Worth Reading
Books by Penn State authors
North Country Journey
A review of Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota, by Toby Thompson
Protecting the Innocent
A review of The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence, by Frank R. Baumgartner, Suzanna L. De Boef, and Amber E. Boydstun
The Illustrated Guide
A review of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming, by Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump
A Taste for Fine Books
A review of The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print 1880-1914, by Willa Z. Silverman
Bonds of Endurance
A review of Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, by Anthony Kaye
Public Intellectual
A review of Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities by Michael Bérubé
Mining a Legacy
A review of Anthracite! An Anthology of Pennsylvania Coal Region Plays, edited by Philip Mosley
The Human Fabric
A review of Skin: A Natural History by Nina Jablonski
Hard Lessons
A review of From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation by Michael Kenney
Dreams Deferred
A review of Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America
Uncommon Words, Common Wealth
A review of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania
From Welfare to Workfare
Jennifer Mittelstadt examines the origins of welfare reform
The Perfect Hour
Author James West explores the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and the "real Daisy Buchanan"
What the World was Like
The Ape in the Tree tells the story of the human link to Proconsul
The Legacy of Three Mile Island
The anniversary of a disaster: Remembering the accident at Three Mile Island, more than a quarter-century later