Stanford University: 1318 books
Uneasy Partnerships
China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Uneasy Partnerships presents the analysis and insights of practitioners and scholars who have shaped and examined China's interactions with key Northeast Asian partners. Using the same empirical approach employed in the companion volume, The New Great Game (Stanford, 2016), this new text analyzes...
Global Citizenship and the University
Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
With the increasing integration of global economies and societies, the nation-state is no longer the sole force shaping and defining citizenship. New ideas of "global citizenship" are emerging, and universities, which are increasingly involved in international engagements, provide a unique...
The Clear Mirror
A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
The Clear Mirror (Masukagami) is an account of Japanese history from 1185 to 1333 by an anonymous author, almost certainly a court noble writing around the third quarter of the fourteenth century. During this time, the military government at Kamakura controlled the country, maintaining the emperor...
by Charlotte Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry Kaplan. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease explores the life of this multifaceted, internationally...
Eating Grass
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first...
The Fountain of Knowledge
The Role of Universities in Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Today, universities around the world find themselves going beyond the traditional roles of research and teaching to drive the development of local economies through collaborations with industry. At a time when regions with universities are seeking best practices among their peers, Shiri M. Breznitz...
Camp Sites
Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site...
Fragile Elite
The Dilemmas of China's Top University Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most prestigious universities?...
Public Universities and Regional Growth
Insights from the University of California
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology,...
Science and Conscience
The Life of James Franck
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
James Franck (1882–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most respected scientists, known both for his contributions to physics and for his moral courage. During the 1920s, Franck was a prominent figure in the German physics community. His research into the structure of the atom earned him the...
A Society of Young Women
Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society...
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain
The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society...
Post-Postmodernism
or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this...
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most widely available collection of videotaped...