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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
€ 114.59
€ 114.59
Hardback. Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his political, philosophical, and technical diagnoses of contemporary life. Translator(s): Barison, David. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758680
- ISBN
- 9780804758680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.44
€ 107.44
Hardback. Comparing the politics of Judaism and Islam, this book demonstrates that common religious political party characteristics in Israel and Turkey can be as striking as their differences. Num Pages: 432 pages, 13 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; GTB; HR; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758642
- ISBN
- 9780804758642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.02
€ 63.02
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758611
- ISBN
- 9780804758611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.63
€ 30.63
Hardback. Through the pioneering work of Duchenne de Boulogne, Franois Delaporte provides a remarkable philosophical and historical examination of expressive physiology during the mid-19th century, and considers the science of emotion as a means of revealing inner life-thoughts, feelings-upon the surface of the face. Editor(s): Meyers, Todd. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 table, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JFCX; MFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758505
- ISBN
- 9780804758505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.60
€ 119.60
Hardback. This is the definitive book on Russo-Japanese relations by the leading authority on the topic. Translator(s): Eley, Mark. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FPJ; GTB; HBJF; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758352
- ISBN
- 9780804758352
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.71
€ 76.71
Hardback. In Silencing the Demon's Advocate, Rubin presents an interpretation of Descartes' Meditations that avoids many of the standard objections to Descartes' reasoning. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758161
- ISBN
- 9780804758161
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.21
€ 81.21
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
€ 92.65
€ 92.65
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
€ 103.84
€ 103.84
Hardback. This collection of revisionist essays charts the evolving political, psychological, and sexual identity of the English Puritan writer John Bunyan in light of the traumatic impact of regicide on seventeenth-century England. Editor(s): Camden, Vera J. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757850
- ISBN
- 9780804757850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.60
€ 81.60
Hardback. This book provides a penetrating and original reconstruction of Hobbes's materialist accounts of self-consciousness, cognition, and agency and shows how such an account of subjectivity demands that we pursue peace in our ethical and political lives. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757478
- ISBN
- 9780804757478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.30
€ 114.30
Hardback. This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757010
- ISBN
- 9780804757010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.12
€ 113.12
Hardback. This book demonstrates the indispensability of the "scenic imagination" to human self-understanding by examining hypothetical scenes of origin in the writings of two dozen thinkers from Hobbes to the present day. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HPM; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757003
- ISBN
- 9780804757003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.86
€ 75.86
Hardback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: AB; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756679
- ISBN
- 9780804756679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.69
€ 108.69
Hardback. This collection of essays explores the conflictual history and future implications of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. Editor(s): MacDonald, Iain; Ziarek, Krzysztof. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756358
- ISBN
- 9780804756358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.10
€ 114.10
Hardback. This compelling historical ethnography explores how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced dramatic transformation in their lives following the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, and now grapple with the prospect of this resource's future depletion. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBXM; HBJF1; HBLW3; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756266
- ISBN
- 9780804756266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.03
€ 125.03
Hardback. Kleist is a famous misreader of Kant, but this study pitches the latter's principles against the more restricted scope of his own examples in order to develop an ethics and an account of the sublime in keeping with Kleist's literary works. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755870
- ISBN
- 9780804755870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.12
€ 81.12
Hardback. This book describes, in vivid detail, the history of the Japanese invasion and occupation and of different parts of China, from the viewpoints of scholars in China, Japan, and the West Editor(s): Lary, Diana; MacKinnon, Stephen R.; Vogel, Ezra F. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 tables, 1 figure, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804755092
- ISBN
- 9780804755092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.23
€ 104.23
Hardback. Ross argues that the thinking of Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy must be understood as ways of addressing the problem of presentation as framed by and inherited from Kant's Critique of Judgment. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754873
- ISBN
- 9780804754873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.73
€ 135.73
Hardback. Speaking of Freedom analyzes the development of ideas concerning freedom and politics in contemporary French thought from existentialism to deconstruction, in relation to several of the most prominent post-World War II revolutionary struggles and the liberation discourses they inspired. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF; HPS; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754651
- ISBN
- 9780804754651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.32
€ 81.32