Stanford University Press

01/10/2025

We were pleased to have David D. Kim stop by our booth! Here he is with his book Arendt's Solidarity

Modern Language Association

01/09/2025

Our American Philosophical Association Eastern Division exhibit is open in the Sheraton's Metropolitan Ballroom (2nd floor). Please stop by and peruse our excellent selection of discounted books from 15 publishers including Brepols Polity Princeton University Press Stanford University Press Yale University Press and more!

01/08/2025

Did you know SUP's Spring/Summer 2025 catalog is now available? Find it here: https://www.sup.org/spring-summer-2025-catalog

01/07/2025

To lead effectively in an age of anxiety, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to challenges that can otherwise feel overwhelming. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerges from this struggle; leaders grow by adopting a learning mindset in the face of unpleasant emotions.
https://www.sup.org/books/business/leading-outside-your-comfort-zone

Leadership expert D. Christopher Kayes integrates insights from diverse disciplines, including management and organization studies, psychology, sports and military psychology, neuroscience, and education, and presents original research involving over 1,000 leaders.

01/07/2025

Because whiteness is not a given for Brazilians in the U.S., some immigrants actively construct it as a protective mechanism against the stigma normally associated with illegality. In The Borders of Privilege, Kara Cebulko tells the stories of a group of 1.5-generation Brazilians to show how their ability to be perceived as white—their power without papers—shapes their everyday interactions. https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/borders-privilege

"Merging sophisticated theory with compelling storytelling, The Borders of Privilege vividly illustrates how young Brazilian immigrants strategically emphasize race, class, and nationality to navigate an ever-expanding landscape of immigration exclusion. Kara Cebulko's impeccably researched and incredibly insightful analysis is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersections of immigration, illegality and race."
—Alexis Silver, Purchase College, State University of New York

01/06/2025

New on Slate.com: Adrian Daub wrote about cancel culture panic and the political correctness dictionaries of the past.

“These strange relics allow us to understand a lot about what the contemporary fear of 'cancel culture' among right-wingers and reactionary centrists is really about”

How the “PC dictionary” took Europe by storm.

01/06/2025

Did you miss seeing us in person at ? You can still browse our books and get the conference discount on our virtual exhibit.

American Historical Association

Please enjoy this Virtual Book Exhibit and receive a 30% discount on the books listed below using the discount code S25AHA at checkout, good between 1/3/2025 - 2/6/2025.

12/20/2024

Congratulations to Refqa Abu-Remaileh! Country of Words received an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship.

12/18/2024

In Indicators of Democracy Diana Graizbord exposes the complex, often-hidden world of the institutions that are meant to ensure democratic accountability and transparency. Taking the case of Mexico's National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), Graizbord provides a deep theory of what happens when democratic aspirations intersect with technocratic ambitions.
https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/indicators-democracy

"This captivating and insightful ethnography takes readers deep into the belly of the Mexican state and exposes the drama hidden behind the dry bureaucratic language of 'monitoring & evaluation.' At stake in the struggles and growth of CONEVAL is nothing less than the viability of a 21st century form of technodemocracy, where expertise serves as a check on executive power."
—Gil Eyal, Columbia University

12/18/2024

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politics. https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/politics-melodrama

"At long last, we have the first biography of the great writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous. Jonathan Smolin vividly resurrects the man and his era with a fluent and sweeping narrative, and establishes a new benchmark for literary and intellectual biographies in our field. Decisive, lucid, and meticulously researched."
—Yoav Di-Capua, author of No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre and Decolonization

12/13/2024

Congratulations to Andrew Simon! His book, Media of the Masses, is Co-Winner of the 2024 MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, sponsored by the Modern Language Association

https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes

12/13/2024

New on the SUP blog: Gi-Wook Shin wrote about South Korea, democracy, and the historical & sociopolitical contexts of President Yoon’s declaration of martial law

https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2024/12/koreas-bumpy-road-toward-democracy.html

Gi-Wook Shin is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea and director of the Stanford Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, both at Stanford University, and coeditor of South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization (2022).

12/12/2024

Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania considers the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 and 1940, offering a new history of the interrelation between state building and nongovernmental humanitarianism and philanthropy in the interwar period.

"Doina Anca Cretu's masterful book delivers an empathetic analysis of interwar actors who are often ignored in histories of humanitarianism. Cretu shifts the conventional power dynamics between 'east' and 'west,' aid givers and aid receivers, international organizations and incipient states."
—James Koranyi, Durham University

https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania

12/10/2024

In Reversing Deforestation, Brent Sohngen and Douglas Southgate address the long-term recovery of forests in Latin America.

"Tropical deforestation is considered one of the greatest threats to the world's biodiversity, with possibly devastating consequences for human welfare. Through detailed evidence and case studies, Sohngen and Southgate demonstrate that there are signs of hope. Emergent trends in Latin America are slowing net deforestation, even reversing it in some places. This book serves as a timely and invaluable aid to designing sensible policies to save the world's remaining tropical forests."
—Edward B. Barbier, Colorado State University

https://www.sup.org/books/politics/reversing-deforestation