Stanford University Press: 1317 books
A Place in the Sun
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
More than personal memoir, Donald Kennedy's story is not only a chronicle of watershed years in the history of Stanford University, but also a reflection on academia's perennial concerns. The story builds from his childhood and family in New England through mentors at Harvard to reflections on his...
The Chinese and the Iron Road
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The 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 country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out West, and...
Stanford in Turmoil
Campus Unrest, 1966-1972
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Stanford in Turmoil is a rare insider's look at one school's experience of dramatic political unrest during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It provides a unique perspective on the events that roiled the campus during this period—a period in which the author, Richard Lyman, served as the university's...
Transforming Comparative Education
Fifty Years of Theory Building at Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Over the past fifty years, new theoretical approaches to comparative and international education have transformed it as an academic field. We know that fields of research are often shaped by "collectives" of researchers and students converging at auspicious times throughout history. Part...
Leading Matters
Lessons from My Journey
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In Leading Matters, current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," John L. Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated...
Historic Spots in California
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2002
The only complete guide to the historical landmarks of California, this standard work has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The edition is enriched by some 200 photographs, most of which were taken by the reviser and all of which are new to this edition.
Since the last revision in 1990,...
Between Race and Reason
Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues...
Circuits of Faith
Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an understanding of Islam in line with the core...
by Rodney Fort, Jason Winfree
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust a couple of the most widespread urban legends about professional athletics. Exploring the claim that player salary demands increase ticket prices and asking whether Major League Baseball...
A Practical Education
Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and...
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...
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...
Lianda
A Chinese University in War and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing’s two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education....
University Expansion in a Changing Global Economy
Triumph of the BRICs?
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
This is a study of higher education in the world's four largest developing economies—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Already important players globally, by mid-century, they are likely to be economic powerhouses. But whether they reach that level of development will depend in part on how successfully...