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Paperback. In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSK; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758475
ISBN
9780804758475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Paperback. This book is an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct notions of home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations-Panama, China/Taiwan, and the United States. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 figures, 1 illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCP; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804758468
ISBN
9780804758468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. Covers an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which refashioned itself in the 1980s into a powerful defender of citizen rights in environmental protection, as well as in other areas of public interest such as disability rights, consumer protection, and anticorruption. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 tables, 5 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758239
ISBN
9780804758239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.95

paperback. 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 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804758222
ISBN
9780804758222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Presents a comprehensive history of California's pioneering efforts to create a high-quality system of public higher education. This work traces the social, political, and economic forces that established and funded a uniquely tiered, and geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California. Num Pages: 480 pages, 26 illustrations, 20 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJ; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757539
ISBN
9780804757539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Paperback. A study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon H.; Johnson, Mark; Karlstrom, Paul J. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 576 pages, 435 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; ACX; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757522
ISBN
9780804757522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 41.93

Hardback. A study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian Ancestry active in the United States before 1970. It recovers the impressive artistic production of numerous Asian Americans, and offers informed interpretations of a long-neglected art history. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon H.; Johnson, Mark; Karlstrom, Paul J. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 576 pages, 435 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV; ACX; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2835.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757515
ISBN
9780804757515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.44

Hardback. Reading Rio de Janeiro is an experiment in literary and social history, which combines literary analysis and the tools of close and distant reading with quantitative evidence from archival sources in order to reveal new insights regarding the integration of individuals into a complex and changing society. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757447
ISBN
9780804757447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.57

Paperback. An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFSL9; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757348
ISBN
9780804757348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; HBTB; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757041
ISBN
9780804757041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.00

Paperback. 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 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756631
ISBN
9780804756631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. Using the Mexico of the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a test case, this book provides both a theory and methodology for the study of policy credibility in dictatorships. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 22 tables, 24 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756617
ISBN
9780804756617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.27

Paperback. Reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804756587
ISBN
9780804756587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Paperback. 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 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756389
ISBN
9780804756389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. All in the Family demonstrates how policymakers employ family across a host of policy areas to achieve their "non-family" goals and the consequences this has for policy stability over time. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 tables, 18 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804756099
ISBN
9780804756099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Hardback. The CIA and the Culture of Failure follows the CIA through a series of crises from the Soviet collapse to the war in Iraq and explains the political pressures that helped lead to the greatest failures in U.S. intelligence history. Num Pages: 552 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 864.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804756013
ISBN
9780804756013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.25

paperback. The first in-depth analysis of how an entire educational system delivers higher student achievement. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755986
ISBN
9780804755986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Hardback. The first in-depth analysis of how an entire educational system delivers higher student achievement. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
23rd Edition
SKU
V9780804755979
ISBN
9780804755979
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.36

Paperback. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of democratic participation among first- and second-generation immigrants in the United States. Num Pages: 240 pages, 30 tables, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804755924
ISBN
9780804755924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.28

Paperback. The authors in this edited volume examine the political economy of the history of Congress by showing how changes in Congressional practices and institutions are related to key economic and political events. Editor(s): Brady, David W.; McCubbins, Mathew D. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 536 pages, 7 tables, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHC; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804755917
ISBN
9780804755917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.88

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