Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World

Sage is renowned as a hard‐nosed publisher with a track record of successful specialised academic publishing. Their market research department must, therefore, have agreed that there is a viable market for an expensive printed encyclopedia at a fairly basic high school to undergraduate level, focussing generally on the broad sociological theme of community. I cannot quite see it myself, but I suppose that they know their own business best.

The answer to this can possibly be found in the article Colleges, which seems to me to be exemplary of the whole of this encyclopedia. Aside from a box containing, for...