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The Methodology of Political Economy: Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix by J. I. Hans Bakker 9781498521871
RRP: £102.00£89.54The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way... -
Constructing a new framework for rural development Pierluigi Milone 9781784416225
RRP: £107.99£89.74"This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their seemingly simple production models have been criticized for being unable to... -
Alternative Agrifood Movements: Patterns of Convergence and Divergence by Douglas H. Constance 9781784410902
RRP: £113.99£94.62This volume explores the issues of convergence and divergence in alternative agrifood movements through a theoretical and empirical engagement of the topic by notable agrifood researchers from Europe, North America and South America. It probes the degree... -
Moving Spaces and Places: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Relationship between Movement and Place by Beitske Boonstra 9781800712270
RRP: £73.99£60.98Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places. The cross-disciplinary contributions in this collection - brought... -
Transforming the Rural: Global Processes and Local Futures by Terry Marsden 9781787148246
RRP: £96.99£80.41In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world. Much has been written by social scientists about the actors and structures underpinning these transformations and the effects on particular social groups,... -
Metropolitan Ruralities by Terry Marsden 9781785607974
RRP: £108.99£90.56During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the... -
Witness Of Combines by Kent Meyers 9780816631056
RRP: £13.99£12.59An exciting new writer looks at rural life and coming of age.When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the... -
Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development by Goh Chun Sheng 9789815011647
£37.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815011647Author Goh Chun ShengFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint ISEASPublisher ISEASWeight(grams) 272g -
National Parks: Rights and the Common Good by Francis N. Lovett 9780847689781
RRP: £25.00£22.89In this book, Francis Lovett examines public parks, especially those administered by the National Park Service, from a communitarian perspective. The author views the parks as an example of a common good_something which is valued for its service to a... -
Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups: Catalysts and Barriers in Rural Australia by Frank Evans 9780761833017
RRP: £41.00£36.08Rural Australia has faced many economic and demographic disadvantages. Advances in medical technology and economic reforms have led to the closure or near closure of many rural hospitals. Since the late 1980s, the Australian government has increased... -
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt by Amanda McMillan Lequieu 9780231198752
RRP: £28.00£24.96Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and... -
Gendered Rural Spaces by Pia Olsson 9789522221544
£34.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789522221544Author Pia OlssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Finnish Literature SocietyPublisher Finnish Literature SocietyWeight(grams) 325g -
Class Consciousness Construction of Rural Migrant Children in China: Seeking the Alternative Way Out in Meritocratic Schooling by Jiaxin Chen 9781032290621
RRP: £38.99£34.22The monograph examines the constructive process of class consciousness among rural migrant children in China and how their perceptions of social reality are shaped by their interactions within family, community, and school contexts.Using evidence from... -
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt by Amanda McMillan Lequieu 9780231198745
RRP: £117.00£103.99Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and... -
Flight from the City: An Experiment in Creative Living on the Land - Moving to the Country; Fresh Food, a Large Rural Home, and a Relaxed, H by Ralph Borsodi 9781789873863
RRP: £22.98£18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789873863Author Ralph BorsodiFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 313g -
Recognizing Rural Ministry by Carl P Greene 9781666749243
RRP: £35.00£24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666749243Author Carl P GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 435g -
Flight from the City: An Experiment in Creative Living on the Land - Moving to the Country; Fresh Food, a Large Rural Home, and a Relaxed, Happier Life by Ralph Borsodi 9781789871272
RRP: £9.98£8.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789871272Author Ralph BorsodiFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Folk belief for the control and well-being of socio-emotional conflicts between Hindu Muslim Sikh and Christian communities through traditional healing practices by Charanjeet Kaur 9781805452249
RRP: £65.99£45.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805452249Author Charanjeet KaurFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint SeekenPublisher SeekenWeight(grams) 152g -
The Resilient Rural Leader: Rising to the Challenges of Rural Education by Melissa A. Sadorf 9781416632863
RRP: £30.95£21.82The role of the rural education leader is complex and demanding, but the rewards of serving in a rural school district are innumerable. Learn how to work through challenges and maximize success in this often overlooked and underresourced field.In the... -
Recognizing Rural Ministry by Carl P Greene 9781666749236
RRP: £23.00£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666749236Author Carl P GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 272g -
Cricket's Child, 1945-1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb by Janice Saunders 9780761839941
