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Hardback. Examining the only successful resistance by a university faculty to a loyalty oath during the McCarthy Era, this stirring historical account follows the stories of the men and women who risked their livelihoods in defense of academic freedom. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759229
- ISBN
- 9780804759229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 40.61
€ 48.99
€ 40.61
Hardback. Examines how immigrants acquire American ideas about race, both pre- and post-migration, in light of U.S. military presence and U.S. cultural dominance over their home country, drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations of Koreans in Seoul and Los Angeles. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JHMC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758864
- ISBN
- 9780804758864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.59
€ 145.59
Hardback. A provocative examination of the property tax revolt of the 1970s that explains why contemporary American politics is now consumed with conflicts over big tax cuts. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JH; JP; KFFD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758703
- ISBN
- 9780804758703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.36
€ 122.36
Hardback. Bleached Faith argues that the gravest threat to real faith in modern America comes from those who would water down religion in order to win the dubious honor of forcing it into public buildings and classrooms. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758611
- ISBN
- 9780804758611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.90
€ 29.90
Hardback. Remaking Citizenship explores the stories of low-income Latinas actively engaged in a new vision of feminist politics rooted in concerns as disparate as domestic violence, childrearing, women's self-esteem, and immigrant and workers' rights. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 figure, 7 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JFSJ1; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758215
- ISBN
- 9780804758215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardback. Judging Policy analyzes the causes and consequences of the increasingly prominent role courts are being asked to play in the public policy process in Latin America's largest nation, Brazil. Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JPQB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758116
- ISBN
- 9780804758116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.24
€ 87.24
Hardback. The Cultivation of Resentment examines the effects of the rights discourse of grass-roots conservative activists, focusing in particular on opposition to Indian treaty-rights. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPW; LBBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758093
- ISBN
- 9780804758093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
Hardback. This book is a history of the Mexican workers' revolution that took place within the larger Mexican revolution of 1910. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLW; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758062
- ISBN
- 9780804758062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.89
€ 98.89
hardcover. On February 10, 2007, Barack Obama stood before the Illinois capital building and announced his potentially historic presidential bid. The next day, he was in Iowa Falls, campaigning. He was far from the first - Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain and Mitt Romney were already swarming the Hawkeye State. Why Iowa? This book shows why. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford Law and Politics United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758031
- ISBN
- 9780804758031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.72
€ 46.72
Hardback. In the Shadow of Peron constitutes an innovative contribution to the historiography of populism in Latin America and of the Peronist movement in Argentina. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757928
- ISBN
- 9780804757928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.88
€ 110.88
Hardback. Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757911
- ISBN
- 9780804757911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.37
€ 193.37
Hardback. This book examines America's evolving strategy on the international security environment, and comprehensively analyzes how different strategies position states to compete in the present and future, manage risk, and prevail despite uncertainty. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757263
- ISBN
- 9780804757263
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.53
€ 145.53
Hardback. Bush v Gore brought to the public's attention the significance of election law and the United States Supreme Court's role in structuring the rules that govern how campaigns and elections function in America. This book examines the freedom of speech in the political process, or, the electoral speech law. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757249
- ISBN
- 9780804757249
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20
€ 88.20
hardcover. The first comprehensive examination of U.S. efforts to register and monitor individuals in response to real or perceived criminal threats. Series: Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKV; LAR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757102
- ISBN
- 9780804757102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756624
- ISBN
- 9780804756624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.93
€ 145.93
Hardback. This book explores the intersection of entertainment and technology, how companies have had difficulty at this intersection in the past and how they can get it right in the future. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNTC; KNTX; PDG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756600
- ISBN
- 9780804756600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.78
€ 34.99
€ 29.78
Hardback. Reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans. Num Pages: 344 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756570
- ISBN
- 9780804756570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.87
€ 128.87
Hardback. Beyond Maximus shows how field poetics influenced the construction of the public voices of five Black Mountain poets (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Ed Dorn) in order to explain their association in the 1950s and 60s as well as their break-up as a result of the political and poetic crises of the Vietnam War era. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756471
- ISBN
- 9780804756471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.65
€ 93.65
Hardback. This book explores human creativity to illustrate how the legal system can protect a wide variety of authors from attribution failures and other assaults to the intended messages of their works. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756433
- ISBN
- 9780804756433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.57
€ 133.57
Hardback. Argues that Southern California is an economic model for the United States and the world. This book examines numerous pillars of the region's growth, including dynamic entrepreneurship; the rapid growth of international trade; the harnessing and development of new technologies; and the evolution of the entertainment industry. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 table, 5 figures, 9 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GTB; KCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756259
- ISBN
- 9780804756259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.37
€ 41.99
€ 41.37