Stanford University: 1318 books
Police Reform in Mexico
Informal Politics and the Challenge of Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The urgent need to professionalize Mexican police has been recognized since the early 1990s, but despite even the most well-intentioned promises from elected officials and police chiefs, few gains have been made in improving police integrity. Why have reform efforts in Mexico been largely unsuccessful?...
Peer Coaching at Work
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse. It's effective, inexpensive, widely applicable, and relatively easy to implement. Many coaches consider it to be the next wave in professional development. Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a hands-on...
Open Skies
Transparency, Confidence-Building, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the best-kept diplomatic and security secrets of the last half-century—the Open Skies Treaty: a treaty that allows the U.S., the Russian Federation, and over 30 other signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over one another's territory....
Culture and Commerce
The Value of Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Art and business are often described as worlds apart, even diametric opposites. And yet, these realms are close cousins in creative industries where firms bring cultural goods to market, attaching price tags to music, paintings, theater, literature, film, and fashion.
Building on theories of...
#iranelection
Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the world by storm. As the Green Revolution gained protestors in the Iranian streets, #iranelection became the first long-trending international hashtag. Texts, images, videos, audio recordings, and links connected protestors...
by Margret Grebowicz
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and consumption of Internet porn, in her account, are a symptom of the obsession with self-exposure in...
Crook County
Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored...
The Transparency Fix
Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Is the government too secret or not secret enough? Why is there simultaneously too much government secrecy and a seemingly endless procession of government leaks? The Transparency Fix asserts that we incorrectly assume that government information can be controlled. The same impulse that drives transparency...
The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies
Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population,...
Learning to Forget
US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict...
by John H. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
International Law and The Future of Freedom is the late John Barton's exploration into ways to protect our freedoms in the new global international order. This book forges a unique approach to the problem of democracy deficit in the international legal system as a whole—looking at how international...
All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not
Acceptable Hypocrisies and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
We live in an age where one person's judicial "activist" legislating from the bench is another's impartial arbiter fairly interpreting the law. After the Supreme Court ended the 2000 Presidential election with its decision in Bush v. Gore, many critics claimed that the justices had simply...
Transforming Command
The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
On today's complex, fragmented, fast-moving battlefield, where combatants adapt constantly to exploit one-another's weaknesses, there is a demonstrable requirement for military commanders to devolve a high level of autonomy of decision-making and action to leaders on the ground. An effective model...
by Manlio Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe—all seemed...