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Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.

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Homesick focuses on the experiences of migrants of color moving to rural New England to take well-paid jobs and the resulting misrecognition from white residents. This book helps us better understand how to unsettle such processes of exclusion in diversifying spaces

https://ow.ly/4htC50Xxhmh

25.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of Where the Sun Rises Square:
Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil by David C. Thompson

Book cover of Where the Sun Rises Square: Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil by David C. Thompson

Through long-term fieldwork within the prisons of Rio de Janeiro, Where the Sun Rises Square by David Thompson investigates the legal and moral impulse to "resocialize" as it animates the prison system of Brazil.

https://ow.ly/lR0950Xxheo

#ReadUP #anthropology

25.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Following the release of 'Abiding Influence' earlier this month, it was wonderful to hold my book launch event last Friday evening, chaired by Dr Nicola Leveringhaus at King's College London @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

@stanfordpress.bsky.social @mngupbooks.bsky.social

25.11.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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China bosses vanishing as Xi Jinping’s childhood traumas trigger Mao style purge Podcast Episode Β· Battle Lines Β· 24/11/2025 Β· 33m

For the @telegraph.co.uk podcast Battle Lines, I talked to
@rolandoliphant.bsky.social about my book "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping"

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

25.11.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enduring Hostility: The Making of America's Iran Policy | Dalia Dassa Kaye - Institute for Middle East Studies

NEXT WEEK (12/3): The Middle East Policy Forum will host Dalia Dassa Kaye and moderator Sina Azodi for a conversation about the timely and rigorous analysis found in her new book, Enduring Hostility: The Making of America's Iran Policy. For more information about the event, please visit our website.

24.11.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Homesick focuses on the experiences of migrants of color moving to rural New England to take well-paid jobs and the resulting misrecognition from white residents. This book helps us better understand how to unsettle such processes of exclusion in diversifying spaces

https://ow.ly/4htC50Xxhmh

25.11.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of SUP's 2025 MESA booth

Photo of SUP's 2025 MESA booth

Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth

If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

@mesa1966.bsky.social

24.11.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of Where the Sun Rises Square:
Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil by David C. Thompson

Book cover of Where the Sun Rises Square: Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil by David C. Thompson

Through long-term fieldwork within the prisons of Rio de Janeiro, Where the Sun Rises Square by David Thompson investigates the legal and moral impulse to "resocialize" as it animates the prison system of Brazil.

https://ow.ly/lR0950Xxheo

#ReadUP #anthropology

25.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of SUP's 2025 MESA booth

Photo of SUP's 2025 MESA booth

Hello #MESA2025! We hope to see you at our booth

If you miss us in person, you can still enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit showcasing our new authors and award-winning books
www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

@mesa1966.bsky.social

24.11.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks @tylercowen.bsky.social for listing "The Party's Interests Come First" as one of the best non-fiction books of 2025

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

22.11.2025 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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King’s Politics on Instagram: "Join our in-person event with Joseph Torigian - The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping." 8 likes, 0 comments - kingspolitics on November 21, 2025: "Join our in-person event with Joseph Torigian - The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping.".

On November 25, I'll give a book talk on "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" at King's College, Cambridge University

www.instagram.com/p/DRUZTGqjE0...

22.11.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

30% discount on my book (and many others!) until December 25 with the code S25AAA πŸ“–πŸ“š www.sup.org/books/anthro...

22.11.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AAA logo followed by two rows of book covers: Decolonizing Medicine, Justice in the Balance, Demolishing Detroit, Demolishing Detroit, Refusing Sustainability, Living On

AAA logo followed by two rows of book covers: Decolonizing Medicine, Justice in the Balance, Demolishing Detroit, Demolishing Detroit, Refusing Sustainability, Living On

Hello #AAA25! We hope to see you at booth 209

We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

#AAA2025

20.11.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Some very cool news: "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" was named a best book of 2025 by the Economist and a best history book of 2025 by BBC History Magazine

21.11.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The new tablecloths look good in our @aseees.bsky.social booth #209! Stop by and peruse books from @isdistribution.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @michiganpress.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social & more! #ASEEES2025

20.11.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
AAA logo followed by two rows of book covers: Decolonizing Medicine, Justice in the Balance, Demolishing Detroit, Demolishing Detroit, Refusing Sustainability, Living On

AAA logo followed by two rows of book covers: Decolonizing Medicine, Justice in the Balance, Demolishing Detroit, Demolishing Detroit, Refusing Sustainability, Living On

Hello #AAA25! We hope to see you at booth 209

We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

#AAA2025

20.11.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
β€œIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” edited and translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav.

