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• 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 Michael 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, by Wendy Grossman (HTML at NYU)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph Michael 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text

• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law: With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Women's Organizations (fourth edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894), by Harriette R. Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• Stephen A. Douglas: Annual Address Delivered Before the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois, January 31, 1908 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers, 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The IDEA Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates (New York et al: International Debate Education Association, 2012), contrib. by Bruce Lee Zellers (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, by Alberta Legislative Assembly (PDF at assembly.ab.ca)

• About the House, by Australia House of Representatives (partial serial archives)

• Manual of Parliamentary Procedures in the Government of India (current edition, published in or after 2018), by India Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (PDF in India)

• Standing Orders and Rules of the National Assembly, by Mauritius National Assembly (JavaScript-dependent HTML in Mauritius)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• How a Bill Becomes Law in New Brunswick, by New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (HTML at gnb.ca)

• Standing Orders of the National Assembly of Tanzania (in Swahili; 2007, 2013, and 2016 editions), by Tanzania National Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William Stevens Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, by United States House of Representatives, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (partial serial archives)

• Filibuster Abuse (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2010), by Mimi Marziani, contrib. by Susan M. Liss (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Presbyterian and Reformed News (with related materials) (partial serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)
• Compassionate Listening: An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation, by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Leah Green, and Cynthia Monroe, ed. by Dennis Rivers (HTML and PDF at coopcomm.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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.