Books published by Stanford University Press

Memories of Absence explores the contemporary perceptions of Moroccan Jews in the minds of Moroccan Muslims.

This book teaches readers how to build a winning career by applying business strategy concepts. Bill Barnett provides a complete, step-by-step process that reader can implement, along with vivid accounts from others' career paths.

A study of policing and security practices in the Gaza Strip during the period of Egyptian rule (1948-67), Police Encounters explores the complicated effects on Gazans of an extensive security apparatus guided by intersecting concerns about national interest, social propriety, and everyday illegality.

The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired complex meaning over the course of its historical existence (and even beyond) for the peoples- Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews- who lived there and for the political culture of the Habsburg monarchy.

The increase in university patenting and licensing has often been attributed to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which facilitated patenting and licensing. This work examines the channels within which commercialization has occurred throughout the 20th century and since the passage of the Act.

This book examines the role of emotion in contemporary instances of racial violence and discrimination.

Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself-that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.

Ranging chronologically from the 12th to the 15th centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages.

This is the first scholarly account of the causes of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in 1978. Full of startling revelations from Soviet communist party archives, the study advances the concept of political culture to explain crucial foreign policy decisions.

In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions-from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. A rarity among scholarly books, it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation.

Did the activities of the Western powers prompt changes in Japan that would not otherwise have taken place? Or did they merely hasten a process that had already begun? This book deals with these questions that concerns the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events.

Digital Militarism considers how social media has become a crucial site in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.

This book joins young Saudi women in their daily lives-in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mall-to show how these women are transforming the country from within and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles.

This book explores the history of drug development and testing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, looking especially at whether slaves were exploited in human medical experiments at the time.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age examines the nexus of new media and memory practices through an in-depth study of the Shoah Visual History Archive, the world's largest and most widely available collection of video interviews with Holocaust survivors, to understand how advances in digital technologies impact the practice of Holocaust remembrance.

WTF?! is an interactive tour of the world's weirdest social practices that uses economic thinking to reveal the solid logic behind their seeming senselessness.

We abandon our true homeland when we cannot identify with other people.

Men died when women began to read.

This latest collection of texts, which focus on the "mystery" of literature, as well as on language as a laboratory for conceiving an ethical-political perspective that places us beyond sovereign power, offer a window onto Giorgio Agamben's most current research.