I'm trying to understand, through them, the development of new ideas and let them know that Stanford is connected to that development. Yoritomo and the Founding of the First Bakufu , by Jeffrey P. Mass. Property Rights and Economic Reform in China , edited by Jean C. Oi and Andrew G. Walder. Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication , edited by Timothy Lenoir. Once an author is signed on, editors often can be most helpful by serving as a sounding board.
Editors try to be the ideal students and try to understand why an author's book is important.