Rural communities books

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Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour: A Study of a Northern Chinese Village

Economic Reforms and Fertility Behaviour: A Study of...
Author: Weiguo Zhang ISBN: 9781873410493 Format: Hardback	$79.99
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Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: A Contribution to Global Debates

Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: A...
Author: Deborah Sporton (, Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) , David S. G. Thomas (, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Sheffield) ISBN: 9780198234197 Format: Hardback	$153.95
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Feeding the Baniya

Feeding the Baniya
Author: David Hardiman ISBN: 9780195651997 Format: Paperback	$37.95
This book provides insights into a relationship which has been crucial to life in rural India - that between peasants... Read More >>

Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: David J. O'Brien , Stephen K. Wegren ISBN: 9780801869600 Format: Hardback	$158.40
The contributors' interest is not so much in agriculture itself but in agrarian issues such as the relationship... Read More >>

Contracting for Agricultural Extension: International Case Studies and Emerging Practices

Contracting for Agricultural Extension: International...
Author: William Rivera (College of Agricultural & Natural Resources, University of Maryland, USA) , Willem Zijp (The World Bank, Washington DC, USA) ISBN: 9780851995717 Format: Hardback	$330.00
Agricultural extension services are increasingly shifting from the public to the private sector. The book includes... Read More >>

The Impact of Economic Reforms on Rural Households in Ethiopia: A Study from 1989 - 1995

The Impact of Economic Reforms on Rural Households in...
Author: Stefan Dercon ISBN: 9780821350348 Format: Paperback	$23.95
Considers the poverty and growth experience in six villages in Ethiopia from 1989-1995. It focuses on the linkages... Read More >>

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in...
Author: Martin Bruegel ISBN: 9780822328490 Format: Paperback	$43.95
Tells the story of farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests, widow Mary Livingston battling... Read More >>

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860

Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in...
Author: Martin Bruegel ISBN: 9780822328353 Format: Hardback	$170.95
Tells the story of farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests, widow Mary Livingston battling... Read More >>

Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding

Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and...
Author: Penny Dransart ISBN: 9780415279598 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, this... Read More >>

The New Rural Health

The New Rural Health
Author: Ian Blue , David Wilkinson ISBN: 9780195513301 Format: Paperback	$59.95
The New Rural Health is a text on the health of rural Australians, and provides a significant contribution to the... Read More >>

The Transformation of Rural China

The Transformation of Rural China
Author: Jonathan Unger ISBN: 9780765605528 Format: Paperback	$118.00
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The Transformation of Rural China

The Transformation of Rural China
Author: Jonathan Unger ISBN: 9780765605511 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Here, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution,and then after... Read More >>

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses...
Author: Paul Cloke , Paul Milbourne ISBN: 9781861342843 Format: Paperback	$59.95
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Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal

Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the...
Author: William S. Sax (Professor of South Asian Anthropology, Professor of South Asian Anthropology, University of Heidelberg) ISBN: 9780195139143 Format: Hardback	$303.00
Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north... Read More >>

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses

Rural homelessness: Issues, experiences and policy responses...
Author: Paul Cloke , Paul Milbourne ISBN: 9781861343468 Format: Hardback	$176.95
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Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal

Dancing the Self: Personhood and Performance in the...
Author: William S. Sax (Professor of South Asian Anthropology, Professor of South Asian Anthropology, University of Heidelberg) ISBN: 9780195139150 Format: Paperback	$111.95
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Victorian Cottages

Victorian Cottages
Author: Andrew Clayton-Payne ISBN: 9781841881768 Format: Paperback	$44.75
A companion volume to the highly acclaimed Victorian Flower Gardens which will appeal to anyone interested in Victorian... Read More >>

Young Citizens: Children as Active Citizens Around the World - A Teaching Pack for Key Stage 2

Young Citizens: Children as Active Citizens Around the...
Author: Teresa Garlake ISBN: 9781841870571 Format: Mixed media product	$38.81
Young Citizens looks at children taking action in their communities. Through the lives of five young citizens from... Read More >>

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi
Author: Richard Lee (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9780155063334 Format: Paperback	$126.59
This study of the Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert, describes changes that have come since... Read More >>

Searching for Paradise: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the Mountain West

Searching for Paradise: Economic Development and Environmental...
Author: Douglas E. Booth ISBN: 9780742518766 Format: Paperback	$71.95
The signs of economic change loom large in the mountain West of the USA as shuttered mines and lumber mills are... Read More >>

Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural America

Saving the Heartland: Catholic Missionaries in Rural...
Author: Jeffrey Marlett ISBN: 9780875802916 Format: Hardback	$94.75
This text looks at mid-20th century Catholic missionaries bringing their faith to the heartland and their adaptation... Read More >>

Searching for Paradise: Economic Development and Environmental Change in the Mountain West

Searching for Paradise: Economic Development and Environmental...
Author: Douglas E. Booth ISBN: 9780742518759 Format: Hardback	$191.95
The signs of economic change loom large in the mountain West of the USA as shuttered mines and lumber mills are... Read More >>

West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860

West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula,...
Author: Kenneth E. Lewis ISBN: 9780870135514 Format: Hardback	$171.47
This is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists whose presence forever transformed the land... Read More >>

Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan

Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of...
Author: Laurel Bossen ISBN: 9780742511071 Format: Hardback	$280.00
Based on anthropological research conducted during the 1990s in Lu Village and informed by the classic 1930s study... Read More >>

Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape

Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape...
Author: Jan Albers (Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History) ISBN: 9780262511285 Format: Paperback	$60.59
A lavishly illustrated study of the natural and cultural history of the Vermont landscape. Read More >>

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