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Society & culture: general

Paperback. 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: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763356
ISBN
9780804763356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. This comprehensive examination of the latest and most influential research on state-society relations in post-Mao China explains why three decades of capitalist economic growth have not led to increased public pressure for liberal democratic change. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSL3; JPH. 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
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769044
ISBN
9780804769044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.27

Paperback. Examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. This title includes essays that tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas, separatist movements, and threats of terrorism. Editor(s): Hsu, Roland. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFE; HBJD; HBTB; JFSL1; JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769471
ISBN
9780804769471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. A history of the modern sequential comic form from the late nineteenth century through today, focusing on the unique ways in which it tells stories and interacts with readers. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771474
ISBN
9780804771474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Examines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804772129
ISBN
9780804772129
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773010
ISBN
9780804773010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. Series: Innovation & Technology in the World Economy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFSG; KCM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775205
ISBN
9780804775205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.67

Paperback. This volume opens our eyes to a dynamic world of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Europe. Editor(s): Hess, Jonathan M.; Samuels, Maurice; Valman, Nadia. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775472
ISBN
9780804775472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

Paperback. This volume seeks to go beyond single-country area studies to draw together analyses of how globalization and neoliberalism are affecting youth and, as a result, their identities and their futures, in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Editor(s): Anagnost, Ann; Arai, Andrea; Ren, Hai. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFSP2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776189
ISBN
9780804776189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. Examining politics in a small Afghan town that managed to remain relatively peaceful in the years following the fall of the Taliban, this book calls examines how and when violence erupts and calls into question the international community's approach to developing stability in Afghanistan. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776721
ISBN
9780804776721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.10

Paperback. This book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBK; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777322
ISBN
9780804777322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.23

Paperback. Aspiring to Home explores South Asian immigrants as they create new ethnic identities through popular cultural works that bind together narratives of multicultural and postcolonial citizenship. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778008
ISBN
9780804778008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.62

Hardback. This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries. Editor(s): Gornick, Janet C.; Jantti, Markus. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 540 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: JFFJ; KCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 902.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778244
ISBN
9780804778244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.84

Hardback. In this book, Sabet explores how incentives in Mexican politics, organized crime, and a distrustful relationship between police and citizens have combined to prevent meaningful police reform in Mexico. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778657
ISBN
9780804778657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.46

Hardback. Uses Barack Obama's election and administration to illustrate the ways race combines with seemingly non-racial ideas to generate social meaning. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804780957
ISBN
9780804780957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.52

Hardback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781138
ISBN
9780804781138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.55

Paperback. Back Stories looks at the production of U.S. news during the second Intifada, highlighting the unrecognized and unexamined work of Palestinian journalists and its effects on Palestinian society and politics. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781411
ISBN
9780804781411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781459
ISBN
9780804781459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.05

Paperback. A rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783293
ISBN
9780804783293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.17

Hardback. Through a comparative ethnographic study of memory, spiritual cultural heritage, and attitudes towards state power in two villages in western Turkey, this book describes living and evolving Sunni Islam. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRHP; JFSF; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783309
ISBN
9780804783309
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.01

Hardback. The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784108
ISBN
9780804784108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.40

Hardback. This book offers a critical reassessment of the histories of colonialism, immigration, gender, the Algerian War, and the welfare state, by examining a network of services targeting Algerian migrants that brought together two of France's long-standing social engineering projects--the civilizing mission and the welfare state. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784214
ISBN
9780804784214
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.56

Paperback. Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book uses the subculture of camp to argue that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; JNMN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784412
ISBN
9780804784412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 35.64

Hardback. Examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JHBA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784528
ISBN
9780804784528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.24

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