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12(1st Edition)
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Twelve (Zohar: The Pritzker Editions)
by Nathan Wolski, Joel Hecker, Daniel C. Matt, Stanford University Press
Hardcover, 800 Pages, Published 2017 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-9774-0, ISBN: 0-8047-9774-9

"Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in a lyrical Aramaic, the Zohar, the masterpiece of Kabbalah, features mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis to Deuteronomy. The twelfth volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition presents an assortment of discrete Zoharic compositions. The first two chapters contain different versions of the Zoharic Heik ..."






7(1st Edition)
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Seven
by Daniel Chanan Matt, Daniel Matt, Stanford University Press
Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2012 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-8305-7, ISBN: 0-8047-8305-5

""Sefer ha-Zohar" (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of mystical literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the "Zohar" consists of a mystical interpretation of the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This seventh v ..."






Li Yong and Epistemological Dimensions of Confucian Philosophy(1st Edition)
by Anne D. Birdwhistell, Stanford University Press
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 1996 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2605-4, ISBN: 0-8047-2605-1

"Li was not suggesting a mechanistic type of response, but was saying that thinking happened in the midst of the social world. Although Li held that ideas should be prior to moral actions, he did not claim that social conditions are fully prior to ideas. Rather, both of these "events" (conditions and ideas) continually occur in some fashion and in an inseparable relationship. Even if one is not aware of conditions, the mind still ac ..."






Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950
by Jean Chesneaux, Lucien Bianco, Stanford University Press
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 1986 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-0790-9, ISBN: 0-8047-0790-1

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The American Yawp(1st Edition)
A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 1: To 1877
by Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright, Stanford University Press
Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2019 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0671-5, ISBN: 1-5036-0671-6

""I too am not a bit tamed―I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."―Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students―an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jum ..."






Open the Social Sciences(1st Edition)
Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Calestous Juma, V.Y. Mudimbe, Stanford University Press
Paperback, 124 Pages, Published 1996 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2727-3, ISBN: 0-8047-2727-9

"Concerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences-the relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences-the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. It comprised a distinguished international group of scholars-six from the social sciences, two from the natural sciences, and t ..."






The Metaphysics of Death(1st Edition)
(Stanford Series in Philosophy)
by John Martin Fischer, Stanford University Press
Paperback, 444 Pages, Published 1993 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2104-2, ISBN: 0-8047-2104-1

"This collection of seventeen essays deals with the metaphysical, as opposed to the moral issues pertaining to death. For example, the authors investigate (among other things) the issue of what makes death a bad thing for an individual, if indeed death is a bad thing. This issue is more basic and abstract than such moral questions as the particular conditions under which euthanasia is justified, if it is ever justified.Though there are i ..."






The Epic of Gilgamesh(1st Edition)
by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, Stanford University Press
Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 1989 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1711-3, ISBN: 0-8047-1711-7

"This translation is a verse rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of Babylonian poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third millennium B.C. One of the best and most important piece of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality and an account ..."






The City in Communist China. Edited by John Wilson Lewis. Contributors
Jerome Alan Cohen [And Others]
by Jerome Alan Cohen, John Wilson Lewis, Stanford University Press, Walter Dick
449 Pages, Published 1971 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-0748-0, ISBN: 0-8047-0748-0

"19, 1957; "Shanghai eliminates the phenomenon of unemployment," Jen min jih pao (People's daily) [hereafter JMJP], July 16, 1958; "The ... Data in "National [ survey] of the numbers, structure, and distribution of workers and staff in 1955," TCKT, 23 (Dec. ... 80; Sun Ching-chih and others, Hua rung ch'u ching chi ti U ( An economic geography of east China) (Peking: K'o hsueh ch'u pan she, 1959) , chap."






Identity Capitalists
The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality (Hardback)
by Nancy Leong
Hardcover, Published 2021 by Stanford University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1013-2, ISBN: 1-5036-1013-6






Nothing Happened
A History (Hardback)
by Susan A. Crane
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by Stanford University Press, United States, Palo Alto
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1347-8, ISBN: 1-5036-1347-X






Prose of the World
Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment (Hardback)
by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Hardcover, Published 2021 by Stanford University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1525-0, ISBN: 1-5036-1525-1






Motherhood(1st Edition)
A Confession (Encountering Traditions)
by Natalie Carnes
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0831-3, ISBN: 1-5036-0831-X






Intimate Alien(1st Edition)
The Hidden Story of the UFO (Spiritual Phenomena)
by David Halperin
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0708-8, ISBN: 1-5036-0708-9






Justice for Some
Law and the Question of Palestine
by Noura Erakat
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Combined Academic Publ.
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1357-7, ISBN: 1-5036-1357-7






10% Less Democracy
Why You Should Trust Elites A Little More And The Masses A Little Less
by Stanford University Press
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0357-8, ISBN: 1-5036-0357-1






The Cult of the Constitution
by Stanford University Press
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1498-7, ISBN: 1-5036-1498-0






The Chinese and the Iron Road(1st Edition)
Building the Transcontinental Railroad (Asian America)
by Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Hilton Obenzinger, Roland Hsu
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2019 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0924-2, ISBN: 1-5036-0924-3






A Constitution for the Living
Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law
by Stanford University Press
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-7670-7, ISBN: 0-8047-7670-9






10(1st Edition)
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Ten (Zohar: The Pritzker Editions)
by Nathan Wolski, Daniel C. Matt
Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2016 by Stanford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-8804-5, ISBN: 0-8047-8804-9



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