Rural communities books

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The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life...

Author: Becky M. Nicolaides (Research Affiliate, Research Affiliate, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West)
ISBN: 9780197578308
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transformed from bastions of the white middle class in the postwar years...  Read More >>

The Quest Of The Simple Life

The Quest Of The Simple Life

Author: William James Dawson
ISBN: 9781835911167
Format: Paperback
$42.21

"The book was first published in 1907 and reflects the author's experiences and thoughts on the pursuit of a simpler...  Read More >>

Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India

Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural...

Author: Andrew McDowell
ISBN: 9781503637955
Format: Hardback
$227.99

"Over one million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB) in India each year, an infectious, airborne, and potentially...  Read More >>

Our Village

Our Village

Author: Mary Russell Mitford
ISBN: 9789362208514
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The little village of Three Mile Cross in Berkshire was Mary Russell Mitford's home for thirty years. She has drawn...  Read More >>

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Author: Tom Schaller ,  Paul Waldman
ISBN: 9780593729144
Format: Hardback
$75.00

"White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities...  Read More >>

Redeveloping China's Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation

Redeveloping China's Villages in the Twenty-First Century:...

Author: Lior Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781760466015
Format: Paperback
$81.81

Implementing national policies is a crucial function of the local Chinese bureaucracy and an indispensable part...  Read More >>

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished...

Author: Patrick Joyce
ISBN: 9780241543023
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities

Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools...

Author: Erika L. Bass ,  Amy Price Azano, Director, Virginia Tech C
ISBN: 9781793638359
Format: Hardback
$264.00

"Using a place-infused narrative writing unit with two rural schools in two different states, the authors argue...  Read More >>

Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World

Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You...

Author: Thomas Christopher Greene
ISBN: 9781578691609
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Greene's capacity for true storytelling is at its finest, and it's a great gift to us all.  Read More >>

The Lies of the Land Lib/E: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't

The Lies of the Land Lib/E: Seeing Rural America for...

Author: Steven Conn ,  Tom Perkins
ISBN: 9798874697006
Format: Audio
$190.05

"A ""piercing, unsentimental"" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis....  Read More >>

Threads of Unity: Weaving Haiti's New Dawn

Threads of Unity: Weaving Haiti's New Dawn

Author: Sabat Beatto
ISBN: 9798884230927
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"""Threads of Unity: Weaving Haiti's New Dawn"" In the vibrant tapestry of ""Threads of Unity: Weaving Haiti's New...  Read More >>

Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland

Between Britain: Walking the History of England and...

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781838854386
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Under the Swing: An Ethnography of an Akha Village in Northern Thailand

Under the Swing: An Ethnography of an Akha Village in...

Author: Ma Chongwei
ISBN: 9781433177231
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book describes the development of immigrants in an Akha village in northern Thailand, and discusses issues...  Read More >>

The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches Of Natural History And Rural Life

The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches Of Natural History And...

Author: Richard Jefferies
ISBN: 9789361155185
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"""The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life"" by Richard Jefferies is a captivating exploration...  Read More >>

Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship

Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship...

Author: Gyan Yankovich
ISBN: 9781761152146
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held...  Read More >>

Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural South Africa

Abortion Services and Reproductive Justice in Rural...

Author: Ulandi Du Plessis ,  Catriona Ida MacLeod
ISBN: 9781776148745
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Accessing abortion services in rural areas under conditions of liberal abortion legislation is neither straightforward...  Read More >>

Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land

Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture...

Author: Melinda Bollar Wagner
ISBN: 9780813197739
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Drawing on interviews with more than 220 residents from ten communities in five Appalachian counties, Power and...  Read More >>

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished...

Author: Patrick Joyce
ISBN: 9781668031087
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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New Rural Cinema: Landscape, Community and Poverty in Recent US Indie Films

New Rural Cinema: Landscape, Community and Poverty in...

Author: Tim Lindemann
ISBN: 9783110779233
Format: Hardback
$314.13

This monograph explores recent American indie films that visualize the country's social inequalities spatially by...  Read More >>

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What...

Author: Steven Conn ,  Tom Perkins
ISBN: 9798874697020
Format: Audio
$110.85

"A ""piercing, unsentimental"" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis....  Read More >>

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What...

Author: Steven Conn ,  Tom Perkins
ISBN: 9798874697013
Format: Audio
$124.05

"A ""piercing, unsentimental"" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis....  Read More >>

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