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Title: not very informative or useful
Review: This book develops a basic theoretical "framework" for how community development occurs in the first chapter. The following chapters elaborate on each aspect of the developed framework with detailed real-life examples and suggestions. The entire book is summed up in the 1st 6 pages of the final chapter. Unless you need the detailed examples, you could read those 6 pages instead of buying the book.As a reference book for community developers I would cautiously recommend this book (I say cautiously because I really have no idea what community developers would need in a book). As a sociological text I would not recommend this book. The framework that the authors developed does not really reference other authoritative sociological theories and the framework is much too complicated to be useful.
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