Reading list

If you want to keep at hand a good book list on community-building and related matters, put a bookmark here.

This is the combined list of bibliographic references to community-related books and publications collected by the 43 co-authors of the Community Building anthology. We will link the authors listed here with their web pages, or references to their work, whenever we find them on the web. If you find one, please send us the URL.

Adizes, I., and Borgese, E.M.,

Self Management: New Dimensions to Democracy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1975

Agazarian, Y.M. & S. Janoff. "Systems Theory in Small Groups." In H. Kaplan & B. Sadlock (eds.),

Comprehensive Textbook of Group Psychotherapy. Williams & Wilkins, 1993.

Alban, B. & B. Bunker. "Large Group Interventions."

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Volume 28, Number 4, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, December 1992.

Alinsky, S.

Reveillefor Radicals. NewYork: Vintage, 1969.

Arnett, R.C.

Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber's Dialogue. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.

Argyris, Chris.

Reasoning, Learning, and Action. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1982.

On Organizational Learning. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.

Strategy, Change, and Defensive Routines. Boston: Pitman, 1985.

Management and Organization Development. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.

Asch, S.

Social Psychology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.

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Barrentine, Pat (ed.)

When the Canary Stops Singing: Women's Perspectives on Transforming Business. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993.

Bateson, G.

Mind and Nature. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.

Beck, A.C. & E.D. Hillmar.

Positive Management Practices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986.

A Practical Approach to Organizational Development Through MBO. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1972.

Beckhard, R.

Organization Development: Strategies and Models. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969.

Bellah, R., R. Madsen, W. Sullivan, A. Swidler & S. Tipler.

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Bennis, W.C.

Organization Development: Its Nature, Origins, and Prospects. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969.

Bennis,W.G. & E.H. Schein (eds.)

Leadership andMotivation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,1966.

Bennis, W.G., C. McGregor & D. McGregor (eds.)

The Professional Manager. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Bion, W.

Experience in Groups. London: Tavistock, 1961.

Block, P.

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993.

Bohm, D. "On Dialogue" (Transcription of a Meeting) Ojai, CA: David Bohm Seminars, 1990.

Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Cambridge, MA: Ark Paperbacks, 1980.

Bohm, D. & M. Edwards.

Changing Consciousness, Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political and Environmental Crisis Facing Our World. New York: Harper Collins, l 991.

Proprioception of Thought. Ojai, CA: David Bohm Seminars, 1989.

Brown, Juanita. "Corporation as Community: A New Image for a New Era." In J. Renesch, (ed.)

New Traditions in Business. San Francisco: Sterling & Stone, l991, pp. 123-129.

Buzan, F.E. & E.L. Trist.

Toward a Social Ecology. New York: Plenum, 1973.

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Callenbach, E., F. Capra, L. Goldman, R. Lutz & S. Marburg.

EcoManagement: The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993.

Calthorpe, Peter & Van der Ryn Sim.

Sustainable Communities--A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Campbell, Susan.

Earth Community: Living Experiments in Cultural Transformation. San Francisco: Evolutionary Press, 1982.

From Chaos to Confidence: Survival Strategies for the New Workplace. New York: Simon & Schuster, in press.

Capra, F. "Bringing Forth a World."

Elmwood Quarterly, Volume 9, Number 3, 1993.

"The Theory of Living Systems."

Elmwood Quarterly, Volume 9, Numbers 1-2,1993.

The Tao of Physics. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

Carey, Ken.

Starseed. The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World. San Francisco: Harper, 1991.

Carse, James.

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. New York: Ballentine Books, 1986.

Cashman, P. & D. Stroll. Proceedings of Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, 1987.

Catford, Lorna & Michael Ray.

The Path of the Everyday Hero. Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1991.

Collins, J. C. & J. L. Porras. "Organizational Vision and Visionary Organizations."

California ManagementReview, Volume 34, Number 1, 1991.

Collins, J.C. & J. L. Porras.

Built to Last. New York: HarperBusiness, 1994.

"Corporate Communities: Where Everybody Wins."

