Front Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section One: Communities: an Overview -- Chapter 1: Why Community? -- Chapter 2: Ten Most Common Fears about Joining a Community -- Chapter 3: Community Living Day-to-Day -- Chapter 4: Ecovillages: For Future Generations -- Chapter 5: Cohousing Communities -- Chapter 6: Urban Communities:Group Households and Housing Co-ops -- Chapter 7: Rural Homesteading Communities, Conference and Retreat Centers -- Chapter 9: Christian Communities -- Chapter 10: Income-Sharing Communes -- Section Two: Researching -- Chapter 11: What Does It Cost? -- Chapter 12: What Does It Take to Live in Community? -- Chapter 13: The Communities Directory, the Internet,and You - Researching Communities -- Chapter 14: Your Criteria for Communities to Visit -- Section Three: Visiting -- Chapter 16: Planning Your Visits -- Chapter 17: Excerpts from a Community Seeker's Journal -- Chapter 18: How to Be A Great Guest(and Make the Most of your Experience) -- Chapter 19: Seriously Seeking Community -- Chapter 20: Evaluating Your Visits (and Debunking Some Assumptions and Expectations) -- Chapter 21: Taking a Second Look -- Chapter 22: Choosing Your Community: The "Insider's Guide" -- Chapter 23: The Membership Process -- Chapter 24: Entering Community Gracefully -- Chapter 25: "The longest, most expensive, personal growth workshop you will ever take!" -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index -- About the Author.