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  • Social Concepts in Rural India
    Abhishek Chauhan / Birendra
    This book on Rural Development in India comprises of eight units which focus to reconstruct the importance of villages in India since time immemorial. The authors have very well tried their level best to provide a historical and conceptual clarity on various aspects of Indian villages. The authors have discussed about the types and characteristics of Indian villages with focus ...
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    18,72 €

  • In Search of Appalachia
    Nancy Brown Diggs
    After writing extensively about different cultures, Nancy Brown Diggs chose to focus on one closer to her own, the Appalachian, and was surprised to learn that it is her own-and quite different from the image conveyed by the media. Rich in anecdotes and interviews that bring her research to life, this book offers a study of Appalachians today and explores what they are truly li...
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    33,62 €

  • New Trends and Opportunities for Central and Eastern European Tourism
    Puiu Nistoreanu
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    248,92 €

  • Posacuerdo paz y pedagogía
    Néstor Maldonado Gómez
    En esta obra se analizan experiencias internacionales en políticas y programas educativos en escenarios de conflicto y posconflicto. Además, se describen iniciativas de pedagogía para la paz gestadas por comunidades urbanas organizadas en Colombia, al tiempo que se destaca la mirada y el papel de los servidores públicos. Este libro ofrece opciones para planear la Cátedra de la ...
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    23,92 €

  • A Big Gospel in Small Places
    Stephen Witmer
     2019 World Magazine Book of the Year Short List2019 The Gospel Coalition Book Award2019 Send Institute’s Top Ten Church Planting Related Books of 2019Kevin DeYoung’s Top 10 Books of 2019Jesus loves small, insignificant places.In recent years, Christian ministries have increasingly prioritized urban areas. Big cities and suburbs are considered more strategic, more influential, ...
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    24,53 €

  • Change of China’s Rural Community
    Dan Mao
    This book analyzes the industrialization process of Jianshanxia, a mountain village in Zhejiang Province, and its organizational changes since China's reform and opening-up. As a small mountain village far from the city, Jianshanxia Village used its contingent funds to open up a factory collectively owned by the village. At that time, it was common for city dwellers to run ...
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    134,94 €

  • Young people’s life and schooling in rural areas
    Rural-urban disparities in Sweden, as in many other countries, have been somewhat of a blackspot—one that seems to have both diversified and expanded in recently. Schools are often fighting to survive in rural areas which are losing value in terms of wealth and cultural capital and rather than offering a route to social mobility and equality, they risk reproducing inequality an...
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    25,73 €

  • El lugar de las mujeres andinas: retos para la antropología feminista descolonial
    Florence E. Babb / Florence EBabb
    En El lugar de las mujeres andinas: desafíos para la antropología feminista descolonial, Florence E. Babb recurre a cuatro décadas de investigación antropológica para reexaminar las complejas intersecciones de género, raza e indigeneidad en el Perú y más allá. Ella hábilmente entrelaza cinco nuevos capítulos analíticos con seis de sus trabajos publicados anteriormente que ejemp...
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    31,20 €

  • Gathering
    Dianne Poston Owens
    "Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane may well be her paean to the purity of life’s comprehensible truths." — Readers' FavoriteA Southern journalist, Dianne Poston Owens has learned a thing or two about people and community—that people want to know their lives matter, their pets won't rat them out, and that they are not alone. As an observer and recorder of p...
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    15,88 €

  • Gathering
    Dianne Poston Owens
    "Gathering: Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane may well be her paean to the purity of life’s comprehensible truths." — Readers' FavoriteA Southern journalist, Dianne Poston Owens has learned a thing or two about people and community—that people want to know their lives matter, their pets won't rat them out, and that they are not alone. As an observer and recorder of p...
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    10,20 €

  • The Politics of Local Government
    Barry E. Truchil / Barry ETruchil / Geoff Klock
    Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion ...
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    50,74 €

  • Rural Reform and Development
    Feng Shao / Yikang Gu
    Since China's reform and opening-up in 1978, Zhejiang province has been one of the country's forerunners in economic, social and political transformation. This book focuses on Zhejiang's rural development and rural governance innovation over the past few decades. The provincial government has formulated favorable policies to facilitate the development of Zhejiang...
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    178,71 €

