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  • The Egg and I
    Betty MacDonald
    Reissue of this immortal, hilarious, and heartwarming classic about working a chicken farm in the Northwest. ...
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    13,62 €

  • The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture
    Tony Waters
    This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world. ...
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    63,93 €

  • Cricket’s Child, 1945-1955
    Janice Saunders
    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 the U.S. and the Soviet Union impacted personal experiences in a working class, southern family. After the development of ato...
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    56,23 €

  • Immigrants Outside Megalopolis
    Richard C. Jones / Richard CJones
    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 economies in need of unskilled or semi-skilled (and occasionally skilled) labor; they also offer, for some immigrants, a favorable p...
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    165,88 €

  • Rural Society in Southeast India
    Gough Ed Kathleen / Kathleen Gough
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    96,09 €

  • The Drink Problem Of Today In Its Medico-Sociological Aspects (1916)
    Theophilus Nicholas Kelynack
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,36 €

  • A Shepherd’s Life
    WHHudson / William Henry Hudson
    'A Shepherd’s Life' is a 1910 novel by Argentinian naturalist and author William Henry Hudson. It is the story of a shepherd called Caleb Bawcombe whose sheep roam the Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire borders. Through his wanderings, Caleb meets many different people ranging from poachers and gypsies, to farmers and labourers - all of whom are trying to live on the land. A mast...
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    24,39 €

  • Russia’s Agriculture in Transition
    Zvi Lerman
    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 growth. It is the outcome of a 3-year study conducted with the support of BASIS/CRSP by an international team that included researc...
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    179,67 €

  • Sociological Progress In Mission Lands (1914)
    Edward Warren Capen
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,18 €

  • The Genius Of Methodism
    William Pitt Macvey
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,36 €

  • The Better City
    Dana W. Bartlett / Dana WBartlett
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,43 €

  • Chapters In Rural Progress (1908)
    Kenyon L. Butterfield / Kenyon LButterfield
    Chapters In Rural Progress is a book written by Kenyon L. Butterfield and first published in 1908. The book is a collection of essays on various aspects of rural life and development in the United States. Butterfield, who was a prominent educator and advocate for rural development, covers topics such as the role of education in rural communities, the importance of agriculture, ...
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    33,51 €

  • Main Street
    Sinclair Lewis
    Carol Milford is a free-spirited young woman who marries Will Kennicott, a small-town doctor. After they marry, Will convinces Carol to move to his home town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Unimpressed by the backwardness of the town, Carole embarks on a crusade of civic reform that is not received welcomingly. This text is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Lewis’s wo...
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    42,92 €

  • Pioneer Potpourri
    Rosalind Batterbee Bundy Westcott
    A collection of true stories told by the hearty Midwest families that lived through them when life was hard and living was even harder.Crossing a Great Lakes passage in a rowboat, toting a heavy grindstone over rugged terrain, a pony express rider disabled by an Indian arrow, all this and more help to carry you into the world of early settlers in the Midwest. All presented in t...
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    12,95 €

  • Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda
    The agricultural sector’s perceived importance in the international development circle waned dramatically after the 1980s, and investments in rural development and agricultural research and development declined sharply. This volume reasserts the role of agricultural and rural development in the economic development debate. By revisiting the evolution of ideas, paradigms and emp...
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    30,65 €

  • The Sociology of Rural Life
    Samantha Hillyard
    From fox-hunting to farming, the vigor with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside. Alongside these developments, the rise of the organic food movement has helped to revitalize an already politicized rural population. Over the years ’rural life’ has been defined, redefined and eventually fallen out of fas...
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    55,21 €

  • The Sociology of Rural Life
    Sam Hillyard
    From fox-hunting to farming, the vigour with which rural activities and living are defended overturns received notions of a sleepy and complacent countryside. Alongside these developments, the rise of the organic food movement has helped to revitalize an already politicized rural population. Over the years ’rural life’ has been defined, redefined and eventually fallen out of fa...
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    193,71 €

  • Modern Humanists
    John M. Robertson / John MRobertson
    ''Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies Of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin, And Spencer'' is a book written by John M. Robertson. The book is a collection of sociological studies that examine the works of six prominent humanist thinkers of the 19th century - Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and Herbert Spencer. The auth...
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    34,57 €

  • Dragons with Clay Feet?
    Max Spoor
    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) economies-China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies,...
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    172,92 €

  • A Better Life
    Teresa Macisaac
    An exploration of the traditions and experiences in the lives of Highland Scottish women - in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and in the eastern counties of Nova Scotia where so many settled. Oral accounts obtained from descendants, enriched by written sources - precious archival collections and rare books - offer insight into the influences central to the cultural, reli...
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    20,36 €

  • Representing the Rural
    Although the urban setting in film has received much critical attention, little has been written about the use of land, or the rural, in the cinema-despite its equally prolific and consistent history as a backdrop to both fiction and documentary work. This collection demonstrates the viability of rural cinema as a benchmark of national identity by bringing into critical focus t...
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    46,44 €

  • Voices from the Hollow
    Jr. Philip Reid Hirsh / JrPhilip Reid Hirsh / Philip R. Jr. Hirsh / Philip RJrHirsh
    Appalachia. According to popular mythology, it’s a mountainous holdover from colonial days, an all-white outlaw society mired in poverty and cliche jokes about family feuds. Throw in some stories about moonshine, add a few images of grimy coal miners and you’re done. People who know better and try to preseve Appalachian history and culture are no match for developers greedy for...
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    21,88 €

  • Healthcare Reform and Interest Groups
    Frank Evans
    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 their focus on the quality and functionality of rural health. Most notable was the development of a rural health strategy and the ...
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    65,52 €

  • A Cotswold Village - Or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire
    J. Arthur Gibbbs / JArthur Gibbbs
    A Cotswold Village - Or Country Life And Pursuits In Gloucestershire By J. Arthur Gibbs. Originally published in 1898. 452 pages. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the orig...
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    35,06 €

  • Handbook of Rural Studies
    ’This is a unique interpretation of rural issues that will become essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists…’- Imre Kovach, President, European Society for Rural Sociology, Research director, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest ...
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    266,12 €

  • The Furrow And Us
    Walter Thomas Jack
    Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack’s great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Furrow and Us serves as a clarion call to steward the natural and familial heritage of the soil. ...
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    54,87 €

  • Time Beyond Time
    Hope Tod
    Time Beyond Time is a tenderly crafted memoir of bygone days in rural England-of the period when machinery and mechanization were just beginning to usurp the central role animals had always played on small farms. As a volunteer serving in the Women’s Land Army, the author-a young woman whose assignments as an Emergency Relief Milker take her from farm to farm-manages to fulfil ...
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    23,29 €

  • Judgment Ridge
    Dick Lehr / Mitchell Zuckoff
    A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors -- a book that, like In Cold Blood, reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation.On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Invest...
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    15,62 €

  • Politics in the Rural Society
    Jones P. M. / Jones PM. / P. M. Jones / Peter Jones / PMJones
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    55,91 €

  • Walking Towards Justice
    Azril Bacal
    This volume brings together some of the recent work of rural sociologists on democracy, in an effort to bring into sharper focus this work’s distinctive contributions to understanding the question of what is and should be globalized, with particular emphasis on rural concerns and rural people. ...
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    239,41 €


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