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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,037 ratings — published 2009
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (And How to Reverse It)
by (shelved 10 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,739 ratings — published 2011
Walking With the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 713 ratings — published 1999
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,225 ratings — published 1968
Community: The Structure of Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,746 ratings — published
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 450 ratings — published 2010
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,991 ratings — published 2017
Community development: A critical approach (BASW/Policy Press titles)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 59 ratings — published 2005
With Justice for All: A Strategy for Community Development (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 253 ratings — published 1981
Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 194 ratings — published 1995
Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 271 ratings — published 1993
Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 219 ratings — published 2013
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,908 ratings — published
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,971 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,956 ratings — published 2016
Asset Building and Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.58 — 67 ratings — published 2001
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,129 ratings — published 2000
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 151 ratings — published 1993
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,933 ratings — published 1961
Rural Development: Putting the Last First (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.14 — 167 ratings — published 1983
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,805 ratings — published 2020
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 547 ratings — published 1998
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,301 ratings — published 2017
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,681 ratings — published 2012
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 743 ratings — published 2006
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.84 — 504,503 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,655 ratings — published 2000
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,656 ratings — published 2008
Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,474 ratings — published 2006
Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,029 ratings — published 2010
Empowerment: A Key Component of Christian Community Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 2010
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 118 ratings — published 2007
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,243 ratings — published 2005
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,093 ratings — published 2004
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,091 ratings — published 1991
A Framework for Understanding Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,399 ratings — published 2001
Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.07 — 368 ratings — published 2007
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,085 ratings — published 2009
Real Hope in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 112 ratings — published 1995
The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.10 — 88 ratings — published
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.95 — 426 ratings — published
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,070 ratings — published 2016
Belonging: A Culture of Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,587 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,315 ratings — published 2021
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 306 ratings — published
For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.75 — 234 ratings — published 2011
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,439 ratings — published 2020
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.62 — 21,389 ratings — published 2021
Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 241 ratings — published
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as community-development)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,062 ratings — published 2018
“MAY ALL BE WITH YOU
May the North show you your purpose.
May the South keep you grounded.
May the East give you support.
May the West give you a place to rest.
My total gratitude to those of the Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and the Space above and around us.
Yours in Astrology.”
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May the North show you your purpose.
May the South keep you grounded.
May the East give you support.
May the West give you a place to rest.
My total gratitude to those of the Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and the Space above and around us.
Yours in Astrology.”
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