The New Leaders, San Francisco: January/February 1993.

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de Mare, P., R. Piper & S. Thompson.

Koinonia: From Hate Through Dialogue to Culture in the Large Group. London: H. Karnac Books, 1991.

Dixon, N.M. "Organizational Learning: A Review of the Literature with Implications for HRD Professionals."

Human Resource Quarterly, Spring 1992.

Dyer, W.G.

Team Building Issues and Alternatives. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977.

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Elgin, Duane.

Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. New York: Morrow,1993.

Emery, M. (ed.)

Participative Design for Participative Democracy. Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1993.

Engelbart, D. "Intellectual Implications of Multi-Access Computer Networks."

In Douglas C. Englebert (ed.)The Augmentation Papers, Fremont, CA: The Bootstrap Institute. 1970.

"Coordinated Information Services for a Discipline - or Mission-Oriented Community" In Douglas C. Englebert (ed.)The Augmentation Papers, Fremont, CA: The Bootstrap Institute. 1975.

Ewing, D.W., "A Bill of Rights for Employees."

Across the Board, March 1981.

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Freire, P.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1992.

Friedman, Maurice.

The Confrontation of Otherness: In Family, Community and Society. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983.

Fritz, Robert.

The Path of Least Resistance. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.

Gardner, John.

Building Community. A booklet prepared for the Leadership Studies Program of the Independent Sector, Washington D.C. The booklet is an expansion of the ideas set forth in Chapter 11 of Gardner's book On Leadership. New York: Free Press, 1990.

Self-Renewal. (Revised edition.) New York: Norton, 1981.

Garfield, Charles.

Second to None: How Our Smartest Companies Put People First. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1992.

Gatto, John Taylor. "We Need Less School, Not More."

Whole Earth Review, Winter 1993.

Gauld, Joseph W.

Character First. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993.

Goff, David.

Communitas: An Exploratory Study of the Existential and Transpersonal Dimensions of a Psychological Sense of Community as Found in the Community Building Workshop, unpublished dissertation, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA.

Goleman, David, Paul Kaufman & Michael Ray.

The Creative Spirit. New York: Dutton, 1992.

Gozdz, Kazimierz. "Community Building as a Leadership Discipline."

In Michael Ray & Alan Rinzler (eds.)The New Paradigm in Business: Emerging Strategies for Leadership and Organizational Change. New York: Tarcher/Perigree.

Greider, W.

Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy. New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1992.

Gustavsen, B. "Workplace Reform and Democratic Dialogue."

Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 6, 1985.

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Hall, Edward T.

The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1966.

Hample, S. & E. Marshall.

Children's Letters to God, The New Collection. New York: Workman Publishing, 1991.

Handy, Charles.

TheAge of Paradox. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.

Harman, Willis.

Global Mind Change. New York: Warner Books, 1988.

"What Is This 'New Paradigm'?"

Meeting Ground, World Business Academy, Volume 2, Number 6, 1993.

Harman, Willis & John Hormann.

Creative Work. Indianapolis, IN: Knowledge Systems, Inc., 1990.

Hawley, Jack.

Reawakening the Spirit in Work. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993.

Hillman, James & Michael Ventura.

We're had A Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And The World Is Getting Worse, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.

Horton, Myles.

The Long Haul: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Horton, Myles & Paulo Freire.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

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Isaacs, William. "Dialogue: The Power of Collective Thinking."

The Systems Thinker, April,1993.

"Taking Flight: Dialogue, Collective Thinking and Organizational Learning."

Organizational Dynamics, Fall 1993.

Jacacci, August. "The Social Architecture of a Learning Culture."

Training and Development, November, 1989.

Jacobs, Jane.

Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York. Random House, 1984.

Johnson-Lenz, Peter & Trudy. "Groupware for a Small Planet." In Peter Lloyd (ed.),

Groupware in the 21st Century. London: Adamantine Press, 1994.

Johnston, Charles.

Necessary Wisdom: Meeting the Challenge of a New Cultural Maturity. Seattle, WA: Institute for Creative Development, 1991.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss.

