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Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization.\u003cbr\u003eEloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. 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Now, more than ten years after the original publication of that book, the time has come to celebrate the many third places that dot the American landscape and foster civic life. With 20 black-and-white photographs, Celebrating the Third Place brings together fifteen firsthand accounts by proprietors of third places, as well as appreciations by fans who have made spending time at these hangouts a regular part of their lives. Among the establishments profiled are a shopping centre in Seattle, a three-hundred-year-old tavern in Washington, D.C., a garden shop in Amherst, Massachusetts, a coffeehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan, and a restaurant in San Francisco.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884173926673,"sku":"CIN1569246122G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50023470956817,"sku":"GOR003355093","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50427874410769,"sku":"CIN1569246122VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697538044177,"sku":"NGR9781569246122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764403507473,"sku":"CIN1569246122A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51038219370769,"sku":"NIN9781569246122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52336784376081,"sku":"NLS9781569246122","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1569246122.jpg?v=1750991805"},{"product_id":"great-good-place-book-ray-oldenburg-9781569247785","title":"The Great Good Place","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49993914122513,"sku":"CIN1569247781A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50340800463121,"sku":"GOR005651929","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51422779375889,"sku":"CIN1569247781G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106741612817,"sku":"CIN1569247781VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1569247781.jpg?v=1751245489"},{"product_id":"joy-of-tippling-book-ray-oldenburg-9781614728382","title":"The Joy of Tippling","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50385539367185,"sku":"CIN1614728380A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50396252176657,"sku":"CIN1614728380G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039896043793,"sku":"NIN9781614728382","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52595958317329,"sku":"NLS9781614728382","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1614728380.jpg?v=1751057008"},{"product_id":"great-good-place-book-ray-oldenburg-9781614720973","title":"The Great Good Place","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50478668841233,"sku":"CIN1614720975G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039711133969,"sku":"NIN9781614720973","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52327250067729,"sku":"NLS9781614720973","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52994201190673,"sku":"GOR014684986","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52995559883025,"sku":"GOR014686556","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1614720975.jpg?v=1751119320"},{"product_id":"great-good-place-book-ray-oldenburg-9781557781109","title":"Great Good Place","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53017015582993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53017016172817,"sku":"CIN1557781109G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781557781109.jpg?v=1768231200"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-ray-oldenburg.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}