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Stanford University Press Rights Guide Fall 2023
Stanford University Press Rights Guide Fall 2023
Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even
know? And why would it matter?
Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American SEPTEMBER 336 pages, 2 tables, 1
University. Of her nine earlier books, her most recent are How We Read figures
Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (2021), Words 6x9
Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (2015), and Always Cloth 9781503633223
eBook 9781503637900
On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (2008). She has appeared
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
on Good Morning America, 20/20, CNBC, and CNN, and her writing has Communication Studies
been widely published, including in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Washington Post, and The Conversation.
A History of Fake Things on the Internet
WALTER J. SCHEIRER
Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins
of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other
deviations from reality that have recently become part of mainstream
culture, from the 19th century darkroom to the artistic stylings of GPT
-3.
Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate DECEMBER 272 pages, 42 illustrations
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre
Dame. Cloth 9781503632882
eBook 9781503637047
COMPUTERS / History
The Grounds of the Novel
DANIEL WRIGHT cover to
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Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphysical "grounds"
through figuration, understanding fictional being as self-sufficient,
cohesive, and alive, rather than as beholden to the actual world as an
existential anchor. Through philosophically attuned close readings of
novels and reflections on writerly craft by Thomas Hardy, Olive
Schreiner, Colson Whitehead, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, Henry
James, and Akwaeke Emezi, Wright shares an impassioned vision of
reading as stepping into ontologically terraformed worlds, and of
literary criticism as treading and re-treading the novel's grounds.
Daniel Wright is Associate Professor of English at the University of JANUARY 216 pages, 1 illustrations
Toronto and the author of Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the
Victorian Novel (2018). Paper 9781503637559
Cloth 9781503636835
eBook 9781503637566
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics &
Theory
Styles of Seriousness
STEVEN CONNOR
Steven Connor is Director of Research in the Digital Futures Institute, OCTOBER 264 pages,
King's College, London, and Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus at the
University of Cambridge. He is the author of Giving Way: Thoughts on Paper 9781503636866
Unappreciated Dispositions (Stanford, 2019) and twenty other books. Cloth 9781503636453
eBook 9781503636873
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern /
General
Environmental Humanities on the Brink
The Vanitas Hypothesis cover to
VINCENT BRUYERE
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The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict
heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes
even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas
images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future.
This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly
contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present,
when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate
conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters
with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have
long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive
affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues.
Vincent Bruyere is Associate Professor of French at Emory University. SEPTEMBER 184 pages, 21 illustrations
He is the author of Perishability Fatigue: Forays in Environmental Loss
and Decay (2018). Cloth 9781503630505
eBook 9781503636798
LITERARY CRITICISM European /
General
Blood and Lightning
On Becoming a Tattooer
DUSTIN KISKADDON
Ultimately, the stories in this book teach us about the roles our bodies
play in the social world. Both medium and object of art, our bodies are
purveyors of sociocultural significance, sites of capitalist negotiations,
and vivid encapsulations of the human condition.
Dustin Kiskaddon is a cultural sociologist whose research has been FEBRUARY 288 pages, 15 illustrations
published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in the
Companion to Body Politics. His tattoo work can be seen on Instagram, Cloth 9781503635609
@Dustin.Kiskaddon. After nearly a decade of teaching and a few years of eBook 9781503637412
SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture
professional tattooing, he now uses his expertise in culture, the economy,
and technology to conduct applied research.
Death Dust
The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological
Weapons Programs
WILLIAM C. POTTER, SARAH BIDGOOD, SAMUEL MEYER,
AND HANNA NOTTE
William C. Potter is Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of DECEMBER 232 pages,
Nonproliferation Studies and Founding Director of the James Martin
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute of Paper 9781503637658
International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). Cloth 9781503636668
eBook 9781503637665
Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
CNS. Relations / Arms Control
Samuel Meyer is an Analyst at the Office of Radiological Security, U.S.
Department of Energy.
Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
How Sanctions Work
Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
NARGES BAJOGHLI, VALI NASR, DJAVAD SALEHI-
ISFAHANI, AND ALI VAEZ
In How Sanctions Work, the authors make Iran, the most sanctioned
country in the world, their centerpiece in studying the efficacy of
international sanctions. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce
uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling
establishment, or to weaken its hold on power. But, after four decades,
the case of Iran shows the opposite to be true. Sanctions have
strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased
the state's repressive tendencies, and escalated Iran's military posture
vis-à-vis the U.S. and its allies in the region. The authors argue for a
more nuanced understanding of sanctions and their efficacy. It is time
to understand how sanctions really work.
Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the FEBRUARY 200 pages, 1 table, 13
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. figures
Vali Nasr is Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Paper 9781503637801
Cloth 9781503637313
the Johns Hopkins SAIS.
eBook 9781503637818
POLITICAL SCIENCE International
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is Professor of Economics at Virgina Tech. Relations / Arms Control
Ali Vaez is the Director of the International Crisis Group's Iran Project.
Elastic Empire
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine cover to
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Lisa Bhungalia is Assistant Professor of Geography at Kent State DECEMBER 264 pages, 11 illustrations
University.
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Cloth 9781503634527
eBook 9781503637528
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security
(National & International
The Russian Way of Deterrence
Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War
DMITRY (DIMA) ADAMSKY
Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, Professor at the Lauder School of OCTOBER 224 pages,
Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at Reichman University (IDC
Herzliya) in Israel, and visiting professor at the Vytuatas Magnus Paper 9781503637825
University. He is the author of Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford, Cloth 9781503630871
eBook 9781503637832
2019) and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford, 2010).
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World /
Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Antechamber
Toward a History of Waiting
HELMUT PUFF
Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past
through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From
literature, memoirs, manuals, chronicles, visuals, and other documents,
Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior
rooms designated and designed for people to linger.
Helmut Puff is Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History OCTOBER 264 pages, 23 illustrations
and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books
include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland (2003) as well Paper 9781503637023
as Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History (2014). Cloth 9781503635418
eBook 9781503637030
HISTORY Social History
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904
-1939
CHRIS MILLINGTON
Millington conceptualizes 'terrorism' not only as the act itself, but also
as a political and cultural construction of violence composed from a
variety of discourses and deployed in particular circumstances by
commentators, witnesses, and perpetrators. In doing so, he argues that
the political and cultural battles inherent to perceptions of terrorism lay
bare numerous concerns, not least anxieties over immigration,
antiparliamentarianism, representations of gender, and the future of
European peace.
Chris Millington is Reader in Modern European History at Manchester SEPTEMBER 304 pages, 2 tables, 9
Metropolitan University. illustrations
Paper 9781503636750
Cloth 9781503636521
eBook 9781503636767
HISTORY Europe / France
Birth of the Geopolitical Age
Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China
SHELLEN XIAO WU
Shellen Xiao Wu is the Lawrence Gipson Chair of Transnational History SEPTEMBER 304 pages, 16
at Lehigh University. She is the author of Empires of Coal: Fueling illustrations, 1 maps
China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1919 (Stanford, 2015).
Paper 9781503636842
Cloth 9781503636415
eBook 9781503636859
HISTORY Asia / China
Wombs of Empire
Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan
SUJIN LEE
Sujin Lee is Assistant Professor of Pacific and Asian Studies at the OCTOBER 264 pages, 13 illustrations
University of Victoria
Paper 9781503637009
Cloth 9781503636392
eBook 9781503637016
HISTORY Asia / Japan
Not My Type
Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating cover to
APRYL WILLIAMS, WITH A FOREWORD BY SAFIYA NOBLE
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Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor at the FEBRUARY 232 pages, 1 table, 5
University of Michigan in the Department of Communication & Media figures, 10 illustrations
and the Digital Studies Institute. She is also a Senior Fellow in
Trustworthy AI and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Paper 9781503635050
Cloth 9781503635043
Klein Center for Internet and Society. Her research has been published in
eBook 9781503637610
Big Data & Society, Ethnicities, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Social Media & Society, among others.
