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Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2008) 6, 357–359 & 2008 Operational Research Society Ltd. All rights reserved 1477–8238/08 www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp BOOK REVIEW Harry Collins and Robert Evans Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-226-11360-9, 159+ xi pp, Price $37.50 Harry Collins and Robert Evans are researchers in the sociology of scientific Reviewed by: John S. Edwards knowledge. They are particularly interested in knowledge and expertise in science, and how this relates to the public understanding and debate of Aston Business School, Aston University, scientific issues. This book represents a combination of considered Birmingham, U.K. reflection and experiment about the nature of expertise: what does it mean to be seen as, or to claim to be, an expert? The book’s focus is in Knowledge Management Research & scientific domains, but the arguments and findings relate to expertise in Practice (2008) 6, 357–359. any domain. Its main audience, however, does appear to be members of doi:10.1057/kmrp.2008.24 the sociology of scientific knowledge communities, which raises a question as to whether your reviewer has sufficient expertise in that domain to write this review – a point we shall return to later. In a relatively slim (153 pages) yet