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Against the Romance of Community
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 60.00Miranda Joseph explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. She shows how community legitimates the social hierarchies of gender, race, nation, and sexuality that capitalism implicitly requires.... more...
Assets in Action
Search Institute Press 2003; US$ 26.95One of the most challenging tasks we face in our communities is making positive, long-lasting change. This book focuses on establishing change, from the very first steps to the later stages. Accessible and engaging, the book weaves together change theory, research findings from the Search Institute's National Case Study project, and interviews with... more...
Boards That Love Fundraising
Wiley 2004; US$ 35.00Written by Robert Zimmerman and Ann Lehman--leading experts in the field of fundraising and board development-- Boards That Love Fundraising not only shows that all board members (no matter the level of experience) can learn to raise funds but also provides effective tips to the more experienced fundraisers. This workbook explains your fundraising... more...
Building Powerful Community Organizations
Long Haul Press 2007; US$ 15.95Intended for individuals who want to start, strengthen, or revitalize a group to address a community issue, this indispensable guide includes a series of practical steps that help build a successful community orgranization and offers sample cases that more clearly illustrate each step. In addition to addressing common problems that are often encountered,... more...
COMMUNITY
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 39.95The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging and, in recent years, as an alternative to the state as a basis for politics. Gerard Delanty begins this stimulating introduction to the concept with an analysis of the origins of the... more...
Celebrating the Third Place
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 16.95Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running ?third places,? also known as ?great good places.? In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate... more...
The Church on the World's Turf
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 94.99This text is an ethnographic study of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship group at McMaster University, who espouse fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible and the necessity of a personal relationship with Christ. more...
Communitarian Politics in Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95With the collapse of European socialism in the late 1980s, ascendancy of the liberal capitalist democracy and individual self-interest became prevalent in the West. In contrast, many polities in Asia, both by tradition and choice, have explicitly adopted communitarianism as a national ideology, for example Confucianism in Korea, Hong Kong and Japan,... more...
Communities and Networks
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95In Communities and Networks , Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and... more...
Community, Solidarity and Belonging
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 38.00Communities can be of different kinds, and exist at different levels in society. This book systematically explores the relationship between the state, and communities existing at local, national and global levels. It will be of interest to students of political theory, philosophy and international relations. more...









