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This page is an index to the brief book recommendations that appear in each issue of The Network Observer. The categories are obviously artificial.

Computers

• Carl F. Cargill, Information Technology Standards: Theory, Process, and Organizations.
• Gordon Cook, National Information Infrastructure: The Dark Side in Washington State.
• Andrew L. Friedman, Computer Systems Development: History, Organization and Implementation.
• Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers.
• Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka, eds, Participatory Design: Principles and Practices.

• Charles T. Clotfelder and Michael Rothschild, eds, Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education.
• H. Landis Gabel, ed, Product Standardization and Competitive Strategy, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1987.
• Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility.
• Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics.
• US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Electronic Enterprises: Looking to the Future.
• Michael E. Porter, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors.
• Richard A. Posner, The Economics of Justice.
• Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics.

• Jean-Christophe Agnew, Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750.
• Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States.
• Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte, Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America.
• James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America.
• Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement.
• Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life.
• Robert Britt Horwitz, The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecommunications.
• Martha Lampland, The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary.
• David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.
• John Walton, Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California.

• Jenny Cook-Gumperz, William A. Corsaro, and Jurgen Streeck, eds, Children's Worlds and Children's Language.
• Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin, eds, Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.
• William F. Hanks, Language and Communicative Practices.
• Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds, Critical Terms for Literary Study.
• Deborah Schiffrin, ed, Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications.
• William A. Smalley, Chia Koua Vang, and Gnia Yee Yang, Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script.
• William Strunk Jr and E. B. White, The Elements of Style.

• Richard Saul Wurman, Access Guides.
• Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, David Muddyman, Richard Trillo, and Kim Burton, eds, World Music: The Rough Guide.
• Bob Scher, The Fear of Cooking.
• Deborah Madison, The Greens Cookbook.

• Susan Bordo, The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture.
• Andrew Feenberg, Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory.
• Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography.
• Richard Broxton Onians, The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate: New Interpretations of Greek, Roman and kindred evidence, also of some Basic Jewish and Christian Beliefs.
• Andrew Feenberg and Alastair Hannay, eds, Technology and the Politics of Knowledge.

• Martin Bauer, ed, Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology.
• Colin J. Bennett, Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States.
• Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max, Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s.
• Cynthia Cockburn and Ruza Furst-Dilic, eds, Bringing Technology Home: Gender and Technology in a Changing Europe.
• Daniel C. Hallin, We Keep America On Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere.
• Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds, Public Access to the Internet.
• Brad Miner, ed, Good Order: Right Answers to Contemporary Questions.
• Bill Moyer, The Movement Action Plan and The Practical Strategist.
• Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath.
• Maritza Pick, How To Save Your Neighborhood: The Sierra Club Guide to Community Organizing.

• Seth Chaiklin and Jean Lave, eds, Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context.
• Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise.
• Donald G. Dutton, The Batterer: A Psychological Profile.
• Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within.
• Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery.
• Deane Juhan, Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork.

• Bill Cantor, ed, Experts in Action: Inside Public Relations.
• Jack A. Gottschalk, Crisis Response: Inside Stories on Managing Image Under Siege.
• Philip Lesly, Overcoming Opposition: A Survival Manual for Executives.

• Cynthia Cockburn, Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How.
• Joan Greenbaum, Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work in the Late Twentieth Century.
• Guillermo J. Grenier, Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry.
• Mauro F. Guillen, Models of Management: Work, Authority, and Organization in a Comparative Perspective.
• Robert Jackall, Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers.
• Ralph H. Kilmann, Mary J. Saxton, and Roy Serpa, eds, Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture.
• Mike Parker, Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL.
• H. Jeff Smith, Managing Privacy: Information Technology and Corporate America.
• Vicki Smith, Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in an American Bank.
• JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management.