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• Conversation -- Early works to 1800
• Conversation -- Research
• Conversation in literature
• Discussion
• Imaginary conversations
• Table-talk

• Talking

• Rhetoric of Conversation: or, Bridles and Spurs for the Management of the Tongue, by George Winfred Hervey (page images at MOA)
• Gendering Talk (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2003), by Robert Hopper (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Conversations: Computer-Mediated Dialogue, Multilogue, and Learning (c1996), by Beth Williams Baldwin (HTML at Colorado State)

• In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Guide for Discussion Leaders (1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)

• Bargaining and Markets (electronic edition; with corrections from 1990 edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (PDF files with commentary at Toronto)

• Annual Report of the National Mediation Board, by United States National Mediation Board (full serial archives)

• Compassionate Listening: An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation (2012), by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Cynthia Monroe, and Leah Green, ed. by Dennis Rivers (PDF at communication-skills.net)
• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report with Executive Summary, by Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (HTML, PDF, and Word at ccpdc.org)

• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Achieving Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cost Effective Alternatives to the Military (2004), ed. by Geoff Harris (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa (Washington: World Bank, c2015), by Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, and Stephen Mogaka (PDF with commentary at World Bank)

• A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by David Carment, Patrick James, and Zeynep Taydas (PDF at Ohio State)

• The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq (Santa Monica, CA et al: RAND, c2005), by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett D. Steele, Richard Teltschik, and Anga Timilsina (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)

• Challenges of Peace Implementation: The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003), ed. by Mark Malan and João Gomes Porto (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Cultivating Peace: Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management, ed. by Daniel Buckles (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, 1914 (c2009), by Michael Small (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• Statement of the Relations of Rufus W. Griswold With Charlotte Myers (Called Charlotte Griswold), Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ann S. Stephens, Samuel J. Waring, Hamilton R. Searles, and Charles D. Lewis, With Particular Reference to Their Late Unsuccessful Attempt to Have Set Aside the Decree Granted in 1852 by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, in the Case of Griswold vs. Griswold (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1856), by Rufus W. Griswold
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (2000), ed. by Paul C. Stern and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building (c2013), by James Dobbins, Laurel Miller, Stéphanie Pézard, Christopher S. Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, and Tewodaj Mengistu (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)
• The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building (Santa Monica et al.: RAND, c2007), by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, and Beth Cole DeGrasse (PDF and Epub with commentary at rand.org)
• Human Security for All: A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, 2004), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2019), by Daniel Paul Serwer (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (second edition; London: Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1733), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by N. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Imaginary Conversations (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881-1883), by Walter Savage Landor, contrib. by John Forster
  • first series (Classical dialogues): page images at Google; US access only
  • second series (Sovereigns and statesmen): page images at Google; US access only
  • third series (Literary men): page images at Google; US access only
  • fourth series (More literary men, famous women, miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
  • fifth series (More miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
• Imaginary Conversations (with notes; 6 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Walter Savage Landor, ed. by Charles G. Crump, contrib. by John Forster
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
• Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1601 (with commentary), by Mark Twain (HTML at archive.org)
• 1601, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

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