Books & Films

Shaping Communitieis

Lord of the Flies

In this classic adaptation of William Golding's novel, a planeload of schoolboys is stranded on a tropical island. They've got food and water; all that's...

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By Robert D. Putnam

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet — the 20th-anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal...

Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

By Etienne Wenger

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get...

Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church

By Letty M. Russell

Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of...

Leadership Without Easy Answers

By Ronald A. Heifetz

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in...