  • Urbanormativity
    Alexander R. Thomas / Alexander RThomas / Gregory M. Fulkerson / Gregory MFulkerson
    This book investigates urbanormativity-a concept that privileges urban normalcy and desirability over rural deviance and undesirability. The 'reality' section outlines its foundations-urbanization, urban-rural systems, and urban dependency. The 'representation' section explores urbanormative culture by considering cultural capital, media, and identity. The last section, 'everyd...
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    122,37 €

  • Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
    Essays that examine globalization’s effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples. ...
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    41,77 €

  • Anti-Social Contract
    Hojer Lars
    Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, Højer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnograph...
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    184,43 €

  • Rural Policies and Employment
    A unique title comparing rural policies and employment in the two most developed parts of the world — the EU and USA. While both regions are concerned for their vast rural areas, each adopts a strikingly different approach to create and maintain employment there, making rural space attractive to businesses and residents.This book focuses on a major issue of socioeconomic and po...
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    188,25 €

  • The Politics of Land
    Tim Bartley
    This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracking, gentrification, and property taxes in the USA. ...
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    189,61 €

  • Conflictos multiculturales y convergencias interculturales
    Inge Helena Valencia P. / Vários
    Este libro busca dar cuenta de las racionalidades que enmarcan las prácticas e interacciones de los diferentes actores rurales en relación con la construcción de lo público en el suroccidente colombiano tras más de 25 años del estado multicultural. Esto con el fin de comprender los procesos de convivencia y conflicto, donde la convivencia implica el proceso de encuentro y negoc...
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    16,90 €

  • Appalachian Reckoning
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    24,74 €

  • Handbook of Research on Rural Sociology and Community Mobilization for Sustainable Growth
    Qaiser Rafique Yasser
    Rural areas are a key sector in every nation’s economy due to a sizeable majority of the population living therein, as well as their impact on global agriculture and food security. Rural development transcends the availability of infrastructure, technology, and industrialization to also encompass the enviro-cultural and psycho-social needs of its inhabitants. The necessity for ...
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    321,47 €

  • Roosters 2019 Calendar
    Lotus Art Calendars
    Country calendar featuring full-color photos Monthly grid calendars indicate US national holidays Ample space for writing down appointments and special occasions 11x17' when open ...
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    20,05 €

  • Beyond the Mountains
    Drew A. Swanson
    Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern moun...
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    135,81 €

  • Beyond the Mountains
    Drew A. Swanson
    Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern moun...
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    41,95 €

  • Bulldozer Revolutions
    Andrew C. Baker
    By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned...
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    76,00 €

  • Power Structures in Afghanistan's Rural Communities
    S. Asef Hossaini
    Afghanistan, a country with 55 different ethnic groups and a huge diversity of 45 languages and dialects, has been struggling to establish statehood on the basis of Hobbes’ conception of political power since the 18th century. In accordance with this understanding, the capital, Kabul, has been determined as the locus of power where different forms of government have been practi...
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    14,55 €

  • Rural Portlandia Garden & Railgarden Photography
    Andrea Arthena
    rural portlandia photograhy gardens & railgardens with a potential of transparrency collages.collages & collages & collages & collages & collages & photgrpahs which aren't that meaan in an exstensing of futrure collages ...
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    25,62 €

  • Rural Voices
    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 contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With ...
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    129,04 €

  • Strike a Blow to Change the World
    Eknath Awad / Jerry Pinto
    ‘This is an inspiring book by an inspiring man and deserves to be widely read…A must-read for all those interested in Dalit politics and caste change.’—Hugo Gorringe, author of Untouchable CitizensEknath Awad was a rare Dalit Mang activist from the Marathwada region of Maharastra, who fought for the rights of all underprivileged communities, irrespective of their caste or relig...
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    16,50 €

  • Living displacement
    Mateja Celestina
    Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives ...
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    157,61 €

  • Land is Life, Conservancy is Life
    Cameron Welch
    Community-based natural resource management or CBNRM, with its attention to community participation, its call for de-centralization of rights to local resource users through democratic and equitable structures, and its potential to deliver benefits to local livelihoods and national conservation interests now forms the predominant strategy for rural development in the communal a...
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    59,54 €


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