Rural communities books

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The Many Roads to Becoming Modern: A History of Collectivism in Rural Jiangsu Province

The Many Roads to Becoming Modern: A History of Collectivism...

Author: Chen Jiajian ,  Chen Jiajian
ISBN: 9781032223612
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"The Many Roads to Becoming Modern explores ""collectivism"" in the context of contemporary rural Chinese history....  Read More >>

To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk

To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the...

Author: Jamil W. Drake (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780190082680
Format: Hardback
$350.00

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights...  Read More >>

Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji...

Author: Emily Mendenhall
ISBN: 9780826504524
Format: Hardback
$49.50

Tells the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus...  Read More >>

Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices: The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India

Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices: The...

Author: Karen Haydock ,  Abhijit Sambhaji Bansode
ISBN: 9783030640675
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India. It is a dialectical...  Read More >>

Finding Old Thatch

Finding Old Thatch

Author: Victoria Connelly
ISBN: 9781910522196
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Having moved to a village in rural Suffolk, author Victoria Connelly thought all her dreams had come true. But after...  Read More >>

Born to Farm

Born to Farm

Author: David Black
ISBN: 9781839759314
Format: Paperback
$36.93

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Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America

Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food...

Author: Beth Hoffman ,  Susan Ericksen
ISBN: 9798212058605
Format: Audio
$176.85

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable...  Read More >>

Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia

Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy...

Author: Judah Schept
ISBN: 9781479837151
Format: Hardback
$215.00

""As the coal industry has declined in Central Appalachia, prisons have emerged as a primary way that the state...  Read More >>

Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed Rural South Carolina

Empowering Communities: How Electric Cooperatives Transformed...

Author: Lacy K. Ford, Jr. ,  Jared Bailey
ISBN: 9781643362694
Format: Paperback
$79.17

The rise of ‘public’ power - electricity serviced by member-owned cooperatives - is a complicated saga encompassing...  Read More >>

Our Wild Farming Life

Our Wild Farming Life

Author: Lynn Cassells ,  Sandra Baer
ISBN: 9781645021650
Format: Paperback
$52.67

""As seen on the BBC2's This Farming Life""--Cover.  Read More >>

Urbanormativity: Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life

Urbanormativity: Reality, Representation, and Everyday...

Author: Gregory M. Fulkerson ,  Alexander R. Thomas
ISBN: 9781498597043
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Urbanormativity examines the reality, representation, and consequences of living amid a cultural ideology that privileges...  Read More >>

Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China

Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China

Author: Yangyang Shen
ISBN: 9789811696534
Format: Hardback
$258.72

In 11 chapters, it leads readers to review the dynamic changes of rural poverty in China, and estimates rural poverty...  Read More >>

Life's A Drag

Life's A Drag

Author: Janie Millman
ISBN: 9781800327474
Format: Paperback
$25.85

There's more to life than being fabulous... but it's a start Roz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London...  Read More >>

Peer-to-peer Accommodation and Community Resilience: Implications for Sustainable Development

Peer-to-peer Accommodation and Community Resilience:...

Author: Dr Anna Farmaki (Assistant Professor in Tourism Management, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus) ,  Dimitri Ioannides (Mid-Sweden University and ETOUR, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781789246605
Format: Hardback
$228.74

The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon...  Read More >>

Loving Endeavour: Healthcare and Education in Bush Country

Loving Endeavour: Healthcare and Education in Bush Country...

Author: Melusi Sibanda
ISBN: 9781789829303
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Loving Endeavour highlights the challenges faced by rural communities in Zimbabwe from the 1950s - the days of the...  Read More >>

Return of a Native: Learning from the Land

Return of a Native: Learning from the Land

Author: Vron Ware
ISBN: 9781913462987
Format: Paperback
$39.99

From a fixed point in the middle of English nowhere, Vron Ware takes you through time and space to explain why transcending...  Read More >>

Rural Workers, Sindicatos and Collective Bargaining in Rio Grande do Sul

Rural Workers, Sindicatos and Collective Bargaining...

Author: Davide Carbonai
ISBN: 9783030948078
Format: Hardback
$85.36

Based on rich ethnographic research, through interviews with a long list of rural workers and union members, among...  Read More >>

Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques

Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques...

Author: Alistair Harkness (Federation University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367483661
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques critically analyses, challenges, considers and assesses a...  Read More >>

Butting Heads in Spain - LARGE PRINT: Lady Goatherder

Butting Heads in Spain - LARGE PRINT: Lady Goatherder...

Author: Diane Elliott
ISBN: 9781922476586
Format: Paperback
$43.96

What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English...  Read More >>

Butting Heads in Spain: Lady Goatherder

Butting Heads in Spain: Lady Goatherder

Author: Diane Elliott
ISBN: 9781922476562
Format: Paperback
$33.61

What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio.  Read More >>

Butting Heads in Spain - LARGE PRINT: Lady Goatherder

Butting Heads in Spain - LARGE PRINT: Lady Goatherder...

Author: Diane Elliott
ISBN: 9781922476593
Format: Hardback
$62.07

What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English...  Read More >>

Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia

Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice...

Author: Kris Maher
ISBN: 9781432894276
Format: Hardback
$87.09

"Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country,...  Read More >>

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