Community Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Boom Years The Classes of 1975-1986 From: Learning to Leave View Fernwood Publishing		Michael Corbett	45	2007	$4.50 Add
From The Commons as Culture, Community, and Creation From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	Becoming attuned to others in the shared habitats of life on Earth: it’s that simple and that mysterious.	Heather Menzies	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From The Consumer in a Changing Food System From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The Duty of Repair From: Conflict Is Not Abuse View Arsenal Pulp Press	In the Conclusion, the author explores how people with social commitments have a special responsibility to intervene to end shunning, facilitate communication, and do the work to reveal complex …	Sarah Schulman	15	2016	$0.15 Add
From The Eclipsed History of the Commons From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	One of the most insidious things about enclosures is how they eradicate the culture of commons and our memory of them. The old ways of doing things; the social practices that once bound a people …	David Bollier	17	2014	$1.70 Add
From The Emergent Market From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out …	Gary S. Kleppel	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From The Empire of Private Property From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	Formal laws may declare what property rights people may have in given circumstances, our social norms are at least as important a force — and those are highly adaptable. How we define …	David Bollier	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The New City Hall Saga 1955-1972 From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	Hamilton, ON. 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. City Hall. Development of the community. Business over other People.	Marsha Aileen Hewitt	8	2016	$0.80 Add
From The Police and the Politics of Overstating Harm From: Conflict Is Not Abuse View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter examines the expression of overstating harm in which the police are called or the state is invoked in matters where Conflict is misrepresented as Abuse. In trying to understand how …	Sarah Schulman	36	2016	$1.08 Add
From The Real Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	The cost of the Scottish Clearances through forced emmigration and the abolition of Scottish commons.	Heather Menzies	7	2014	$0.70 Add
From The Slow Money From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates …	Gary S. Kleppel	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From The Tragedy of the Commons Revisted From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	Exploring the dissolution of communal farms in Scotland and the pitfalls of rigid British feudal farmlands.	Heather Menzies	8	2014	$0.80 Add
Think Like a Commoner A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons	The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures – relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. Think Like a Commoner …		211		View
From To the Shieling From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	The author researches her heritage, leading to understanding as she treads the paths of her ancestors.	Heather Menzies	6	2014	$0.60 Add
Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition	The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, …		257		View
From Watching Genocide Unfold in Real Time Gaza through Facebook and Twitter, June 2 — July 23, 2014 From: Conflict Is Not Abuse View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter focuses on first three weeks of the Israeli war on Gaza as witnessed from afar through social media in the summer of 2014. The author analyzes it as a production of all the elements …	Sarah Schulman	66	2016	$3.96 Add