Stanford University: 1318 books
Vortex of Conflict
U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
More than two million Americans have now served in Afghanistan or Iraq; more than 5,000 Americans have been killed; and more than 35,000 have been grievously wounded. The war in Afghanistan has become America's longest war. Despite these facts, most Americans do not understand the background of, or...
Living Emergency
Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter Israel. The directive, effective for one year, has been reissued annually ever since, turning the Occupied Territories into a closed military zone. Today, Israel's...
Systems Concepts in Action
A Practitioner's Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing...
Intimate Labors
Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid, sustain the day-to-day work that we require to...
Tort, Custom, and Karma
Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world? Tort, Custom, and Karma examines how rapid societal changes, economic development, and integration into global markets have affected ordinary people's perceptions...
by Margret Grebowicz
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity. But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more fundamental, namely what counts as being well,...
Judaism in Transition
How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
At the core of Judaism stands a body of traditions that have remained consistent over millennia. Yet, the practice of these rituals has varied widely across historical and cultural contexts. In Judaism in Transition, Carmel U. Chiswick draws on her Jewish upbringing, her journey as a Jewish parent,...
Market Menagerie
Health and Development in Late Industrial States
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan. Pharmaceutical and life science industries can reinforce economic development and industry growth, but not necessarily positive health...
A Transformation Gap?
American Innovations and European Military Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
NATO member states are all undergoing some form of military transformation. Despite a shared vision, transformation has been primarily a US-led process centered on the exploitation of new information technologies in combination with new concepts for "networked organizations" and "effects-based...
Waging War
Alliances, Coalitions, and Institutions of Interstate Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Military alliances provide constraints and opportunities for states seeking to advance their interests around the globe. War, from the Western perspective, is not a solitary endeavor. Partnerships of all types serve as a foundation for the projection of power and the employment of force. These relationships...
Victory for Hire
Private Security Companies’ Impact on Military Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
At peak utilization, private security contractors (PSCs) constituted a larger occupying force in Iraq and Afghanistan than did U.S. troops. Yet, no book has so far assessed the impact of private security companies on military effectiveness. Filling that gap, Molly Dunigan reveals how the increasing...
Can Green Sustain Growth?
From the Religion to the Reality of Sustainable Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be accomplished...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality,...
On Flexibility
Recovery from Technological and Doctrinal Surprise on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This book addresses one of the basic questions in military studies: How can armies cope effectively with technological and doctrinal surprises—ones that leave them vulnerable to new weapons systems and/or combat doctrines? Author Meir Finkel contends that the current paradigm—with its over-dependence...