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The Mediator's Handbook
Revised & Expanded fourth edition
The popular Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the accessible manual format lays out a clear structure for new and …
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The Empowerment Manual
A Guide for Collaborative Groups
A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change — millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world. These …
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Uprooting Racism
How White People Can Work for Racial Justice - Revised and Expanded 3rd edition
In 2008, the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only 22 percent of white people in the US believe that racism is a major societal problem. On the surface, it may seem to be in decline. However the evidence of …
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Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making
The CODM Model for Facilitating Groups to Widespread Agreement
For any group or organization to function effectively, it must be able to make decisions well. Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making is the first book to offer groups (and group facilitators) a clear and efficient path togenerating widespread agreement …
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Fostering Sustainable Behavior
An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition)
We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to …
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On Gandhi's Path
Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics
Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot like the …
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Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-First Century Activists
Radicals have important messages to deliver but are often so caught up in the passion of their causes that they lose sight of effective communication -- which is their biggest tool. Crucial to the cause is the ability to speak with clarity and …
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How To Re-Imagine The World
A Pocket Guide For Practical Visionaries
Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work -- or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else -- must be just what they are now?
This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating …
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