The Indebted Woman
Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism
ISABELLE GUÉRIN, SANTOSH KUMAR, AND G.
VENKATASUBRAMANIAN
The Indebted Woman discusses the crucial yet invisible roles poor
women play in making and consolidating debt and credit markets.
Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian spent
over two decades observing a credit market that specifically targets
women in the Indian countryside of east-central Tamil Nadu.They
found that paying off debts required labor, frequently involved sexual
transactions, and shaped women's bodies and subjectivities. Bringing
together ethnography, statistical surveys, and financial diaries, they
offer for the first time a comprehensive theory for this sexual division
of debt that goes far beyond the Indian case, exposing the ways
capitalism transforms womanhood, and how this transformation in turn
fuels capitalism.
*Stanford University Press does not handle French language rights to this title*
Isabelle Guérin is Senior Research Fellow at the French Institute of SEPTEMBER 248 pages, 4 tables, 2
Research for Sustainable Development, and Associate at the French figures
Institute of Pondicherry.
Paper 9781503636903
Cloth 9781503636316
G. Venkatasubramanian has been a sociologist and Research Fellow at
eBook 9781503636910
the French Institute of Pondicherry for the past 35 years. SOCIAL SCIENCE Gender Studies
Santosh Kumar has been collaborating with researchers at the French
Institute of Pondicherry for 25 years.
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure
Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
FIRUZEH SHOKOOH VALLE
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an
idealized, female economic figure that combines technological
dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes
of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of
digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome
inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and
circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as
the potentially violent role of technology in their lives.
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin SEPTEMBER 264 pages, 1 table, 3
and Marshall College. Previously, she was a journalist in Puerto Rico illustrations
covering violence against women, the LGBTQI+ community, migration,
racism, and social movements, and earned numerous national awards for Paper 9781503636149
Cloth 9781503631366
her investigative work.
eBook 9781503636156
SOCIAL SCIENCE Feminism &
Feminist Theory
Creativity in Large-Scale Contexts
Guiding Creative Engagement and Exploration cover to
JONATHAN S. FEINSTEIN
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Jonathan Feinstein is John G. Searle Professor of Economics and OCTOBER 384 pages, 5 tables, 21
Management at Yale School of Management. figures, 4 illustrations
Cloth 9781503632813
eBook 9781503637153
PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural
History cover to
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Eli Friedlander is Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy JANUARY 344 pages,
at Tel Aviv University. His previous books include Walter Benjamin: A
Philosophical Portrait (2015). Paper 9781503637702
Cloth 9781503636552
eBook 9781503637719
PHILOSOPHY / General
Aesthetic Action
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Florian Klinger is Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the JANUARY 386 pages,
College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theory of Form: 6x9
Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age (2022). Cloth 9781503636972
eBook 9781503637627
PHILOSOPHY Aesthetics
SPRING 2023
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TITLES
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data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency,
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delivers an insightful volume that offers a foundational understanding
of this dynamic environment, and an action plan for those seeking a
path to digital strategy implementation for their organization.
Michael Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business JUNE 184 pages, 25 figures
Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.
He is the coauthor of The Decarbonization Imperative: Transforming the Cloth 9781503635197
Global Economy by 2050 (Stanford, 2021) and Can Business Save the eBook 9781503635760
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Earth: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability (Stanford, 2018).
Planning
Eli Jelly-Schapiro is Associate Professor of English at the University of MARCH 264 pages
South Carolina. He is the author of Security and Terror: American
Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity (2018). Paper 9781503635432
Cloth 9781503634718
eBook 9781503635449
LITERARY CRITICISM General
Akiko Takeyama is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies JUNE 240 pages,
and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of
Kansas. She is the author of Staged Seduction (SUP, 2016), which was Paper 9781503633780
shortlisted for the 2017 Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize. Cloth 9781503628762
eBook 9781503633797
SOCIAL SCIENCE Gender Studies
Se-Mi Oh is Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History at the APRIL 272 pages, 55 illustrations
University of Michigan.
Paper 9781503635524
Cloth 9781503634800
eBook 9781503635531
HISTORY Asia / Korea