Stanford University: 1318 books
Money Games
Profiting from the Convergence of Sports and Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
The businesses behind Dubai Sports City, the branding of David Beckham, and the presence and popularity of fantasy sports leagues on the internet are unmistakable indicators that the sports and the entertainment industries are quickly becoming one and the same. But, you needn't travel far or be a...
Copyright’s Highway
From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
From eighteenth-century copyright law, to current-day copyright issues on the internet, to tomorrow's "celestial jukebox"—a digital repository of books, movies, and music available on demand—Paul Goldstein presents a thorough examination of the challenges facing copyright owners and...
by Rodney Fort, Jason Winfree
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
In 15 Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust some of the most widespread urban legends about college and professional athletics. Each chapter takes apart a common misconception, showing how the assumptions behind it fail to add...
Fans of the World, Unite!
A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Fans of baseball, football, basketball, and hockey have long been exploited and oppressed by the monopolistic practices of team owners. The time has come for a revolution in the organization of major U.S. sports! Fans of the World, Unite! is a clarion call to sports fans. Appealing to anyone who is...
Minority Business Success
Refocusing on the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
In Minority Business Success, authors Leonard Greenhalgh and James Lowry chart a path for the full participation of minority businesses in the U.S. economy. Today, minorities are well on their way to becoming the majority of our workforce and a large part of our entrepreneurial endeavors; their full...
Between Threats and War
U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending the use of limited military force: that is, enough...
Gruesome Spectacles
Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row, including Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma and Joseph Wood...
Boom Towns
Restoring the Urban American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In...
Peerless and Periled
The Paradox of American Leadership in The World Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
As the world economy emerges from the financial crisis, critics are announcing an end of the American era. The United States is said to be in an inexorable decline, and the expectation for the 21st century is for China to eclipse America and for the contours of global governance to blur. The loss...
by Shirley Anne Warshaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The Bush administration is out but the American public continues to suffer from its disastrous domestic and foreign policies. In this excellently documented work, presidential scholar Shirley Anne Warshaw offers an in-depth analysis and exploration of the political maneuvering that got us into our...
Race Relations
A Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society. In a penetrating critique of the famed race relations paradigm, he asks why a paradigm invented four decades before the Civil Rights Revolution still dominates both academic and popular discourses...
Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives
Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy Into Focus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets. The balance of economic and noneconomic goals is under the microscope in every sector of the economy. It is time to re-think the objectives...
Governing Immigration Through Crime
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In the United States, immigration is generally seen as a law and order issue. Amidst increasing anti-immigrant sentiment, unauthorized migrants have been cast as lawbreakers. Governing Immigration Through Crime offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of crime and punishment to...
by Leo R. Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of citizenship for children of immigrants was seemingly settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, vitriolic...