 | Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Implications of Expertise by Carl Bereiter
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $25.00 A great book for those of us trying to understand what expertise is. The authors introduced me to two key concepts:
1. Expertise and specialization are different -- a specialist is not always an expert.
2. Expertise is a process.
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 | Sharing Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Management by Mark Ackerman
Buy new: $49.56 / Used from: $22.45 A great collection of papers on the broad topic of Expertise Management. Move beyond the hype in the title. Sharing Expertise is key to Knowledge Management (KM) ... it does not replace KM.
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 | Managing Knowledge: Experts, Agencies and Organisations by Steven Albert
Buy new: $48.00 / Used from: $0.90 This book looks at the emergence of the liberated expert and challenges organizations to think about different ways to manage these people.
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 | The Philosophy of Expertise by Robert Crease
Buy new: $53.50 / Used from: $35.99 Selinger and Crease present an excellent collection of papers (s0me published elsewhere) which present a philosophical perspective. From classical philosophy to asking why and how we trust experts in areas such as policy making. You will not find this collection or anything like it elsewhere.
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 | Toward a General Theory of Expertise: Prospects and Limits
Buy new: $70.00 / Used from: $43.49 Ericsson is one of the premier researchers studying 'expertise'. This collection of essays provides insights into expertise research in several domains and illuminates many of the methods used to study expertise.
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 | Expertise Out of Context: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (Expertise: Research and Applications)
Buy new: $53.63 / Used from: $61.63 Several conferences on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM)have provided insights into the relationship between expertise and decision making.
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 | Expertise in Context
Buy new: $48.35 / Used from: $15.68 This book brings together a number of perspectives from various disciplines that are studying expertise - psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence and computer science. This book is one of a few that bridges the world of expertise research and expert systems.
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 | Rethinking Expertise by Harry Collins
Buy new: $20.25 / Used from: $19.03 Harry Collins and Robert Evans present a sociological perspective on the study of expertise. They construct and present models in the form of 'the periodic table of expertise'. They introduce the notion of 'interactional expertise' - as possessed by journalists and others studying an area of expertise, which allows them to converse and interact with the experts in the field.
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 | How Professionals Make Decisions (Expertise, Research and Applications)
Buy new: $57.95 / Used from: $51.96 As part of the series of conferences on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM), these proceedings are the result of the 2000 conference. This is an excellent collection for those trying to understand the decision making process professionals follow.
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 | How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
Buy new: $10.37 / Used from: $0.59 Groopman's book illustrates the challenge facing experts in practice. In this book, he examines the challenges doctors face in reasoning and making decisions on a daily basis. He challenges physicians to recognize the traps they fall into and to find ways to keep thinking alive.
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $15.97 / Used from: $13.35 Malcolm Gladwell turns his story telling skills to the field of expertise research. He makes this work accessible for the general public. He brings to life the ideas and theories from the scholars in this area.
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