amazon research Re: [xmca] review article recommendation request

From: Tony Whitson (twhitson@UDel.Edu)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 10:35:00 PDT


The "also bought" will work with anything on amazon, but the SIPs will
work only for books that amazon has in electronic form where you can
"search inside." That's a decision made by the publisher.

Some of the books in amazon's online reader format can be purchased as
e-documents. Sometimes you can just buy it electronically, sometimes you
have to buy the paper version and then you can add inexpensive purchase of
the e-doc as a supplement.

Books available as e-docs include:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1567504574/
Communication: An Arena of Development (Advances in Applied Developmental
Psychology (1993), V. 19.)
This is the book with the Wertsch paper discussed here recently. It is a
very rich chapter that would merit a lot more discussion than we were able
to give it. The chapter is also extremely relevant to the current topic of
"interweaving."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306485524/
The Essential Vygotsky (Vienna Circle Collection) Robert W. Rieber
(Editor), David K. Robinson (Editor)

Speaking of amazon: Their tracking page tells me that the truck is on its
way to delivering today my copy of

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262112981/
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design (Acting
with Technology) (Hardcover) by Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi
This could be a book of very great interest to this list. It has just now
been published.

Also, while getting these links together, I found this:
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Language-Learning-Contributions-Halliday/dp/0826490719/
Advanced Language Learning: The Contributions of Vygotsky And Halliday
by Heidi Byrnes
It's very expensive, but maybe David or somebody could get a pre-pub
review copy and let us know if this is a good source for the LSV-Halliday
questions that have come up here.

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 jmgdo@berkeley.edu wrote:

> good idea, thanks!
>
>> While not strictly fitting your request, Rogoff's "The Cultural Nature of
>> Human Development" might be useful if you have not already found it.
>>
>> But here's a tip how to turn amazon.com into a research-what
>> the-research-community-is-reading tool for your purpose. look up rogoff's
>> book (or cole's etc) on amazon.com and scroll down to 'Customers who
>> bought this item also bought" and find the list of links of books, and
>> follow these links to pages descibing those books. Then iterate this
>> process on each new book until a stable ensemble of constantly appearing
>> books appear. That could your list of core reading.
>>
>> Also mine the SIPs (Statistically Improbable Phrases) in the same way.
>>
>> Let us know how it works -- i have not tried it yet.
>>
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Tony Whitson
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