Recent Reading
Someone asked me at some point how many books I read, and I
didn't know the answer, so I started keeping a list.
That's a flimsy excuse for maintaining this page, although not as
flimsy as any possible excuse you can have for reading it.
Books Read in 2010
- The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry. Start Kirk and Herb Kutchins.
- The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University. Louis Menand.
- The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy. David Naguib Pellow and Lee Sun-Hee Park.
- Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia. Allaine Cerwonka.
- Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo. Julia Elyachar.
- Making Social Science Matter. Bent Flyvbjerg.
- Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department. Steve Herbert.
- Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home. Fiona Allon.
- Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. Etienne Balibar and Immanual Wallerstein.
- Storms of my Grandchildren. James Hansen.
- Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization. Michael Goldman.
- Magnificent Desolation. Buzz Aldrin.
- Television: Technology and Cultural Form. Raymond Williams.
- Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality, and Culture. Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentman, and Richard Wilk (eds).
- The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Vincent Mosco.
- The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus. Peter Sutton.
- Chaos of Disciplines. Andrew Abbott.
- Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames. Mei Zhan.
- Greening through IT. Bill Tomlinson.
- Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Timothy Mitchell.
- Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia. Tess Lau.
- The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. Andrew Pickering.
- My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Bonnie Nardi.
- Whatever Happened to the Faculty? Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Mary Burgan.
- The Cultural Logic of Computation. David Golumbia.
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Christopher Kelty.
- Fieldwork is Not What it Used To Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition. James Faubion and George Marcus (eds).
- The Tiwi of North Australia. C.W.M. Hart, Arnold Pilling, and Jane Goodale.
- California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It. Joe Mathews and Mark Paul.
- Ethnicity, Inc. John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff.
- Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation. Ken Gelder and Jane Jacobs.
- The Country and the City. Raymond Williams.
- The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. J.-K. Gibson-Graham.
- French DNA. Paul Rabinow.
- The Geography of Thought. Richard Nisbett.
Books Read in 2009
- Standards and Their Stories. Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star (eds.)
- Geeks Bearing Gifts. Ted Nelson.
- A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being. Tony Swain.
- Pigeon Feathers (and other stories). John Updike.
- Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Cynthia Enloe.
- Backlash: The Undeclared War on American Women. Susan Faludi.
- The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Jack Goody.
- Publics and Counterpublics. Michael Warner.
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale. Iain Banks.
- Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem. National Research Council.
- Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin (eds).
- Gramsci, Culture, and Anthropology. Kate Crehan.
- Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India. Bernard Cohn.
- Doing Visual Ethnography. Sarah Pink.
- The Ethnographic Imagination. Paul Willis.
- The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life. Barry Schwartz.
- Marxism and Literature. Raymond Williams.
- Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It. Geoff Dyer.
- Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Dreaming: Warramiri Yolngu and the Quest for Equality. Ian McIntosh.
- The Fall of Troy. Peter Ackroyd.
- The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. Thomas Richards.
- The Great World. David Malouf.
- The Design of Everyday Life. Elizabeth Shove, Matthew Watson, Martin Hand, and Jack Ingram.
- The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq. Derek Gregory.
- The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat. Charles Clover.
- Elsewhere, USA. Dalton Conley.
- Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Arun Agrawal.
- The Yolngu and their Land: A system of land tenure and the fight for its recognition. Nancy Williams.
- Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. William Mazzarella.
- Confessions of an Habitual Administrator: An Academic Survival Manual. Paul Bryant.
- Political Ecology. Paul Robbins.
- 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account. Peter Carey.
- Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice. Jason Corburn.
- The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. James Ferguson.
- Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court. Justin Richland.
- Wild Politics. Susan Hawthorne.
- Toward the End of Time. John Updike.
- Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Dipesh Chakrabarty.
- The Old Man and Me. Elaine Dundy.
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. Fred Turner.
- Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines. Martin Nakata.
- Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Megan Boler (ed).
- Dangerous Men: The Sociology of Parole. Richard McCleary.
- Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art. Grant Kester.
- Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location. Lorraine Code.
- Methods of Discovery: Heuristic for the Social Sciences. Andrew Abbott.
- Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary. Paul Rabinow and George Marcus with James Faubion and Tobias Rees.
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Barry Schwartz.
- How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement. Michele Lamont.
- Comfort, Cleanliness, and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality. Elizabeth Shove.
- Aboriginal Business: Alliances in a Remote Australian Town. Kimberly Christen.
- Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life. Thomas Malaby.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Friere.
- The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion.
- Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture. Geert Lovink.
- The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. David Stark.
- Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change. Anique Hommels.
- Literary Theory: An Introduction. Terry Eagleton.
- Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure. Rachel Maines.
- Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank. John Weeks.
- An Imaginary Life. David Malouf.
- Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.
- Hijacking Sustainability. Adrian Parr.
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Jon Krakauer.
- Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. Steven Epstein.
Books Read in 2008
- The Wealth of Networks. Yochai Benkler.
- Engineering and the Mind's Eye. Eugene Ferguson.
- Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Akhil Gupta.
- Technoscience and Everyday Life. Mike Michael.
- Coping with Faculty Stress. Walter Gmelch.
- Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong.
- Brands: The Logos of the Global Economy. Celia Lury.
