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- the second shift (arlie hochschild)
- habits of the heart (richard bellah and others...)
- engaging the powers (walter wink)
- the space trilogy (c.s. lewis)
- the death and life of great american cities (jane jacobs)
- bone (jeff smith)
- planet of the slums (mike davis)
- the omnivore's dilemma (michael pollan)
- life together (dietrich bonhoeffer)
- why the rest hates the west (meic pearse)
- bonfire of the vanities (tom wolfe)
- remains of the day (kazuo ishiguro)
books read (since I last posted book reviews)
- beyond caring: hospitals, nurses and the social organization of ethics (david chambliss)
- corrosion of character (richard sennett)
- while we were orphans (kazuo ishiguro)
- virgin suicides (jeffrey eugenides)
- american wife (curtis sittenfield)
- surprised by joy (c.s. lewis)
- class acts: service and inequality in luxury hotels (rachel sherman)
- respect (richard sennett)
- the time bind (arlie hochschild)
- experiment perilous (renee fox)
- managed by the markets (gerald davis)
- good to great (jim collins)
- the ownership of enterprise (henry hansmann)
- punishment and inequality (bruce western)
- the second shift (artlie hochschild)
- the managed heart (arlie hochschild)
- shop class for soulcraft (matthew crawford)
- moral mazes (robert jackall)
- an engine, not a camera (david mackenzie)
- women and economics (charlotte perkins gilham)
- reason for being (jacques ellul)
- the culture of the new capitalism (richard sennett)
- the philadelphia negro (w.e.b. dubois)
- the future of an illusion (sigmund freud)
- the big squeeze: tough times for the american worker (steven greenhouse)
- forgive and remember: managing medical failure (charles bosk)
- opting out? why women really quit their careers and head home (pamela stone)
- moral mazes (robert jackall)
- eros and civilization (herbet marcuse)
- prophetic imagination (walter brueggeman)
- new seeds of contemplation (thomas merton)
- technological society (jacques ellul)
- the cooperative workplace (rothschild and whitt)
- the travels of a t-shirt in a global economy (pietra rivoli)
- habits of the heart (richard bellah and others...)
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