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March 3, 2014

March Madness: A Month-Long Spree of Discounted Books

  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 …

Stanford Press News
January 23, 2014

Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

On the genesis of the early Muslim Brotherhood and the scandal that launched the group to prominence. Much is known about the contemporary Muslim Brotherhood—the political party that enjoyed great popularity (followed by a precipitous fall from power) in the wake of the 2011 ousting …

History, Middle East Studies, Religious Studies
November 27, 2013

The Unjustly Libeled Moustache

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 …

History