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• A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Sue-Im Lee
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Christine G. Perkell (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Reworking Success (electronic edition), by Robert Theobald (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia: Comparative Approaches (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages v25; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Eirik Hovden, Christina Lutter, and Walter Pohl
  • PDF with commentary at brill.com
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson, contrib. by J. W. Thompson and Melvil Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Album (c1933), by Mary Roberts Rinehart (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Community-University Research Partnerships: Reflections on the Canadian Social Economy Experience (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, c2011), ed. by P. V. Hall and Ian MacPherson (PDF and Epub at uvic.ca)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)
• The ABC of Co-Operative Housing (New York: Co-Operative League, c1924), by Agnes D. Warbasse (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Estate (1999), by David Rodgers (PDF in the UK)

• Planned-Unit Development with a Homes Association (Washington: GPO, 1964), by United States Federal Housing Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• State, Communities and Forests In Contemporary Borneo (Canberra: Australian National University E-Press, c2006), ed. by Fadzilah Majid Cooke
  • HTML and PDF at ANU E Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by William G. Hawkeswood, ed. by Alex W. Costley (HTML at UC Press)

• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)
• Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today's Complex World (second edition, c2016), by R. David Lankes (PDF with commentary at davidlankes.org)
• The Atlas of New Librarianship (originally published 2011), by R. David Lankes (PDF with commentary at davidlankes.org)
• Unequal Access: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Public Library, 2021), by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre (PDF at fairfaxcounty.gov)

• From Awareness to Funding: Voter Perceptions and Support of Public Libraries in 2018 (Dublin, OH: OCLC, 2018), by OCLC and American Library Association (PDF with commentrary at OCLC)
• Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide (c2011), by Jessamyn West (multiple formats with commentary at unglue.it)
• From Awareness to Funding: A Study of Library Support in America (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2008), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa and Jenny Johnson (PDF at OCLC)
• Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century, by Public Agenda Foundation (PDF with commentary at publicagenda.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Self and Community in the City (c1982), by Jerome Krase (HTML at brooklynsoc.org)

• "The Power of Neighborhood" and the Commons (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, c2014), by P. M. (PDF at o500.org)

• "The Power of Neighborhood" and the Commons (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, c2014), by P. M. (PDF at o500.org)

• The Poetics of Cities: Designing Neighborhoods That Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Mike Greenberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Larry Bennett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Planning the Neighborhood (first book in the Standards for Heathful Housing series; Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1948), by American Public Health Association Committee on the Hygiene of Housing (page images at HathiTrust)

• California Mennonites (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015), by Brian Froese (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Why We Live in Community (Walden, NY: Plough Publishing House, c2014), by Eberhard Arnold, contrib. by Thomas Merton (PDF at plough.com)
• The Christian Commonwealth (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Discipleship: Living for Christ in the Daily Grind (expanded edition, c2014), by Heini Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

• Die Gottgeweihten Jungfrauen in den Ersten Jahrhunderten der Kirche (in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1892), by Josef Wilpert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monasticism, Ancient and Modern: Its Principles, Origin, Development, Triumphs, Decadence and Suppression; With an Enquiry As to the Possibility of its Revival (London: Gardner, Darton and Co., 1896), by F. C. Woodhouse
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Monasticism: Its Ideals and History; and The Confessions of St. Augustine, by Adolf von Harnack, trans. by E. E. Kellett and F. H. Marseille (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Observaciones Histórico-Críticas, Sobre el Monaquismo, los Monges y la Necesidad de su Reforma (in Spanish; Caídiz: Imp. Tormentaria, 1812), by P. U. P. Z.
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • reprint: PDF at unav.edu
• Legends of the Monastic Orders, as Represented in the Fine Arts (new edition; London: Longmans, Green, 1890), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mons Perfectionis: Otherwyse Called in Englyssh The Hylle of Perfectyon (London: R. Pynson, 1497), by John Alcock (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (Boston: Occult Pub. Co., 1890), by Franz Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seikkailu Rosenkreuziläisten Luona (An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians in Finnish; Vyborg: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tietäjä, 1922), by Franz Hartmann, trans. by Kyllikki Ignatius (Gutenberg text)
• With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (new and revised edition; London: W. Rider and Sons, ca. 1910), by Franz Hartmann (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (second edition, revised; New York: Theosophical Pub. Co., 1910), by Franz Hartmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Development of the Associative Principle During the Middle Ages: Three Lectures, Read Before the Members and Patrons of the Huddersfield Early Closing Association, During the Winters of 1856, '57, and '58 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859), by Christopher Barker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monachologia: or, Handbook of the Natural History of Monks, Arranged According to the Linnaean System, by a Naturalist (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1852), by Ignaz Born (page images at HathiTrust)

• Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy, and Two Years in the Islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor: Containing a View of the Manners and Customs of the Popish Clergy in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta, Corfu, Zante, Smyrna, &c. (Boston: Jordan, Swift and Wiley, 1845), by S. I. Mahoney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Review for Religious (partial serial archives)

• The Beguines and Beghards in Medieval Culture, With Special Emphasis on the Belgian Scene (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1954), by Ernest William McDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise on Indulgences (London: J. Burns, 1848), by J. B. Bouvier, contrib. by Frederick Oakeley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: The Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, and Others; With an Appendix of Other Orders of Knighthood, Legendary, Honorary, and Modern (London: Society for promoting Christian knowledge; New York: Pott, Young and Co., 1879), by F. C. Woodhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Development of the Associative Principle During the Middle Ages: Three Lectures, Read Before the Members and Patrons of the Huddersfield Early Closing Association, During the Winters of 1856, '57, and '58 (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859), by Christopher Barker (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.