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- A Public Voice 2018 (Author)
- American Decades (Contributor)
- The Bedford Reader (Contributor)
- Burning Man: Art On Fire (Photographer)
- The Changing World of Work (Author)
- The Civic Mission of Higher Education (Author)
- Climate Choices (Co-Author)
- Coming to America (Author)
- Composing Knowledge (Contributor)
- Connecting Leaders: Dialogues (Contributing Editor)
- Creating Citizens Through Public Deliberation (Author)
- Deliberative Pedagogy (Contributor)
- Doing Democracy (Author)
- Hetch Hetchy (Author)
- Higher Education for the Public Good (Author)
- Higher Education and Public Life: Restoring the Bond (Author)
- Higher Education, the Professions and Public Life (Author)
- Immigration in America (Author)
- Interracial Relationships (Contributor)
- Investing in Public Life (Author)
- The Little Brown Reader (Contributor)
- Mapping the Political Landscape (Contributor)
- New Trends (Contributor)
- Nobel Lectures in Peace (Co-Editor)
- On Collaboration (Contributor)
- Our Divided Nation (Author)
- Political Fix (Author)
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- Public Thought and Foreign Policy (Contributor)
- Renewing the Public Purposes of Higher Education (Author)
- Roundtable on Democracy Research (Author)
- Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology (Contributor)
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- The Writer's Presence (Contributor)
articles & essays
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- The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize: A Report from Oslo
- A Constitution for Europe?
- A Way of Seeing: The Work of Robert Coles
- Beyond Civics and Service
- Building Collaborative Communities
- Burning Man: Art Festival, Desert Rave, or Social Experiment?
- California's Proposition 10: A Unique Democratic Experiment
- Citizenship, Democracy and the Changing World Order
- Civic Networks: Building Community on the Net
- Civil Society and the New Global Order
- Cyberspace and the New Consciousness
- Election '92 in Hindsight
- Electronic Town Halls Can't Beat the Real Thing
- The Face of Tomorrow: Reflections on Diversity in America
- Fraternity, Social Captial, and the American Community
- The Future of Journalism
- The Great Global Jamboree
- In Defense of the American Jury System
- Just What Ails Journalism?
- Letter from Oslo: 100 Years of the Nobel Peace Prize
- The Nobel Peace Prize for Wangari Maathai
- On Structural Functionalism
- On Wishing for Kings and Unfettered Speech
- Picking Arguments and Passing Judgments
- The Power of Dialogue
- Thinking Together: The Art of Deliberative Dialogue
- Three New York Memoirs
- The Trouble with American Journalism
- Where are the New Ideas? Not on the Campaign Trail
interviews
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- David Abram: The Ecology of Magic
- Harry Ashmore: Civil Rights and Wrongs
- Benjamin Barber: The Politics of Education
- Peter Calthorpe: The City of Tomorrow
- Alan Cranston: Toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
- Bill Drayton: Becoming a Changemaker
- Riane Eisler: Sex, Myth and Politics
- Chellis Glendinning: Technology and Its Discontents
- Willis Harman: Business and Social Responsibility
- James Hillman: On Soul, Character and Calling
- Jean Houston: Soul, Shadow and the American Psyche
- Pico Iyer: Postmodern Tourism
- Sam Keen: Renewing Our Sense of Wonder
- Jerry Mander: Megatechnology
- Jerry Mander: The Perils of Globalization
- Bill Mollison: Permaculture - A Quiet Revolution
- Stephen Mitchell: Touching the Essence of Things
- Michael Murphy: The Mysterious Powers of Body and Mind
- Alberto Olivas: Civic Engagement at Maricopa
- Howard Rheingold: Life on the Electronic Frontier
- Richard Rodriguez: A View from the Melting Pot
- Elisabet Sahtouris: From Mechanics to Organics
- John Ralston Saul: The End of Rationalism
- Vandana Shiva: In the Footsteps of Gandhi
- Ninian Smart: The Future of Religion
- Christina Hoff Sommers: The Future of Feminism
- Richard Tarnas: Understanding Our Moment in History
- Robert Theobald: Social Entrepreneurship
- Margaret Wheatley: The New Science of Leadership
- Terry Tempest Williams: The Politics of Place
- Marianne Williamson: Holistic Politics
- Connie Zweig: Illuminating the Shadow
papers & reports
- A Public Voice 2018
- The Academy and Public Life: Healing the Rift
- The Civic Mission of Higher Education
- Civic Networks: Building Community on the Net
- Collaboration and Community
- Creating Citizens Through Public Deliberation
- Higher Education for the Public Good
- Higher Education and Public Life: Restoring the Bond
- Higher Education, the Professions and Public Life
- How the Media Frames Political Issues
- Investing in Public Life
- Organic Democracy: The Political Philosophy of John Dewey
- Our Divided Nation
- Public Innovators: Forces for Social Change and Civic Renewal
- Renewing the Public Purposes of Higher Education
- Teledemocracy vs. Deliberative Democracy
- Understanding Change: How It Happens and How to Make It Happen
book reviews
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- Eric Alterman - Sound and Fury
- Bryan Appleyard - Understanding the Present
- Harry Ashmore - Civil Rights and Wrongs
- Benjamin Barber - A Place for Us
- Mary Catherine Bateson - Peripheral Vision
- Richard Bernstein - Dictatorship of Virtue
- Burton J. Bledstein - The Culture of Professionalism
- Peter Block - Community: The Structure of Belonging
- David Bornstein - The Price of a Dream
- Anne Wells Branscomb - Who Owns Information?
