>>81710560>>81710581You are retarded for not just asking ChatGPT.
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**Fractured: Why Our Societies Are Coming Apart and How We Put Them Back
Together Again**
**Author:** Jon Yates (2021)
* Investigates how 'homophily' (the tendency to stick with people who are like us) is weakening civic institutions.
* Offers examples-from hunter-gatherer rituals to policy in Singapore-on reviving shared common-life structures .
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**Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together**
**Author:** Kevin Ervin Kelley (2023)
* Focused on physical 'third places' like cafes, libraries, and parks that foster spontaneous interaction.
* A practical, design-oriented guide to reviving community spaces in our digital age .
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**Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood and Nation**
**Author:** Danny Kruger (2023)
* Offers a thoughtful political-philosophical perspective on rebuilding social contracts through localism, shared values, and community responsibility .
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Bonus: **The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century**
**Authors:** Jacqueline Olds & Richard Schwartz
* Although slightly older, this book delves deeply into psychological isolation and its individual and societal impacts .