2012-05-24T13:01:46Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB528.html 2012-04-24T06:00:00Z 2012-04-24T06:00:00Z

A collection of essays by leading legal scholars on the role and impact of confidentiality in the U.S. legal system, discussed in a multidisciplinary, nonpartisan, and empirical manner.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB526.html 2012-04-09T11:30:00Z 2012-04-09T11:30:00Z

From one of our most trusted counterterrorism experts, a sweeping, insider's account of the decade-long chase for America's deadliest enemy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB491.html 2011-08-25T06:00:00Z 2011-08-25T06:00:00Z

Offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building effective community initiatives and youth programs, including 10-step process that poses different accountability questions to help document outcomes for funders.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB428.html 2010-12-09T07:15:00Z 2010-12-09T07:15:00Z

A groundbreaking examination of America's health that points to the crucial role of our everyday world in determining our well-being.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB416.html 2009-07-13T13:31:00Z 2009-07-13T13:31:00Z

A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB415.html 2009-05-19T08:08:00Z 2009-05-19T08:08:00Z

The new challenges faced by intelligence groups, militaries, and nations vary in scope and circumstances. The author draws comparisons across nations to illuminate issues, especially arrangements for domestic intelligence.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB414.html 2008-08-03T16:07:00Z 2008-08-03T16:07:00Z

As the Bush administration's first special envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Dobbins helped the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. His memoir explains why the United States has failed to stabilize either Afghanistan or Iraq.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB413.html 2008-08-02T19:07:00Z 2008-08-02T19:07:00Z

Offering insights into vital questions of national security, presidential decisionmaking, and terrorist motives, world-renowned terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins examines how terrorists think about nuclear weapons and nuclear terror.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB412.html 2008-03-09T17:48:00Z 2008-03-09T17:48:00Z

The first book to examine how men's and women's lives and their physiology contribute to differences in their health. The authors demonstrate that modern societies' health problems involve a combination of policies, personal behavior, and choice.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB410.html 2007-12-31T21:00:00Z 2007-12-31T21:00:00Z

Post-Cold War Asia is increasingly unstable due to changes in relationships among the major countries, risks to the globalization process that underlay U.S. Cold War successes, and failure so far of U.S. strategies to adapt to the new environment.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB411.html 2007-12-31T21:00:00Z 2007-12-31T21:00:00Z

This book is designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare organizations to achieve high-quality services for their users.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB104-1.html 2007-10-09T10:46:00Z 2007-10-09T10:46:00Z

Study from 1951 provides insight into the political leadership and foreign policy in the Soviet Union and other communist states; the development of Soviet military strategy and doctrine; and the organization and operation of the Soviet economy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB113-1.html 2007-10-09T04:46:00Z 2007-10-09T04:46:00Z

Classic game theory primer from 1954 that discusses basic concepts of game theory and its applications, and which popularized the subject for amateurs, professionals, and students throughout the world.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB183-1.html 2007-10-09T04:46:00Z 2007-10-09T04:46:00Z

Endeavors to determine -- on the basis of then-current biological and cosmological knowledge -- whether there are other worlds where man can survive or where human life may even now be flourishing.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB149-1.html 2007-10-08T19:46:00Z 2007-10-08T19:46:00Z

Classic work from 1961 discusses basic concepts of game theory and its applications for military, economic, and political problems, as well as its usefulness in decisionmaking in business, operations research, and behavioral science.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB179-1.html 2007-10-08T16:46:00Z 2007-10-08T16:46:00Z

''Habitable Planets for Man'' examines and estimates the probabilities of finding planets habitable to human beings, where they might be found, and the number there may be in our own galaxy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB137-1.html 2007-10-08T10:46:00Z 2007-10-08T10:46:00Z

Classic work from 1959 that discusses the origins of air power, its cornerstone position in the evolution of Cold War era nuclear strategy, and its treatment of preventive and preemptive attacks, deterrence, and the economics of strategy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB136-1.html 2007-10-08T10:46:00Z 2007-10-08T10:46:00Z

Seminal guide from 1958 on the uses and characteristics of space systems, including astronautics and its applications, technology, rocket vehicles, propulsion systems, propellants, internal power sources, guidance, communication, and more.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB408.html 2007-10-08T07:46:00Z 2007-10-08T07:46:00Z

Examines the various factors that impelled leaders on both sides of the conflict in World War II to respond to immediate problems with actions resulting in effects that were often neither planned nor foreseen.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB407.html 2007-05-12T14:33:00Z 2007-05-12T14:33:00Z

Explores the potential for and limitations to information warfare, including its use in weapons systems and in command-and-control operations as well as in the generation of ''noise'' and how far ''friendly conquest'' in cyberspace extends.