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        <title>The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa--Now in Paperback</title>
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        <summary>The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa René Lemarchand 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2090-2 | $27.50 | £18.00 A volume in the...</summary>
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The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa</strong></font></a>
<br />René Lemarchand
<br />344 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus.
<br />Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4 | $59.95 | £39.00
<br />Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2090-2 | $27.50 | £18.00
<br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/NEC.html">National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century</a> series
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<br /><img align="right" alt="The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14522.jpg" />This collection of essays explores the contemporary crises in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, offering important new insights into the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of Central Africa the most violent on the continent.

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        <title>The Age of Apology--Now In Paperback</title>
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        <summary>The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4033-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN...</summary>
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The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past</strong></font></a>
<br />Edited by Mark Gibney, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud, and Niklaus Steiner
<br />344 pages | 6 x 9
<br />Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4033-7 | $59.95 | £39.00
<br />Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2087-2 | $26.50 | £17.50
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A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/PSHR.html">Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights</a> series
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<br /><img align="right" alt="The Age of Apology" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14377.jpg" />In <em>The Age of Apology</em> twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies.

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        <title>Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America--Now Available</title>
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        <published>2009-11-23T11:44:06-05:00</published>
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        <summary>Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America Michael L. Ondaatje 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4206-5 | $34.95 | £23.00 Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas and arguments of prominent black conservative thinkers during the past...</summary>
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Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America</strong></font></a>
<br />Michael L. Ondaatje
<br />240 pages | 6 x 9
<br />Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4206-5 | $34.95 | £23.00
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<br /><img align="right" alt="Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14673.jpg" />Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas and arguments of prominent black conservative thinkers during the past three decades, charting the evolution of black conservative thought in relation to key debates on affirmative action, welfare, and education.

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        <title>"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana"--Now Available</title>
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        <published>2009-11-23T11:43:16-05:00</published>
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        <summary>"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 map Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4209-6 |...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14653.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong> "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity</strong></span></a>
<br />Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika
<br />208 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 map
<br />Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4209-6 | $34.95 | £23.00
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<br /><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14653.html"><img algiers="" align="right" alt="" and="" bagnios="" border="0" great="" hspace="5" of="" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14653.jpg" sultana="" the="" /></a>The first English translation of two captivity plays by Cervantes, set in Algiers and Constantinople. Featuring a lively cast of corsairs, captives, and renegades, they offer important insights into early modern Spain's conception of the world of Islam.

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        <title>Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya--Now in Paperback</title>
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        <published>2009-11-23T11:19:41-05:00</published>
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        <summary>Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya Bilinda Straight 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3964-5 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2092-6 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14296.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;;"><strong>Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya</strong></span></a>
<br />Bilinda Straight
<br />296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus.
<br />Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3964-5 | $49.95 | £32.50
<br />Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2092-6 | $24.95 | £16.50
<br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/CE.html">Contemporary Ethnography</a> series
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<br /><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14296.html"><img align="right" alt="Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14296.jpg" /></a>The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable.

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        <title>The Business of Tourism--Now in Paperback</title>
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        <published>2009-11-23T11:12:57-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-23T11:12:57-05:00</updated>
        <summary>The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History Edited by Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3968-3 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1965-4...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14295.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>The Business of Tourism: Place, Faith, and History</strong></span></a>
<br />Edited by Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson
<br />304 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus.
<br />Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3968-3 | $55.00 | £36.00
<br />Paper Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1965-4 | $24.95 | £16.50
<br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HPB.html">Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture</a> series
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<br /><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14295.html"><img align="left" alt="The Business of Tourism" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14295.jpg" /></a><em>The Business of Tourism</em> transports readers from the foundations of mass leisure travel in 1860s Egypt to contemporary religious sight-seeing in Branson, Missouri; from the Stalinist Soviet Union to post-Soviet Cuba. This collection of ten essays explores the enterprises, institutions, and technologies of tourist activity.

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        <title>Rosner's The Anatomy Murders Talk on ForumNetwork</title>
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        <published>2009-11-20T14:41:00-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-20T14:41:00-05:00</updated>
        <summary>Video of Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders talk at the Harvard Book Store is now available on ForumNetwork. In the ForumNetwork clip, Rosner discusses the Burke and Hare murders and reads from her new history The Anatomy Murders: Being the...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Video of Lisa Rosner's <em><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14677.html">The Anatomy Murders</a></em> talk at the Harvard Book Store is now available on <a href="http://forum-network.org/lecture/lisa-rosner-anatomy-murders" target="_blank">ForumNetwork</a>. In the ForumNetwork clip, Rosner discusses the Burke and Hare murders and reads from her new history <em><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14677.html" target="_blank">The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes</a></em>.</p><p><a href="http://forum-network.org/lecture/lisa-rosner-anatomy-murders">Click here to watch the video</a>.</p></div>
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