Rural communities books

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Urban-Rural Interactions: Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development

Urban-Rural Interactions: Towns as Focus Points in Rural...

Author: Eveline van Leeuwen
ISBN: 9783790828177
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Develops a diversified rural economy, as well as the bottom-up approach and local focus of many rural policies,...  Read More >>

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of...

Author: Ida Harboe Knudsen
ISBN: 9780857284532
Format: Hardback
$115.00

'New Lithuania in Old Hands' examines the impact Lithuania's EU membership has had upon the country's ageing small-scale...  Read More >>

Mieres Reborn: The Reinvention of a Catalan Community

Mieres Reborn: The Reinvention of a Catalan Community...

Author: Alexander Robertson
ISBN: 9780817317430
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about...  Read More >>

Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach

Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based...

Author: Randy R. Stoecker
ISBN: 9781412994057
Format: Paperback
$233.00

This book presents a research model which can be used in the community in order to tackle problems and grow.  Read More >>

Organizing Rural China — Rural China Organizing

Organizing Rural China — Rural China Organizing

Author: Ane Bislev ,  Stig Thogersen
ISBN: 9780739170090
Format: Hardback
$100.95

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Small Town and Village in Bavaria: The Passing of a Way of Life

Small Town and Village in Bavaria: The Passing of a...

Author: Peter H. Merkl
ISBN: 9780857453471
Format: Hardback
$269.10

At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s...  Read More >>

Re-presenting Rural Culture

Re-presenting Rural Culture

Author: Paul Cloke ,  Martin Phillips
ISBN: 9780340550465
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Electric Capitalism

Electric Capitalism

Author: David A McDonald (Queen's University, Canada) ,  David A McDonald (Queen's University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781282170896
Format: Electronic book text
$432.43

This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for understanding electricity and capitalism in Africa, followed...  Read More >>

War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s...

Author: Paul Brassley (University of Exeter, UK) ,  Yves Segers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9780415522168
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society,...  Read More >>

Gender and Rural Development: Advanced Studies

Gender and Rural Development: Advanced Studies

Author: Olanike F. Deji
ISBN: 9783643901040
Format: Paperback
$118.67

The gender irresponsive nature of most textbooks for postgraduate studies in agriculture contributes immensely to...  Read More >>

Agricultural policies for poverty reduction

Agricultural policies for poverty reduction

Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ,  Jonathan Brooks
ISBN: 9789264168633
Format: Paperback
$118.95

With more than two-thirds of the world's poor living in rural areas, higher rural incomes are a pre-requisite for...  Read More >>

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of Europeanization in Rural Lithuania

New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of...

Author: Ida Harboe Knudsen
ISBN: 9786613562920
Format: Electronic book text
$313.63

'New Lithuania in Old Hands' examines the impact Lithuania's EU membership has had upon the country's ageing small-scale...  Read More >>

Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction

Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction

Author: Jonathan Brooks (OECD)
ISBN: 9781780641058
Format: Hardback
$504.64

With more than two-thirds of the world’s poor living in rural areas, higher rural incomes are needed to sustain...  Read More >>

New Development in the Rural Spaces of Central and East Europe: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Working Group on Central Europe, September 30, 2015

New Development in the Rural Spaces of Central and East...

Author: Peter Jordan (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9783700181019
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Rural space is one of the biggest problem areas in transformation countries. Already in the Communist era, it was...  Read More >>

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

Author: Richard Lee
ISBN: 9781111828776
Format: Paperback
$263.87

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So You Want to Be a Cowboy

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

Author: Pat Puckett
ISBN: 9781475076240
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Pat Puckett has cowboyed all over the west for 35 years. In this book, he's written down what happens on a ranch...  Read More >>

Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK

Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and...

Author: Mark Shucksmith (Newcastle University, UK) ,  David L. Brown (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415890106
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book examines and compares the transformation of rural society and economy in the US and UK during the last...  Read More >>

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral...

Author: Harold Fox ,  Matthew Tompkins
ISBN: 9780859898652
Format: Paperback
$90.56

A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness...  Read More >>

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages

Dartmoor's Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral...

Author: Harold Fox ,  Matthew Tompkins
ISBN: 9780859898645
Format: Hardback
$207.00

A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness...  Read More >>

Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing

Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing

Author: Ane Bislev ,  Stig Thogersen
ISBN: 9786613643469
Format: Electronic book text
$205.89

This book is about how rural China is organized. Based on extensive fieldwork the authors present examples of both...  Read More >>

Women in Distress: Self-understanding Among 20th Century Finnish Rural Women

Women in Distress: Self-understanding Among 20th Century...

Author: Pia Olsson
ISBN: 9783643901330
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Women in Distress presents Finnish women through their reminiscenses. These touching stories provide an idea of...  Read More >>

Women of the Land: Eight Rural Women and Their Remarkable Everyday Lives

Women of the Land: Eight Rural Women and Their Remarkable...

Author: Liz Harfull
ISBN: 9786613578822
Format: Electronic book text
$86.35

<p>True, inspiring stories of eight ordinary women achieving extraordinary feats in rural Australia<p>Making a living...  Read More >>

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