- Saturday. Ian McEwan.
- The True History of the Kelly Gang. Peter Carey.
- Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources, and Modernity in Colonial South India. Kavita Philip.
- Michel Foucault. Clare O'Farrell.
- Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Arturo Escobar.
- The Internet Imaginaire. Patrice Flichy.
- The Light of Day. Graham Swift.
- From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America. Jennifer Light.
- Sounding Out The City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life. Michael Bull.
- Travels in the Scriptorium. Paul Auster.
- What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design. Peter-Paul Verbeek.
- Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Victoria Vesna (ed).
- Mothers and Sons. Colm Toibin.
- Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies. Charis Thompson.
- The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. Juliet Schor.
- Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
- Introduction to Political Economy. Charles Sackrey and Geoffrey Schneider.
- Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. Sanyika Shakur.
- The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. Jean Beaudrillard.
- Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age. Frank Furedi.
- Gertrude and Claudius. John Updike.
- Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity. Gary Alan Fine.
- Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. Fred Myers.
- A Way of Life, Like Any Other. Darcy O'Brien.
- What's the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank.
- How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. Marc Bousquet.
- The Lambs of London. Peter Ackroyd.
- Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds. Gary Alan Fine.
- How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. Paul Silvia.
- Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Kate Fox.
- Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction. Gary Alan Fine.
- Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Caitlin Zaloom.
- Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Lisa Nakamura.
- The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. Irvine Welsh.
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. David Graeber.
- Designerly Ways of Knowing. Nigel Cross.
- What They Didn't Teach You In Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in your Academic Career. Paul Grauy and David Drew.
- The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. Robert Hughes.
- On Chesil Beach. Ian McEwan.
- The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers. Jack Schuster and Martin Finkelstein.
- The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility. Arindam Dutta.
- The Gathering. Anne Enright.
- Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America. Sabina Magliocco.
- Ethnographic Sorcery. Harry West.
- Arthur and George. Julian Barnes.
- Cloudstreet. Tim Winton.
- Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. James O'Connor.
- The Bodysurfers. Robert Drewe.
- Every Move You Make. David Malouf.
- Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class. Christopher Newfield.
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
- Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. Stephen Pyne.
- Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet. Johan Fornäs, Kajsa Klein, Martina Ladendoft, Jenny Sundén, and Malin Sveningsson.
- The Complete Henry Bech. John Updike.
- HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community. Thomas Erickson and David McDonald (eds).
- The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. Stephanie Coontz.
- Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Kenneth Jackson.
- Improving Your Classroom Teaching. Maryellen Weimar.
- Analyzing Faculty Workload. Jon Wergin (ed).
- The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. Christopher Lasch.
- The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Civilization. Jerry Muller.
- Remembering Babylon. David Malouf.
- Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land. Donald Thomson.
- How To Do Theory. Wolfgang Iser.
- Contested Natures. Phil Macnaughten and John Urry.
- Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. Roy Porter.
- Memories of the Ford Administration. John Updike.
- Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self. Nikolas Rose.
- Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa Malkki.
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism. David Harvey.
- The Snowmobile Revolution: Technology and Social Change in the Arctic. Pertti Pelto.
- Software Studies: A Lexicon. Matthew Fuller (ed).
Books Read in 2007
- Rabbit is Rich. John Updike.
- Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Lucy Suchman.
- Towards a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in
the Test Tube. Hans-Jorg Rheinberger.
- Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction
Design. Victor Kaptelenin and Bonnie Nardi.
- Rabbit at Rest. John Updike.
- Reading Television. John Fiske and John Hartley.
- When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of
Bioprospecting in Mexico. Cori Hayden.
- Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Kaushik Sunder
Rajan.
- Explorers of the New Century. Magnus Mills.
- Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market
Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. Joel Kaye.
- The Academic's Handbook. Leigh Deneef and Craufurd Goodwin (eds).
- Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-first
Century. John Urry.
- Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age. Tiziana
Terranova.
- Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting
Subject. Sherry Ortner.
- Scoop. Evelyn Waugh.
- Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth
Century. James Clifford.
- Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Arjun
Appadurai.
- Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation. Mark
Stefik and Barbara Stefik.
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers. Robert Sapolsky.
- Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Adam Greenfield.
- Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants. Kathleen Barry.
- Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late
Capitalism. Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell.
- Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. Sarah Franklin.
- Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular
Culture. Eric Greene.
- Licks of Love. John Updike.
- Place: A Short Introduction. Tim Cresswell.
- The Practice of Cultural Studies. Richard Johnson, Doborah
Chambers, Parvati Raghuram, and Estella Tinknell.
- Fieldwork for Design: Theory and Practice. Dave Randall, Richard
Harper, and Mark Rouncefield.
- Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the
Nineteenth Century. Jonathan Crary.
- Questions of Method in Cultural Studies. Mimi White and James
Schwoch (eds).
- In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. John Thakara.
- Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion,
and American Culture. Jennifer Porter and Darcee McLaren (eds).
- The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, and
Mis-Education. Ellen Seiter.
- Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos. Jon
Wagner and Jan Lundeen.
- Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in
the Modern Social Order. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash.
- Theft: A Love Story. Peter Carey.
- Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate
Dream. Barbara Ehrenreich.
- Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network
Theory. Bruno Latour.
- Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942.
- Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942.
- Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944.
- Neo-liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary
Psychology. Susan McKinnon.
- Couples. John Updike.
- Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology. Bruce Knauft.
- Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe,
900-1900. Alfred Crosby.
- After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. John Law.
- Brazil. John Updike.
- Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. Tarleton
Gillespie.
- The Dying Animal. Philip Roth.
- Junk Mail. Will Self.
- After Theory. Terry Eagleton.
- The Sea. John Banville.
- Telling About Society. Howard Becker.
- Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. David Nye.
- We Need to Talk About Kevin. Lionel Shriver.
- Knowing Machines: Essays on Technological Change. Donald MacKenzie.
- The Centaur. John Updike.
- Virtual Ethnography. Christine Hine.
- Unreliable Memoirs. Clive James.
- Planet of Slums. Mike Davis.
- Uncoupling. Diane Vaughan.
- A Month of Sundays. John Updike.
- Busier than Ever: Why American Families Can't Slow Down. Charles
Darrah, James Freeman, and J.A. English-Lueck.
- My Life as a Fake. Peter Carey.
- Bloomington Days: Town and Gown in Middle America. Blaise
Cronin.
- The College Administrator's Survival Guide. C.K. Gunsalus.
- Falling Towards England. Clive James.
- Reliable Essays. Clive James.
- 101 Things I learned in Architecture School. Matthew Frederick.
- May Week was in June. Clive James.
- Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital
Machines. Mark Poster.
- The Uncommon Reader. Alan Bennett.
- Untold Stories. Alan Bennett.
- Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven
Geographical Development. David Harvey.
- The Return of Martin Guerre. Natalie Zemon Davis.
- Marry Me: A Romance. John Updike.
- A History of Anthropology. Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Finn Sivery
Nielsen.
- Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Ishiguro.
- North Face of Soho. Clive James.
- Free Radical: New Century Essays. Tony Benn.
- Orientalism. Edward Said.
- Portcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Leela Gandhi.
- Terrorist. John Updike.
- Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology.
Robert Figueroa and Sandra Harding (eds).
- Science and an African Logic. Helen Verran.
- The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. Jonathan Schell.
- The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship. Michele White.
Books Read in 2006
- The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society. David
McCurdy, James Spradley, and Dianna Shandy.
- The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's World. James
Spradley and Brenda Mann.
- Memory Practices in the Sciences. Geof Bowker.
- Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the
Marketplace. Roger Geiger.
- Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Elliot Liebow.
- What's the Matter with the Internet? Mark Poster.
- The Uses of the University. Clark Kerr.
- Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Lila
Abu-Lughod.
- The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian
Sovereignty. Vine Deloria, Jr and Clifford Lytle.
- Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability,
Ethics, and the Academy. Marilyn Strathern (ed).
- Doing Critical Ethnography. Jim Thomas.
- Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity,
Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge. Marilyn Strathern.
- Shaping Things. Bruce Sterling.
- What the Best College Teachers Do. Ken Bain.
- Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for a
Democratic Classroom. Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill.
- The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of
Images, 400-1200. Mary Carruthers.
- Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gender,
Folklore, and Changing Military Culture. Carol Burke.
- Picturing Personhood: Brian Scans and Biomedical Identity. Joseph
Dumit.
- Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Barbara Merhoff.
- Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics
amongst Western Desert Aborigines. Fred Myers.
- Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. David
Courtwright.
- Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics. Rob Kling,
Howard Rosenbaum, and Steve Sawyer.
- Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence. Thomas
Hylland Eriksen.
- Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. John Comaroff and
Jean Comaroff.
- Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet. Richard Coyne.
- Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical
Social Theory. Edward Soja.
- Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing. Claire Kerhwald Cook.
- How Emotions Work. Jack Katz.
- Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the
Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge. David Turnbull.
- Design Research. Brenda Laurel (ed).
- Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. James
Ferguson.
- Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and
Territories. Janet Abrams and Peter Hall (eds).
- On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World. Tim Cresswell.
- The Invention of Tradition. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds).
- For Space. Doreen Massey.
- Every Other Thursday. Ellen Daniell.
- Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. Daniel Miller.
- Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space. Anna McCarthy.
- Textures of Place: Exploring Humantic Geographies. Paul Adams,
Steven Hoelscher, and Karen Till (eds).
- Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. T.L. Taylor.
- Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.
- Materiality. Daniel Miller (ed).
- Captain Alatriste. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner.
- Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Anna Lowenhaupt
Tsing.
- Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City. William Mitchell.
- Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education. David Noble.
- The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and
Creating True Higher Learning. Stanley Aronowitz.
- Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. James
Scott.
- Digital Capitalism: Networking in the Global Market System. Dan
Schiller.
- The Machine In Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer
Engineers. Gary Lee Downey.
- Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj,
c. 1800-1947. E.M. Collingham.
- Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public
Services. Michael Lipsky.
- Cultural Geography. Mike Crang.
- Spaces of Geographical Thought. Paul Cloke and Ron Johnston (Eds).
- Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher
Education. Derek Bok.
- How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,
Literature, and Informatics. Katherine Hayles.
- Consuming Interests: The Social Provision of Foods. Terry
Marsden, Andrew Flynn, and Michelle Harrison.
- Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and
Sovereignty. Aihwa Ong.
- The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical
Age. Allucquere Rosanne Stone.
- Understanding Henri Lefebrve: Theory and the Possible. Stuart Elden.
- Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as
Anthropological Problems. Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (Eds).
- Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century
Europe. Hayden White.
- Run, Rabbit. John Updike.
- Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity. Gilbert Herdt.
- 1491: New Revalations of the Americas before Columbus. Charles Mann.
- Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and
Critical Design. Anthony Dunne.
- Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Reyner Banham.
- Rabbit Redux. John Updike.
Books Read in 2005
- The Rites of Passage. Arnold Van Gennep.
- Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. Philippe
Aries.
- The Ethnographic Interview. James Spradley.
- Car Cultures. Daniel Miller (ed).
- World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions. Robert Rydell.
- The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and
Power. Ronald Day.
- The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. Michael Taussig.
- Orality and Literacy. Walter Ong.
- Subculture: The Meaning of Style. Dick Hebdige.
- On Bullshit. Harry Frankfurt.
- Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. Michael Taussig.
- Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of
Higher Education. David Kirp.
- The Way We Never Were. Stephanie Coontz.
- The Condition of Postmodernity. David Harvey.
- With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent
Culture. Gary Alan Fine.
- The Rise and Fall of Class in Britan. David Cannadine.
- Storytelling in Organizations. John Seely Brown, Stephen Denning,
Katalina Groh, and Laurence Prusak.
- Gaining Access: A practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative
Researchers. Martha Feldman, Jeannine Bell, and Michele Tracy Berger.
- Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western
Apache. Keith Basso.
- Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk
Back. Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (eds).
- Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases that Shook the Academy. Ron Robin.
- Theories of the Information Society. Frank Webster.
- A Year in Van Nuys. Sandra Tsing Loh.
- Seeing Like a State. James Scott.
- Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a
Knowledge Economy. Stephen Barley and Gideon Kunda.
- Primitive Classification. Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss.
- Cosmologies in the Making: A generative approach to cultural
variation in Inner New Guinea. Frederik Barth.
- Portraits of The Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols
Among The Western Apache. Keith Basso.
- Reading National Geographic. Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins.
- One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and
the End of Eceonomic Democracy. Thomas Frank.
- Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human
Society. Victor Turner.
- Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Arjun
Appadurai.
- The Social Life of Thing: Commodities in Cultural
Perspective. Arjun Appadurai (ed).
- The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social
Territory. Lyn Lofland.
- Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar
America. Lynn Spigel.
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American
West. Dee Brown.
- The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do. Harry
Collins and Martin Kusch.
- The Language of New Media. Lev Manovich.
- Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment. Stephen
Bocking.
- Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects, and Everyday Life. Sarah
Pink.
- Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power,
and Knowledge. Laura Nader (ed.)
- The Queen of the South. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space. Lyn Lofland.
- Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Valene Smith (ed).
- Departments that Work: Building and Sustaining Cultures of
Excellence in Academic Programs. Jon Wergin.
- Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital
World. Stefan Helmreich.
- Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern
World. Eric Wolf.
- Space, Place, and Gender. Doreen Massey.
- Spaces of Hope. David Harvey.
- The Anthropology of Time. Alfred Gell.
- My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a
Student. Rebekah Nathan.
- Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the
Past. Eviatar Zerubavel.
- In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern
Britain. David Cannadine.
- Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging
Sciences and Technologies. Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit (eds).
- Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco. Paul Rabinow.
- Deflating Information: From Science Studies to
Documentation. Bernd Frohmann.
- The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern
Ireland. William Kelleher.
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. Benedict Anderson.
- You Owe Yourself A Drunk. James Spradley.
- Rescuing Prometheus. Thomas Hughes.
- Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment. Paul Rabinow.
- Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. William
Cronon (ed).
- Folk Devils and Moral Panics. Stanley Cohen.
- Time and Social Theory. Barbara Adam.
- Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information
Technologies. Michael Curry.
- Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global
Orders. Kim Fortun.
- Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas. David
Held.
- Voyage to the End of the Room. Tibor Fischer.
- Feminism and Anthropology. Henrietta Moore.
Books Read in 2004
- Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of
Terrorism. Thomas Friedman.
- A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer. George
Johnson.
- The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of
Everything. John Gribben.
- Observatory Mansions. Edward Carey.
- The Trick of It. Michael Frayn.
- Qualitative Research Design. Joseph Maxwell.
- Ever After. Graham Swift.
- Self-Disclosure. Valerian Derlega, Sandra Metts, Sandra Petronio,
and Stephen Margulis.
- Spies. Michael Frayn.
- Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural
Politics of Facts and Artifacts. David Hess.
- Headlong. Michael Frayn.
- Risk and Culture. Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky.
- Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis. Ivan Illich.
- The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism. Max Weber.
- Operation Shylock. Philip Roth.
- Syrup. Maxx Barry.
- Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the
Human Sciences. George Marcus and Michael Fischer.
- More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from
the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Ruth Schwatz Cowan.
- The Ritual Process. Victor Turner.
- Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval
Marseille. Daniel Lord Smail.
- The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self. Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton.
- A Social History of American Technology. Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
- At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space. Irene Cieraad (ed).
- Essays on the Anthropology of Reason. Paul Rabinow.
- Purity and Danger. Mary Douglas.
