Rural communities

* Takes a new slant on an increasingly important development issue* There is a noticeable gap in extant literature concerning positive factors beneficial to rural women s leadership development.

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for working with rural communities.

Finalist: Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeIn August 1889, the five states that were once part of the 1861 Dakota TerritoryNorth Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idahodrafted their state constitutions in preparation for inclusion in the United States.

'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'The book is exciting .

This model county history chronicles one hundred years in the life of a representative Deep South county The history of Bibb County between 1818 and 1918 is in many ways representative of the experience of central Alabama during that period.

We were going down the road, and we came to this house.

Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours.

A superb blend of humour and emotion in this moving tale of family love and sacrifice from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick AN IDEAL HUSBANDMia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home, a happy marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children to whom she's devoted.

Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

L'État du Yucatan au Mexique est connu entre autres pour ses nombreux sites archéologiques, silencieux témoins de la gloire passée des Mayas.

Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of Bruson, a small Alpine village in the canton of Valais, as it negotiates the pressures of modernization while holding fast to an enduring ideology of ';peasant wisdom.

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization Why have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between ';us' and ';them'?

The natural history of an ordinary English country parish was one of the first subjects that suggested themselves when the New Naturalist series was planned.

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann.

Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities.

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When the single survivor refuses to speak, how will the truth ever emerge?

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one woman.

We live in a modern world of social media, cars, electricity, supermarkets, television, fast food, and Hollywood pop culture, and few Westerners have known anything else.

In less than a decade, the island community has faced the degradation of the wild fishery and rapid growth of aquaculture, an increasing presence of multinational corporations, new federal initiatives with respect to aboriginal policies, and widespread social dysfunction.

Rural School Leadership: Lessons from Alaska is a guide for leaders in rural schools.

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology.

Crowning the Year offers a practical guide to celebrating the key moments of the liturgical year in rural multi-church contexts.

Crime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods.

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era.

From the perspective of village activists across China, this book tells the stories of farmers and rural laborers who raised the banner of opposition to constitutional reform during the first decade of the twentieth century.

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus.

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the 21st century, this book brings together a range of international scholars to explore the ongoing crises, developments and possibilities inherent in the task of representing community in the present.

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology.

The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia.

Argues that Late Byzantine rural communities were resilient and able to transform their socioeconomic strategies in the face of crisis.

Explore every facet of being a cowboy with essays and colorful photos in this guide from the author of Buckaroo Boots and Art of the Buckle.

Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.

Each year in the United States, more than 625,000 individuals are released from prison.

There is more going on in the village of Buckleigh than meets the eye and its sense of community is often as much a curse as a blessing.

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual.

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India.

Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music.

Each year, millions of tourists are drawn to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to experience first-hand the quintessential pastoral--both as an escape from urban life and as a rare opportunity to become immersed in history.

How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice?

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.