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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
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Ejeris Dixon (Editor)
4.52 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
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Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)
4.23 avg rating — 9,244 ratings
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Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series Book 4)
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4.52 avg rating — 607 ratings
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Teaching Community
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
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The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
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Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
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Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
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Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
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Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
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Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
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3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
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4.42 avg rating — 441 ratings
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400 Friends and No One to Call: Breaking through Isolation and Building Community
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Val Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy
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Maria del Guadalupe Davidson (Editor)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
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4.40 avg rating — 256 ratings
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A Queer History of the United States
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
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Sasha Costanza-Chock (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
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4.26 avg rating — 2,286 ratings
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
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3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions
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Sandeep Bakshi (Editor)
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Community and the Politics of Place
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4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
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A Community Guide to Environmental Health
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4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 93,
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor)
4.44 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 92,
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Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
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J. Peter Brosius (Contributor)
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
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4.32 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
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Better Together
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Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
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3.76 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Archaeology and Community Service Learning
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Michael S. Nassaney (Editor)
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The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
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Norman Wirzba (Editor)
4.09 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
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3.38 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook
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Alton Brown (foreword)
4.41 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
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Julia Serano (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Pilgrimage Pathways for the United States: Creating Pilgrimage Routes to Enrich Lives, Enhance Community, and Restore Ecosystems
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James E. Mills (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
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4.04 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
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3.60 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
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4.29 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
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4.17 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
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Andrew Peterson (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6,661 ratings
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Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer's Block and Transform Your Life
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Lucy Adkins (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Alternative: Communal Life in New America
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
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4.12 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
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William Cronon (Editor)
4.17 avg rating — 815 ratings
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The Search for Common Ground
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4.21 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground
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Jordan Blashek (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground
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United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
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4.07 avg rating — 2,514 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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Mark Pendergrast (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (Pelican Books)
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4.15 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
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3.92 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
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David W. Orr (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Building an ark: Tools for the preservation of natural diversity through land protection
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We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
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Zero Hour: Time to Build the Clean Power Platform
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Reed Hundt (Goodreads Author)
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Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
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How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities
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Earth A.D. The Poisoning of The American Landscape and the Communities that Fought Back
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Michael Lee Nirenberg (Goodreads Author)
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Building Workforce Literacy in Libraries: Connecting Communities with Opportunities
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The Healing Heart for Communities: Storytelling for Strong and Healthy Communities
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Allison M. Cox (Editor)
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight For From Free Speech To Buying Local To Building Communities
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Andrew Laties (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Fandom, Second Edition
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Jonathan Gray (Editor)
3.69 avg rating — 159 ratings
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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
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The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
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Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
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Amy K. Levin (contributor)
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
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The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
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Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
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Ivan Karp (Editor)
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Appalachian Dance: Creativity and Continuity in Six Communities
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Managing Worry and Anxiety: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Life's Challenges
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Roger Von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators
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Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
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Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Louise Aronson (Goodreads Author)
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The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Older Adults: Finding Solutions to the Challenges of an Aging Population
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
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The Virtues of Aging
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Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
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The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change
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Gleb Raygorodetsky (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
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Juelz: Wisdom Sayings and Stories from Men of Hope with Martha Sterne
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present
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Pippa Holloway (Editor)
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
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