Rural communities books

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Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity

Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community...

Author: T. Laine Scales (Baylor University) ,  Calvin L. Streeter (The University of Texas)
ISBN: 9781118445167
Format: Paperback
$115.95

Social workers are typically trained in an urban context and are unprepared for the difficulties and challenges...  Read More >>

Country Life Readers: Second Book

Country Life Readers: Second Book

Author: Cora Wilson Stewart
ISBN: 9781628453331
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Country Life Readers By Cora Wilson Stewart Second Book Preface There is an increasing demand for the education...  Read More >>

Rural Criminology

Rural Criminology

Author: Joseph Donnermeyer (Ohio State University, USA) ,  Walter DeKeseredy (West Virginia University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415634380
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Rural Criminology puts the study of rural crime and social control...  Read More >>

Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China

Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance...

Author: Isabel Brown Crook ,  Christina Kelley Gilmartin
ISBN: 9781442225749
Format: Hardback
$175.95

This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's...  Read More >>

Rural Criminology

Rural Criminology

Author: Joseph F Donnermeyer (Ohio State University, USA Ohio State University Ohio State University Ohio State University Ohio State University) ,  Walter Dekeseredy (West Virginia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781306050562
Format: Electronic book text
$491.04

Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Rural Criminology puts the study of rural crime and social control...  Read More >>

The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger: An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution

The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger: An Essay on...

Author: M. Riad El-Ghonemy (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415860208
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on...  Read More >>

The Last Stand: Schools, Communities and the Future of Rural Noval Scotia

The Last Stand: Schools, Communities and the Future...

Author: Paul W. Bennett
ISBN: 9781552665787
Format: Paperback
$32.95

The hour is late and the clock is ticking for rural and small town communities in Nova Scotia. School closures capture...  Read More >>

Mechanization for rural development: a review of patterns and progress from around the world

Mechanization for rural development: a review of patterns...

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization ,  Joseph Kienzle
ISBN: 9789251076057
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Provides a wide-ranging perspective on the present state of mechanization in the developing world, and, as such,...  Read More >>

One Small Farm: Photographs of a Wisconsin Way of Life

One Small Farm: Photographs of a Wisconsin Way of Life...

Author: Craig Schreiner
ISBN: 9780870206177
Format: Hardback
$65.87

""People's lives are written on the fields of old farms. The rows of the fields are like lines on a page, blank...  Read More >>

Life as an Australian Horseman: Images of Australia's Largest Cattle Stations

Life as an Australian Horseman: Images of Australia's...

Author: Fiona Lake
ISBN: 9780975812914
Format: Hardback
$49.95

The companion book to ""A Million Acre Masterpiece"", ""Life as an Australian Horseman"" contains more photos of...  Read More >>

The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

Author: Max Weber ,  RI Frank
ISBN: 9781781681091
Format: Paperback
$39.99

In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt,...  Read More >>

The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence

Author: Carrie Howse
ISBN: 9781907140808
Format: Paperback
$28.91

The Sound of Silence is the first of a trilogy in which award-winning historian Carrie Howse traces her family history,...  Read More >>

The Hidden Cottage: An absolutely feel-good treat to curl up with

The Hidden Cottage: An absolutely feel-good treat to...

Author: Erica James
ISBN: 9781409135418
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A superb blend of humour and emotion in this moving tale of family love and sacrifice from the bestselling author...  Read More >>

And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western...

Author: Kimberly Hart
ISBN: 9780804786607
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Through a comparative ethnographic study of memory, spiritual cultural heritage, and attitudes towards state power...  Read More >>

And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey

And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western...

Author: Kimberly Hart
ISBN: 9780804783309
Format: Hardback
$137.95

Through a comparative ethnographic study of memory, spiritual cultural heritage, and attitudes towards state power...  Read More >>

Elusive Unity: Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatan, Mexico

Elusive Unity: Factionalism and the Limits of Identity...

Author: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
ISBN: 9781607322382
Format: Hardback
$145.20

The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation's government...  Read More >>

Peasant Entrepreneurship and Rural Poverty Reduction. The Case of Model Farmers in Bure Woreda, West Gojjam Zone

Peasant Entrepreneurship and Rural Poverty Reduction....

Author: Abeje Berhanu ,  Ezana Amdework
ISBN: 9789994450442
Format: Paperback
$103.67

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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics

Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe: Exploring...

Author: John M. Bryden ,  Sophia Efstratoglou
ISBN: 9780415851725
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This book deals with an important contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an agriculturally-based policy...  Read More >>

Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms

Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and...

Author: Dionisio Ortiz Miranda ,  Eladio Vicente Arnalte Alegre
ISBN: 9781781905975
Format: Hardback
$302.95

This volume illustrates and deepens the understanding of current agrarian dynamics developing in Mediterranean countries...  Read More >>

Politics and the Land

Politics and the Land

Author: Cecil Dampier-Whetham
ISBN: 9781107615526
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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