(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009568531)
Criminology has long examined the relationship between crime, place, and community dynamics, but has largely overlooked rural areas. This Element examines the protective aspects of local culture, the impact of addiction and economic hard-ship, and h...Loe edasi...
Criminology has long examined the relationship between crime, place, and community dynamics, but has largely overlooked rural areas. This Element examines the protective aspects of local culture, the impact of addiction and economic hard-ship, and h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198978602)
Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations,...Loe edasi...
Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
The new tale of female camaraderie and bravery from beloved saga author Rosie Meddon - available to pre-order now! When one womans attempt to help the war effort from her sleepy Devon village is thwarted, she is determined to fight back!...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300272864)
An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthetic, and ideology In this book, Jeffrey Hoelle traces the imprint of cultivation across the naturall...Loe edasi...
Using the notion of crossroads to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the co...Loe edasi...
This book follows a rigorous academic approach, using scientific research methods to provide first-hand data on poverty alleviation in contemporary rural China. It conducts research by providing real cases and practical examples to accelerate the ac...Loe edasi...
Out of the Dark is a comprehensive study of radios impact on rural America in the three decades between its inception and the arrival of television.In the 1920s, the USDA asked farmers about the impact the new medium of radio...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807187531)
During the American Civil War, thousands of citizens in the Deep South remained loyal to the United States. Though often overlooked, they possessed broad symbolic importance and occupied an outsized place in the strategic thinking and public discour...Loe edasi...
With 750 million people living in villages, India has the largest rural population in the world. Based on his Indian experience, Dr Kalam recommends a sustainable and inclusive development system called PURA—Providing Urban Amenities in Rural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270493)
Clinicians and academics on improving medical communications in Appalachia. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 25 percent of the American population does not trust doctors and medical professionals. Focusing on rural Ap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895270486)
Clinicians and academics on improving medical communications in Appalachia. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 25 percent of the American population does not trust doctors and medical professionals. Focusing on rural Ap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hertfordshire Press, ISBN-13: 9781912260744)
Dr Rosamond Faith is a leading historian of the English peasantry in the early and central Middle Ages. In a series of influential studies, she has uncovered the basic structures of rural society, revealing how economic organisation, physical envi...Loe edasi...
Through the authors’ on-field experiences and case studies, the open access book documents the evolution of flagship programs like the National Rural Livelihood Mission, showcasing how decentralized approaches and collective action have fostered s...Loe edasi...
Through the authors’ on-field experiences and case studies, the open access book documents the evolution of flagship programs like the National Rural Livelihood Mission, showcasing how decentralized approaches and collective action have fostered s...Loe edasi...
This edited collection synthesises rural criminological issues in Africa. It focusses on rural areas and rural communities in Africa in terms of victimisation, offending, lived experiences of law or being victims, policing, crime prevention, and the...Loe edasi...
Maternal and Child Health in Rural Kenya (1984) is based on a longitudinal, multi-disciplinary, population-based research study in the Machakos district, a rural area of Kenya. Data for this study was collected over a seven-year period and...Loe edasi...
Rethinking Rural: Data-Driven Approaches for Sustainable Development offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of sustainable rural development through a quantitative lens. Drawing on official statistics, spatial analysis, and refined in...Loe edasi...
This book captures the complex relationships between rurality and populism with a focus on the processes of alienation and on the contemporary search for authenticity. It explores these relationships using case studies from different national and...Loe edasi...
The author of the bestselling Band-Aid for a Broken Leg comes home and discovers that being a doctor in outback Australia is at least as challenging as working for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Little Toller Books, ISBN-13: 9781915068576)
In this new anthology for the Campaign to Protect Rural England leading writers and thinkers on the land, social history and ecology, re-imagine the future of the countryside, searching for a more sustainable and thriving countryside....Loe edasi...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score, whose smash hit Things We Never Got Over captured millions of hearts, invites you back to Story Lake for a swoon-worthy new small town romantic comedy.Hes...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Mira Books, ISBN-13: 9781335219985)
For this spicy writer, her muse might just be…a mechanic?When romance novelist Kate Smith suddenly gets writer’s block just as she’s beginning the final installment of her internationally bestselling, steamy Bed ’n’ Breakfast...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Mira Books, ISBN-13: 9781335629708)
Preorder now to get a deluxe limited edition of The Bookstore Diaries! This special-edition hardcover will include beautifully designed endpapers and gorgeous sprayed edges!This summer, the t...Loe edasi...
