In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South.
Esta obra teoriza, modela y propone la relación entre el liderazgo y la educación rural a partir de la sistematización de diversas experiencias de investigación, extensión y formación realizadas en la Universidad de La Salle y compiladas por el Centro de Liderazgo y Excelencia Docente (CLED).
Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the center where what water there was hurried along to the pools below.
The Rider on the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature.
Cuando Marty Stryker, un ranchero viudo, puso un anuncio en el periódico buscando esposa, lo último que se esperaba era una segunda oportunidad en el amor.
"Aquell que oblida les arts i els costums de l'antigor oblida la vida mateixa, feta de la lluita deIs homes i els seus afanys", va escriure el cretenc Pandelís Prevelakis en la seva Crònica d'una ciutat.
Profesores y estudiantes de posgrado en filosofia de universidades mexicanas nos hemos dado a la tarea de reflexionar y dar inteligibilidad a los hechos de violencia politica que sacuden hoy en dia al pais.
Al aprender a trabajar con las capacidades latentes de las personas, la discapacidad deja de ser el centro de nuestro abordaje para convertirse en el punto de partida del mismo.
Propuestas metodológicas, bases conceptuales, procesos, normas y experiencias sistematizadas alternativas sobre cómo ordenar el territorio desde la perspectiva del Ordenamiento Territorial Comunitario (OTC).
Blending artful language and style with the dirt, blood, and sweat of farm life, this collection of essays tells a moving story of growing up in rural Michigan.
Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya.
Focusing on the distribution of benefits in relation to class, ethnicity, and gender, this book explores the methods to which the rural poor can organize themselves to participate in economic and social development and examines the roles that self-help organizations play in the political economy of Kenya.
This book examines the process of rural community development and transition-exploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit change as well as the extent to which local community resources can mobilize to support efforts for community change.
Romina Pleschko zeichnet ein herrlich entlarvendes Bild der Gesellschaftsstrukturen in einer Kleinstadt und stellt ihr eine Heldin gegenüber, die mit allen Wassern gewaschen ist.
Salt of the Earth is an autoethnography and cultural rhetorics case study that examines white supremacy in the authors hometown of Grand Saline, Texas, a community long marred by its racist culture.
An antidote to bigotry and a "e;perfect primer for readers seeking factual, realistic portrayals of the rural and working-class experience"e; (Los Angeles Times).
AN INDIE BESTSELLER'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of La Belle France' Carol Drinkwater, author of The Olive Farm'An utterly beguiling immersion in La France Profonde, keenly observed and beautifully told' Felicity Cloake, author of One More Croissant for the RoadFor fans of Peter Mayle, 'Britain's finest living nature writer' takes the plunge and buys an old farmhouse deep in the French countryside - a perfect slice of sunny escapist joy from the perennial Sunday Times bestseller.
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.
En este libro, el autor centra su atención en el proceso de transformación de una región del centro de México para analizar la desamortización de las tierras de los pueblos indígenas, así como del mercado de tierras incentivado por el proceso desamortizador y la existencia del recurso hídrico.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times'Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice' GuardianWhat is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?
Las palabras e imágenes agrupadas en estos Materiales pedagógicos e investigativos recogen la experiencia fraguada en los encuentros, diálogos y acciones colectivas realizadas con comunidades interculturales (campesinas, indígenas y negras) de la región de los Montes de María, con las que se ha adelantado una investigación acción participativa acompañada de un proceso educativo enfocado en la educación popular.
The manuscript is a doctoral work in which an effort to introduce a new dimension of poverty named as chronic poverty, from which people of remote rural areas especially tribals are suffering since ages.