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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set) By Max Weber I've been putting off this review for a while b...

The Division of Labor in Society By Emile Durkheim Emile Durkheim's dissertation became a classic work and a founding text of sociolo...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism By Max Weber I regret having taken so long to get to this fascinating book, which intro...

The Uses of Argument By Stephen Toulmin A few days ago, I remarked on Twitter that I was reading through The Uses of Argument , and it wa...

If you're interested in international professional communication, consider applying as a guest editor for Connexions: International Prof...

The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom By Mark S. Weiner I'...

Sensemaking in Organizations By Karl E. Weick Weick's Sensemaking in Organizations  is often cited by people working in (or on the edg...

Spinuzzi, C., & Jakobs, E.-M. (2013). Integrated writers, integrated writing, and the integration of distributed work. Connexions: Inter...

Marc Bousquet interviewed me a while back about my reasons for self-publishing Topsight . Today, his story came out , and it provides a nice...

I've spoken to the Austin Society for Technical Communication many times since I moved to Austin—they're a terrific crowd, interest...

It's the end of the semester, so everything is due at once. And that means that once again I'm sitting on a backlog of books and blo...

My standard description of my research is now a presentation — which I gave at Utah State last week. Take a look. "I watch peopl...

Earlier this week I wrote a guest column on topsight for Life and Letters , a magazine published by UT's College of Liberal Arts. In pa...

We're wrapping up our discussion of Topsight  on Inkwell , and Fredrik Matheson was kind enough to discuss how his team is using Topsigh...

I've been excited about opportunities to discuss my new book Topsight , which describes how to get a big-picture view of an organization...

Recently I argued that college students are learning and writing in a mind-boggling range of genres , including electronic genres, and that ...

The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion By Adam Kuper "This book is a history of the ways in which anthro...

What Kinship Is—And Is Not By Marshall Sahlins Recently I asked an anthropologist friend for some recommendations on anthropology reading...

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results By Morten Hansen Collaboration is a business book b...

Jon Lebkowsky has been kind enough to set up an author's discussion of my book  Topsight  on The WELL.  It's a chance for people to...