Stanford Social Sciences

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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...

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

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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...

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

Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolution...

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

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...

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. AwardsNational Book Critics Circle AwardDescriptionThe illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar a...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardTranslator: Jane KuntzNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublic...

Reducere. In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher conf...

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublication date: 2021Dimens...

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security argues that Japanese public opinion matters and has acted to prevent overseas military deployments ...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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): Hanan HammadNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 22Cover type: Paperbac...

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...

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

Reducere. Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns condu...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Winifred TateIn 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, ...

DescriptionTeach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Ed...

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

The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres and Corruption reveals the long hist...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jean E. JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 27Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. This book argues that Japan's extremely low fertility rate is due to labor markets inhospitable to women, which make it difficult for them to balan...

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca L. SteinNumber of pages: 248Collection: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Socie...

DescriptionSoqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural Wo...

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

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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...

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

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...

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

Using newly collected data from American and Korean newspapers, this book examines relations between the United States and South Korea from 1992 to...

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...

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--b...

Reducere. Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media and policy debates, various accusations and criti...

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

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...

Reducere. DescriptionBorders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America--the impact of immigration polic...

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

In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increas...

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

Reducere. Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine...

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...

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

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

Investment in homeownership meant dispossession, so immigrants fought back.

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

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

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

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