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  • In The Village
    Anthony Bailey
    Anthony Bailey’s intimate look at life in Stonington borough made waves when it was published. First appearing in 1971 as a serialized version in the New Yorker, a hard-cover version was published soon thereafter. In 1992, a second paperback edition was printed locally and soon sold out. Copies are still passed hand to hand and quickly scooped up on eBay or at the Niantic Book ...
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    15,77 €

  • Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South
    Peggy Ann Spitzer
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Reimagining intersectional research, this book addresses the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation in their communities. ...
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    43,31 €

  • The Road to Nusantara
    The collective research effort of senior and junior scholars from Indonesia and beyond, The Road to Nusantara: Process, Challenges and Opportunities examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, security and environmental implications of President Joko Widodo’s historic plan to move Indonesia’s national capital from Jakarta to Nusantara, East Kalimantan. This volume will be...
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    53,74 €

  • Expanding the Vision of Rurality in the US Educational System
    The dominant narratives of US rurality within educational research and literature centers on the Appalachian and southern US perspectives. However, there is a need to add texture and expand the vision of rurality in US schools and education. Expanding the Vision of Rurality in the US Educational System provides readers, especially college and university faculty in pre-service e...
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    216,08 €

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts of Businesses in Rural Areas
    Equity is the tool to achieve diversity and inclusion that will help eliminate injustice and fairly distribute the benefits of an equitable environment to everyone. Corporate culture around the world has already stated efforts for sustainable development through corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in rural areas. This infrastructure must be strengthened so that th...
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    222,53 €

  • The SideRoad Columnist
    Sharon M. Kennedy
    Take a trip down the U.P.’s many SideRoads with Sharon Kennedy Penned by the author in recent years, The SideRoad Columnist presents a selection of previously published newspaper columns. To delight the reader, each installment tells a complete story in miniature. This book includes a mixture of nostalgia, humor, shared experiences and sundry observations. The stories are short...
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    16,13 €

  • Transforming Borneo
    Chun Sheng Goh / Lesley Potter
    'There is an energizing boldness in this synthesis: the right big-picture questions aligning all the way down to the right complexities on the ground, and across the diverse territories that comprise contemporary Borneo. A manifesto for the kinds of cross-sectoral and applied research that can make the difference to the future of Borneo.' Cynthia Ong, Chief Executive Facilitato...
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    57,04 €

  • Farm Kids
    Billi J. Miller
    Meals in the field, combine rides with Grandad, picking fresh berries out of the garden and building forts in the bales. In her fourth book celebrating farm life, Billi J. Miller examines what farm life is like -- through the eyes of children. Only not just interviewing 'today’s' children - this book tells the stories of farm kids from the 1920s to 2022. Starting with her husba...
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    20,05 €

  • The Adventures of Bobby, Iowa Farm Boy
    Bob Bancks
    Born in 1940 to three generations of eastern Iowa farmers, Robert Charles 'Bobby' Bancks enjoyed a childhood unique to that era: playing among the crops and animals in warm weather, sledding down snowbanks in cold, attending his one-room school, and learning the lessons of love, loss, and togetherness that sustained his rural community.  From funny anecdotes and family vacation...
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    11,42 €

  • Recognizing Rural Ministry
    Carl P. Greene
    Rural ministry can be a frustrating endeavor. Traditional metrics of success are misleading and anecdotal, one-size-fits-all approaches which often fall flat in the field. In Recognizing Rural Ministry, Carl Greene uses his research to suggest tools to customize your ministry to your community and effectively engage often-overlooked mission fields. These tools come from data-dr...
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    24,94 €

  • Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe
    Grasian Mkodzongi
    This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform. ...
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    57,83 €

  • Butting Heads in Spain
    Diane Elliott
    What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English couple moves to rural Spain, they are blissfully unaware that their dreams of running a small pony trekking business would be scuppered within six weeks of arriving. A sun-filled future looks bleak until a neighbour takes charge. As well as embarking on a crash cours...
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    20,83 €