The Change Masters. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Kemmis, Daniel.

Community and the Politics of Place. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Kofman, Fred & Peter Senge. "Communities of Commitment: The Heart of Learning Organizations."

Organization Dynamics, Fall 1993.

Kotter, J. & J. Haskett. As quoted in a review of their book

Corporate Culture and Performance, appearing in "The Caring Company," The Economist. June 6, 1992.

Kouzes, J. & B. Posner.

The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Kuhn, T. S.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second ed., Enlarged ed.). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Kumarappa, J.C. quoted in S. Campbell.

Earth Community: Living Experiments in Cultural Transformation. San Francisco: Evolutionary Press, 1982.

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Land, G., & B. Jarman.

Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today. New York: Harper Business, 1992.

Laszlo, E.

Evolution, the Grand Synthesis. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1987.

Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1972.

The Systems View of the World. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1972.

Lave J. & E. Wenger.

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Lawler, E.E.

High-Involvement Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986.

Levey, Joel & Michelle.

Quality of Mind: Tools for Self-Mastery and Enhanced Performance. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1991.

Likert, R.

The Human Organization: Its Management and Value. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Macy, Joanna.

Mutual Causality In Buddhism And General Systems Theory. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Macy, Joanna.

World as Lover, World as Self, Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991.

Magaziner, Elemer. "Organizations and People Sink or Swim Together."

The New Leaders Dialogues, San Francisco, July 1994.

Mander, Jerry.

In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.

Marrow, A.J., D.G. Bowers & S.E. Seashore.

Management by Participation. New York: Harper & Row,1967.

Maturana, H. R., & F. J. Varela.

The Tree of Knowledge. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1992.

Maynard, H. B., & S. E. Mehrtens.

The Fourth Wave: Business in the Twenty-First Century. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1993.

McGregor, D.

The Human Side of Enterprise. NewYork: McGraw-Hill, 1960. McGregor, D., W.G. Bennis & C. McGregor (eds.)

Leadership and Motivation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.

McIntosh, P. White

Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Comming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies. Number 189. Wellesley College, 1988.

Michalski, J.

Community in Release 1.0. New York: Edventure Holdings, 1993.

Mindell, Arnold.

The Leader as Martial Artist. San Francisco: Harper, 1992.

The Year I, Global Process Work: Community Creation from Global Problems, Tensions and Myths. London: Arcana, 1989.

Mirvis, P.H., (ed.).

Building the Competitive Workforce. New York: John Wiley, 1993.

Mollner, T.

The Prophets of the Pyrenees: The Search for the Relationship Age. Northampton, MA: Trusteeship Institute, Inc., 1991.

"Interview of Mohammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank" Northampton, MA: Trusteeship Institute, Inc., 1994.

Morgan, G.

Images of Organization. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1986. Neuwirth, Marianne.

Occupational Therapy Forum, May 12, 1991.

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Nirenberg, J.

The Living Organization: Transforming Teams into Workplace Communities. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1993.

Nhat Hanh, Thich.

The Heart of Understanding. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1988.

Oliver, L.

Study Circles: Coming Together for Personal Growth and Social Change. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1987.

Opper, Susanna & Henry Fersko-Weiss.

Technology for Teams: Enhancing Productivity in Networked Organizations. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Ornstein, Robert & Paul Erlich.

New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Orsburn, Jack D. et. al.

Self-Directed Work Teams: The New American Challenge. Homewood, IL: Business One Irwin, 1990.

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Parenti, M.,

Power and the Powerless. New York: St. Martins Press, 1978

Peck, M. Scott.

A World Waiting to Be Born: Rediscovering Civility. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

Further Along the Road Less Traveled. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

The Different Drum, Community Making and Peace: A Spiritual Journey Toward Self-Acceptance, True Belonging, and New Hope for the World. New York: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone, 1987.

Peck, M. Scott.

The Road Less Traveled. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1978.

Peter, Lloyd (ed.)

Groupware in the 21st Century. London: Adamantine Press, 1994.

Prigogine, I., & I.

