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    <h2 class="main-header">Community Books</h2>
    <p>A curated list of recommended reading for community builders.</p>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Get Together</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-Together-build-community-people/dp/1732265194/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Belong</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Get ready to focus on the single most important thing you can do to live a happy, healthy, and successful life: BELONG.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Belong-People-Create-Community-Connected/dp/1523502053">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Buzzing Communities</h4>
        <p class="m-0">This book combines a century of proven science, dozens of real-life examples, practical tips, and trusted community-building methods.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Buzzing-Communities-Bigger-Better-Active/dp/0988359901">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">People Powered</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Harness the power of communities to drive value and revenue, activate your employees’ and customers’ talents, and create a highly engaged, loyal customer base.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/People-Powered-Communities-Supercharge-Business-ebook/dp/B07R4YN5JR/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Power of Ritual</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Explore how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Power-Ritual-Everyday-Activities-Practices/dp/0062881817">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Building Successful Online Communities</h4>
        <p class="m-0">How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262016575/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Art of Community</h4>
        <p class="m-0">The Art of Community helps you recruit members, motivate them, and manage them as active participants.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Community-Building-New-Participation/dp/1449312063/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Wisdom of Crowds</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Turn the Ship Around!</h4>
        <p class="m-0">The true story of how the Santa Fe skyrocketed from worst to first in the fleet by challenging the U.S. Navy's traditional leader-follower approach.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Tribes</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Seth Godin argues that now, for the first time, everyone has an opportunity to start a movement - to bring together a tribe of like-minded people and do amazing things.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-We-Need-You-Lead/dp/1591842336/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Community Manager's Playbook</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Lauren Perkins provides community managers with the first guide to building, nourishing, and growing online communities that naturally sync with their company's offline marketing efforts.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Community-Managers-Playbook-Awareness-Engagement-ebook/dp/B01JFUBN9C">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Culting of Brands</h4>
        <p class="m-0">A fresh and original look at the phenomenon of "cult branding" — how companies cultivate fanatical customer loyalty.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Culting-Brands-Turn-Customers-Believers/dp/1591840961">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Community</h4>
        <p class="m-0">We need to transform the isolation within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole by building the social fabric.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Community-Structure-Belonging-Peter-Block/dp/1605092770/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Death and Life of Great American Cities</h4>
        <p class="m-0">A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067974195X/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Smarter Together</h4>
        <p class="m-0">In Smarter Together, Rob Bernshteyn explores how software can improve business through the use of fully sanitized, anonymized, and normalized data provided by every member of a community.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1626347069">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">How to Handle a Crowd</h4>
        <p class="m-0">In this guide to successful community moderation, explore everything from the trenches of Reddit to your neighborhood Facebook page.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Handle-Crowd-Creating-Communities/dp/1982132310/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Building Brand Communities</h4>
        <p class="m-0">The guide for organizations gathering people to transform their brand and field.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Building-Brand-Communities-Organizations-Belonging/dp/1523086610">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Bowling Alone</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures– and how we may reconnect.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Art of Gathering</h4>
        <p class="m-0">A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Gathering-How-Meet-Matters/dp/0525626131">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Crossing the Chasm</h4>
        <p class="m-0">Bring cutting-edge products to larger markets—now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstream/dp/0062292986/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Imagined Communities</h4>
        <p class="m-0">The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Imagined-Communities-Reflections-Origin-Nationalism/dp/1784786756">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Social Physics</h4>
        <p class="m-0">A landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Social-Physics-Networks-Make-Smarter/dp/0143126334/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">A Paradise Built in Hell</h4>
        <p class="m-0">An investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Built-Hell-Extraordinary-Communities-ebook/dp/B003XQEVLM/">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Community Building on the Web</h4>
        <p class="m-0">This book illuminates deeper and more fundamental aspects of community building-the social and cultural dynamics, the power of a shared purpose, and the roles, rituals and events that bind people together into a group.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Community-Building-Web-Strategies-Communities/dp/0201874849">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">The Indispensable Community</h4>
        <p class="m-0">The top community professionals have stopped chasing engagement and instead build communities neither they nor their members can live without.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Indispensable-Community-Communities-Thrive-Others/dp/1947635107">Read →</a>
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        <h4 class="m-0">Developer Marketing and Relations</h4>
        <p class="m-0">You will find this book essential if you’re working in developer marketing and want to learn how to build your ecosystem to attract, support, and grow your developer base.</p>
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        <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Developer-Marketing-Relations-Essential-Guide/dp/1690712287/">Read →</a>
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