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Studies in the Transformation of U.S. Agriculture
ISBN: 9780367289072 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the consensual view of rural society has been challenged by theorists identifying the conflict, exploitation, and power relations in rural society. Beyond this theoretical challenge, empirical studies of the sociology of agriculture have provided a fresh understanding of the dynamics of U.S. agriculture. This book contributes to the growing literature by providing a historical perspective. The contributors explore historical developments in U.S. agriculture within the context of the larger political economy. The book opens with a review of the similarities and differences...
In recent years, the consensual view of rural society has been challenged by theorists identifying the conflict, exploitation, and power relations in ...
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710,17 |
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The Rural South in Crisis: Challenges for the Future
ISBN: 9780367295653 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book captures the views of students of rural America on the serious state of affaire in rural South areas and on the strategies for stimulating improvements in the well-being of rural Southerners. It spurs policymakers, leaders, and rural residents to redress the ills of the rural South.
This book captures the views of students of rural America on the serious state of affaire in rural South areas and on the strategies for stimulating i...
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440,75 |
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Development Professionals in Northern Thailand: Hope, Politics and Power
ISBN: 9789971695224 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Development' promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice, and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and values. A former volunteer and development specialist who spent much of her childhood in the region, Katharine McKinnon set out to consider what has gone wrong by studying professionals involved in development work. How, she asks, did the highlands come to be seen as needing development? And why did the presence of well-intentioned...
'Development' promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice, and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities...
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117,50 |
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In Search of Appalachia
ISBN: 9780761871606 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,44 |
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Rural Society in the U.S.: Issues for the 1980s: Issues for the 1980s
ISBN: 9780367286408 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Must rural Americans pay the price of urban progress and modern lifestyles? How will the increased pressures of the 1980s affect those who live and work in rural communities? In addressing these overriding questions the authors of this book take a serious look at such issues as who will operate our farms and how those farms will meet rising demands for food, how higher energy costs will change life in rural areas, the current and future needs of rural families and their communities, who in fact lives in these communities, and what can be done about escalating rural crime and recent social...
Must rural Americans pay the price of urban progress and modern lifestyles? How will the increased pressures of the 1980s affect those who live and wo...
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463,94 |
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Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs: Class, Culture, and the Polish State
ISBN: 9780367285593 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PREDOMINANTLY A RURAL NATION, Poland is most often depicted with urban scenes: steelworkers, trade unions, Communist party members, and Solidarity meetings. In contrast to this industrial vision, Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs views historical and recent changes and their agrarian consequences.During her many years in the Polish countryside, Dr. Nagengast has observed,studied, and worked side by side with farmers and other members of the agrarian class. Here she provides a first-hand perspective on the monumental failures of the Polish version of socialism, which were largely due...
PREDOMINANTLY A RURAL NATION, Poland is most often depicted with urban scenes: steelworkers, trade unions, Communist party members, and Solidarity mee...
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710,17 |
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Rural Policies for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780367286361 / Angielski / Twarda / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crisis in rural America is by now an all too familiar complaint, yet the problems presented by changing demographics, economic decline, and increasing poverty persist. They have not vanished with a new administration. However, with a new farm bill in the offing, now is the time for a fresh initiative to assess the difficulties facing nonurban America and to offer positive solutions. Rural Policies for the 1990s, written by some of the foremost experts on rural America, focuses on policy-relevant research. Within a carefully crafted framework, the contributors present stimulating discussions...
Crisis in rural America is by now an all too familiar complaint, yet the problems presented by changing demographics, economic decline, and increasing...
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440,75 |
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Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas: A Festschrift for Eugene A. Wilkening
ISBN: 9780367289669 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The possibility of nuclear war, the failure of the Green Revolution, the capabilities of genetic engineering, and other actual and potential effects of technological innovations have created demands for a more humane application of technology. Addressing this issue, Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas is a clear assessment of the current state of affairs. The book begins with a discussion of the changing paradigms of technology adoption and diffusion, the dynamics of public resistance, and the question of social responsibility in an age of synthetic biology. In subsequent sections,...
The possibility of nuclear war, the failure of the Green Revolution, the capabilities of genetic engineering, and other actual and potential effects o...
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440,75 |
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Flight from the City: An Experiment in Creative Living on the Land - Moving to the Country; Fresh Food, a Large Rural Home, and a Relaxed, H
ISBN: 9781789871272 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,07 |
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Computers in the Information Society
ISBN: 9780367003265 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of information technology in people's lives, interdependence between the society and its computer creations, and expectations in the information society.
This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of inf...
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710,17 |
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Agriculture and Community Change in the U.S.: The Congressional Research Reports
ISBN: 9780367014193 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains the Office of Technology Assessment commissioned papers analyzing the Northeast, South, Midwest, the Great Plains and the West of the U.S. The papers indicate that the relationship between the structure of agriculture and characteristics of rural communities vary in the U.S. .
This book contains the Office of Technology Assessment commissioned papers analyzing the Northeast, South, Midwest, the Great Plains and the West of t...
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710,17 |
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Rural Communities Study Guide: Legacy & Change
ISBN: 9780367286255 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
This book examines the process of rural community development and transition—exploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit ch...
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710,17 |
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Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism
ISBN: 9780252084898 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,11 |
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American Rural Communities
ISBN: 9780367012670 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is dedicated to the people of rural America whose struggle to make community meaningful provides important lessons. It includes the contributors' prescription for the 1990s that calls for a renewal of action, development, and leadership on the part of local citizens and civic leaders.
This book is dedicated to the people of rural America whose struggle to make community meaningful provides important lessons. It includes the contribu...
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710,17 |
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Policy Issues in Microcomputer Applications for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780367283216 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The growth of microcomputer applications in industrialized countries is predicated on an existing base that includes the ready availability of affordable hardware and software, trained personnel, capable maintenance, efficient communication systems, and a benign environment. This report covers a range of such policy-related topics as the ready availability of affordable hardware and software, trained personnel, capable maintenance, efficient communication systems, and a benign environment, a checklist of critical issues for developing-country policymakers, and recommendations for programs and...
The growth of microcomputer applications in industrialized countries is predicated on an existing base that includes the ready availability of afforda...
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303,61 |
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Extension Management in the Information Age Initiatives and Impacts
ISBN: 9789381450543 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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631,81 |
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Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change: Land, Climate Dynamics, Technological Innovation
ISBN: 9780796925329 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With more and more global economic wealth and power resting with fewer and fewer people, and given the acute land inequalities in the rural areas of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, how valid are the dominant theories about the nature of rural livelihoods? How can the intricacies of the economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries best be understood? The authors of Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change address these questions as they explore the interrelated themes of land inequality, climate dynamics, and technological innovation across...
With more and more global economic wealth and power resting with fewer and fewer people, and given the acute land inequalities in the rural areas of A...
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110,20 |
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Broadlands and the New Rurality: An Ethnography
ISBN: 9781839095818 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work is a story of an English village and rural change more broadly. Based on original fieldwork funded by the RCUK, the book offers an important and original contribution to our understanding of rural spaces and the behaviour of the people who occupy them.
The work is a story of an English village and rural change more broadly. Based on original fieldwork funded by the RCUK, the book offers an important...
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237,10 |
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East European Communities: The Struggle for Balance in Turbulent Times
ISBN: 9780367166625 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,65 |
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Agriculture and Community Change in the U.S.: The Congressional Research Reports
ISBN: 9780367164065 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,65 |
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