Stanford University Press
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Daughter of History: Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood
$26.00 Read moreA photograph with faint writing on the back. A traveling chess set. A silver pin. In her new memoir, noted scholar and author Susan Rubin Suleiman uses such everyday objects and the memories they evok
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Suleiman, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634817
- Language: English
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Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises
$28.00 Add to cartA clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.
Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutan
- Author: Blake, Jonathan S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1503637859
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
$26.00 Add to cartA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs’ grip on Europe’s historical and cultural imagination.
In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into e
- Author: Wolff, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635643
- Language: English
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Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
$28.00 Add to cartNancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond–and do better.
Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by po
- Author: Leong, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1503610136
- Language: English
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The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Seven
$65.00 Add to cartSefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dime
- Series: Zohar: Pritzker Edition #7
- Author: Matt, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0804783055
- Language: English
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Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartHow extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change.
Recent years have seen out
- Author: Darian-Smith, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1503631087
- Language: English
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The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Six
$65.00 Add to cartSefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this ma
- Series: Zohar: Pritzker Edition #6
- Author: Matt, Daniel C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: October 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0804776636
- Language: English
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Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
$28.00 Add to cartLessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations
When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the firs
- Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
- Author: Camarillo, Albert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1503638197
- Language: English
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto
$45.00 Add to cartWhat we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, auth
- Author: Wang, Ge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1503600521
- Language: English
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Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question
$30.00 Add to cartA philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why?
- Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
- Author: Huneman, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1503628906
- Language: English
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bo
- Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804733260
- Language: English
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The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics
$30.00 Read moreIn recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years’ worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media app after another.
- Author: Serazio, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635481
- Language: English
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Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice
$20.00 Add to cartBorn into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability t
- Author: Freeman, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1503628965
- Language: English
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A Guide to the Zohar
$20.00 Add to cartThe Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, conceal
- Series: Zohar: Pritzker Edition
- Author: Green, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0804749086
- Language: English
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In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of
- Author: Taubman, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1503631125
- Language: English
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The Zohar: Volume 2
$65.00 Add to cartSefer ha-Zohar, “The Book of Radiance,” has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique Aramaic, t
- Series: Zohar #2
- Author: Matt, Daniel C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: December 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0804748683
- Language: English
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The Cult of the Constitution
$20.00 Add to cartIn this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fun
- Author: Franks, Mary Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1503614980
- Language: English
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartA new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A
- Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1503627470
- Language: English
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In the Nation’s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz
$20.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of
- Author: Taubman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1503638162
- Language: English