- Steven Brint - In an Age of Experts
- David Broder - Democracy Derailed
- Anatole Broyard - Kafka Was the Rage
- Jerome Bruner - The Culture of Education
- James MacGregor Burns - Leadership
- Peter Calthorpe - The Next American Metropolis
- Fritjof Capra - The Web of Life
- Dan Clawson et al - Money Talks
- Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon - Adventures in Medialand
- Robert Coles - The Call of Service
- Leslie Crutchfield & Heather McLeod Grant - Forces For Good
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - The Evolving Self
- Herman Daly and John Cobb Jr. - For the Common Good
- Stanley Deetz - Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization
- Edwin Diamond - The Media Game
- Edwin Diamond & Robert Silverman - White House to Your House
- John Patrick Diggins - The Promise of Pragmatism
- E L Doctorow - Jack London, Hemingway and the Constitution
- Stephen Doheny-Farina - The Wired Neighborhood
- Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer - Unsilent Revolution
- John David Ebert - Twilight of the Clockwork God
- Barbara Ehrenreich - Fear of Falling
- David Engwicht - Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns
- Alexander Ewen, Editor - Voice of Indigenous Peoples
- Howard Gardner - Intelligence Reframed
- Howard Gardner - The Unschooled Mind
- Jack Germond and Jules Witcover - Mad as Hell
- Todd Gitlin - The Intellectuals and the Flag
- Mary Ann Glendon - A Nation Under Lawyers
- Ellen Goodman - Value Judgments
- Richard Goodwin - Promises to Keep
- David Guterson - Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
- Paul Hawken - The Ecology of Commerce
- Fredrik Heffermehl - The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted
- Ronald Heifetz - Leadership Without Easy Answers
- Hazel Henderson - Building a Win-Win World
- Hazel Henderson - Paradigms in Progress
- Christopher Hitchens - For the Sake of Argument
- Gail Bernice Holland - A Call for Connection
- Philip K. Howard - The Death of Common Sense
- William Hoynes - Public Television for Sale
- Barbara Marx Hubbard - Conscious Evolution
- Robert Hughes - Culture of Complaint
- Samuel Huntington - The Third Wave
- Russell Jacoby - Dogmatic Wisdom
- Robert Kaplan - The Ends of the Earth
- Mickey Kaus - The End of Equality
- Daniel Kemmis - The Good City and the Good Life
- Paul Kennedy - Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
- David Korten - The Post-Corporate World
- Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Howard Kurtz - Media Circus
- George Lakoff - Moral Politics
- Philip Langdon - A Better Place to Live
- Richard Lanham - The Electronic Word
- Lewis Lapham - The Wish For Kings
- Christopher Lasch - Revolt of the Elites
- Richard Louv - Childhood's Future
- Jerry Mander - In the Absence of the Sacred
- John Minahan - Teaching Democracy - A Professor's Journal
- Willie Morris - New York Days
- John Naisbitt - Global Paradox
- Nicholas Negroponte - Being Digital
- David Osborne and Ted Gaebler - Reinventing Government
- Elinor Ostrom - Governing the Commons
- Thomas Patterson - Out of Order
- Victor Perez-Diaz - The Return of Civil Society
- Kevin Phillips - Arrogant Capital
- Mary Pipher - The Shelter of Each Other
- Neil Postman - Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
- Neil Postman - The End of Education
- Neil Postman - Technopoly
- Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein - Better Together
- Jonathan Rauch - Kindly Inquisitors
- Jonathan Rauch - Demosclerosis
- Robert Reich - The Work of Nations
- Howard Rheingold - The Virtual Community
- Robert Richie & Steven Hill - Reflecting All of Us
- Jeremy Rifkin - Biosphere Politics
- Tom Rosenstiel - Strange Bedfellows
- Theodore Roszak - America the Wise
- Peter Russell - The Global Brain
- Peter Russell - Waking Up in Time
- John Ralston Saul - Voltaire's Bastards
- Douglas Schuler - New Community Networks
- Richard Sclove - Democracy and Technology
- Lynn Sherr - Failure is Impossible
- Stephen Skowronek - The Politics Presidents Make
- Philip Slater - A Dream Deferred
- Christa Daryl Slaton - Televote
- Hedrick Smith - Rethinking America
- Huston Smith - Beyond the Post-Modern Mind
- James A. Smith - The Idea Brokers
- Page Smith - Rediscovering Christianity
- Charlene Spretnak - The Resurgence of the Real
- Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler - Connections
- Horst Stern - The Last Hunt
- Clifford Stoll - Silicon Snake Oil
- Cass Sunstein - Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech
- Cass Sunstein - Republic.com
- Robert Thaler and Cass Sunstein - Nudge
- Paul Thagard - Conceptual Revolutions
- Robert Theobald - The Rapids of Change
- Alvin and Heidi Toffler - War and Anti-War
- Diana Trilling - The Beginning of the Journey
- Ken Wilber - One Taste
- Bruce Wilshire - The Moral Collapse of the University
- Langdon Winner - The Whale and the Reactor
- Wally Wirths - Democracy - the Myth, the Reality
- Sheldon Wolin - The Presence of the Past
- Robert Wuthnow - Sharing the Journey
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