some good social science books of 2006-2007

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Recent books that might interest orgheads:

• Off the Books by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Creating a Class: Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens
• Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View by Peter St. Jean
• Logics of Organization Theory by Hannan, Polos and Carroll
• From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana
• Reasoning in Biological Discoveries by Lindley Darden
• Explaining Creativity by R. Keith Sawyer
• The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan
• Violence: A Sociological Theory by Randall Collins
• The Next Catastrophe by Charles Perrow
• A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Power of Leaderless Organizations by Brafman and Beckstrom
• Do Economists Make Markets? edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa & Lucia Siu
• Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst by Karen Cerulo
• The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
• Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

And of course, the books by the orgtheory guys make great Christmas presents!  Order them here and here.