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An in-depth look at how New York adopted "innovation" and became a destination for startups and large tech companies. In recent years, the language of "innovation" has spurred visions of urban economic revival led by digital technology. Investors,...

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While...

'Brilliant. London never looked so good. A glorious celebration of the city that will leave a big smile on your face.’ Daisy May CooperHow many of us have marvelled at the unexpected beauty of an art deco cinema, had our heads turned by the magnificent...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban life. Rural and Small-Town America looks at what we...

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times

Critical Rural Theory is an attempt to bring together the concepts of structure, space, and culture in order to explain the relationship between rural communities and urban society. The overarching theme revolves around the many ways-structural,...

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit...

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit...

The tremendous loss of groundwater has been a longstanding concern in Kansas, where areas of the High Plains aquifer have plummeted. Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer investigates water...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426294Author Kate SherrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Urban Dependency investigates the risks of urban populations that cannot survive without the massive consumption of basic rural products like food, textiles, fossil fuels, and other energy-rich goods that are harvested by a shrinking rural base. Thomas...

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the...

Scotland and Southern Appalachia have always shared a strong connection. Many of the first people to permanently settle in the Appalachian mountains came from the Scottish highlands seeking religious and other freedoms. Many descendants of those first...

Contemporary politics around fisheries are complex and contentious. Fishers' movements and their political agendas have played a critical role in global fisheries, particularly in the context of rural and environmental transformations. This book explores...

In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the...

The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the United States-the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized...

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range...

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural...

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the...

Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of...

India's growth story is set to take a significant turn with the Government of India announcing its mission of 'Doubling of Farmers' Income by 2022'. The Indian government expects significant increases in the income of farmers through enhancement in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503548043Author Georg FertigFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Late medieval Japan witnessed a growth in the power of the commoner, as seen in the spread of corporate villages (so) marked by collective ownership and administration and other self-governing features. This study of a community of so villages in central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126334Author Clark BanackFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487587116Author Jayant LeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies around the design and evaluation of land governance, with a focus on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure, and land-based gender concerns. It explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843403Author Akira FurukawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438471310Author Michaeline A. CrichlowFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316449212Author Emma Copley EisenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178300Author Ronald BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive theorisation of the concept of the 'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of contemporary applications of good farming concepts, and new case studies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316154611Author Elizabeth RoyteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship. This book explores how and why people in rural areas experience and negotiate poverty and social exclusion. It examines the role of societal processes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083042Author Nick GallentFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807063415Author Scott Russell SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante...

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is...

This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas.A geographical indication is a sign used on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679737261Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm...