Rural category: 418 books
Together at the Table
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchtime food choices at fresh-fruit and salad bars stocked with local foods. In a community garden in New York, low-income residents are producing organically...
by Anthony Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Located near the southern edge of the Pennsylvania anthracite, the town of St. Clair in the early half of the 19th century seemed to be perfectly situated to provide fuel to the iron and steel industry that was the heart of the Industrial Revolution in America. It was a time of unprecedented promise...
L'Habitation rustique au pays mâconnais
Étude de folklore, d'ethnographie et de géographie humaine
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "La maison rurale est l'un des éléments pittoresques et ethnographiques les plus précieux de nos anciens pays de France, de nos petites patries provinciales. Avec la paysage et la parure naturelle de nos montagnes et de nos forêts, le cours de nos fleuves et de nos ruisseaux, l'éclat tempéré...
by E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the fifth and sixth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles in a small English village. These two novels,...
by E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the third and fourth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the social circles in a small English village. These two novels,...
Lovie
The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased. Her life, which was...
Our Health Plan
Community Governed Healthcare That Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Just when you thought there was no cure for an ailing healthcare system, Our Health Plan will change your mind entirely. Chronicling the journey of a single community through the labyrinth of local healthcare in its efforts to effect change, proponents focus on the most economically disadvantaged and...
Asian Women from Different Perspectives
A Collection of Articles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
With the entrance of women to different areas of academic, education, industry and even military forces, their status has changed in the society. That is why along with their maternal and motherhood roles, they have faced with social roles as well. These changes have persuaded scholars to start investigation...
Round of a Country Year
A Farmer's Day Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
David Kline has been called a “twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau” by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings-on on his organic family farm. Under David’s attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the...
The Human Cost of Food
Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost...
by Werner Zips
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
In 1975, Nanny was declared the first, and is so far the only female National Hero in Jamaica. This was seen as a breakthrough in acknowledging the historical dimension of her people, the Maroons, as freedom fighters. The Maroons are, to this day, viewed in some quarters as a self-styled military...
Judgment Ridge
The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors –– a book that, like In Cold Blood, reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation.
On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery...
SEVA to Realize the SELF
Selfless Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding. In order to offset this lack of health care and educational facilities in Indian villages, many private individuals and...
by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series...