Stanford University: 1318 books
Divine Variations
How Christian Thought Became Racial Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over the last three centuries, Terence Keel uncovers the persistent links between pre-modern Christian thought and contemporary scientific perceptions of human...
Phonopoetics
The Making of Early Literary Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Phonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded,...
Global Data Shock
Strategic Ambiguity, Deception, and Surprise in an Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Intelligence and security communities have access to an overwhelming amount of information. More data is better in an information-hungry world, but too much data paralyzes individual and institutional abilities to process and use information effectively. Robert Mandel calls this phenomenon "global...
Shakesplish
How We Read Shakespeare's Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language has...
The Truth of the Technological World
Essays on the Genealogy of Presence
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) combined the study of literature, cinema, technology, and philosophy in a manner sufficiently novel to be recognized as a new field of academic endeavor in his native Germany. "Media studies," as Kittler conceived it, meant reflecting on how books operate...
Being with the Dead
Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques...
by Paul J. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A sustained and systematic theological reflection on the idea that being a Christian is, first and last, a matter of the flesh, Christian Flesh shows us what being a Christian means for fleshly existence. Depicting and analyzing what the Christian tradition has to say about the flesh of Christians...
by Jan Mieszkowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle...
Managing Multiculturalism
Indigeneity and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short of extraordinary. In Managing Multiculturalism, Jean E. Jackson examines...
Freedom from Work
Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal...
Dangerous Leaders
How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. When we look closer at one profession from which we often...
Scythe and the City
A Social History of Death in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own...
Contraceptive Diplomacy
Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond...
Forgotten Disease
Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; and foot qi became beriberi. Historians have tended to present these...