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THE NETWORK OBSERVER -- RECOMMENDED BOOKS
[Computers | Economics | History | Language | Life | Philosophy | Politics | Psychology | Public Relations | Workplaces ]
This page is an index to the brief book recommendations that appear in each issue of The Network Observer. The categories are obviously artificial.
Computers
Carl F. Cargill, Information Technology Standards: Theory, Process, and Organizations. Gordon Cook, National Information Infrastructure: The Dark Side in Washington State. Andrew L. Friedman, Computer Systems Development: History, Organization and Implementation. Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers.* Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices.
Economics
Charles T. Clotfelder and Michael Rothschild, eds, Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education. H. Landis Gabel, ed, Product Standardization and Competitive Strategy, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987. Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility. Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Enterprises: Looking to the Future. Michael E. Porter, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. Richard A. Posner, The Economics of Justice. Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics.
History
Jean-Christophe Agnew, Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750. Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States. Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte, Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America. James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America. Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. Robert Britt Horwitz, The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications. Martha Lampland, The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. John Walton, Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California.
Language
Jenny Cook-Gumperz, William A. Corsaro, and Jurgen Streeck, eds, Children's Worlds and Children's Language. Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin, eds, Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon. William F. Hanks, Language and Communicative Practices. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds, Critical Terms for Literary Study. Deborah Schiffrin, ed, Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang, and Gnia Yee Yang, Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script.* William Strunk Jr and E. B. White, The Elements of Style.
Life
Richard Saul Wurman, Access Guides. Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, David Muddyman, Richard Trillo, and Kim Burton, eds, World Music: The Rough Guide. Bob Scher, The Fear of Cooking. Deborah Madison, The Greens Cookbook.
Philosophy
Susan Bordo, The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture. Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory. Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. Richard Broxton Onians, The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate: New Interpretations of Greek, Roman and kindred evidence, also of some Basic Jewish and Christian Beliefs.* Andrew Feenberg and Alastair Hannay, eds, Technology and the Politics of Knowledge.
Politics
Martin Bauer, ed, Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology. Colin J. Bennett, Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States. Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max, Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. Cynthia Cockburn and Ruza Furst-Dilic, eds, Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe. Daniel C. Hallin, We Keep America On Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere. Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds, Public Access to the Internet. Brad Miner, ed, Good Order: Right Answers to Contemporary Questions. Bill Moyer, The Movement Action Plan and The Practical Strategist. Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. Maritza Pick, How To Save Your Neighborhood: The Sierra Club Guide to Community Organizing.
Psychology
Seth Chaiklin and Jean Lave, eds, Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context. Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise. Donald G. Dutton, The Batterer: A Psychological Profile. Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery. Deane Juhan, Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork.
Public Relations
Bill Cantor, ed, Experts in Action: Inside Public Relations. Jack A. Gottschalk, Crisis Response: Inside Stories on Managing Image Under Siege.* Philip Lesly, Overcoming Opposition: A Survival Manual for Executives.
Workplaces
Cynthia Cockburn, Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How. Joan Greenbaum, Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work in the Late Twentieth Century. Guillermo J. Grenier, Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry. Mauro F. Guillen, Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective. Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. Ralph H. Kilmann, Mary J. Saxton, and Roy Serpa, eds, Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture. Mike Parker, Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL. H. Jeff Smith, Managing Privacy: Information Technology and Corporate America. Vicki Smith, Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in an American Bank. JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management.
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