Stanford University: 1318 books
The Kurillian Knot
A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading authority on Japanese-Russian diplomatic history, was trained at the Russian Institute of Columbia University....
Reconstructing Bodies
Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure...
Rise of the Red Engineers
The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated...
After the Revolution
Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow...
The Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues...
Gaining Freedoms
Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization....
Robinson Jeffers
Poet and Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands, and rocky inlets of the California coast come alive in the poetry of John Robinson Jeffers, an icon of the environmental movement. In this concise and accessible biography, Jeffers scholar James Karman reveals deep insights into this passionate and complex...
The Size of Others' Burdens
Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors in times of crisis. The tension between these competing values is evident, and how we balance between...
Teach for Arabia
American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion dollar investment over the last two...
by Robert Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization. From the initial success of "yield management" in the commercial airline industry down to more recent successes of markdown management and dynamic pricing, the application...
The Sun Never Sets
Reflections on a Western Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Sun Never Sets tells the extraordinary story of L.W. "Bill" Lane, Jr., longtime publisher of Sunset magazine, pioneering environmentalist, and U.S. ambassador. Written with Stanford historian Bertrand Patenaude, this fascinating memoir traces Sunset's profound impact on a new generation...
Little Did I Know
Excerpts from Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name. Cavell recounts his journey from early childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, through musical studies at...
Reading Colonial Japan
Text, Context, and Critique
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. The massive extraction of resources and extensive cultural assimilation policies radically impacted...
The American Yawp
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass
The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create...