Rural 11

The much anticipated new novel - about how a family, and a rural community, recover from a terrible bushfire - from a stunning young Australian writer, Eliza Henry Jones. A year ago, a devastating b……続きを見る

"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 Hampshi……続きを見る

»Mein Lebensmotto: Respekt vor der Kreatur, Demut vor dem Leben und insgesamt Bescheidenheit.« (Judith Reinhard) Die erfolgreiche Modejournalistin Judith Reinhard kehrt der Welt des Jetsets und Glam……続きを見る

The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During th……続きを見る

Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as h……続きを見る

Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch W……続きを見る

Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agricult……続きを見る

For fans of Catherine Cookson comes Eileen Ramsay's tale of heartbreak, hope and family - the perfect read to curl up with this Christmas. 'He saw the intelligence in her eyes and the beauty and str……続きを見る

The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector fo……続きを見る

Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Vía Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene. This book exp……続きを見る

Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as p……続きを見る

China's success on economic growth and its exploration on political reform in the past few decades have attracted the attention from worldwide economic and political experts. This book studies China……続きを見る

The numbers of farms and farmers on the Great Plains are dwindling. Disappearing even faster are the farm placesーthe houses, barns, and outbuildings that made the rural landscape a place of habitat……続きを見る

Composed of a series of 12 articles, this work analyzes China's rural reforms. The articles cover such topics as the responsibility system, privatization, industrialization, social conflict, urban-r……続きを見る

“Mr. Linney continues to be one of our most perceptive chroniclers of the folkways of rural America, finding humanity and nobility in the most remote of places.” –Mel Gussow, New York Times “Linney’……続きを見る

"An important new voice in the American theater."ーLos Angeles Times "If there's a soul adriftーphysically or spirituallyーin the Gem State, chances are good he sprang from the fertile pen of Samuel……続きを見る

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 o……続きを見る

This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along the ……続きを見る

'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin 'Exquisite' John Updike 'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' Observer Ronald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation ……続きを見る

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics. At the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures Mar……続きを見る

With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song exa……続きを見る

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year One of Amazon’s 20 Best Books of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed, Bustle, NPR, NYLON……続きを見る

While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author ……続きを見る

John Craven has been presenting Countryfile since its launch in 1989 and, for the first time, he has distilled all his knowledge and wisdom about country life into The Countryfile Handbook. This boo……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framew……続きを見る

In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate.……続きを見る

During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production……続きを見る

Ein Dorf in Kanada. Der Depp muss weg – so hat es der Bürgermeister entschieden. Er und sein Stellvertreter bringen ihn eines Morgens hinaus auf die Felder und werfen ihn in einen Brunnenschacht. Vo……続きを見る

Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemployment. Yet, today more poor people live in the suburbs than in cities themselves. In Places in Need, s……続きを見る

Gegen eine verzagte Demokratie – wir müssen für unsere Republik streiten! Neuauflage 2018 mit einem 50-seitigen aktuellen Nachwort über das politische Jahr 2017, über persönliche Erfahrungen in den ……続きを見る