Stanford Social Sciences

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...

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Jianglin LiNumber of pages: 576Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 235 x 45Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived ...

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

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...

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...

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. Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and E...

Reducere. The first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investme...

This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionBeirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: R. W. ConnellSexual politics--from economic equality to anti-gay violence--is a vast area of debate. This exceptional book ...

DescriptionIn the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, liberal outcry over ethnonationalist views promoted a vision of America as a...

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

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

Reducere. Scarcely any theoretical discourse has had greater impact on literary and cultural studies than psychoanalysis, and yet hardly any theoretical disc...

Reducere. STEM disciplines are believed to be founded on the idea of meritocracy; recognition earned by the value of the data, which is objective. Such disci...

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...

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

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

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Susan Gilson MillerNumber of pages: 248Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublication date: 2021Dim...

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

Reducere. Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Mo...

DescriptionPower and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes ho...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Asef BayatPrior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its...

In the 1890s, German feminists fighting for female higher education envied American women their small colleges. Yet by 1910, German women could stu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who...

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

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

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

Reducere. This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining th...

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...

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

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