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Here are some of the books that shape the field:

• Chris Kimble and Paul Hildreth (eds) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators ISBN: 159311866XBuy a copy
• Etienne Wenger, Communities of practice; Learning, Meaning and Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). http://isbn.nu/0521663636
• Hubert St. Onge and Deb Wallace, Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage (Amsterdam: Butterworth Heinemann, 2002)
• Lave, Jean, & Wenger, Etienne, Situated Learning; Legitimate Peripheral Participation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991). http://isbn.nu/0521423740
• Nancy M. Dixon, Nate Allen, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner, Steve Schweitzer, CompanyCommand; Unleashing the power of the army profession (West Point, NY: Center for the Advancement of Leader Development & Organizational Learning, 2005).
• Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble (eds) Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2004) ISBN: 1591402700
• Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith, Digital Habitats; stewarding technology for communities (CPsquare, 2009). book website: http://technologyforcommunities.com
  
• Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W.M., Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002). http://isbn.nu/1578513308

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