Drawing on evidence that includes nearly half a million interviews conducted over 25 years in the US, Putnam shows how changes in work, family structure, suburban life, technology, and the roles of women are isolating people from each other in a trend that has its reflection in British society.

States that if we are to prevent civilization destroying itself, we must rebuild on all levels, local, national and international - the first step to spiritual survival. This book describes how communities work, how group action can be developed on the principles of tolerance and love, and how we can transform world society into a true community.

It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath the surface!

Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community.

Rethinking Intimacy Community and Small Groups.

A follow-up book that puts into practice the lessons learnt from Bowling Along .

Offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. The author observes, more is no longer synonymous with better - indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. He puts forward a way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all.

Examines the creation and function of the imagined communities of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe.

Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers can build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time, mistreated customers can join forces to get their revenge on airlines and high street banks, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. This book presents tools to make group action a reality.

Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation.

Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren - he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel, for Fiver's sixth sense was never wrong. They had to leave immediately, and they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. And so begins a perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home.

In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world.

An analysis of the virtual community of online networking, revealing the similarities between inter-personal relationships in the virtual world with the way people relate outside. Both the supportive and the darker sides of people's behaviour online is explored.

Offers an interpretation of American society. This book features a preface relating the arguments of the book both to the realities of American society and to the debate about the country's future.

This work previews what the author predicts will be a new shift in techno-culture spurred by advances in mobile communication, providing examples of current indicators and citing the technology's vulnerabilities.

In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

Offers an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. This book explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. It shows us how we can overcome isolation and anxiety and create communities alive with energy.