- Non-places: Introduction to the Anthropology of
Supermodernity. Marc Auge.
- Waiting for the Barbarians. J.M. Coetzee.
- The Anxiety of Everyday Objecs. Aurelie Sheehan.
- Activity-Centered Computing: An Ecological Approach to Designing
Smart Tools and Usable Systems. Geri Gay and Helene Hembrooke.
- Daughters of the Dreaming. Diane Bell.
- The Use and Abuse of Biology. Marshall Sahlins.
- Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids get Working Class
Jobs. Paul Willis.
- The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. Mary
Douglas and Baron Isherwood.
- Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe Things
They Shouldn't. D. Jason Slone.
- Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine's Visual Culture. Lisa
Cartwright.
- Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and
Envrionmental Knowing. Malcolm McCullough.
- The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Jack Goody.
- Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information
Age. Daniel Cohen.
- Waiting for Foucault, Still. Marshall Sahlins.
- Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology. Mary Douglas.
- Culture and Practical Reason. Marhsall Sahlins.
- A Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures. Carol Greenhouse.
- Ask the Pilot. Patrick Smith.
- Research Methods in Anthropology. H. Russell Bernard.
- Interpreting Qualitative Data. David Silverman.
- The Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked
Problems. Geraldine Fitzpatrick.
- Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality. Kent Sandstrom, Daniel
Martin, and Gary Alan Fine.
- Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali. Clifford
Geertz.
- Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino.
- The Whole Story. Ali Smith.
- The Pasteurization of France. Bruno Latour.
- The Cutting Room. Louise Welch.
- Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture from
the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Emily Martin.
- Symbolic Interactionism. Herbert Blumer.
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Michel Foucault.
- The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Daniel Miller and Don
Slater.
- Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming. Gary Alan Fine.
- History and Theory in Anthropology. Alan Bernard.
- The McDonaldization of Society. George Ritzer.
- The Practice of Everyday Life. Michel de Certeau.
- The Book of Illusions. Paul Auster.
- In the Metro. Marc Auge.
- Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism.
Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander.
- Unnatural Emotions. Catherine Lutz.
- Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography. David Harvey.
- Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Anthony Giddens.
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. Richard Hofstadter.
- The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. Andrew
Pickering.
- Colossus: The Price of America's Empire. Niall Ferguson.
- Old School. Tobias Wolff.
- Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship, and the
New Reproductive Technologies. Marilyn Strathern.
Books Read in 2003
- Developing Critical Thinkers. Stephen Brookfield.
- The Culture of Fear. Barry Glassner.
- The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in
the 19th Century. Wolfgang Schivelbusch.
- cultures@siliconvalley. J.A. English-Lueck.
- After Henry. Joan Didion.
- Toxic Sludge is Good for You. John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
- Paris to the Moon. Adam Gopnik.
- Software Design and Usability. Klaus Kaasgaard.
- Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science. Mark Turner.
- Social Thinking -- Software Practice. Yvonne Dittrich, Christiane
Floyd, and Ralf Klischewski (eds).
- All Quiet on the Orient Express. Magnus Mills.
- Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of
Artificial Intelligence. Diana Forsythe.
- The Gift of Stones. Jim Crace.
- Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid. Tibor Fischer.
- Atonement. Ian McEwan.
- How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. Alex
Marshall.
- Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Clifford Geertz.
- The Way We Think: Concpetual Blending and the Mind's Hidden
Complexities. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner.
- Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative
Interview Studies. Robert Weiss.
- Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial
Region. Martin Kenney (ed.)
- The Ethnomethodological Foundations of Mathematics. Eric Livingston.
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Joan Didion.
- The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of
Information. Bernardo Huberman.
- Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande. E.E. Evans-Pritchard.
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Antonio Damasio.
- Feynman Lectures on Computation. Tony Hey and Robin Allen (eds).
- Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology. Mary Douglas.
- The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archiac
Societies. Marcel Mauss.
- Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the
Experimental Article in Science. Charles Bazerman.
- The Craft of Research. Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams.
- Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and
Route 128. Annalee Saxenian.
- The Procedure. Harry Mulisch.
- Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal
Identification. Simon Cole.
- Through the Interface: A Human Activity Approach to User Interface
Design. Susanne Bodker.
- Knowledge and Social Imagery. David Bloor.
- The Sweet-Shop Owner. Graham Swift.
- Play It As It Lays. Joan Didion.
- Institutions and Organizations. W. Richard Scott.
- Getting What You Came For. Robert Peters.
- Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work. Gary Fine.
- The Field of Cultural Production. Pierre Bourdieu.
- Three To See The King. Magnus Mills.
- Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday
Life. Christena Nippert-Eng.
- The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolution. Pierre Baldi.
- Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. George Marcus.
- Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. Ludwik Fleck.
- Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the
Nineteenth Century. Wolfgang Wschivelbusch.
- Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended
Consequences. Edward Tenner.
- Dead Air. Iain Banks.
- Kissing in Manhatten. David Schickler.
- Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and
Interaction. James Katz and Ronald Rice.
- Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public
Performance. James Katz and Mark Aakhus (eds).
- Boundaries of Privacy: Dialectics of Disclosure. Sandra Petronio.
- Designing with Web Standards. Jeffrey Zeldman.
- The Impact of Academic Research on Industrial
Performance. National Academy of Engineering.
- Science Studies: An Advanced Introduction. David Hess.
- Science as Practice and Culture. Andrew Pickering (ed).
- Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Bruno
Latour and Steve Woolgar.
- Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Sheila Jasanoff,
Gerald Markle, James Petersen, and Trevor Pinch (eds).
- Things You Should Know. A.M. Homes.
- Road Belong Cargo: A Study of the Cargo Movement in Southern
Madang District, New Guinea. Peter Lawrence.
- Artifacts: An Archeologist's Year in Silicon Valley. Christine
Finn.
- The Revolution of Everyday Life. Raoul Vaneigem.
- The Scheme for Full Employment. Magnus Mills.
- Up In The Air. Walter Kirn.
- The War on our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of
Terrorism. Richard Leone and Greg Anrig (eds.)
- A Landing on the Sun. Michael Frayn.
- Deschooling Soceity. Ivan Illich.
- Heligoland. Shena Mackay.
- Teaching Tips for College and University Instructors. David Royse.
- Kingdom of Fear. Hunter S. Thompson.
- Ethnography: Step by Step. David Fetterman.
- Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data. Martha Feldman.
- Blue Angel. Francine Prose.
- Doing Exemplary Research. Peter Frost and Ralph Stablein (eds).
- Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line. Thomas
Gieryn.
- Our Fathers. Andrew O'Hagan.
- Shuttlecock. Graham Swift.
- Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer
Revolution. Michael Hobart and Zachary Schiffman.
- Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research. Peter Galison
and Burce Hevly (eds).
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Eric
Hoffer.
- The Long Interview. Grant McCracken.
- Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the
Mind. Gerald Graff.
- Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences. John
Allen Paulos.
Books Read in 2002
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of
Life. Daniel Dennett.
- Computing the Future: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and
Engineering. National Research Council.
- Science: The Very Idea. Steve Woolgar.
- Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of
Diminished Expectations. Paul Krugman.
- The Professional Thief. Edwin Sutherland.
- Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. Robert Jackall.
- Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates.
- The Way We Talk Now. Geoff Nunberg.
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution that Made
Computing Personal. Mitchell Waldrop.
- Ethnography in Organizations: Helen Schwartzman.
- Straight Man. Richard Russo.
- The Ethnographer's Method. Alex Stewart.
- Ethnomethodology. Alain Coulon.
- Conversation Analysis: The Study of Talk-in-Interaction. George
Psathas.
- Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. Jane Margolis and
Allan Fisher.
- The Last Days of Haute Cuisine. Patric Kuh.
- Organiations. James March and Herb Simon.
- The Lecturer's Tale. James Hynes.
- Hotel World. Ali Smith.
- The Risk Pool. Richard Russo.
- The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life. Eviatar
Zerubavel.
- The Diagnosis. Alan Lightman.
- Lying Awake. Mark Salzman.
- Aiding and Abetting. Muriel Spark.
- When We Were Orphans. Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Stupid White Men. Michael Moore.
- The Portable MBA. Robert Bruner, Mark Eaker, Edward Freeman,
Robert Spekman, and Elizabeth Olmsted Tiesberg.
- Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life. Eviatar
Zerubavel.
- In a Sunburned Country. Bill Bryson.
- The Theory of the Leisure Class. Thorstein Veblen.
- Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in
U.S. Settings. Stephen Barley and Julian Orr (eds).
- Glue. Irvine Welsh.
- 9-11. Noam Chomsky.
- Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula. Robert Diamond.
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America. Barbara Ehrenreich.
- On the Internet. Hubert Dreyfus.
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American
Ideology. Howard Zinn.
- Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High
Technology. Stan Liebowitz and Stephen Margolis.
- Information Visualization. Bob Spence.
- Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-ears Look at Disneyland. David Koenig.
- Invention and the Rise of Technocapitalism. Luis Suarez-Villa.
- The Scottish Enlightenment: How the Scots Invented the Modern
World. Arthur Herman.
- Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. Joel Garreau.
- 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com. Mike Daisey.
- Designing from Both Sides of the Screen. Ellen Isaacs and Alen
Walendowski.
- Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinizaion of
Everyday Life. Robin Leidner.
- Information Visualization: Perception for Design. Colin Ware.
- Data Mining. Ian Witten and Eibe Frank.
- Mappings in Thought and Language. Gilles Faucounier.
- The Little Sister. Raymond Chandler.
- Microsoft Secrets. Michael Cusumano and Richard Selby.
- The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler.
- How The Left Can Win Arguments and Influence People. John Wilson.
- Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Robert Emerson, Rachel Fretz, and Linda Shaw.
- Computationalism: New Directions. Matthias Scheutz (ed).
- Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. John Scott.
- Being Dead. Jim Crace.
- The Myth of the Paperless Office. Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper.
- Engand's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. Jon Savage.
- Meaning in Technology. Arnold Pacey.
- Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond. Oliver Williamson (ed).
- The Kandy-Colored Tangerine-Flake Streamline baby. Tom Wolfe.
- Changing Order: Replication and Inducation in Scientific Practice. Harry Collins.
- Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County since World War II. Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster (eds).
- Challenges to Research Universities. Roger Noll (ed).
- In Pursuit of Prestige: Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education.
