Author: Monica H. Gree
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: middle, ages, series, medicine, women, medieval, compendium, trotula
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-03-19
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0812235894
ISBN-13: 9780812235890

The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women’s medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of Naples, then the leading center of medical learning in Europe. Yet as Monica H. Green reveals in her introduction to this first edition of the Latin text since the sixteenth century, and the first English translation of the book ever based upon a medieval form of the text, the Trotula is n

Author: Wilma Fairbank
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: architectural, past, china’s, exploring, lin, partners, liang
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 1994-09-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 081223278X
ISBN-13: 9780812232783

Wilma Fairbank documents, from both an historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architectural department of the University of Pennsylvania. Married in 1928, they returned to their native land and became the first two professors at the

Authors:Mary Morris Heiberger, Julia Miller Vick,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: handbook, search, job, academic
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-07-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0812217780
ISBN-13: 9780812217780

The Academic Job Search Handbook provides specific advice on all aspects of job-seeking in an increasingly tight academic market, from the appropriate timetable for the application process, to illegal or odd interview questions, to negotiating offers, starting a new job, seeking tenure, and everything in between. New information in the third edition includes more examples and advice for candidates in scientific and technical fields, as well as more references for those applying for adjunct positions and to community colleges. A new chapter and some of the all-new sample written materials refle

Authors:William H. Whyte,  Paco Underhill,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: center, rediscovering, city
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0812220749
ISBN-13: 9780812220742

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it.Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion

Authors:Richard Schechner,  Victor Witter Turner,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: anthropology, theater
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1985-12-19
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0812212258
ISBN-13: 9780812212259

Authors:Leon Poliakov,  Miriam Kocha,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: voltaire, wagner, iii, volume, anti, semitism, history
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2003-10-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0812218655
ISBN-13: 9780812218657

Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.From Voltaire to Wagner reviews the period of the European Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when anti-Semitism gradually stopped being an official state policy in most countries. Highlighting the emancipation of Jews as it spread across Europe, Poliakov shows how philosophers, statesme

Authors:Leon Poliakov,  Natalie Gerardi,
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: mohammed, marranos, volume, semitism, anti, history
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-10-05
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0812218647
ISBN-13: 9780812218640

Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.From Mohammed to the Marranos focuses on the Sephardim, the Jews of North Africa and Iberia. Poliakov relates the great achievements of Spanish Jewry under the Muslim Caliphs followed by their gradual and painful decline during and after the Christian reconquest. The author explains the emergence of the Marra