Shaping Network Society

Books I ordered at Amazon this year

I just went through the books I ordered (unfortunately, I found no way to export the data elegantly). Here they are, without the author (google them) but with comments:

Through A Glass Darkly (Donna Leon, a perfect Christmas read for anyone who just returned from Venice)
Snow Crash (a must-read from 1992, predicting everything from secondlife to google earth)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything (the re-edition is not worth it, even though Joe Trippi is, read the wired article on howard dean to understand the obama campaign)
A Castle in the Forest (Norman Mailer’s last book, a fictional biography of Hitler written from the perspective of a mephistopheles, a surprisingly good book)
Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (great book, did a course on it that really worked)
Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (best book of the year, if not available in English yet, read his 1979 or Faserland)
Faserland (the 1995 classic, a fossil from a different age)
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (re-reading Porter was important to understand what is new about the world we are living in)
Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization (boring)
The Tortilla Curtain (could not get into it, even though it is set in Topanga Canyon)
The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (not bad, at all)
Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (new edition, worthwhile)
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide (not worth it)
Martin Luther (read up on him to understand the transformation of our times)
Little Brother (great fun, and you can download it – creative commons licensed)
The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It (important read and you can download it – creative commons licensed)
For and Against Method: Including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence (for the aficionado – else read Feyerabends “Against Method”)
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (the last gasp of competitive strategy, we are beyond it)
The 10-day MBA (clffnotes for the rest of us)
The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (not the amazing followup to Castell’s network society – neither is the book coming out in 2009)
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (best web 2.0 read of the year)
Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization (well written, but falls short)
Republic.com 2.0 (Cass Sunstein is always readable, this is slightly dated but important).

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Philipp Müller works in the IT industry and is academic dean of the SMBS. Author of "Machiavelli.net". Proud father of three amazing children. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

31. December 2008 by Philipp
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