Stanford University Press: 1317 books
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...
Dead Hands
A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact...
Sectarian Gulf
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the region. With first-hand accounts of events...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality...
NATO in Afghanistan
The Liberal Disconnect
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
The war in Afghanistan has run for more than a decade, and NATO has become increasingly central to it. In this book, Sten Rynning examines NATO's role in the campaign and the difficult diplomacy involved in fighting a war by alliance. He explores the history of the war and its changing momentum, and...
Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan
The Politics of Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This book examines the experiences of a range of countries in the conflict in Afghanistan, with particular focus on the demands of operating within a diverse coalition of states. After laying out the challenges of the Afghan conflict in terms of objectives, strategy, and mission, case studies of 15...
by Khiara M. Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.
The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations...
Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives
Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Many of today's organizations "live in public"; they devote extensive resources to branding, catching the public eye, and capitalizing on the age of transparency. But, at the same time, a growing number of companies and other collectives are flying under the radar, concealing their identities...
by Frank Cross
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Originalism is an enormously popular—and equally criticized—theory of constitutional interpretation. As Elena Kagan stated at her confirmation hearing, "We are all originalists." Scores of articles have been written on whether the Court should use originalism, and some have examined...
The Expanding Spaces of Law
A Timely Legal Geography
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography. An invaluable resource for those new to this line of scholarship, the book also pushes the boundaries of legal geography, reinvigorating previous modes of inquiry and investigating new directions. It guides...
Schools and Societies
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Acknowledged as a standard text in its first two editions, this fully revised and updated third edition offers a broader sweep, stronger...
Ronald Dworkin
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Law depends on various modes of classification. How an act or a person is classified may be crucial in determining the rights obtained, the procedures employed, and what understandings get attached to the act or person. Critiques of law often reveal how arbitrary its classificatory acts are, but no...