An examination—through manuscripts preserved from the seventeenth century to the present—of the historical sensibilities and mindset of rural southern Thailand.
Fisher Price Little People Sticker - Alphabet Zoo (Fisher-Price Little People Toddler Sticker Book)
At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have made Living Poor a classic.
Working with Your Woodland
by Charles Thompson, Lynn Levine, and Mollie Beattie
Packed with information and illustrations, Working with Your Woodland has given woodland owners all the basics necessary for making key decisions since it was first published in 1983. The revised edition reflects the fundamental changes in the way private woodlands are viewed. Today they must be seen as part of the whole earth rather than as owner-managed islands. Few owners are aware of the wide spectrum of compatible management objectives--such as encouragement of wildlife, development for re...
Engaging Appalachia (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies)
Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity - defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities - and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from facult...
Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political hazards from ’outside’ such as warfare or expropriation of property, or hazards of their own-making such...
Paradise Lost (International Library of Historical Studies, v. 23)
by Jeremy Burchardt
The enduring 'Town versus Country' debate lies at the root of modern British society. How far did the idealization of the countryside by artists and writers since the Industrial Revolution foster anti-urban, anti-industrial values? How have such values affected government policy, social structure and economic dynamism? Did post-war developments, in particular rural-urban commuting and environmentalist criticism of modern 'industrial' farming, undermine the traditional distinction between town an...
Financing Health Care in Poor Rural Counties in China (IDS Working paper, #66)
by Yu Hao, Henry C. Lucas, Gu Xing-Yuan, and Shu Bao-Gang
Agriculture, Environment and Society
The present system of agricultural production in Australia is causing severe environmental degradation. Until now, issues of soil depletion, resource management, the application of new technologies to farming and the development of sustainable practices have been assessed in bio-physical terms. The fundamental insight of this book is that the environmental problems of rural Australia are overwelmingly social in origin. This volume deals with the social dimensions of agriculture and the environme...
Village, Hamlet and Field
by Carenza Lewis, Patrick Mitchell-Fox, and Christopher Dyer
Why is the countryside in some parts of England and Continental Europe dominated by large villages, while in many regions looser groupings of houses in hamlets, or isolated farms, provide the main forms of settlement? The answer lies in the period c.850-1200, when the settlement pattern which still survives was created. This volume sets out to provide explanations of the process behind that great formative movement in the fabric of our culture. Using a combination of archaeological and documenta...
From John Jerome, the critically acclaimed author of Staying With It, comes this story of a year he spent building a stone wall on his property in the Massachusetts Berkshires. A vision of extraordinary grace and beauty that will challenge readers to examine the possibilities inherent in stillness.
Social work practice in a country town or small remote community several hours' drive from the nearest centre is very different from practice in the city. Social Work in Rural Australia offers an introduction to the challenges and rewards of professional practice in rural and remote areas.The authors explore the practical implications for social workers in non-urban regions, including teamwork with professionals from other fields, working with various sub-groups in communities and across distanc...
The Global Restructuring of Agro-food Systems (Food Systems & Agrarian Change)
Across the world, food systems and agricultural systems are changing at a phenomenal rate. Widespread restructuring has not been confined to the production and distribution of food, though; many regions and even nations are undergoing social, political, and economic transformation as well. Bringing together twelve essays by scholars from a number of disciplines, I this timely book documents the interdependence of food systems, nation states, and the world economy. Stressing the political foundat...
Rural Geography (Routledge Contemporary Human Geography)
by Chris Thomas
Who lives in the country? What can the rural life "deliver"? Rural social studies, environmentalism, and examination of agricultural policy, practice and the new European context of rural change, are combined in this text to provide a clear understanding of what constitutes rurality and the issues which continue to effect those who live in rural areas. Debates over what the rural means at the end of the 20th century, over the relationship between rural and urban, and over the best ways to secure...
Encyclopaedia of Rural Development (Policies, Methods and Strategies in Rural Development)
by Laxmi Devi
Social Integration of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
by Zhongshan Yue, Shuzhuo Li, and Marcus W Feldman
The Uncertain Future of the Silvermans (Classic Canning)
by Victor Canning
A life-affirming story of family and personal self-discovery When George, the eldest son of Matthew Silverman, announces he won’t follow his father’s footsteps as editor of the family-owned local newspaper, the family finds itself on a course for change. The newspaper has been going for nearly 100 years. With younger brother Alexander and sisters Loraine and Alison growing up fast too, and gradual progress in the world around them, can Matthew do what’s best for them all? This beautifully obs...
This volume comprises 190 poems by 133 poets: old favourites such as Tennyson's 'The Song of the Brook' and Wordworth's 'Upon Westminster Bridge' are joined by 20th century poetry from both sides of the Atlantic, with writers including A.R. Ammon, Wendell Berry, Carol Ann Duffy, U.A. Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion, Sylvia Plath and William Carlos Williams. Poets muse on the particularity of rivers, use the river as a metaphor for life's journey, from spring to the sea of unk...
Every year more and more of us dream ourselves away from the daily pressures of urban and suburban existence to a place where the air is sweet and life is more simple. This book, a brand-new edition of what is quickly becoming the "bible" for would-be rural homesteaders, is more than an armchair guide. Book jacket.
Socio–Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura – A Study of Agrarian Relations
by Madhura Swaminathan, Ranjini Basu, and V K Ramachandran
The book is a report on the village economy of the state of Tripura in India, based on a survey of three villages in the state conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies in May-June 2016. The villages-Mainama in Manu block, Chailengta tehsil, Dhalai district; Khakchang in Dasda block, Anand Bazaar tehsil, North district; and Muhuripur in Muhuripur tehsil, Julaibari block, South district-were surveyed under the ongoing Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI). The survey was conducted...