid-1970s that led to the derailing of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States and to the resurgence of the Cold War in the following decade. Although the basic outlines of the story are...
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the...
Collective Courage
A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide...
Textuality and Knowledge
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept of textual scholarship.
Through thirteen...
Taking Turns
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.
A shining example of excellence...
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance and a strong advocate for racial pride and the rights of African American women. Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond presents key selections...
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper...
The Noisy Renaissance
Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an...
The Seductions of Darwin
Art, Evolution, Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these...
by Una Roman D’Elia
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian...
A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They...