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 ……続きを見る
著者:Julia Albarracín
出版社: Michigan State University Press
発売日: 2016年05月01日
Beardstown and Monmouth, Illinois, two rural Midwestern towns, have been transformed by immigration in the last three decades. This book examines how Mexican immigrants who have made these towns the……続きを見る
Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people who l……続きを見る
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-……続きを見る
The next instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series.
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As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land girls, Sally……続きを見る
'A beautiful and poetic meditation on loss, nature, and what matters in life.' - Nigel Warburton
From the BAFTA award-winning writer of The New Yorker short film, Heart Valley
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著者:Nicholas Holton
出版社: Michigan State University Press
発売日: 2016年11月01日
Up until now, the majority of literature about service learning has focused on urban areas, while comparatively little attention has been paid to activities in rural communities. The Landscape of Ru……続きを見る
Increasing numbers of urban dwellers has led to many of us feeling alienated from the natural world. This is not how we are meant to live, and we don’t have to. Even in the most built-up environment……続きを見る
Uncover Scotland's dark side in the brilliant Detective Clare Mackay series. Includes See Them Run, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year 2020, and the next ……続きを見る
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of the sociology of farming.
The sociology of farming focuses on co-production: the ongoing interaction and m……続きを見る
Despite an unprecedented presence of digital technologies in the everyday, a clear urban/non-urban divide in accessing and effectively using the internet remains. This divide is identifiable not onl……続きを見る
‘Funny, gutsy and heartfelt.’ Daily Mail
Zoë Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever ……続きを見る
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT
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Once Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of ……続きを見る
All too often, the focus of conversation in India is on our failure as a socio-economic polity. We despair about our inability to realize our full potential as a country: we find fault with our poli……続きを見る
In "The Provincial American and Other Papers," Meredith Nicholson offers a compelling exploration of American identity during the early 20th century, merging observations of cultural shifts with inc……続きを見る
Understanding the challenges in research and practice of participation in the digital era, and the important role of local governance in achieving the sustainable development goals, Community Partic……続きを見る
Fusions est un essai qui rend hommage au grand pédagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ainsi qu’à tous les humanistes. Tout en s’articulant sur les quatre saisons et les quatre éléments, cet ouvrage tr……続きを見る
Au cœur de la Bretagne, Maintenant que je suis mort nous plonge dans le monde rural d’aujourd’hui, caractérisé par ses drames, ses bonheurs, ses reculs révoltants et ses innovations prometteuses qui……続きを見る
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024
Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing
'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy Jones
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Discover Jo Bartlett's wonderful Seabreeze Farm series!
Welcome to Seabreeze Farm.
Freya Halliwell is looking forward to marrying the man of her dreams and starting their new life together. After th……続きを見る
著者:Majella Kelly
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2023年04月06日
**'Ruminative and enigmatic . . . powerful' Simon Armitage
'Tenderly inquisitive . . . a powerful poetry of witness . . . full of discovery' Alycia Pirmohamed
'Majella Kelly offers so much: ecstatic……続きを見る
Como se pode perceber através de uma breve leitura dos artigos que compõem este livro, as temáticas apresentadas são variadas e as possibilidades de reflexão, incontáveis. Acreditando que os estudos……続きを見る
From MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Judy Leigh
'Judy’s done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet
Deep in the Somerset countryside, the Combe Pomeroy vil……続きを見る
著者:Kate Benz
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2022年09月09日
In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on ag……続きを見る
'A celebration of people who live a life less ordinary' - Country Living
'A discovery of what makes us feel we belong' - Yours Magazine
'From crofts to castles... Where the Hearth Is explores what m……続きを見る
著者:Jacques Sallin
出版社: Éditions du Chien Jaune
発売日: 2022年09月15日
C'est à Jussy, dans un coin de la campagne genevoise, que se nichent les souvenirs de ce livre. Nous étions alors des enfants dans un village bien joli visité surtout les samedis par les gens de la ……続きを見る
En 1734, après douze années de travail dans une mine de cuivre de la Valsesia, dans le Piémont, Augustineo retourne dans son village, au cœur des montagnes du duché de Savoie. Un village habité par ……続きを見る
Seeking an interview with the infamous "Devil" Anse Hatfield, an intrepid Yankee New York journalist enters the back hill country of West Virginia in 1888, at the height of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. ……続きを見る
Winner: Dorothy Schwieder Excellence in Research Award
Tucked into the files of Iowa State University’s Cooperative Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the title Lenders: W……続きを見る
Été 1942, Seconde Guerre mondiale. Marc, petit Montpelliérain de 12 ans, est sur le point de découvrir la vie à la ferme et le métier de berger. Après un long voyage en train et la traversée de bell……続きを見る