Stanford University Press
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The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas
$30.00 Read moreEvery Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 prov
- Author: Kiel, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 150363065X
- Language: English
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The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy
$25.00 Add to cartA rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke.
Having a “good” sense of humor generally means being able to take
- Author: Pérez, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1503632334
- Language: English
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The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume One
$65.00 Add to cartThe first two volumes of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, translated with commentary by Daniel C. Matt, cover more than half of the Zohar‘s commentary on the Book of Genesis (through Genesis 32:3). This i
- Series: Zohar: Pritzker Edition #1
- Author: Matt, Daniel C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: October 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0804747474
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
$30.00 Add to cartThe images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors-but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In t
- Author: Mahdavi, Pardis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0804772207
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Read moreA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program
$40.00 Add to cartNorth Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country–one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years–progress fro
- Author: Hecker, Siegfried S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634450
- Language: English
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
$35.00 Add to cartA provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.
When Indian leaders first took control of t
- Author: Mody, Ashoka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630056
- Language: English
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Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer
$28.00 Add to cartAny tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the
- Author: Kiskaddon, Dustin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1503635600
- Language: English
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Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa
$20.00 Read moreIn this gripping graphic novel, a Jewish journalist encounters an extension of the horrors of the Holocaust in North Africa.
In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Boum, Aomar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632911
- Language: English
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Who Wrote This?: How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing
$30.00 Add to cartWould you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter?
Today’s eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As
- Author: Baron, Naomi S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503633225
- Language: English
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How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School
$22.00 Add to cartEach year, over 40,000 new students enter America’s law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne M. Young was one of tho
- Author: Young, Kathryne M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 7, 2018
- ISBN10: 0804799768
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
$28.00 Read moreA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for December 2023
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated gr
- Author: Scheirer, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632881
- Language: English
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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
$24.00 Add to cartJustice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict’s most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation
- Author: Erakat, Noura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28, 2020
- ISBN10: 1503613577
- Language: English
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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
$35.00 Add to cartJustice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict’s most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation
- Author: Erakat, Noura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 23, 2019
- ISBN10: 0804798257
- Language: English
