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Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China: Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
ISBN: 9780367375768 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,56 |
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The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture
ISBN: 9780367294199 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-grant college research and services, farm programs, and tax laws all have been affected. Yet, asserts the author, federal legislation and practices have had an institutional bias toward large-scale farms and agribusiness and have hastened the demise of family farms. Dr. Vogeler examines the struggle between land interests in the private and public sectors and finds that the myth of the family farm has been used to obscure the dominance of...
The ideal of the family farm has been used to justify a myriad of federal farm legislation. Land grants, the distribution of irrigation water, land-gr...
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Sociology in Government: A Bibliography of the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 19191953
ISBN: 9780367287863 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This bibliography is the first major output of the project ""Sociology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture: the Galpin-Taylor years, 1 9 1 9- 1 95 3."" This project is being conducted under a cooperative agreement between the Agriculture and Rural Economy Division, Economic Research
Service, U.S. Depa rtment of Agriculture and the Department of Rural Sociology, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. We are grateful to both organiza tions for providing funds. Financial support has also been provided by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment... "This bibliography is the first major output of the project ""Sociology in the U.S. Department of Agriculture: the Galpin-Taylor years, 1 9 1 9- 1 95 ...
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777,25 |
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Britain's Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration
ISBN: 9781526110145 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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434,65 |
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Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and Its Consequences
ISBN: 9781350120549 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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511,35 |
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Management Skills for Successful Agri Entrepreneurs
ISBN: 9789387973190 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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349,77 |
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Foxfire Story: Oral Tradition in Southern Appalachia
ISBN: 9780525436317 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,42 |
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More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails and Ruins
ISBN: 9781773370026 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by The Honourable Gary A. Filmon, Premier of Manitoba (1988 – 1999) Gordon Goldsborough returns with more compelling abandoned sites from across Manitoba. Armed with a drone and a deep curiosity about local history, Gordon had more stories to share than could fit into one book. Adventure into abandoned quarries, dance halls, hospitals and more!
Foreword by The Honourable Gary A. Filmon, Premier of Manitoba (1988 – 1999) Gordon Goldsborough returns with more compelling abandoned sites from...
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145,74 |
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Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities: Rethinking Australian Country Towns
ISBN: 9780367349288 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'.
This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country... There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more br...
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203,98 |
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
ISBN: 9780691176673 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,50 |
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The Future of Rural America: Anticipating Policies for Constructive Change
ISBN: 9780367292355 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been my pleasure to work with a distinguished, committed,and cooperative group of contributors to this volume. They have taught me how to perform the editing role and put up with innumerable and probably insufferable suggestions. I have been privileged to work with exceptionally fine individuals in this endeavor and will count that among my many blessings.
It has been my pleasure to work with a distinguished, committed,and cooperative group of contributors to this volume. They have taught me how to perfo...
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704,38 |
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Rural Data, People, and Policy: Information Systems for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780367286262 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume paints a critical view of the state of rural data systems in America with a collection of contributions leading scholars in the social sciences arena. It places an important wake-up call social scientists engaged in rural research, alerting them to the problems of existing data systems.
This volume paints a critical view of the state of rural data systems in America with a collection of contributions leading scholars in the social sci...
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704,38 |
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Small Farms: Persistence with Legitimation
ISBN: 9780367287405 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do small farms continue to coexist with ever-larger farming operations in advanced Western societies? Through a thorough case study of Italy and a comparative analysis of small farms in the United States, Dr. Bonanno seeks to answer this question, exploring the complex relationships among farm family members’ ideology and behavior, the small farm economic sector, and the interaction of small farms within the relevant spheres of society. He finds that, at the structural level, a lack of occupational alternatives and contradictions within both labor and land markets often force farmers to...
Why do small farms continue to coexist with ever-larger farming operations in advanced Western societies? Through a thorough case study of Italy and a...
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437,16 |
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The Impact of Population Change on Business Activity in Rural America
ISBN: 9780367292997 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Johnson moves beyond the existing literature on rural-urban population shifts during the past forty years to examine the effects of those shifts on the business infrastructure that supplies goods and services to rural areas in the United States. First establishing a historical demographic context to serve as a backdrop, he provides a detailed longitudinal treatment on the linkage between population change and the rural commercial infrastructure, as well as timely information on the impact of the recent rural population turnaround on business. Some of his findings, based on the latest data...
Dr. Johnson moves beyond the existing literature on rural-urban population shifts during the past forty years to examine the effects of those shifts o...
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704,38 |
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The Cooperative Extension Service: A National Assessment: A National Assessment
ISBN: 9780367291051 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cooperative Extension Service, a publicly supported educational agency, is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be generalists or specialists? Should its clients be primarily rural or urban, farm or nonfarm? What role should Extension play in the information networks of the twenty-first century? Professors Warner and Christenson take a broad look at these and other questions concerning where the Extension Service has been, how well it is doing, and where it...
The Cooperative Extension Service, a publicly supported educational agency, is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our...
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704,38 |
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Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea: The State and the Green Revolution
ISBN: 9780367285760 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the politics of Korean developmental state and commitment of state agents to rapid industrialization within world political economy, focusing the Korean green revolution. It assesses how differences in state/society relationships affect agricultural research system priorities.
This book explores the politics of Korean developmental state and commitment of state agents to rapid industrialization within world political economy...
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704,38 |
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Rural Industrialization in Israel
ISBN: 9780367286347 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rural development in Israel consists of a unique variety of industrialization experiences that may be instructive for many countries at various stages of development. The social, ideological, political, economic, and organizational precepts that Israel's rural settlements are based on lend themselves to many different approaches. This book deals with industrialization patterns in the kibbutz, the moshav, the non-agricultural village, and the Arab village. Prevailing conditions (size and labor force, availability of skills, infrastructure) and objectives (creation of employment, improvement of...
Rural development in Israel consists of a unique variety of industrialization experiences that may be instructive for many countries at various stages...
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437,16 |
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Rural Public Services: International Comparisons
ISBN: 9780367286378 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in the special problems of rural areas and concern with rural development in general have increased substantially throughout much of the world in the years since about 1960. Attesting to this has been the dramatic increase in attention to rural problems in the scholarly and popular literature and by government agencies. At first the dominant focus was on development projects and the creation of new jobs. It was not long, however, until other related issues came to the fore, in particular the availability and quality of public services essential to achieve economic growth and...
Interest in the special problems of rural areas and concern with rural development in general have increased substantially throughout much of the worl...
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704,38 |
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Electric Power for Rural Growth: How Electricity Affects Rural Life in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780367012236 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers important historical information on the state of rural electrification in the 1980s. It also summarizes the development of benefit evaluation methods, along with findings from recent research on the impact of rural electrification for development.
This book offers important historical information on the state of rural electrification in the 1980s. It also summarizes the development of benefit ev...
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179,69 |
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Coping with Rapid Growth in Rural Communities
ISBN: 9780367169961 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,98 |