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Money for "Nothing" : The Rhetoric of the Silicon Valley

PWR 1GWT - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Trump, W.
Last Updated: 12-Dec-2012

A guide to resources for PWR 1GWT:  Money for "Nothing" : The Rhetoric of the Silicon Valley. Topics include connectedness between Stanford and Silicon Valley; the stories generated in and around the Silicon Valley; mission statements from the companies that typify Silicon Valley.

Background/Reference sources about Stanford and Silicon Valley

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Fire in the valley : the making of the personal computer / Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
2nd ed. New York, NY : McGraw Hill, 2000.
Green » HAS-DIGIT (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » QA76.5 .F697 2000
The Internet : a historical encyclopedia / edited by Hilary W. Poole.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » TK5105.875 .I57 I5372 2005 V.1
Fred Terman at Stanford : building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley / C. Stewart Gillmor.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Special Collections » University Archives Reference (Non-circulating) » TK6545 .T47 G55 2004
Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date / Robert X. Cringely.
Newly rev. and expanded. New York : HarperBusiness, c1996.
Green » HAS California History (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » HD9696 .C63 U51586 1996
Relationship between Stanford University and Silicon Valley industry / Yuko Harayama.
Genève : Université de Genève, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, [1998]
Green » Stacks » TK210 .S73 H37 1998 F
Start-up : what we may still learn from Silicon Valley / Hervé Lebret.
[Lausanne] : Hervé Lebret, c2007.
Green » Stacks » HC107 .C23 H5347 2007

Suggested Databases for Stanford and Silicon Valley Research

Try these suggested databases  and these additional:

History of science, technology, and medicine [electronic resource].
[Palo Alto, Calif. : Research Libraries Information Network, 1995-
Web of science [electronic resource].
Philadelphia, PA : Institute for Scientific Information, c1998-
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
ABI/INFORM [electronic resource].
Global ed. [Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI]