This Saturday, January 25th marks the three-year anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. Touted as the “Day of Anger,” these protests heralded the end of a regime and ushered in a new era of tumult for the Egyptian people, whose political future still remains unclear today. …
It’s a new year and a new season for Stanford University Press, which of course means a new catalog! Now available for perusing, the Spring 2014 catalog features two co-published art books, a genre-bending memoir from a Parisian psychoanalyst, a book on botched executions that …
Out this month: Connected: How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | Steven Cassedy Connected focuses on the decades from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth to …
At the dawn of the twentieth century it had become "established hearsay" that facial hair was fertile breeding ground for infectious organisms, particularly tuberculosis. The stubble we may now take for granted was once under a volley of attacks from legislators and public health activists …
ELLE UK launched a controversial project this month; editors tapped three ad agencies and three feminist organizations to form an unlikely task force. Their goal? To “re-brand a term that many feel has become burdened with complications and negativity.” That word? Feminist. The fruits of this …
Stanford University Press is excited to announce the new editors for our series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture: David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya Stein.
Above: an aerial view of Typhoon Haiyan from NASA; Below: US Marines providing disaster relief in the Philippines One week ago today, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippine Islands at Guiuan. Packing winds of greater than 190 mph, the storm was the strongest typhoon …
Welcome to the inaugural ’sup? @ SUP blog post—a new monthly forecast of what’s coming up for the Press. We’ll cover what titles are slated to launch in the coming weeks and other press-related news. Out this month: Blinded By Sight | Osagie Obasogie Seeing …
This week we asked our Facebook and Twitter audiences, What Is a Classic? sampling insights from literarycelebrities along the way. Longevity of the text, universal relevance of content, potential to catalyze human enrichment, and collective social advancement, were all …
Using new technologies to continue age-old dialogues. by KALIE CAETANO “Why did you come here?” The erudite Alan Harvey, Director of Stanford University Press, poses this question during my job interview. To my ears, the question sounds nearly as chiding in his English accent, asked …
