University of Pennsylvania Press
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Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers
$55.00 Read moreThe Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of
- Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0812239512
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the Nation: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater P
- Author: Mires, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826634
- Language: English
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Greater Philadelphia and the World: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Ph
- Author: Heath, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 151282738X
- Language: English
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The Greater Philadelphia Region: A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
$44.95 Add to cartInformed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater P
- Author: Gillette, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1512826049
- Language: English
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The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques
$65.00 Read moreNow available in its sixth edition, The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques presents a comprehensive survey of all aspects of making ceramics for craft potters and ceramic artists. With it
- Author: Hamer, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0812247922
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings
$89.95 Add to cartJonathan Sumption’s Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called “one of the great historical works of our time.”
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destructi- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Sumption, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0812223888
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
$24.95 Add to cartPrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age o
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0812219295
- Language: English
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How to Be Depressed
$29.95 Read moreAn unusual, searching, and poignant memoir of one man’s quest to make sense of depression
George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literatu- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812252012
- Language: English
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Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories
$29.99 Read moreThrough a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art c
- Author: Baker, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1879636166
- Language: English
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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics
$29.95 Add to cartIn 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he l
- Series: City in the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Nutter, Michael A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0812250028
- Language: English
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What Is Populism?
$24.95 Add to cartDonald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chç–±ez–populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be call
- Author: Muller, Jan-Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0812248988
- Language: English
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The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestsell
- Author: Baumer, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 22 2015
- ISBN10: 081222339X
- Language: English
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After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division
$29.95 Add to cartNationalism is on the rise across the Western world, serving as a rallying cry for voters angry at the unacknowledged failures of globalization that has dominated politics and economics since the end
- Series: Radical Conservatisms
- Author: Goldman, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0812251644
- Language: English
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Free Speech on Campus
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech.
- Author: Ben-Porath, Sigal R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0812250079
- Language: English
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A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague
$29.95 Add to cartA Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an in- Series: Middle Ages
- Author: Bennett, Judith M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812224698
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Business History of the United States
$39.95 Read moreFrom Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, and Cornelius Vanderbilt to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates, with Madam C.J. Walker, Martha Stewart, Jay-Z, and many more in-between, An Illustrated Bu
- Author: Vague, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0812252896
- Language: English
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House on the Strand
$29.95 Add to cartIn this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch:
- Author: Maurier, Daphne Du
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0812217268
- Language: English
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Scapegoat
$29.95 Add to cart“Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, ‘Je vous demande pardon, ‘ and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fea
- Author: Maurier, Daphne Du
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 14 2000
- ISBN10: 081221725X
- Language: English
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Philadelphia Trees: A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley
$24.95 Add to cartPhiladelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pen
- Author: Meyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1512823902
- Language: English
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The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis
$29.95 Add to cartWall Street Journal Bestseller
When we talk about debt and its impact on our economy, we almost always mean “government debt.” However, this is only a small part o
USA Today Bestseller
Amazon Bestseller- Author: Vague, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1512825328
- Language: English
