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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. Sennett has a deep understanding where society should turn and what is wrong with it. I think craftsmanship is about handing our knowledge over to the next generation in a meaningful way. Todays society is often pushing the artist instead, the unique individuum who cannot b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40209166">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is packed with interesting and provocative ideas for me as an instructional designer. Its focus is on the manual crafts, but I'm thinking about the issue of craft more generally and how it competes with general processes and technologies that threaten to overwhelm education. Is education s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32998026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Heard about this book on the To the Best of Our Knowledge show called Reconsidering Craft, 12/14/2008: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wpr.org/book/081214a.cfm.">http://www.wpr.org/book/081214a.cfm.</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ Sennett's philosophical and historical examination of craftsmanship peers into unexpected corners in illuminating ways. Anyone who does good work for its own sake from Linux programmers to potters to parents will find this book to be lively, engrossing and thought provoking. I loved this book!<br/><br/>Lisa Wright Oblong Books and Music Millerton, NY ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting book and the first in a trilogy. It essentially argues that craftsmanship - e.g. making things with your hands and learning a physical craft - is a type of high order thinking. <br/><br/>I might give it 5 stars except for the fact that there are fare to maney typoes.  Ya...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23217124">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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