The following is a partial list of books you might read and write a book report about. The book report will be due at the end of the finals period. Specific instructions for the book report will be forthcoming. Note that thsi links below are to Amazon. This is in no way a recommendation, it simply shows exactly the book to which I refer. Also, this this is not meant to be exclusive. Rather, it should be taken as indicitive of the kind of books I would like you to read. So, take some time, go to a big book store and browse.
- The Search by John Battelle
- The Google Story by David Vise
- Linked: The new Science of Networks
- inside Yahoo: Reinvention and the Road Ahead by Karen Angel
- Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
- The Soul of a New machine by Tracy Kidder
- Social Network Analysis by John Scott
- Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J. Watts
- Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks by Mark Buchanan
- Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabas