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DETECTIVE H. L. Goodall, Jr. (1989). Casing a Promised Land:                                                    The Autobiography of an Organizational                                                    Detective as Cultural Ethnographer. Goodall was a professor of communication who believed in getting out of the office and into the field to discover principles of communication and life. This is the first of a triology of books he wrote on cultural ethnography which later became the field of autoethnography championed by Carol Ellis and Art Bochner in the field of Communication. Some of the best parts: Communication researchers need to be like detectives, looking for clues, going und...
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SUPERBETTER  Jane McGonigal (2015). Superbetter:                                                    A Revolutionary Approach To Getting                                                           Stronger, Happier, Braver, and  More                                                              Resilient. McGonigal (PhD) spent 5 years researching and writing Superbetter...the gamification of life...grounded in her personal story of overcoming a severe concussion through gaming....