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Learning SQL: Master SQL Fundamentals By Alan Beaulieu Just a quick review for this book, which is the first book I have ever been interest...

In fact, my last book review was in late May. I haven't given up on the blog, I have just been buried in other commitments—research, ser...

 Okay, for a while now, the only comments I have been getting are comment spam. So I'm going to shut them off. My apologies to those of ...

Writing as Material Practice Edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse I ran into this 2013 collection in 2019. It's a free d...

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny By Michael Tomasello Recently I reviewed Tomasello's earlier book The Cultural Origins of Human Cog...

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition By Michael Tomasello This is a really fantastic, dense book and I'm sorry it took me so long to ...

Case Study Research Methods By Bill Gillham I picked up this slim book at the used bookstore a month or two ago. Published in 2000, this boo...

Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between the Lodagaa and the 'World on Paper' By Sean Hawkins I picked up th...

The Sociological Imagination By C. Wright Mills The link goes to a later version; my version of this 1959 classic is dated 1967. It's pa...

Eating in Theory By Annemarie Mol I loved Annemarie Mol's first book, The Body Multiple , in which she asked the question "what is ...

Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling By Christina H. Gladwin I picked up this slim monograph the other week (93pp.) and read it in maybe one ...

Culture, Language and Personality By Edward Sapir I picked up this paperback some years ago in a used bookstore, and finally got around to r...

We Tried To Warn You: Innovations In Leadership For The Learning Organization By Peter H. Jones In this short book, Peter Jones draws on hi...

Wardley Maps By Simon Wardley First of all, thanks for Frederik Matheson for introducing me to Wardley’s work. I’ve been reading it in bits...

Mind As Action By James V. Wertsch I reviewed this book a long time ago ( 2003! ), but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then....

Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action By James V. Wertsch I was surprised to discover that I apparently haven...

Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime By Bruno Latour Last summer I reviewed Latour's Down to Earth , one of the two b...

Pragmatism By William James The link goes to the free Kindle edition, but my copy is a 1986 print copy from Hackett Publishing Company tha...

If you're interested in the Activity Theory Summer School, here's the flyer explaining dates, application process, cost (FREE), and...

Last month I was honored to present a keynote at the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces 5th RGCS Symposium , which focused on collaborat...