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Hardback. Series: Schocken paperbacks on Judaica. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 874.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Schocken Books United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780805242430
ISBN
9780805242430
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Schocken Books United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780805211771
ISBN
9780805211771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.29

Hardback. This ethnographic account invites readers to consider a fascinating case of globalized labor -- a Korean-owned and managed factory in China, operated by Chinese laborers, where the clash of cultures, traditions, and classes threatens both productivity and peace on the factory floor. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPK; GTF; JFFS; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784542
ISBN
9780804784542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.22

Hardback. "Birth in the Age of AIDS" is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences and struggles of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFH2; JHBF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804784221
ISBN
9780804784221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.77

Hardback. In History's Grip is a study of three novels by Philip Roth--American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain--showing that they are built upon the notion of history as disruptive for individuals, cities, and nations and exploring their place in Roth's career. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781824
ISBN
9780804781824
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.72

Hardback. This book examines how Asian American fiction reveals with the limitations of identity while continuing to rely on its theoretical logic as the basis of oppositional knowledge and political practices. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778701
ISBN
9780804778701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.10

Hardback. 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: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777995
ISBN
9780804777995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.94

Hardback. Working alongside migrant Filipina hostesses in Japan, Parrenas investigates the impact of being labeled as trafficked victims and explores what governments should do to improve the lives of global migrants. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFFN; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777117
ISBN
9780804777117
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.81

Hardback. This book reveals how a California city's civil rights struggles and racialized local politics were dramatically affected by the city's relationship with the military, and speaks to debates on American urban development, race relations, and civilian/military relationships throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL1; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 597.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804776981
ISBN
9780804776981
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.17

Hardback. This book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 583.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775410
ISBN
9780804775410
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.23

Hardback. This work examines how Indian and Vietnamese immigrants in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth area of Texas learn and practice civic engagement. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775281
ISBN
9780804775281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.65

Hardback. This book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773171
ISBN
9780804773171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.63

Hardback. 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 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804773072
ISBN
9780804773072
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.60

Hardback. Explains migration patterns through different kinds of social networks and relations, with a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and London. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 tables, 4 figures, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804772228
ISBN
9780804772228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.83

Hardback. To Go Green Is Glorious examines the impact of foreign investors, and the competition to attract them, on China's environmental regulation. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 tables, 16 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771535
ISBN
9780804771535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.13

Hardback. This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804771443
ISBN
9780804771443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.67

Hardback. Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 tables, 3 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JFFK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770712
ISBN
9780804770712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.77

Hardback. Literary Passports is the first book to explore Hebrew modernist fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2CSJ; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770644
ISBN
9780804770644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.90

Hardback. 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 585. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770477
ISBN
9780804770477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.74

Hardback. Editor(s): Varsanyi, Monica. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804770262
ISBN
9780804770262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.08

Hardback. Stones of Hope shows how African human rights activists have opened new possibilities for justice in the everyday lives of the world's most impoverished peoples. Editor(s): White, Lucie E.; Perelman, Jeremy. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFFA; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769198
ISBN
9780804769198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.62

Hardback. 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 15. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804769037
ISBN
9780804769037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

Hardback. Male Confessions demonstrates that men are able to talk about themselves intimately and shows how the religious imagination helps them to do so while critically examining the limits of such intimate male talk. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLM7; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768993
ISBN
9780804768993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.91

Hardback. 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 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768856
ISBN
9780804768856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.32

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