RRP: £38.00£33.51Centered on a little girl raised in the Appalachian region of North Carolina and then Virginia, Cricket's Child offers a mid-twentieth century social history. The narrative illuminates how historical milestones such as the emergence of a Cold War between... -
Under the Influence: A Case Study of the Elks, MADD, and DUI Policy by John C. Mero 9780761865599
RRP: £62.00£54.01What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy? Under the Influence examines how the Elks, one of the oldest lodge-based voluntary associations in America, may have been impacted by government policies such as DUI laws... -
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability by Michael Mayerfeld Bell 9780271097480
RRP: £19.95£18.20Climate change. Habitat loss. Soil erosion. Groundwater depletion. Toxins in our food. Inhumane treatment of farm animals. Increasing farm worker exploitation. Hunger and malnutrition in the midst of plenty. What will it take for farmers in the United... -
Dragons with Clay Feet?: Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam by Max Spoor 9780739146569
RRP: £55.00£48.03Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing)... -
Russia's Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth by Zvi Lerman 9780739120095
RRP: £125.00£109.35Russia's Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth examines the development of factor markets in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy and analyzes the impact of existing constraints on agricultural... -
The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner by Homer L. Morris 9781512804614
£80.51A firsthand graphic account of the deplorable conditions in the Kentucky and West Virginia mines, covering the general economic problem and possible rehabilitation for the 200,000 miners who will be permanently out of work.Book InformationISBN... -
Nationalisation, Peasantry and Rural Integration in China I by Xu Yong 9781032378572
RRP: £39.99£35.06As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in China over the course of the twentieth century, taking into account politics, labour and resources, administration, and institutional... -
Nationalisation, Peasantry and Rural Integration in China II by Xu Yong 9781032325422
RRP: £39.99£35.06This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates the countryside and transforms the rural population, thus consolidating the foundation of modern state governance. Drawing on... -
Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society by Gregory M. Fulkerson 9780739178768
RRP: £110.00£96.43The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status... -
The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath the Level of the Marketplace by Tony Waters 9780739128367
RRP: £45.00£39.49The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food, housing, and clothing. Productive farmers took care of most daily needs within the small... -
Change in Rural Appalachia: Implications for Action Programs by John D. Photiadis 9780812276183
£80.11Appalachia is a region in trouble. Even in the more remote coves and hollows, major social and economic changes are disturbing the traditional ways of life. The conditions which have made it a pocket of poverty cannot be easily eradicated; and the rapid... -
Agricultural land redistribution and land administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: case studies of recent reforms by World Bank 9781464801884
£26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464801884Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications -
Rural Portlandia Garden & Railgarden Photography: by andrea arthena by Andrea Arthena 9780692181492
RRP: £26.00£22.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692181492Author Andrea ArthenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Andrea ArthenaPublisher Andrea ArthenaWeight(grams) 204g -
Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010's by Conner Bailey 9781940425108
RRP: £49.95£36.57This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of... -
An Upland Community in Transition: Institutional Innovations for Sustainable Development in Rural Philippines by Rola 9789814345156
RRP: £30.95£28.85All over Southeast Asia, rural communities are in transition to a sustainable status. This book explores how an environmentally fragile upland community in rural Philippines coped with and responded to economic and environmental tensions brought about by... -
Improving Health Sector Performance: Institutions, Motivations and Incentives - The Cambodian Dialogue by Hossein Jalilian 9789814345521
RRP: £55.00£49.39There is growing international evidence that the effectiveness of health services stems primarily from the extent to which the incentives facing providers and consumers are aligned with ""better health"" objectives. Efficiency in... -
Magic and Tragic Rosebud by Nancy Palker 9780999043080
RRP: £17.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999043080Author Nancy PalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Lost Lake Folk ArtPublisher Lost Lake Folk ArtWeight(grams) 268g -
Living with Uncertainty: Social Change and the Vietnamese Family in the Rural Mekong Delta by Setsuko Shibuya 9789814620291
RRP: £29.95£28.88This book is one of the first ethnographies written on the life of farmers in rural Southern Vietnam since the economic reform in the 1980s. It investigates how social, economic and political factors affect the farmers' life in the Mekong Delta in the... -
Power and Progress on the Prairie: Governing People on Rosebud Reservation by Thomas Biolsi 9781517900823
£85.74A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota The Rosebud Country, comprising four counties in rural South Dakota, was first established as the Rosebud Indian Reservation in 1889 to settle... -
Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town's Fight to Survive by Bill Kauffman 9780312423162
RRP: £20.00£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423162Author Bill KauffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295g