  • Butting Heads in Spain - LARGE PRINT
    Diane Elliott
    What they needed was a miracle. What they got was a Spanish goatherder named Antonio. When a middle-aged English couple moves to rural Spain, they are blissfully unaware that their dreams of running a small pony trekking business would be scuppered within six weeks of arriving. A sun-filled future looks bleak until a neighbour takes charge. As well as embarking on a crash cours...
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    23,74 €

  • SDG15 - Life on Land
    Cahyono Agus / Nasim Ahmad Ansari
    This book seeks to demonstrate how ’SDG15 - Life on Land’ can be implemented through effective biodiversity management, mainstreaming strategies and proposing solutions to achieve the goals. ...
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    80,93 €

  • Prospects and Challenges of Community-Based Tourism and Changing Demographics
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    216,16 €

  • U.P. Colony
    Phil Bellfy
    Winner of 2021 U.P. Notable Books AwardIn the 1980s, Phil Bellfy pondered the question: Why does Sault, Ontario, appear to be so prosperous, while the 'Sault' on the American side has fallen into such a deplorable state? Could the answer be that the 'American side' was little more than a 'resource colony'--or to use the academic jargon of 'Conflict and Change' Sociology--an 'In...
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    10,07 €

  • Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations
    Ladislaus M. Semali / Ladislaus MSemali
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    216,12 €

  • Foula
    Sheila Gear
    At the outer western edge of Shetland, 20 miles off the shores of the mainland, lies a more solitary isle, less nestled into the group. Foula is the furthest afield of Shetland’s own islands, to the outside world a place of mystery, wildness and, depending on one’s point of view, scary isolation.But these fanciful perspectives can obscure what really happens there. In the early...
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    13,95 €

  • Participatory Rural Appraisal Approaches
    Francis K. Lelo / Joseph O. Ayieko / Njeri Muhia
    Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a developmental method that has enabled many development organizations overcome the challenge of understanding and identifying the scope of local needs in which they operate. It aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in identifying and evaluating their needs, and hence in the planning, management, final implementati...
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    55,88 €

  • Britain’s rural Muslims
    Sarah Hackett
    This book examines the relationship between the integration of Muslim migrant communities and rurality in Britain. It uses the county of Wiltshire as a case study, and charts both local authority policy and Muslims communities’ personal experiences of migration and integration across the post-1960s period. It draws upon both previously unexplored archival material and oral hist...
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    40,59 €

  • Securing Land Rights
    Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa
    Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by...
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    73,92 €

  • St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex
    Maggie Weir-Wilson
    Have you ever wondered about St Leonard’s Forest as you pass it by on your bicycle, in your car, or on the bus? Maybe you have walked its footpaths, with or without a dog. Was it a royal forest? Who owned it? What about its dragon? Wasn’t there something about a saint and the white and pink spring flowers, lily-of-the-valley? Wonder no more. This is the first in depth study of ...
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    45,73 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VI
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks investigate the rural districts, traversing the South Eastern, South Western, and Eastern counties of England. We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear ...
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    27,26 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VII
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks take us into the Northern and Midland counties and further explore the South Eastern and Eastern counties of England. From hop-picking in Kent, to opium-eating in Cambridgeshire, we traverse these counties and disco...
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    27,45 €

  • Rural Voices
    In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. ...
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    51,22 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Complete Series - 1 - 3
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains all three parts of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in his...
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    29,56 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - First Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the first series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in hi...
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    20,24 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Second Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the second series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in h...
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    20,24 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Third Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the third series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in hi...
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    20,28 €

  • Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line
    Anthony Cavender / Michael Braswell / Ralph Bland
    From drinking sweet tea on a beloved grandmother’s porch to playing army to witnessing prejudice and violence or receiving the lash, these stories illustrate growing up in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, what it felt, tasted, and looked like through the eyes of the boys who lived it. ...
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    14,38 €


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