From: Michael Edwards <edwarmi@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:24 PM
Subject: Introducing "Civil Society," 3rd Edition
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Dear friends,
Every five years I revise the book on Civil Society I originally published with Polity Press in 2004. It's Groundhog Day again, and the third edition of the book comes out this month. It has lots of new and updated material, including on the role of social media and social enterprise, different trends in philanthropy, the Arab Spring and much else besides. I hope you'll give it a try and recommend it to your friends and colleagues.
Every five years I revise the book on Civil Society I originally published with Polity Press in 2004. It's Groundhog Day again, and the third edition of the book comes out this month. It has lots of new and updated material, including on the role of social media and social enterprise, different trends in philanthropy, the Arab Spring and much else besides. I hope you'll give it a try and recommend it to your friends and colleagues.
To purchase the book in the USA click here.
And in the UK click here.
And in Canada click here.
Here's a link to the book's page on the publisher's website, Polity Press.
And in the UK click here.
And in Canada click here.
Here's a link to the book's page on the publisher's website, Polity Press.
And if book-reading seems a bit retro in today's day and age, here's a summary in a thousand words or so that summarizes the whole thing!
Please send me comments and suggestions when you've read the new edition. I'm always collecting material for the next one.
Thanks and all the best, Mike
Michael Edwards
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos, New York
Editor, http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation
Follow me on Twitter @edwarmi and check out my website at http://www.futurepositive.org for free downloads and all the latest news about my work
Please send me comments and suggestions when you've read the new edition. I'm always collecting material for the next one.
Thanks and all the best, Mike
Michael Edwards
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos, New York
Editor, http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation
Follow me on Twitter @edwarmi and check out my website at http://www.futurepositive.org for free downloads and all the latest news about my work