Dominic Brewer, Susan Gates, and Charles Goldman.
- Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science. Brian Fay.
- Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind brings
Mathematics into Being. George Lakoff and Rafael Nunex.
- Communicating Effectively. Lani Arredondo.
- Skills for New Managers. Morey Stettner.
- Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies.
Ben Schneiderman.
- Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical
Topics. Clifford Geertz.
- Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial
University. Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie.
- How To Be Good. Nick Hornby.
- Myths That Cause Crime. Harold Pepinsky and Paul Jesilow.
Books Read in 2001
- Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech
Corporation. Gideon Kunda.
- Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay. Charles Perrow.
- The Mind Doesn't Work That Way. Jerry Fodor.
- The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Wiebe Bijker,
Thomas Hughes and Trevor Pinch (eds).
- The Seville Communion. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- The Snows of Kimimanjaro. Ernest Hemingway.
- America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate
Capitalism. David Noble.
- Kitchen Confidential. Anthony Bourdain.
- My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Julian Dibbell.
- Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure. Paul Auster.
- Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Hapsburg
Dilemma. Ernest Gellner.
- Pieces of the Frame. John McPhee.
- The Social Construction of What? Ian Hacking.
- Philosophy and Social Hope. Rochard Rorty.
- Acts of Resistence. Pierre Bourdieu.
- The Plato Papers. Peter Ackroyd.
- The Age of Missing Information. Bill McKibben.
- William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. Catherine Mulholland.
- The Eternal Footman. James Morrow.
- How Institutions Think. Mary Douglas.
- An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Robert Layton.
- Embedded Linux. John Lombardo.
- Questining Technology. Andrew Feenberg.
- D'Alembert's Principle. Andrew Crumey.
- Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern
Europe. Otto Mayr.
- Copenhagen: A Play. Michael Frayn.
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Peter Carey.
- The Book on the Bookshelf. Henry Petroski.
- Love and Peace with Melody Paradise. Martin Miller.
- Neither Here nor There. Bill Bryson.
- The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century 1590-1710. David Stevenson.
- Moo. Jane Smiley.
- Love, etc. Julian Barnes.
- Sciences of the Artificial. Herb Simon.
- Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Bruce Schneier.
- When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric
Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Carolyn Marvin.
- The Stillest Day. Josephine Hart.
- Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical
Change. Wiebe Bijker and John Law (eds).
- Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for
Developing Grounded Theory. Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin.
- Eclipse. John Banville.
- Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. John
Ralston Saul.
- The Business. Iain Banks.
- Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural
Form. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour.
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Thomas Kuhn.
- Automated Alice. Jeff Noon.
- Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. Jeanette Winterson.
- Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital
Age. David Levy.
- Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of
Leadership. Linda Hill.
- Everyday Conversation. Robert Nofsinger.
- The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of
Memory. Norman Klein.
- The Nautical Chart. Arturo Peres-Reverte.
- Intimacy/Midnight All Day. Hanif Kureishi.
- Shopgirl. Steve Martin.
- Night Train. Martin Amis.
- Where I'm Calling From. Raymond Carver.
- Social Organization of Medical Work. Anselm Strauss, Shizuko
Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener.
Books Read in 2000
- On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997. Paul Churchland and
Patricia Churchland.
- The Elements of Typographic Style. Robert Bringhurst.
- The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human
Experience. Francisco Valera, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch.
- The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. David Maurer.
- The Hard Life. Flann O'Brien.
- The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High
Technology. Langdon Winner.
- Music, In a Foreign Language. Andrew Crumey.
- The Manifesto of the Communist Party. Karl Marx and Friederich Engels.
- The Social Life of Information. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
- A Theory of Shopping. Daniel Miller.
- Art Worlds. Howard Becker.
- Gossip, Grooming and the Evolution of Language. Robin Dunbar.
- The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text and Memory at the
Iran-Contra Hearings. Michael Lynch and David Bogen.
- Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. Etienne Wenger.
- When Things Start to Think. Neil Gershenfeld.
- Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Joseph Williams.
- Original Bliss. A.L. Kennedy.
- Almost No Memory. Lydia Davis.
- Invention by Design: How Engineers get from Thought to
Think. Henry Petroski.
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass
Media. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky.
- Bunker Man. Duncan McLean.
- The Jehovah Contract. Victor Korman.
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Jared Diamond.
- The Restraint of Beasts. Magnus Mills.
- Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and
Culture. Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber (eds).
- Mr Commitment. Mike Gayle.
- Timbuktu. Paul Auster.
- The Fencing Master. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- A Moveable Feast. Ernest Hemimgway.
- Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and
University Teachers. Wilbert McKeachie.
- Drink: A Social History of America. Andrew Barr.
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive
Us Crazy and How To Restore the Sanity. Alan Cooper.
- The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger. Charles Guignon (ed).
- Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological
Innovation. Donald Stokes.
- Computers, Minds and Conduct. Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, John
Lee and Wes Sharrock.
- England, England. Julian Barnes.
- A History of Modern Computing. Paul Ceruzzi.
- Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI. Rodney Brooks.
- Tough Call. Mike Loew.
- Advice for New Faculty Members. Robert Boice.
- Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons. John Carter.
- Barrel Fever. David Sedaris.
- Driving Mr Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's
Brain. Michael Paterniti.
- Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays 1978-1989. Norman Malcolm.
- Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon. Jim Paul.
- A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Richard Cyert and James March.
- Me Talk Pretty One Day. David Sedaris.
- Information Systems: A Management Perspective. Stephen Alter.
- The Flanders Panel. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- Images of Organization. Gareth Morgan.
- Analyzing Social Settings. John Lofland and Lyn Lofland.
- Notes from a Small Island. Bill Bryson.
- Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles. Sandra
Tsing Loh.
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Bill Bryson.
- Reinventing Comics. Scott McCloud.
- The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600.
Alfred Crosby.
- The Sun Also Rises. Ernest Hemingway.
- Sensemaking in Organizations. Karl Weick.
- Paris Trance. Geoff Dyer.
- Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Information System
Design. Paul Luff, Jon Hindmarsh and Christian Heath (eds).
- The Nature of Managerial Work. Henry Mintzberg.
- The Grants World Inside Out. Robert A. Lucas.
- Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open Systems. W. Richard Scott.
Books Read in 1999
- The walls around us. David Owen.
- This is how the world ends. James Morrow.
- John Dee: The politics of reading and writing in the English
Renaissance. John Sherman.
- Girlfriend in a Coma. Douglas Copeland.
- The Rum Diaries. Hunter S. Thompson.
- Java Swing. David Flanagan.
- Virtual Private Networks. Charlie Scott, Paul Wolfe and Mike Erwin.
- Philosophical Investigations. Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- Database Programming with JDBC and Java. George Reese.
- Writing Solid Code. Steve MacGuire.
- Dealers of Lightning. Michael Hiltzig.
- Gourmet Cooking for Dummies. Charlie Trotter.
- Introducing Semiotics. Paul Cobley.
- The Old Man & The Sea. Ernest Hemmingway.
- Fashionable Nonsense. Alan Sokal.
- Control Through Communication. Joanne Yates.
- The Collector Collector. Tibor Fischer.
- Enduring Love. Ian McEwan.
- Stigma. Erving Goffman.
- Wittenstein: The duty of genius. Ray Monk.
- The Untouchable. John Banville.
- Central Problems in Social Theory. Anthony Giddens.
- These Demented Lands. Alan Warner.
- Sold Separately: Parents and children in consumer culture. Ellen Seiter.
- Information Ecologies: Using technology with heart. Bonnie Nardi
and Vicki O'Day.
- The Information. Martin Amis.
- Tune in Tomorrow. Tom Tomorrow.
- The Golem: What you should know about science. Harry Collins and
Trevor Pinch.
- Investing for Dummies. Eric Tyson.
- Learning to See Creatively: How to compose great photographs.
Bryan Petersen.
- The Maltese Falcon. Dashiell Hammett.
- Flatland. Edwin Abbott.
- The Dream Mistress. Jenni Diski.
- Making the Grade: The academic side of college life. Howard
Becker, Blanche Geer and Everett Hughes.
- Conversation and Community Chat in a virtual world. Lynn Cherny.
- Inside Windows NT. David Solomon.
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Bronislaw Malinowski.
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping. Paco Underhill.
- Acid Plaid: New Scottish Writing.
- America Calling: A social history of the telephone to
1940. Claude Fischer.
- Insanely Great: The life and times of Macintosh, the computer
that changed everything. Steven Levy.
- The Knowledge Web. James Burke.
- Instrumental Realism. Don Ihde.
- Java 2D Graphics. Jonathan Knudsen.
- Tricks of the Trade. Howard Becker.
- Postphenomenology: Essays in the postmodern context. Don Ihde.
- Amsterdam. Ian McEwan.
- Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the social organization of
gatherings. Erving Goffman.
- The Invisible Computer: Why good products can fail, the personal
computer is so complex, and information appliances are the
solution. Don Norman.
- Visions of Culture: An introduction to anthropological theories
and theorists. Jerry Moore.
- Amnesiascope. Steve Erickson.
- The End of Alice. A.M. Homes.
- First Light. Peter Ackroyd.
- Great Apes. Will Self.
- V. Thomas Pynchon.
- MySQL and mSQL. Randy Yarger, George Reese and Tim King.
- The Empty Mirror. Janwillem van de Wetering.
- Information Rules. Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian.
- City of Quartz. Mike Davis.
- The Club Dumas. Arturo Perez-Reverte.
- Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The world of high energy
physicists. Sharon Traweek.
- On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture and
Computer Graphics in Design Engineering. Kathryn Henderson.
- Palimpsest: A Memoir. Gore Vidal.
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Kent Beck.
- Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Geoff
Bowker and Leigh Star.
- Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High
School. Penny Eckert.
- The Glass Key. Dashiell Hammett.
- Using Samba. Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown and Peter Kelly.
- Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys. Will Self.
- Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations. Marie McGinn.
- Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science
and Engineering. Richard Reis.
- Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror. James Hynes.
- Pfitz: A Novel. Andrew Crumey.
- Future Perfect: How Star Trek Conquered Planet Earth. Jeff Greenwald.
- Camp Concentration. Thomas Disch.
- Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web. Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin.
- Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on his Ear. Janwillem
van de Wetering.
- Talking Heads. Alan Bennett.