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Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, new from Penn Press. Geltner's book provides a critical...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures enacted to combat its spread have upended our lives in countless ways. For authors publishing scholarly books this spring (and quite possibly beyond), a pressing question has emerged: how on earth am...

Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa. Drawing on extended...

We're thrilled to announce our 2020 Spring Sale! With most academic conferences canceled, classes moved online, and retail options limited, we wanted to offer an easy and affordable way to buy our books. With Penn Press's SPRING SALE, U.S. customers...

Today we have a guest post from Sean P. Cunningham, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University. Here, he tells a story about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his teaching, and how Penn Press...

The podium placard has been the silent messenger of the daily Coronavirus briefings.

CSS lets you control how text selection behaves and appears on your pages.

As creative director, I find it important to continually evolve our look- it keeps us fresh and energized about design.

I've had to implement the same website header for several years now, so like a good lazy programmer, I figured I'd automate it.

Established in 1968, Esprit is a fashion brand that designs, manufactures, and retails clothing, footwear, accessories, jewelry, and even housewares.

You should be using SVG favicons. They're supported in all modern browsers right now.

With more and more sites gaining support for dark mode and adding very pretty toggles to their design, it's important to implement them correctly.

Rebranding does not happen overnight; it's a steep and long process to transform from one brand to the next.

Last year, the design gods decided that dark modes were the new hotness. "Light colors are for suckers", they laughed,.

How to use the right responsive grid and UI layout based on your design goals.

This case study is a personal project and the output is solely a work of my research and design.

Pentagram partner Giorgia Lupi takes a crack at redesigning the PowerPoints that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo features in his daily press briefings.

This is a music challenge, testing how well you recognize historic hits.

As I was going through rebuilding my blog, I spent a lot of time looking at other people's sites trying to get inspiration.

This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have a big impact on CSS layout.

Three gooey morphing hover effects using SVG filters for menu links based on a demo by Graham Pyne.

Let's embark on a journey. At the end of this journey, we'll have created a gauge component in React.js.

Edoardo Smerilli is a film director based in Bologna, Italy. As multidisciplinary director, he combine cinema, comics, VFX and CGI.

We're excited to announce that we are welcoming Creative Market into the Dribbble family.

When we embarked on creating our design system, we unearthed over 50 kinds of buttons and links and 100+ instances of style definitions for type.

Adapting an app’s design to another platform is crucial. But what exactly sets design for iOS and Android apart? Let’s see.

It is highly unlikely that you or I will ever be wealthy enough to acquire a piece of art from Damien Hirst.

See the winner of the contest to create the worst logo.

A collection of Slack communities for designers around the world.

So you've just written a blog post or tweet about why wireframes are becoming obsolete, the dangers of "too accessible" design.

At the beginning of every engagement, we spend a great deal of time learning about our client's culture, politics, products, tools, and workflows.

An unknown unknown is something you don't know you don't know. When you're just starting out with web development there are many unknown unknowns.

Weird and wonderful books judged on their covers and titles.

How to still do efficient user research, UI design and collaborate when you can’t use Figma, Invision and all the fancy new cloud design tools.

My thoughts, a demo and a request for you to add your own comments on the CSS WG thread.

My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children's sleep clinic to become a designer.

While good typefaces have families of carefully related styles, some of the best typography builds unexpected relationships between unrelated fonts.

Designer Cyril Diagne has developed an augmented reality app that can copy objects from the real world and paste them into a Photoshop document.

We studied 10,000 websites and found that their design has become more uniform over time.

I thought we (i.e. me) could use a break, so I made these abstract charts to represent the most popular quotes about hope on Goodreads.

Conversations happening around systems, processes, career advancement, and why our understanding of collaboration is flawed in a remote-first world.

CSS Comparison Functions become supported in Firefox on 8 April 2020, which means that they are now supported in all major browsers.

In another example of how the constraints of the pandemic are fostering creativity, artist Claire Salvo is creating edible versions of artworks.

Bordeaux has long symbolised the peak of prestige for French wine. Yet despite its outstanding reputation, the region has remained relatively closed to consumers, as forbidding as the highest château gates or the most tannic of its young wines. However, in this highly approachable, beautifully illustrated guide, Master of Wine James Lawther draws on his insider’s knowledge to open up Bordeaux.

He has identified the 90 producers with the finest wines and the most interesting stories to tell, taking us inside their châteaux and offering intimate portraits of both the properties and the people who shape this fascinating region. Lawther uses language but also over 100 original colour photographs; beautifully designed maps; flap page-markers and silk ribbon to weave these hidden stories.

