Upenn Press is having “a sale on their website”:http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/complete/anthropology.html advertising “20%-90% off” their stock. This is not very exciting, actually — it means buying directly from them is now only one dollar more expensive than buying from Amazon.com. However, there are some deals on some cloth editions of books that really aren’t available used and whose future in paper is (I’m guessing) uncertain. So if you want to purchase “Masking Terror”:http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13845.html at half price, or save ten bucks on “The Jewish Enlightenment”:http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13962.html or “Women as Unseen Characters in Female Initiation in New Guinea”:http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14011.html or “Beach Crossings”:http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14101.html then now is your chance. In general, I think browsing through press catalogs makes your brain stronger and your knowledge of the literature wider.

Disclaimer: I don’t work for UPenn and receive no money or consideration from them for this plug. I’m not advertising anything. I just thought SM readers might want to snatch up some cloth editions on the cheap.