Our Top 5 Blog Posts from 2014
It’s not even New Year’s and we’re already nostalgic.
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Top 5 Picks from the Year-End Sale
Through the end of the year, all 2014 titles and select gift books available at a discount.
AAR 2014: A Blog Series
Religious studies scholars discuss book series, Foucault, John Brown, and more.
The Day of Anger
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. …
’sup? @ SUP
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 …
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 …
’sup? @ SUP
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 …
What Is a Classic?
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 …
