From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young

Dryson, R.H.

University of Pennsylvania

<p>The University has published a new photo essay book, "People, Places, Passions, Pursuits, A Penn Portrait," just in time for holiday gift giving.The coffee table book features photos that reflect life on campus, from major milestones such as Commencement to everyday activities like cheering on the basketball team or studying for exams.It also captures the uniqueness of Penn with photographs of the University's rich arts and culture scene, Penn's groundbreaking research, time-honored traditions, and, of course, its historic buildings and welcoming green spaces."Let this volume serve as your own personal time capsule," Penn President Amy Gutmann writes in a welcome message inside the book, inviting current students, long-time alumni, faculty, and staff to relive their memories at Penn through the wide array of photographs.The book features 250 images selected from more than 1,000 photos, and includes photos depicting every school at Penn."The wonderful thing about this book is that it captures both the iconic photos of Penn's campus, such as the [Split] Button and The Palestra, but also the many new spaces, including Penn Park, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and even the most recent addition, Shoemaker Green," says Marie Witt, vice president of the Business Services Division (BSD), which oversaw the book's creation.The book features 250 images selected from more than 1,000 photos, and includes photos depicting every school at Penn."What is really interesting is that we didn't take the usual track and hire one photographer to shoot all the photos," explains Ilene Wilder, director of marketing at the BSD who shepherded the book from concept to completion. "We used a variety of photographers and included a number of images taken by Penn staff and students. The book is not only of Penn, but by Penn."The University has not published a photo book since 1999.</p>

People, Places, Passions, Pursuits, a Penn Portrait

Arts & Photography

Shoemaker Green

Photography & Video

This is the first book on the Eurasian silk trade in early modern times. Most of the raw silk spun in Europe from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was imported from Iran via the Ottoman markets. For the Eurasian silk trade, the armenian suburb of New Julfa was the hub and controlled a vast commercial network covering half the world, from Amsterdam to the Philippines. Silk was exchanged for Europe's imported American silver. Iran was entirely dependent on these Armenian silver imports reaped from the silk trade. The cash brought in by the silk trade was used for Iran's state building and centralization in the seventeenth century. Studying this trade as well as the administration which organized it, brings to light, for the very first time, the political economy of Safavid Iran.

The Shah's Silk for Europe's Silver: The Eurasian Trade of the Julfa Armenians in Safavid Iran and India, (1530-1750) (University of Pennsylvania Armenian Texts and Studies)

Business & Money

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe

International

This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-19 6) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new field was through collaboration among corporations, universities, and the federal government. Morris concludes that, in fact, the effort was ultimately a failure and that vigorous competition proves the best way to stimulate innovation. Government programs, like the rubber research program, are far better at improving existing products, the author contends, than creating wholly new ones.

The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program (Anniversary Collection)

Science & Math

Peter J T Morris

Chemistry

Learning to Die in London, 1380-1540 (The Middle Ages Series)

Northrup, Herbert R.

Human documents: Tom Philips's art of the page : an exhibition selected from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Traister, Daniel

The Great Medical Bibliographers: A Study in Humanism.

Fulton, John F.

11-35-39083-5

DICKENS., CHARLES

Resources for South Asian Language Studies in the United States

Brown, W. Norman

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