Stanford University: 1318 books
by Jeffrey L. Funk
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Technology Change and the Rise of New Industries explores why new industries emerge at specific moments in time and in certain countries. Part I shows that technologies which experience "exponential" improvements in cost and performance have a greater chance of becoming new industries. When...
Adcreep
The Case Against Modern Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"—modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime—has come, transforming not just...
by Brad Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many grounds—including historical, political,...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
Better Safe Than Sorry
The Ironies of Living with the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnight—two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went eyeball to eyeball over missiles in Cuba! We still live in an echo chamber of fear, after...
by Jeffrey A. Larsen, Kerry M. Kartchner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when...
Getting to Zero
The Path to Nuclear Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Getting to Zero takes on the much-debated goal of nuclear zero—exploring the serious policy questions raised by nuclear disarmament and suggesting practical steps for the nuclear weapon states to take to achieve it. It documents the successes and failures of six decades of attempts to control nuclear...
by W. David Allen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate how the application of analytical tools from economics can help us to understand the causes and consequences...
The Soul of Design
Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
What makes the Apple iPhone cool? Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's televisions beautiful? Any of a wide variety of products and services special? The answer is not simply functionality or technology, for competitors' products are often as good.
The Soul of Design explores the uncanny power...
Privacy in Context
Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial...
All I Want Is a Job!
Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an unemployed...
by Peter Dahler-Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Evaluation—whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others—is an important social activity. Any organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation?...
Zooland
The Institution of Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators,...
Fault Lines
Tort Law as Cultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury,...