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Marc Ventresca Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Org theory loyalist w social innov tendencies, concern for nascent mkts, systembuilding/unbuilding. U Oxford, Wolfson College; former Stanford, Northwestern

8 books
Book Cover for: Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, Ann Handley

Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

Ann Handley
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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
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Book Cover for: The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, Jonathan D. Spence

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Jonathan D. Spence
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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
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Book Cover for: Big Questions for Little People: Animals, Claire Philip

Big Questions for Little People: Animals

Claire Philip
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'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
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Book Cover for: Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow, Nicolas Friederici

Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow

Nicolas Friederici
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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
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Book Cover for: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Bruno LaTour

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Bruno LaTour
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@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
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Book Cover for: Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't, Frank Dobbin

Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't

Frank Dobbin
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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
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Book Cover for: Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, John Warner

Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities

John Warner
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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
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Book Cover for: AB Urbe Condita: Volume II: Books VI-X, Livy

AB Urbe Condita: Volume II: Books VI-X

Livy
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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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