---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Edwards <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:24 PM Subject: Introducing "Civil Society," 3rd Edition‏ To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Maia Duerr <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Marc Chehab <[email protected]>, Maria Chertok <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, Marina Ottaway <[email protected]>, Marina Sitrin < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Marisa Handler <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, Martha Nussbaum < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, Mary Coyle <[email protected]>, Matthew Bishop < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Maureen Smyth <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, michael lerner <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 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. To purchase the book in the USA click here <http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Society-Michael-Edwards/dp/0745679366/ref=la_B001HOUIH8_1_4_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401828729&sr=1-4> . And in the UK click here <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Civil-Society-Michael-Edwards/dp/0745679366/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401828800&sr=1-1&keywords=civil+society+edwards> . And in Canada click here <http://www.amazon.ca/Civil-Society-Michael-Edwards/dp/0745679366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401828843&sr=8-1&keywords=civil+society+edwards> . Here's a link to the book's page <https://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745679358>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 <http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michael-edwards/when-is-civil-society-force-for-social-transformation>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 note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/