Rural

"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...

This 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 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...

In 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,...

During 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...

An 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

Rural 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...

Half 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...

Apologies 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

The 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...

Half 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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

Centered 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...

What 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...

Climate 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? 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 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...

A 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...

As 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...

This 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...

The 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 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...

Appalachia 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

This 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...

All 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...

There 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly remembered friend. This book...