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Beyond the Brain: An Agentive Activity Perspective on Mind, Development, and Learning By Igor Arievitch This book reminds me of a book by A...

Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality By Suzanne Keller I picked this book up to better understand how cultural sociologists und...

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 By Annalee Saxenian My IC2 colleagues have been recommending thi...

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America By James Fallows and Deborah Fallows I confess that I did not read this whole b...

The Domestication of the Savage Mind By Jack Goody I had some concerns about the title of this book, but these were quickly addressed: Good...

On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done By David Badre Another short review. I picked up this book on Kindle to get a better handle on what...

Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City By Brad Feld Here's another brief review. Brad Feld uses Boulde...

Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future By Robert Wuthnow Just a quick review.  In this readable, public-facing book, Robe...

The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society By Jack Goody I've been meaning to pick up Jack Goody for a long time—really, sinc...

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier By John L. and Jean Comaroff I just reviewed...

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa By Jean and John Comaroff In this thick...

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right By Arlie Russell Hochschild In this National Book Award finalist and ...

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...