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• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Doing Good Things Better (c2011), by Brian Martin (PDF in Australia)
• Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)
• We Can Change The World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life (Boston: New Democracy Books, c1991), by David G. Stratman (PDF at newdemocracyworld.org)
• How Change Happens (Oxford, UK et al.: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Duncan Green (PDF with commentary at how-change-happens.com)
• Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy? (2004), ed. by Duncan Fuller and Rob Kitchin (PDF files at praxis-epress.org)
• Cultural Selection (c1999), by Agner Fog (HTML with commentary at agner.org)
• Social Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by Wilbert E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Age of Perplexity: Rethinking the World We Knew (Madrid: BBVA, c2017), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Jannis Kallinikos, Robin Mansell, Jan-Werner Müller, José Luis Pardo, Diana Marie Owen, Evgeny Morozov, Simon Springer, Marysia Zalewski, John Andrews, Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan, Ian Storey, Miguel Angel Centeno, Andrés Lajous, Douglas R. Nelson, Zia Qureshi, Adam Saunders, Andrew Gamble, Richard J. White, Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek, Adriana Conconi, and Mariana Viollaz (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change (c2013), by Frank W. Elwell (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression (East Boston, MA: Albert Einstein Institution, c2009), by Gene Sharp, contrib. by Jamila Raqib (PDF via aeinstein.org)
• Nonviolence Versus Capitalism (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy (Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, c2020), ed. by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (HTML with commentary at University of Cincinnati Press)
• Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Maurice Mandelbaum (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)
• A Good Life: Human Rights and Encounters With Modernity (2013), by Mary Edmunds (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World (version 1.1, 2013), by Rick Falkvinge (HTML and PDF at falkvinge.net)
• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)
• Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2010), by Susan Bulkeley Butler, contrib. by Bob Keefe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Women and the Gift Economy: A Redically Different Worldview is Possible (2007), ed. by Genevieve Vaughan (PDF files with commentary at gift-economy.com)
• The Book of Visions: An Encyclopaedia of Social Innovations, ed. by Nicholas Albery (HTML at globalideasbank.org)
• Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature (New York: B. W. Huebsch, c1922), by William F. Ogburn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Falling in Love and Loving, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• Reworking Success (electronic edition), by Robert Theobald (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies (2012), by John Carlos Rowe (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)

• Social Reconstruction in Africa (Ugandan philosophical studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by E. Wamala, A. R. Byaruhanga, A. T. Dalfovo, James K. Kigongo, S. A. Mwanahewa, and G. Tusabe (PDF at crvp.org)

• Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2004), ed. by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri (page images at Pitt)

• Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists Talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2013), by Kevin Cook and Heather Goodall (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Memorial de Ayres (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1908), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)

• Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Nadya Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behavioral and Social Science: Fifty Years of Discovery (1986), ed. by Neil J. Smelser and Dean R. Gerstein (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Decadent: Being the Gospel of Inaction, Wherein Are Set Forth in Romance Form Certain Reflections Touching the Curious Characteristics of These Ultimate Years, and the Divers Causes Thereof (privately printed for the author, 1893), by Ralph Adams Cram (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Inheritors, by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (Gutenberg text)
• The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• The Magnificent Ambersons (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1918), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Arthur William Brown (multiple formats at Indiana)

• A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), ed. by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2019), ed. by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• The Changing South Pacific: Identities and Transformations (c2005), ed. by Serge Tcherkézoff and Françoise Douaire-Marsaudon (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• PRAccess, by Political Research Associates (partial serial archives)
• The Public Eye (partial serial archives)

• Tradition, Harmony, and Transcendence (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), by George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)

• Change and the Politics of Certainty (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2019), by Jenny Edkins (PDF files with commentary at Manchester Openhive)
• The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism, by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Interests and Values: The Spirit of Venture in a Time of Change, ed. by Tibor Pichler and Jana Gaspariková (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Social Reconstruction in Africa (Ugandan philosophical studies, II; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by E. Wamala, A. R. Byaruhanga, A. T. Dalfovo, James K. Kigongo, S. A. Mwanahewa, and G. Tusabe (PDF at crvp.org)

• Makeover Nation: the United States of Reinvention (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Toby Miller (PDF at Ohio State)

• Spatial Diffusion (originally published as Scientific Geography #10; c1988), by Richard L. Morrill, Gary L. Gaile, and Grant Ian Thrall (PDF at wvu.edu)

• The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Kate A. F. Crehan (HTML at UC Press)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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