Sorting Things Out
By
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker,
Susan Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star
1999 • 392 pages

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Raising Steam
A Book to Kill For
A Fragile Enchantment
A Deadly Education
And Still I Rise
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
A Queer and Pleasant Danger

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780 books

Digital

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Equal Rites
The Goose Girl
Do Your Worst
Godly Heathens
Kafka on the Shore
The Hunting Party

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1 book

Library Science

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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14 books

Philosophy

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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
The Emperor's New Mind
Sorting Things Out
Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

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49 books

2019

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Becoming
Aramis, or The Love of Technology
Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Programmed inequality : how Britain discarded women technologists and lost its edge in computing
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good
Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

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45 books

Library Books

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Kinsey
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
Where are all the Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia
Prejudices and Antipathies
Sorting Things Out
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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341 books

Racism And Colonialism

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Lessons from Turtle Island
Raising White Kids
Uprooting Racism
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
So You Want to Talk about Race
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Columbus & Beyond: Views from Native Americans

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88 books

Queer Studies

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Queer
Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Sexuality: A Graphic Guide

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26 books

Libraries And Librarians

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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
Read Dangerously
Cruising the library
Purity in Print
Imperiled Innocents
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

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20 books

Information Science

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Sorting Things Out
BiblioTech
Library: An Unquiet History
The Book on the Bookshelf
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet