Stanford Social Sciences

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

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

Publisher: Stanford University PressNumber of pages: 520Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 178 x 255 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Miguel PerezNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

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

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...

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...

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Matthew SpecterNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Sanjeev RoutrayNumber of pages: 368Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Michael SteinbergNumber of pages: 240Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 202...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Frida BeckmanNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 150 x 20Cover type: Paperba...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Raul PerezNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 18Cover type: Paperback ...

Reducere. The inclusive, flexible alternative to rigid traditional advice.About author(s): Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Univers...

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

Reducere. This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools that are most useful in advocacy and policy change evaluation....

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

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

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Michael R. JinNumber of pages: 248Collection: Asian AmericaPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 2...

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

This book is a detailed examination of a Chinese women's cult that confronts the dangers of pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood diseases.Publisher...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Hanan HammadNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 22Cover type: Paperbac...

This book is a definitive, comparative review of the transformation gap between the US and the other members of NATO, and amongst the established a...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Togzhan KassenovaNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 29Cover type: Har...

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

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jose Ciro MartinezNumber of pages: 368Collection: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Soc...

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

This book juxtaposes the long-standing hope of a group of dispossessed Fijians of regaining their ancestral land with the concept of hope in the ph...

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

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea co...

In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public servi...

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass...

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

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

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In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, a...

If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the 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...

Drawing on ten years of ethnographic data collected from multi-sited field research, Ling's book traces the journeys of dozens of second-generation...

This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning n...

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding natio...

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...

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunt...

Reducere. A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. Bread and Freedom offers a new acco...

This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-milita...

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This book traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of minority identity within Japan's Korean community through its examination of their l...

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

Reducere. The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and tho...

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

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. Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's...

While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertive...

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...

Investment in homeownership meant dispossession, so immigrants fought back.

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This book examines under what conditions peacebuilding can bring not only peace but also democracy to war-torn countries.

This is the first scholarly account of the causes of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978. Full of startling revelations from Soviet communi...

The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of th...

This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout ...

Wing Commander Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until taken prisoner in 1942. This work offers an extract facsimile of his flyin...

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of ...

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...