The best book is Bryant Myers, Walking with the Poor (revised and expanded edition), 2011, Orbis Books. John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development, 1992, Blackwell. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999, Oxford University Press. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Ester Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, 2011, Public Affairs Books. Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... And Yourself, 2009, Moody Publishers. read Easterly and Sachs at the same time to see two very different approaches: William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, 2006, Penguin Books. Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, 2005, Penguin Books. Peace, Frank Cookingham, retired evaluator of international community development On Friday, June 27, 2014 12:30 PM, David Dunn via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: Hi all. An old friend has asked for recommendations on:  general literature on community development?  I need to get out of project-think and into a more comprehensive mode.   Any suggestions that I should pass on. David — "Mystery, possibility, and the power to choose" [read and share on David's blog—http://www.spiritjourneys.org/] David Dunn 740 S Alton Way 9B Denver, CO 80247 720-314-5991 dmdunn1@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net