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Society & culture: general

Hardback. Focusing upon centers of British and French colonial rule in Asia this book examines the emergence of childhood and youth as a central historical force in the global history of empire in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804795173
ISBN
9780804795173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.88

Hardback. This book examines the beliefs of law enforcement officers who support the use of torture and the implications of these beliefs for officers' responses to human rights activism and education. Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKSW1; JKVP; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804794718
ISBN
9780804794718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.47

Hardback. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBL; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804792899
ISBN
9780804792899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.01

Hardback. Making Moderate Islam reveals the assumptions about race and gender, as well as the political and economic pressures that, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, have structured demands for religious minorities' "moderation" in the United States. Series: Racereligion. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFSL1; JFSR2; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804791281
ISBN
9780804791281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804791243
ISBN
9780804791243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804790826
ISBN
9780804790826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.98

Paperback. This book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ5; LNDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804790512
ISBN
9780804790512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Paperback. Making the Chinese Mexican presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlandsduring the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804788625
ISBN
9780804788625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Hardback. Taking two narrative genres that are generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife--the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film--this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804784207
ISBN
9780804784207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.74

Paperback. We all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JFFZ; WNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804783583
ISBN
9780804783583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. Directly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, The Latino Threat challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, but about participation in society. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783521
ISBN
9780804783521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Hardback. The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessmentby attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetryof major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation. " Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804782951
ISBN
9780804782951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.06

Hardback. The book explores the Christian interest in and engagement with the Yiddish language and literature in early modern Germany (ca. 1500--1750). Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804781930
ISBN
9780804781930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.88

Paperback. This book chronicles the demise of the so-called leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804781503
ISBN
9780804781503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.30

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 916. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804781442
ISBN
9780804781442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.75

Paperback. 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, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 534. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804780964
ISBN
9780804780964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Paperback. This book examines how Indian American motel owners have created a successful immigrant business niche, yet still suffer significant social and cultural inequalities. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804778831
ISBN
9780804778831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the use of crime and punishment as a way to manage undocumented immigration in the United States. Editor(s): Dowling, Julie A.; Inda, Jonathan Xavier. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 15. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804778817
ISBN
9780804778817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.44

Paperback. Investigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778794
ISBN
9780804778794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.27

Hardback. A pioneering biography of Nathan Birnbaum, one of the central but largely forgotten founders of Zionism, leader in Jewish nationalism, and theoretician of Orthodox political activism. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804778732
ISBN
9780804778732
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.61

Hardback. This book is a comparative study of the different distributional and poverty outcomes in South Korea, Chile, and Mexico. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804778251
ISBN
9780804778251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804777988
ISBN
9780804777988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America. Editor(s): Porter, Katherine. Series: Studies in Social Inequality. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804777018
ISBN
9780804777018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 31.45

Paperback. 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 23. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804776998
ISBN
9780804776998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.17

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