Stanford Social Sciences

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Contributor(s): Author: Byung-Chul HanOur competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than impr...

Reducere. Helping applicants navigate the intricate yet vitally important essay process at elite schools such as Stanford -- a university that enrolls studen...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith J. BybeeIs civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to p...

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Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams...

A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan wi...

DescriptionThe international refugee regime is fundamentally broken. Designed in the wake of World War II to provide protection and assistance, the...

DescriptionCreation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues ...

Reducere. Business failure is not limited to start ups. Industry Watch (published by BDO Stoy Hayward, an accounting firm) 'predicts that 17, 043 businesses ...

Reducere. Each year, over 40, 000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue,...

Reducere. What does the admissions office at the most selective university in the world REALLY look for in an applicant?That's the question all our contribut...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Leo R. ChavezBirthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a ...

Reducere. This book argues that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa must invest in the productivity of ordinary citizens to avoid or escape the mi...

Reducere. A global pandemic opens our eyes to the power the Biomedical Empire has become in our lives.About author(s): Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of S...

Reducere. Winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize, this work spins a heartfelt story of an improbable relationship between an anthropologist and...

Reducere. Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelit...

Reducere. U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: H. L. a. HartThis incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, ...

These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possi...

A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against the dangers of incommensurability, Marcel Detienne's book argues for and engages in the con...

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ours...

DescriptionThis new edition of a well-regarded book provides a concise and exceptionally clear introduction to Habermas's work, from his early writ...

Reducere. "I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stori...

Reducere. A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence. Th...

DescriptionIn the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself ...

Reducere. A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno'...

Reducere. A valuable resource and stirring call to action for anyone interested in antiracist perspectives on policy and scholarship.About author(s): Stephen...

Reducere. The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Robert VitalisNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 17Cover type: Paperb...

The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing internationa...

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barrie...

DescriptionRadical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, ther...

Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contempo...

Until recently, Chinese children ate what their parents fed them and were not permitted to influence, much less dictate, their own diet. The situat...

The book explains why some Third World states have centralized, conventional military forces while others rely on militias, paramilitaries, and oth...

Taking two narrative genres that are generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife-the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film...

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon ...

Reducere. Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and w...

Unfree is a book not about domestic work, but unfreedom and the experience of unfreedom in the 21st century.Publisher: Stanford University PressAut...

Reducere. A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and cr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Akiko TakeyamaIn the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by sellin...

Contributor(s): Author: Lihong ShiChina's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within fam...

Reducere. New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of glob...

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen in...

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal h...

DescriptionDivine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowl...

A distinguished international group of scholars traces the history of the social sciences, describes the recent debates surrounding them, and discu...

DescriptionOnce seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe...

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A searing critique of our contemporary policy agenda, and a call to implement radical change. Although it is well known that the United States has ...

Reducere. DescriptionDesigned for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominan...

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

Reducere. Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifi...

Reducere. Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United Stat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Walter J. NichollsOn May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain. Across th...

Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights...

Contributor(s): Author: Orkideh BehrouzanProzak Diaries is an analysis of emerging psychiatric discourses in post-1980s Iran. It examines a cultura...

Reducere. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in Ch...

Based on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual a...

Reducere. Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These event...

Investment in homeownership meant dispossession, so immigrants fought back.

My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph DardaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21C...

Reducere. Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...

Reducere. In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a cri...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's...

Reducere. Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Advocates within the human rights movement have had remarkable success establishing new international laws, securing concrete changes in human righ...