Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness
- ISBN-10
- 0742575411
- ISBN-13
- 9780742575417
- Category
- Communities
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Author
- John F. Freie
Description
As Counterfeit Community shows, building genuine community means no quick fixes and no false appeals. The hard work of weaving relationships must be combined with political, economic, and social change to counter the counterfeit trend.
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- 1998-06-11
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- 1998
- 212 pages
- Paperback
- Rowman & Littlefield
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