Stanford University: 1318 books
At the Chef's Table
Culinary Creativity in Elite Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book explores the question of how and why chefs make choices about the dishes they put on their menus. It answers this question...
On the Edge of the Global
Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"—and...
Taiwan’s China Dilemma
Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
China and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an improved political relationship, let alone progress toward the...
Modern Migrations
Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized...
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory
Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim...
Breaking the WTO
How Emerging Powers Disrupted the Neoliberal Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
The world economic order has been upended by the rise of the BRIC nations and the attendant decline of the United States' international influence. In Breaking the WTO, Kristen Hopewell provides a groundbreaking analysis of how these power shifts have played out in one of the most important theaters...
Controlling Immigration
A Global Perspective, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The third edition of this major work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of a selection of major countries, including the U.S., to deal with immigration and immigrant issues— paying particular attention to the ever-widening gap between their migration policy goals and outcomes....
The New Labour Experiment
Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed...
Income Inequality
Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention...
The New Great Game
China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this, previous coverage portrays events as determined almost entirely by Beijing. Such accounts minimize or ignore the other side of the equation: namely, what individuals, corporate actors,...
Continuity Despite Change
The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin America's labor laws remain both rigidly protective and remarkably diverse. Continuity Despite Change...
Public No More
A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Public No More examines the quickly changing environment within higher education, including the permanent decline in state support for public universities. This book raises the question of how research universities can survive with reduced subsidies and increased competition from both non-profit and...
Capital and Time
For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and...