Stengers. Order Out of Chaos. New York: Bantam Books, 1984.

Ray, M. & A. Rinzler (eds.)

The New Paradigm In Business. New York: Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1993.

Ray, M. & John Renesch (eds.)

The New Entrepreneurs, San Francisco, CA: Sterling & Stone Inc., 1994.

Ray, M. "The Emerging New Paradigm in Business." In John Renesch (ed.),

New Traditions in Business: Spirit and Leadership in the 21st Centrury. San Francisco: Sterling & Stone, Inc., 1991.

Ray, Michael & Rochelle Myers.

Creativity in Business. NewYork: Doubleday, 1986.

Renesch, John. "Organizational Transformation and Healing: A Natural Alliance."

The New Leaders, January/February 1994.

Renesch, John (ed.).

Leadership in a New Era. San Francisco: Sterling & Stone Inc., 1994.

New Traditions in Business: Spirit & Leadership in the 21st Century. San Francisco: Benett-Koehler Publishers, 1992.

Rheingold, Howard.

The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Rossbach, Sarah.

Feng Shui--The Chinese Art of Placement. New York: Penguin, 1983.

Roszak, Theodore.

The Voice of the Earth, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Rough, Jim. "Choice-Creating: How to Solve Impossible Problems."

Journal for Quality and Participation, September 1991.

"Creative Choices: Breakthroughs in Thinking."

Quality Digest, December 1992.

"A Learning Moment."

The New Leaders. San Francisco, May/June 1994.

Russell, Peter.

The White Hole in Time: Our Future Evolution and the Meaning of Now. San Francisco: Harper, 1992.

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Schein, E. H.

Organizational Culture and Leadership. (Second ed.) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Schindler, Craig & Gary Lapid.

The Great Turning: Personal Peace, Global Victory. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1989.

Schindler-Rainman, Eva & Ronald Lippitt.

Building the Collaborative Community: Mobilizing Citizens forAction. Irvine: University of California, Irvine, 1980.

Michael Schrage

Shared Minds New York: Random House, 1990.

Schumacher, E.F.

Good Work. NewYork: Harper & Row, 1979.

Senge, Peter M.

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Senge, Peter M., C. Roberts, R.B. Ross, B. J. Smith & A. Kleiner.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. NewYork: Doubleday, 1994.

Short, Ronald. A

Special Kind of Leadership: The Key to Learning Organizations. Seattle, WA: The Leadership Group, 1991.

Sorokin, P. A.

The Crisis of OurAge. Chatam, NY: Oneworld Publications Ltd., 1941.

Srivastva, Suresh, David Cooperrider & Associates.

Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.

Tannen, D. You

Just Don't Understand. New York: Morrow. 1990.

Tanner Pascale, Richard.

Managing on the Edge. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster,1990.

Tarnas, R.

The Passion of the Western Mind. New York: Ballentine Books, 1991.

Tonnies, F.

Community and Society. New York, NY: Harper, 1959.

Trist, Eric.

The Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems. Toronto, Ontario: Ministry of Labor, 1981.

Turner, V.

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. (Seventh ed.) Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.

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Webber, Alan. "What's So New About the New Economy?"

Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1993.

Weisbord, M.R.

Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning and Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

Weisbord, M.R.

Discovering Common Ground: How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and Collaborative Action. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1992.

Weisbord, M.R. & SearchNet Members.

Future Search Conferences: Case Studies and Essays, 1992-1994. Philadelphia: SearchNet, A Program of Resources for Human Development, 1994.

Wheatley, M. J.,

Leadership and the New Science. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1992.

Whitney, Rondalyn V. "Mariah, The Birth Angel " © 1990. Originally appeared in

Yankee Magazine.

Whyte, W.F. & K. King.

Making Mondragon. Ithaca, NY:ILR Press, 1988.

Wilber, K.

The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes. Boston: New Science Library, 1985.

Williams, E.

Participative Management: Concepts, Theory and Implementation. Atlanta: Georgia State University, 1976. Zohar, D. & I. Marshall.

The Quantum Society. NewYork: Morrow, 1994.