Announcing the March Madness Sale: A Month-Long Spree of Discounted Books across a variety of disciplines—Business, Middle East Studies, Literary Criticism and more! Spring is in the air (at least in California, it is) and it's time for a little seasonal sprucing. In an …
Meet Eric Brandt—Executive Editor at Stanford University Press. It snowed another four inches last night in New Haven, and this morning that accumulation was being covered with an unrelenting sleet. As 17th-century British scholar James Howell would have said (echoed later by the esteemed W.C. …
The antiquated technology of the American credit card makes it vulnerable to theft. Following recent massive credit card data theft at several national retailers, everyone, including Congress, is suddenly worried about cyber security. Cyber thieves made off with the credit card data of 40 million …
As Bahrain experienced paroxysms of revolt in the midst of the Arab Spring, Toby Matthiesen was on the ground in the small island kingdom, watching the events of 2011 unfold. Inspired by the domino-chain of the Arab Spring, in 2011 Bahrainis rallied for political reform. …
The following guest post from Paul C. Godfrey is the third in a series of blog posts reflecting on the War on Poverty, half a century after its inception. See the rest of the series here. Scientists love natural experiments; something happens to one group …
A new book by an award-winning legal scholar poses a timely and provocative challenge: if blind people aren’t colorblind, who can be? The following article appeared originally in the UC Hastings alumni magazine. Innovative research led UC Hastings Professor Osagie K. Obasogie to win …
Thirty-five years ago today I was living in Iran, in the (then) small village of Aliabad, when the 1979 Revolution, which would culminate in the overthrow of the Shah, first began. As I reflect on the Revolution, I think about the people of Aliabad, with …
The free flow of information and bodies across borders is an increasing trend so pervasive that the word citizen has betrayed its etymological roots by going "global" to give us the now famous, global citizen. In the era of globalization Susan Ossman turns her anthropological study to …
It’s February—winter slush decays in the curbs, and the last of the polar vortex exhales its way out of our weather systems. Spring is nearly upon us, along with its attendant rituals, including the ever-rejuvenating spring cleaning. Next month we’re doing a little shelf-dusting of …
Next week The Monuments Men (directed by and starring George Clooney) is set to hit silver screens. The film is based on the true story of a band of American scholar-soldiers whose mission in WWII was to recover stolen artifacts from what is perhaps the most …
