An eye-opening investigation of America's rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World's backyard.
A memoir of motherhood and marriage that will make you laugh and cry - and then laugh again 'This is the sort of book that made me want to be the person who wrote it.
The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy.
Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyWinner of Donner PrizeA Summer Book of 2021, Financial TimesLonglisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the YearA challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.
Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyWinner of Donner PrizeA Summer Book of 2021, Financial TimesLonglisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the YearA challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community.
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then A Fortunate Woman is definitely the book you should be reading' - Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judgeWhen Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years.
For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me, Impossible Causes is a gripping, claustrophobic thriller about isolation, power, and the lies that fester when witnesses stay silent.
Eerie and menacing, timely and moving, Impossible Causes is an unputdownable novel that examines the consequences of silence kept at young women's expense.
When two city girls embark on an afternoon of idle window-shopping in Worcestershire and end up buying a horse, their lives swerve gloriously off course.
The books central theme is GUILT: how its a uniquely human idea, and whether this raises us higher or drags us lower than other animals; how guilt is disabling and why individuals and societies tend to scapegoat; how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is historys propulsive force; and my miraculous ability to redeem others by absorbing guilt from them.
Este informe, elaborado por siete organizaciones campesinas junto al Centro de Estudios en Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad -Dejusticia y el Instituto de Estudios Interculturales de la Universidad Javeriana de Cali, recoge más de 60 años de violencia y sus efectos en contra del campesinado, con la tesis central que el conflicto armado se convirtió en una guerra contra el campesinado.
Este libro es el resultado de la investigación "Teoría y práctica del diálogo de saberes: la consulta previa en La Guajira", realizada con el apoyo financiero de Colciencias, que tenía como objetivo elaborar conocimiento que se proyecte en políticas públicas sobre aspectos teóricos y metodológicos del diálogo de saberes y sistematizar la manera como esta traducción intercultural se pone en práctica en un proceso de Consulta Autónoma en la comunidad wayuu de Provincial.
For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming winter read from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry.
A heartwarming and uplifting summer read for fans of Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley, by the author of The Country Village Christmas Show, The Country Village Summer Fete and The Country Village Winter Wedding.
Violet Paget (1856-1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics.
So Big is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by masterful Algonquin Round Table writer Edna Ferber, inspired by the incredible life of Dutch pioneer Antje Paarlberg.
Trapped in an isolating newspaper reporter job in New York City with her husband in an insane asylum, Dawn O'Hara has not yet reached 30 and she already fears she will never be happy again.
Walter Stansell of Straffordville, Dan Sarazin of Golden Lake, and Henry Taylor of Bancroft did what they had to do to preserve some of Canada's rural history.
Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.
Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.
