Penn Press Presents

The 1921 seal of the Penn Press: a tribute to Benjamin Franklin, publisher, statesman, inventor, and founder of the University

The University of Pennsylvania Press presents not only books with a Philadelphia connection --The Ingenious Dr. Franklin and The Philadelphia Navy Yard-- or a Penn connection--Building America's First University--but has books with an international flavor--Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession and The London Monster.

These and many other books from the Penn Press are available at the Penn Bookstore.Visit the Penn Press website, www.upenn.edu/pennpress/ for more information.

Brotherly Love, A Poem by Daniel Hoffman, Penn's Poet in Residence & Felix E. Schelling Professor of English Emeritus. Brotherly Love is a long poem that evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America. "An astonishing feat of historical and literary imagination" Washington Post Book World, Paper $15.95.

The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Edited by Nathan G. Goodman, "Reading these letters fosters a new affection for our country's foremost and most beloved inventor" Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Paper $14.95.

The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual, Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block. Ann Rhoads is director of botany, Morris Arboretum and adjunct professor of biology at Penn and Timothy Block is the Arboretum's assistant director of botany. Illustrations by Anna Anisko, the Arboretum's botanical illustrator. The Plants of Pennsylvania provides a means of positively identifying the more than 3,000 species of flowering plants, ferns, and gymnosperms native or naturalized in the Commonwealth. 1,040 pages, Cloth $65.

American Tradition in Painting, John McCoubrey, Penn's James and Nan Farquhar Emeritus Professor in the Department of the History of Art. First published in 1963, this classic text is accompanied by a new introduction and an epilogue that explore the increased diversity in American art since the book appeared. Cloth $37.50, Paper $17.95.

Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Professsion, Amy Trubek, who took her Ph.D. in anthropology at Penn in 1995, Cloth $24.95.

Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania by Penn faculty members and architectural historians George E. Thomas and David Brownlee. This is the first comprehensive architectural history of the University since the early twentieth century. Cloth $45.

The Philadelphia Navy Yard: An Illustrated History (with 125 archival photos and 10 detailed maps) Jeffery M. Dorwart with Jean K. Wolf. The first complete illustrated history of one of America's most illustrious military institutions. Cloth $45.

The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale by Jan Bondeson, a well-told narrative of the popular hysteria surrounding a mysterious slasher who stalked London a century before the Ripper. Kirkus Reviews, Cloth $29.95.

Almanac, Vol. 47, No. 14, December 5, 2000

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