Stanford University: 1318 books
Global Security Upheaval
Armed Nonstate Groups Usurping State Stability Functions
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book calls into question the commonly held contentions that central governments are the most important or even the sole sources of a nation's stability, and that subnational and transnational nonstate forces are a major source of global instability.
By assessing recent real-world trends,...
Our Word Is Our Bond
How Legal Speech Acts
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction...
Letters of the Law
Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the...
by Keith J. Bybee
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and...
No Miracles
The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev decided that a withdrawal from Afghanistan should occur as soon as possible. The Soviet Union's senior leadership had become aware that their strategy...
Coercing Compliance
State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for —the first comprehensive systematic...
Getting New Things Done
Networks, Brokerage, and the Assembly of Innovative Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Our networks—and how we work them—create vital ties that bind. Organizations recognize and reward this fact by leaning ever more heavily on collaboration, particularly when it comes to getting new things done. This book offers a framework that explains how innovators use network processes to broker...
The Politics of Weapons Inspections
Assessing WMD Monitoring and Verification Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected...
Reliability and Risk
The Challenge of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures,...
by Alan Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Unlike other books written on "toxic leaders," this book takes issue with the predominant view that "toxic leaders are bad" and destructive to their companies. Rather, the author argues that even highly productive leaders have some toxic qualities central to their success story....
by Matthew A. Cronin, Jeffrey Loewenstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others. While we laud the products of creativity, the stories behind them are often abridged to the elusive "aha!" moment, the result of a momentary stroke of genius.
In The Craft...
Us&Them
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting for her son—still missing but not presumed dead yet—to return from the Iran–Iraq war....
Our Non-Christian Nation
How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. These non-Christians have increasingly been demanding their full participation in public life, bringing their arguments all the way to the Supreme Court. The...
The Woman Who Read Too Much
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming...