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Suicide: A Study in Sociology By Emile Durkheim Durkheim's book Suicide  is, as the editor's introduction tells us, an early use ...

Last October at SIGDOC , Brian McNely was kind enough to interview me about my projects and my modest contributions to rhetoric and profess...

My previous "Coworking in Austin" posts have been in-depth looks at coworking spaces. But this one is about a space I haven't ...

It's time to pick panels for SXSW again this year. This time, I'm on a proposed SXSW.edu panel with others involved with our Human D...

The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation By Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham "Innovation means the ...

The Evolution of the Book By Frederick G. Kilgour I happened to pick up this book at a used bookstore in Austin. Opening the cover, I saw...

Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back By Andrew Zolli with Ann Marie Healy This book will be familiar reading to those who have read similar ...

Spinuzzi, C. (2014, in press). How nonemployee firms stage-manage ad-hoc collaboration: An activity theory analysis. Technical Communicatio...

How Institutions Think   By Mary Douglas I picked up this slim (138pp.) book based on its title and description as well as through a st...

The Philosophy of Rhetoric By I. A. Richards I'm sure I should have read this little classic a long time ago, but I didn't. Earli...

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 By Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell I ...

Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals By Dan Brown Dan Brown was kind enough...

In Austin? Come to the August UXPA Austin meeting  on Tuesday, August 6. I'll be discussing how to get to topsight via—of course—my boo...

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...

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