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The Americas
The Puzzle of Unanimity. Consensus on the United States Supreme Court....
Corley, Pamela C.; Steigerwalt, Amy; Ward, Ar...
hardcover. The first comprehensive account of how the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court achieve consensus. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804784726
- ISBN
- 9780804784726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.33
€ 59.33
hardcover. Investigates the origins of two major federal agencies that touch the lives of Americans every day: the Roosevelt-era Federal Security Agency and the more recently created Department of Homeland Security to show how fights over the scope of national security can reshape the very structure of government. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804770699
- ISBN
- 9780804770699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.98
€ 137.98
hardcover. This book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of various racial doctrines within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763349
- ISBN
- 9780804763349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.98
€ 137.98
hardcover. Based on the author's 30+ years of studying and teaching about the U.S. health care system, Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System provides clear and comprehensive tools to improve our declining health care system. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 tables, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPQB; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761963
- ISBN
- 9780804761963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.10
€ 43.10
hardcover. Focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. This work moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, aiming to challenge readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761239
- ISBN
- 9780804761239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.56
€ 80.56
hardcover. Culture and Management in the Americas provides a different approach to enhance the effectiveness of management across cultures. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 tables, 11 figures, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 1KL; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804760140
- ISBN
- 9780804760140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.10
€ 43.10
hardcover. Local Liberalisms shows how early nineteenth-century Mexicans-be they indigenous villagers, government officials, or local elites-worked to incorporate the institutions of liberalism into their daily political lives, and how those local institutions interacted with a national liberal movement that often contradicted them. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757645
- ISBN
- 9780804757645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.35
€ 34.35
hardcover. This volume provides an in-depth history of Navy high-level decision making during the challenging initial decade of the Cold War. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1089.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 728
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756662
- ISBN
- 9780804756662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.54
€ 90.54
hardcover. Genealogical Fictions examines how the state, church, Inquisition, and other institutions in colonial Mexico used the Spanish notion of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) over time and how the concept's enduring religious, genealogical, and gendered meanings came to shape the region's patriotic and racial ideologies. Num Pages: 424 pages, 13 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756488
- ISBN
- 9780804756488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.96
€ 147.96
hardcover. An examination of why acceptance into America's most prestigious colleges remains beyond the reach of most students except those from high-income professional families. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 1. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756372
- ISBN
- 9780804756372
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.75
€ 111.75
hardcover. The first comprehensive study of the admission policies and practices at U.S. public universities, examining their "social contract" in light of contemporary debates over affirmative action, standardized testing, privatization, and the influences of globalization. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804755580
- ISBN
- 9780804755580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.75
€ 116.75
paperback. Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13 tables, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804753821
- ISBN
- 9780804753821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.45
€ 33.99
€ 30.45
hardcover. Brides of Christ is a study of professed nuns and life in the convents of colonial Mexico. Num Pages: 528 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HRLP7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 916. Weight in Grams: 821.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752831
- ISBN
- 9780804752831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.54
€ 85.54
hardcover. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how participants in the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL; JHBL; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752152
- ISBN
- 9780804752152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.56
€ 75.56
hardcover. This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751476
- ISBN
- 9780804751476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.56
€ 75.56
hardcover. Presents a collection of essays that converges around the usually close and intense relationship between Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, two of the most important and remarkable American poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the issues that drew Levertov and Duncan together, and split them apart. Editor(s): Gelpi, Albert; Bertholf, Robert J. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751308
- ISBN
- 9780804751308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.75
€ 116.75
hardcover. Five Faces of Exile is the first transnational history of Asian American intellectuals. Espiritu explores five Filipino American writers whose travels, literary works, and political reflections transcend the boundaries of nations and the categories of "Asia" and "America." Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JFSC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751209
- ISBN
- 9780804751209
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.74
€ 126.74
hardcover. Examines the impact economic integration has on the environment, using Mexico, as it transformed itself from one of the most closed economies to one of the world's most open, as a case study. As new nations join the Free Trade Area of the Americas or the World Trade Organization, they are considering the path taken by Mexico nearly 20 years ago. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 tables, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; KCLT; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804750653
- ISBN
- 9780804750653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.77
€ 106.77
hardcover. Drawing on data sets and applying the theoretical tools of both sociology and economics, this book examines the substantive issues, challenges, and problems confronting the diverse and in many ways fragile book publishing industry in the United States, and presents the social and economic analysis of its state and future trends. Num Pages: 280 pages, 87 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 184 x 21. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804750318
- ISBN
- 9780804750318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.54
€ 85.54
hardcover. Much energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules to defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents alternative proposals. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 figures, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNTX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804750134
- ISBN
- 9780804750134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.77
€ 101.77