Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Reconstructing Bodies
Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure...
Rise of the Red Engineers
The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated...
After the Revolution
Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow...
Gaining Freedoms
Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization....
Robinson Jeffers
Poet and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals deep insights into this passionate and complex...
The Size of Others' Burdens
Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors in times of crisis. The tension between these competing values is evident, and how we balance between...
Teach for Arabia
American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion dollar investment over the last two...
by Charlotte Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry Kaplan. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease explores the life of this multifaceted, internationally...
Sephardi Lives
A Documentary History, 1700–1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine....
The Illustration of the Master
Henry James and the Magazine Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. The book re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive growth of the magazine industry...
Fumo
Italy's Love Affair with the Cigarette
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history. Starting around 1900, the new and popular cigarette spread down the social hierarchy and eventually,...
On the Edge of the Global
Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"—and...
by Susan Wells
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning...