What I’m reading

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What I’m reading right now:

  • The Great Transformation
 I’ve recently finished:

  • Beter: A surgeon’s notes on performance. Interesting follow-up to Complications, both full of hope and resigned.
  • Murder at the Margin, a Caribbean murder solved by a Harvard economics professor. First book in the “Henry Spearman” series. Team-written by to economics professors, reads like you’d expect.
  • Harry Potter 7. See the micro-review
  • Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (Started: 20 July ’07)
 What’s waiting to be read (aka, in my posession, but not actually being read):

  • On Revolution (Started: 13 July ’07)
  • Natan der Weise (G. E. Lessing; started: June ’07)

What I want to read:

  • Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place (New Directions in Ethnography)
  • “the garden of forking paths”
  • Marshall Tacitus
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Algiers / Kenya
  • Tesla: Man Out of Time
  • The Doors of Perception
  • President’s House
  • Structural Holes by Ron Burt
  • Measuring a Large Network Quickly (RB)
  • The Gender of Social Capital (both by same RB) http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/ronald.burt/research/
  • Thoughtless Acts / Jane Suri
  • From Delicious: Readings for Ten Things / Michael Shanks
  • Schelling – Philoso
  • Anthony Bourdain’s first book