Book Excerpts

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How Organizing Professionalizes

By Clément Petitjean

An excerpt from Occupation: Organizer on the birth of the community organizing model

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What’s Next for Patagonia?

By Vincent Stanley & Yvon Chouinard

An excerpt from The Future of the Responsible Company on the right to be responsible

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The Original Lifehackers

By Ben Ramalingam

An excerpt from Upshift on how people living with disabilities create innovation

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How to Scale Sideways

By Seth D. Kaplan

An excerpt from Fragile Neighborhoods on hyperlocal change

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Ordinary Universalism

By Michèle Lamont

An excerpt from Seeing Others on creating common ground in American politics

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Thinking About Punishment

By Peter H. Kim

An excerpt from How Trust Works on the psychology of criminal justice reform

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Sustainable Pragmatism

By Steven Cohen

An excerpt from Environmentally Sustainable Growth on the transition to an environmentally sustainable American economy

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Change Resistance

By James Shulman

An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education

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Thinking About Thinking

By Cheryl Strauss Einhorn 1

An excerpt from Problem Solver on how we make decisions

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Movement Building Means Building Movement

By Marcie Bianco 1

An excerpt from Breaking Free on the freedom practice of individual and collective movement