A young chef returns home to find her small town caught in the snare of an oil company. Her brother witnesses a chilling crime at the drilling site, and their attempts to bring justice are met with fierce opposition in this engrossing thrille...Loe edasi...
When James meets Luke, everything changes an exhilarating tale of hidden desire and sudden freedom in the wild countryside. THE INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2026 An achingly beautiful...Loe edasi...
Using a social movement perspective with statistical models, this monograph demonstrates the differences between the Back to the City Movement launched by the Chinese youths and the Down to the Countryside Campaign controlled by the Party. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197769072)
Urbanization is typically narrated as a tale of migration and industrialization--a mass exodus from rural areas to burgeoning cities with centripetal economies. Today, however, many rural settlements are not hollowing out. Rather, they are filling up...Loe edasi...
In Urbanization from Within, Gregory F. Randolph challenges the conventional story of urbanization as a permanent exodus from rural areas to cities, providing a novel understanding of how humans are becoming an increasingly urban species. Dr...Loe edasi...
One steamy night turns paradise into trouble for this forbidden couple.Lucys post-college graduation trip to Hawaii was supposed to be carefree—until a sizzling one-night stand with Mason, a man twice her age, turns her plans up...Loe edasi...
One reckless night. One unexpected pregnancy. A lifetime of consequences.After a bad breakup, free-spirited Maryanne returns to her small Texas hometown determined to reclaim the carefree woman she used to be. But one fiery, unfo...Loe edasi...
She’s wild at heart—he’s got just the right hands to tame her.Former party-girl Taylor thought moving to a small town and becoming a librarian would prove she’s finally grown up. But beneath her demure facade, her wild side still...Loe edasi...
When the towns hottest mechanic rescues a stranded chef, things are bound to get spicy.Chef and photographer Wendy is done with Colorado—and heartbreak. Harassed, fired, evicted and left at the altar, she’s desperate for a fresh...Loe edasi...
She doesnt have time for romance—until he walks through the door. Single mom Cindy barely has time to breathe, let alone think about dating—especially not with cocky Andy, the ex-military heartthrob whos unexpected...Loe edasi...
She wants a baby. He wants her. Simple, right?Widowed yoga instructor Holly never imagined shed be single, living with her brother and desperate to have a baby on her own. But watching her friends start families pushes her to ta...Loe edasi...
She’s his redheaded nightmare—and exactly what the doctor ordered.Opinionated. Angry. Stubborn. Lola is the fiery redhead who’s been driving Kendall crazy for years, tormenting him at every encounter around town.When L...Loe edasi...
She left town with a secret. He went to prison with a broken heart. Now, fate is bringing them back together.Jewel Jenkins swore she’d never return to Crimson Creek—not after the way things ended, or the mistake she made with Cha...Loe edasi...
Driven by sophisticated theoretical framework, this book calls upon the criminological community, especially feminist and rural criminologists, to stretch their theoretical imaginations to examine patriarchal linkages between localized expressions...Loe edasi...
The phenomenon of boomtowns and of various impacts from resource extraction is global in the sense that it affects many, but certainly not all, rural communities throughout the world. However, it is not a single, homogenous influence, but one with...Loe edasi...
LONGLISTED FOR THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2024Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand rural life. — Patrick Galbraith, author of In Search of One Last SongThis is a book of life and why we should cele...Loe edasi...
In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse investigates the implementation of a large poverty alleviation program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS, in Uttar Pradesh, one of Indias poorest and most populated...Loe edasi...
Full of memorable portraits of the inhabitants of a remove village in the Vale of Evesham in the 19th century, Mad Shepherds is a compulsively readable, sometimes strange book about an England now entirely lost and largely forgotten....Loe edasi...