Published in conjunction with The World of Fine Wine Magazine, current holder of the coveted Gourmand award for The World’s Best Wine Magazine, this guide, the third in the acclaimed Finest Wines series, from Hugh Johnson’s award-winning team, brings the region to life more vividly than ever before.

The Finest Wines of Bordeaux is authoritative, bang up-to-date, and full of actionable information making it required reading for all wine lovers and the perfect present!

James Lawther MW passed the Master of Wine examination in 1993. He has been based in Bordeaux for the past 15 years, making the region his speciality and tasting widely. He is a contributing editor of Decanter magazine, a contributor to The World of Fine Wine, and author of The Heart of Bordeaux.

The Finest Wines of Bordeaux is available to pre-order now on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finest-Wines-Bordeaux-James-Lawther/dp/1845136071/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284464612&sr=8-1

‘A bona fide football man…Whelan should be celebrated’ The Independent

Few figures in British business or sport have enjoyed Dave Whelan’s success. As a footballer he played in all four divisions. As a businessman he created one the country’s leading high street brands. And as chairman of Wigan Athletic he’s taken his club all the way from the Third Division to the Premiership.

Dave’s story is one of ambition, enterprise and tenacity – but also of a fierce loyalty. It begins in wartime Wigan with the Whelans’ desperate struggle to survive. Dave describes the terrifying wasp-like hum of the Luftwaffe; he remembers the deathly winter of 1942, peeing on his hands to stop his fingers from freezing; admits how hunger drove ordinary families to lie, cheat and steal; and relives a remarkable reunion with the father he’d never known – a returning soldier.

In peacetime a boyhood love affair with football leads him to sign with Blackburn Rovers and when national service calls he joins the Army football team, becoming close friends with ‘Busby Babes’ Bobby Charlton and Duncan Edwards.

Then, a vicious tackle in the 1960 FA Cup final spells the twilight of his playing career – but a new dawn in business. Starting as a market trader, he breaks the mould from day one: taking on Boots single-handedly in the Appeal Court; negotiating the sale of his supermarket chain to Ken Morrison – whilst stood at a urinal; and transforming a single tackle shop in Wigan into JJB Sports, the UK’s biggest sports retailer and a £1 billion PLC.

In 1995 he used his personal fortune to buy struggling, hometown Wigan Athletic, vowing to take the Latics all the way to the Premier League. At the time he was ridiculed, but ten years later, on the final day of the Championship, Dave watched, ecstatic, as his club beat Reading 3-1 to finally secure their place.

Sometimes tragic, frequently controversial and always heartfelt, Playing to Win lifts the lid on a life lived on the pitch and in the boardroom and tells how a hungry kid from Wigan’s backstreets became a national success and a local hero. Whelan's story was a great success in hardback, turning him into a local hero and now with the new release in paperback, Playing to Win offers football fans and general readers another chance to catch this engaging read.

Dave Whelan was the founder of retailer JJB Sports and is the chairman of Wigan Athletic Football Club. All the author’s profits will go to the new Wigan Boys and Girls Club

Playing to Win is available to buy in paperback now in local bookstores and online via the following link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dave-Whelan-Playing-Win-Autobiography/dp/1845135792/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284559060&sr=8-2

The Making of The Empire Strikes Back
J.W. Rinzler
Foreword by Ridley Scott

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of arguably the greatest and most cherished of all the Star Wars films, the most important motion picture sequel of all-time, and a movie that changed pop culture forever: Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back.

J.W. Rinzler, author of the acclaimed The Making of Star Wars, once again uses his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm archives, and their treasure trove of never-before published photos, design sketches, paintings, production notes, interviews, anecdotes, and scripts, to take us back thirty years to relive the entire production process for one of the most anticipated movies ever produced- along the way unveiling stories as entertaining, enthralling and mind-boggling as the film itself.

As a longstanding member of the Lucasfilm staff, J.W. Rinzler has enjoyed unparalleled co-operation and support from the original moviemakers, including both George Lucas and veteran director Irvin Keshner. The result is a truly definitive account that is destined to become a must-have for all true Star Wars fans and serious cinephiles.

Johnathan Rinzler is a New York Times bestselling author and longtime editor at Lucasfilm Publishing.

“It’s not often we come across jobs we’re envious of, but JW Rinzler’s role as official chronicler of LucasArts films sends us into fits of jealousy. As with his Star Wars and Indiana Jones books, this is an immaculately presented trawl through the dustiest recesses of the Skywalker Ranch activities, packed with unseen concept art, on-set pictures and hours of interviews recorded in 1980 (but never used) that capture the uncertainty about the film that plagued the set. Unendingly fascinating.” The Shortlist


The Making of The Empire Strikes Back is available to buy online here.