Northwestern football players are pushing for the right to unionize; could salaried college sports be next? A Q&A with RODNEY FORT Two weeks ago the National Labor Relations Board made waves when Judge Peter Sung Ohr ruled that Northwestern football players have the right to …
What philosophical compass guides the Roberts Court's take on political equality? Forthcoming author, Timothy Kuhner takes a stab at this question in his forthcoming book, Capitalism v. Democracy. The recent ruling in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission has left many observers gobsmacked and reeling. Doubling …
Hot off the press this month, we’ve got books that tackle austerity and national security, our latest Stanford Brief on navigating negotiations, and an exquisite compendium of 19th-century photographs of the American West taken by master photographer, Carleton Watkins. Out this month …
Going to AAS 2014? Stop by booth 102! Not going to AAS 2014? Don't worry—we've got you covered. The annual Association for Asian Studies conference kicks off today in the City of Brotherly Love. If you're attending be sure to stop by booth …
Whether you're at ISA 2014 or you wish you were, we've got some discounts to hand out: take 20% off paper and 30% off cloth and ebooks on any and all of the 53 International Studies books listed below. In Toronto for ISA 2014? Make …
Volume 8 of SUP’s Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche features the seminal texts of Beyond Good and Evil & On the Genealogy of Morality Supposing that truth is a woman—well? is the suspicion not founded that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, poorly understood …
In case you haven’t heard the buzz . . . . . . we’re running a little sale at SUP. Through the end of March, over 600 titles will be available for $10 and $5. To help you sift through this bountiful bevy of scholarly …
Professor Steven Cassedy, originally of Great Neck New York, reflects on Penn Station, Grand Central, and the making of modern icons. If you were to ask anyone to name a truly iconic example of an American train station—certainly a New York train station, I’m willing …
Stanford University Press remembers an outstanding editor and intellectual. Helen Tartar in her Stanford University Press office, summer 1988. In her time at the Press—from 1981 until 2002—Helen brought on board a remarkably impressive list of books across a broad range of the humanities, including …
March is a month chock-full of big announcements at Stanford University Press. First off, we're welcoming a new face to the press this week—our new history and Jewish Studies editor, Eric Brandt. Secondly, we've got a handful of new titles to spotlight; joblessness, American foreign …