Utterly romantic. Karla writes delicious tension and beautiful happily-ever-afters. Devney Perry, #1 New York Times bestselling author Feelings get involved in a fake marriage and threaten to destroy things neither Greer nor Beckett wan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033257)
Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. From the boglands of Ireland to data centers in the Oregon coun...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029793)
From the boglands of Ireland to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to Media Rurality show how rural territories are highly mediated, technologized spaces profoundly enmeshed with global capitalism and colonialism....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112247488)
In the past decade, spanning from the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, rural poverty in the United States has risen dramatically. The impact of the pandemic is set to intensify these inequalities as t...Loe edasi...
This book aims to foster a dialogue within and across rural communities, practitioners, academics, and decision-makers for interdisciplinary collaborations and informed actions. It offers knowledge about challenges faced by rural communities aroun...Loe edasi...
Miguel Cabo, Juri Auderset, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Juan Pan-Montojo, Alba Díaz Geada, Ana Cabana Iglesia, Ernst Langthaler, Federico DOnofrio, Jonathan Harwood, Juan Pan-Montojo...
An overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation in the past, and of the paradigms and institutional frameworks in which they were developed throughout the twentieth century.From the la...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700640881)
Based on years of ethnographic research in rural Kansas, Crafting Dignity is an eye-opening look at why Latin American immigrants came to work on dairy farms in the Heartland and how their presence is transforming both the industry and t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700640898)
Based on years of ethnographic research in rural Kansas, Crafting Dignity is an eye-opening look at why Latin American immigrants came to work on dairy farms in the Heartland and how their presence is transforming both the industry and t...Loe edasi...
Explores Persian tribespeoples changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times. In this rare approach to half a century of ethnographic study of a pastoral ethnic community in the hinterland of Iran, the emotional and judgmental reacti...Loe edasi...
Rachel Reids hockey heroes are sexy, hot, and passionate! —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren BlakelyFrom the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Game Changers series comes a merry and bright hockey roman...Loe edasi...
In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is on the verge of a great northern climate migration that will likely reshape everything from the urban landscape to electoral politics. First, he provides a conceptual, analytical, and empirica...Loe edasi...
LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD Beautiful and unflinching, Cloudless is a phenomenal debut ANNA HOPE, author of Albion Attends to the bonds we have to family, landscape, global politics with uncommon at...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Mira Books, ISBN-13: 9781335145437)
The catch of the day is her brothers best friend.What happens when the cute mountain man you made out with in an ice fishing shack turns out to be your brother’s best friend?A whole lot of awkward, that’s what.Maggie’s m...Loe edasi...
The essential new book about Britains frontierlands, the abandoned and neglected places that provide opportunities for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change. This is not just a grassro...Loe edasi...
A striking debut, filled with folkloric mystery and yearning. Read it, then read it again Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt CreaturesA muddy, pastoral fable written with an equal measure of beauty and morbidity. Completel...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399546706)
Uncovers the untold history of rural life in medieval Bamiyan. Bamiyan, in present-day Afghanistan, is famous for its giant Buddhas, but what was life like for its rural inhabitants 500 years after the Muslim conquest? The Warehouse of Bam...Loe edasi...
For six years Joel Salatins Pitchfork Pulpit column in The Mother Earth News magazine inspired and challenged readers. These columns, in the order they ran, preserve that timeless writing legacy for todays homesteading, small farming, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035383320)
This book explores how blockchain technology can transform rural areas by providing innovative solutions to issues such as food insecurity, poverty, climate change and digital inequality. Adopting a practical and conceptual approach, Diosey Ramon Lug...Loe edasi...
A vivid memoir of Cynthia Anne Smith, born amid WWII in rural England, capturing a life shaped by history, community, and timeless local stories...Loe edasi...
Since the late 1960s, individuals rebelling against societal norms have embraced intentional communities as a means to challenge capitalism and manifest their ideals. Combining archival work with an ethnographic approach, this book examines how th...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981, the main thesis of this book is that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in development countries. Therefore, the success or failure of policies seeking to moderate the process of...Loe edasi...
The decade of 1980s was one of crisis for Africa. Neither African governments nor development agencies made a significant impact on the quality of life of rural people. The enormous range of contexts in Africa — social, economic, political, cultur...Loe edasi...
