Marc Ventresca Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Org theory loyalist w social innov tendencies, concern for nascent mkts, systembuilding/unbuilding. U Oxford, Wolfson College; former Stanford, Northwestern

Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Ann Handley
Without Bullshit - Interview with Ann Handley, author of “Everybody Writes” - https://t.co/JIBxfU3cBO via @jbernoff
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Jonathan D. Spence
Oh, dear. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci had a profound impact on me. This is indeed sad news of Prof Spence's passing. @Zhaomen49818832 https://t.co/hMbjbnD8Ja
Paperback, 1985
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Big Questions for Little People: Animals
Claire Philip
'Space: The new digital?' by @davidlehmann and me, based on our research with @SpaceOxford team, in the @OxfordSBS series 'The next 25 years': https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers/space-new-digital. @mzubdia @MicheleScatta @PhilClare @EleanorJMurray @KelloLucas @alurabrava @CMMagazzeni @CKypraios @timvorley
Hardcover, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow
Nicolas Friederici
Very delighted to have @friedema speaking today with our @OxfordSBS Diploma session on his recent work: Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow | MIT Press https://t.co/4gztPYy6kC @SkollCentre @paulosavaget @XiaolanF
Paperback, 2020
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
Bruno LaTour
@MatthewWeait63 Indeed. Bruno Latour gave one of the early @UniofOxford @OUPAcademic Clarendon Lectures at @oxfordSBS, one outcome of which was 'Reassembling the social. @PaoloQuattrone @Steve_New_ @AndrewTStephen @soumitradutta
Paperback, 2007
$40.99$20.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't
Frank Dobbin
Forthcoming monograph based on longitudinal study of large sample of firms and universities: 'Getting to Diversity' — Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev https://t.co/lkoDw2We0O. See specialty HBR articles since 2017 the make vivid and actionable the insights here.
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
John Warner
Without Bullshit - “Why They Can’t Write”: John Warner’s brilliant analysis of the failure of teaching - https://t.co/HsoHvmUmgF via @jbernoff
Hardcover, 2018
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
AB Urbe Condita: Volume II: Books VI-X
Livy
Fun with ab urbe condita: in conventions for naming dates after the founding of Rome: https://t.co/RTWdRknDop and the book by the historian Livy on the Roman annals : https://t.co/No0IobG2Vj
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