β€œIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” edited and translated by Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav.

Off to @aseees.bsky.social. I’ll carry my advance copy of β€œIn the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” in my tote; co-translator Harriet Murav will also! Do stop one of us to take a look! It’s already on at least a couple of syllabi in winter/spring 2026.

20.11.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands by
FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ±

Book cover of Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands by FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ±

Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes to courtrooms, law offices, & forensic laboratories, Smuggling Law by FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ± examines how Kurdish smugglers legally disrupt state sovereignty in criminal courts

https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/smuggling-law



18.11.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of American Medium: A New Film Philosophy by Eyal Peretz

Book cover of American Medium: A New Film Philosophy by Eyal Peretz

In American Medium, through close readings of six American films Eyal Peretz demonstrates the way the connection between "America" and film is enabled through the development of a philosophical concept of medium that allows both "America" and film to be thought anew

https://ow.ly/AHT250XpHyu

18.11.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted to hear that Victorian Jewish writer Amy Levy's papers will now be more accessible.

You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

I've also written about her writing on dance in my @stanfordpress.bsky.social book and @jofvictculture.bsky.social: jvc.oup.com/tag/ballroom/

19.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New York friends!

I'll be in your neck of the woods next month to discuss emotion, existentialism, mysticism and my new book: Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

www.jtsa.edu/event/emotio...

19.11.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beyond chuffed to see a half dozen @stanfordpress.bsky.social titles featured here - thanks so much for the support! #holidayreads #ReadUP @ebbooksellers.bsky.social

19.11.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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So excited to partner with Garden District Books and many wonderful writers on this book release ritual and pop-up bookshop in New Orleans this Friday 11/21 evening. We'll walk to the Mississippi for a ritual acknowledging the spirits that have accompanied the writing of these books. Join us!

18.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of American Medium: A New Film Philosophy by Eyal Peretz

Book cover of American Medium: A New Film Philosophy by Eyal Peretz

In American Medium, through close readings of six American films Eyal Peretz demonstrates the way the connection between "America" and film is enabled through the development of a philosophical concept of medium that allows both "America" and film to be thought anew

https://ow.ly/AHT250XpHyu

18.11.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Book cover of Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands by
FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ±

Book cover of Smuggling Law: Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands by FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ±

Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes to courtrooms, law offices, & forensic laboratories, Smuggling Law by FΔ±rat BozΓ§alΔ± examines how Kurdish smugglers legally disrupt state sovereignty in criminal courts

https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/smuggling-law



18.11.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enduring Hostility: A Book Talk on Why the U.S. and Iran Remain Adversaries β€’ Stimson Center Dalia Dassa Kaye, author of a new book on the U.S. and Iran, and veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker discuss the events and personalities that have shaped four decades of enmity.

Dec. 4, 12 PM ETβ€” Join @dassakaye.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book, Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy.

Hosted by the Stimson Center. Distinguished Fellow Barbara Slavin will discuss the book with Kaye and veteran diplomat Ryan Crocker.

#ReadUP

14.11.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very cool to see this long interview with me about my book on Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping, in Dutch newspaper @volkskrant.nl t.nl

www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/v...

15.11.2025 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you Magda Sakowska for hosting me on DzieΕ„ na Świecie to talk about Chinese foreign policy and Xi Jinping

15.11.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotted Losing Hearts and Minds at NACBS! 😺 @stanfordpress.bsky.social

15.11.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PW Studio: Higher Learning 2025 Influential university press titles of the season.

Join @publisherswkly.bsky.social in celebrating the work of university presses, including @stanfordpress.bsky.social, Wayne State University Press & @weslpress.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/3LSmYtv #ReadUP

17.11.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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