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Hardback. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804760775
- ISBN
- 9780804760775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.04
€ 141.04
Paperback. Producing more effective governance is the greatest challenge that faces most Latin American democracies - a challenge that involves not only strengthening democratic institutions but also increasing governmental effectiveness. This book addresses why some policies and some countries have been more successful than others in meeting this challenge. Editor(s): Mainwaring, Scott; Scully, Timothy R. Num Pages: 440 pages, 37 tables, 31 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPR; 3JM; JFSL4; JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804760850
- ISBN
- 9780804760850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.57
€ 40.99
€ 36.57
Paperback. Focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, since the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population. This book sheds light on the history of shifting ties between Mexico and the US. Editor(s): Katzew, Ilona; Deans-Smith, Susan. Num Pages: 384 pages, 44 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804761413
- ISBN
- 9780804761413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
€ 37.99
€ 34.33
Hardback. From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762007
- ISBN
- 9780804762007
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.88
€ 81.88
Hardback. This volume examines how organizations advocating on behalf of youth maneuver between grassroots social movements pressing for reform and the established systems of power and authority to improve conditions for youth in urban communities. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKS; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762106
- ISBN
- 9780804762106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.22
€ 114.22
Hardback. The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. Editor(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Translator(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 tables, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762489
- ISBN
- 9780804762489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.20
€ 87.20
Hardback. This book examines the impact of the Revolution of 1905 on the nature and contours of community and self among Jews (and Poles) in Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the turn of the century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804763837
- ISBN
- 9780804763837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.86
€ 99.86
Hardback. This full, critical edition of the Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother uses women's experience to depict the emergence of Jewish modernity in Russia in the nineteenth century and comment upon the role of gender in shaping Jewish experience. Translator(s): Magnus, Shulamit S. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: BG; BM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768795
- ISBN
- 9780804768795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.31
€ 82.31
Hardback. Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism, Italy, and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768818
- ISBN
- 9780804768818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.69
€ 66.69
Paperback. Scholars and public intellectuals debate the significance of the term "Islamism" and ask what it means to apply this term to Islamic religion, tradition, and social conflict. Editor(s): Martin, Richard C.; Barzegar, Abbas. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804768863
- ISBN
- 9780804768863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.49
€ 29.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. Based on Islamist writings, political tracts, and interviews with Islamists, this book examines Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt from the perspective of Islamic conceptions of citizenship, and provides non-Muslim responses to those views. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HRAM2; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769068
- ISBN
- 9780804769068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.45
€ 30.99
€ 27.45
Hardback. For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns under British rule in the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769594
- ISBN
- 9780804769594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.94
€ 118.94
Paperback. Between Race and Reason engages the work of diverse intellectuals who challenge the university's past and present collusion with racism, violence, militarization, and war and seeks to re-imagine the academy as a uniquely privileged site for critique in the interests of today's urgent imperatives for peace and justice. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770484
- ISBN
- 9780804770484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Hardback. This book argues that the representation of Jews in European literature has little to do with actual, human Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 512 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770552
- ISBN
- 9780804770552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.93
€ 81.93
Hardback. "Timepass" is a vivid ethnography that illuminates the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to the underemployment they face. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804770736
- ISBN
- 9780804770736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.76
€ 108.76
Hardback. The chapters in this volume put a human face on aging issues, and consider multiple dimensions of the aging experience with a focus on Japan. Editor(s): Matsumoto, Yoshiko. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804771481
- ISBN
- 9780804771481
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.12
€ 129.12
Paperback. The chapters in this volume put a human face on aging issues, and consider multiple dimensions of the aging experience with a focus on Japan. Editor(s): Matsumoto, Yoshiko. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804771498
- ISBN
- 9780804771498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.83
€ 32.99
€ 29.83
Paperback. New Destination Dreaming examines how the rural South, as a "new destination" far from the traditional American immigrant urban gateways, affects Hispanic newcomers' patterns of economic, sociocultural, and political incorporation. Num Pages: 392 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804773089
- ISBN
- 9780804773089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
€ 30.99
€ 27.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773263
- ISBN
- 9780804773263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.78
€ 43.99
€ 38.78
Hardback. This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774765
- ISBN
- 9780804774765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.66
€ 93.66