Michael Erard 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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post-monolingual, -American, -Christian • writing about first & last words for @MITPress • 2022-2023 NEH Public Scholars fellow • he/him
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
Bruno LaTourMichael Erard@mbalter @wesgeorge8 I don’t think explication of the method is needed as much as other models of scientific knowledge production besides a democratic process. Bruno Latour in Science in Action comes to mind.
Paperback, 1988
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Progressive Education
Albertine Adrienne Necker de SaussureMichael ErardShe was encouraged in this by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, whose 1828 Progressive Education encouraged mothers to keep journals of their baby's development. (If her name is familiar, her grand-nephew was Ferdinand de Saussure....
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
Martin DubermanMichael ErardI've always been fascinated with Black Mountain College, and over the summer came across Martin Duberman's 1973 history. Sounds like a place better to *have been at* than to *be* at. Still, it made me think: what & where are the BMCs of 2022?
Paperback, 2009
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The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations
Elizabeth KeatingMichael ErardIt’s too bad this article doesn’t mention anthropologist Elizabeth Keating’s new book, The Essential Questions @talktofamily, about how to elicit info from the family members you’re recording. It’s a very useful, well-written book. https://t.co/BgfOR5jdEh
Hardcover, 2022
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Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
Bart D. EhrmanMichael Erard@elotroalex Also raised Catholic. As an adult I read Bart Ehrman’s sensible, historically accurate take on what happened to Jesus’s body after he died. I marvel now at how shocked I was.
Hardcover, 1999
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Agency
William GibsonMichael ErardWilliam Gibson’s novels The Peripheral and Agency both have moments where people from the future have to get those from the past caught up…straight from parenting in the 21st century https://t.co/8uB3U5Ejp4
Paperback, 2021
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis MenandMichael Erard@RussellSCobb, an idea: rewrite Louis Menand's The Free World, but with Tulsa at the center (not NYC or Paris)
Paperback, 2022
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane AlisonMichael ErardI hope to someday find a book about writing whose examples come from both fiction and non-fiction. Jack Hart, in Storycraft, uses only long form journalists. Jane Alison, in Meander, Spiral, Explode, cites only creative writers. More village tradition.
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Progressive education
Albertine Adrienne De SaussureMichael ErardShe was encouraged in this by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, whose 1828 Progressive Education encouraged mothers to keep journals of their baby's development. (If her name is familiar, her grand-nephew was Ferdinand de Saussure....
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The Peripheral
William GibsonMichael ErardWilliam Gibson’s novels The Peripheral and Agency both have moments where people from the future have to get those from the past caught up…straight from parenting in the 21st century https://t.co/8uB3U5Ejp4
Paperback, 2015
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