Titles in Rural

Ein Vorort wie aus dem Bilderbuch – doch was machen Vorzeigebürger*innen, wenn ihre hübsche Fassade bröckelt? In Peter Huths Roman ist ein Vorort von Berlin die perfekte heile Welt für Mittelschicht-Familien – bis ein unheilvolles Gerücht die Runde macht ... Für Fine und Tim ist das malerische Fischbach vor den Toren der Großstadt das Familienparadies, von dem sie geträumt haben. Unter den anderen Eigenheimbesitzern finden sie schnell Freunde für sich und ihre Tochter. Als ein älterer Herr einen kleinen Laden für Honig, Tee und Deko eröffnet, scheint er das letzte Mosaiksteinchen im Idyll zu sein.

A compelling blend of true crime and memoir tracing the author’s investigation into the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana and the reverberations on her family and community throughout the decades ""Riveting and atmospheric, Home of the Happy is also a heartfelt...

As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland to find a bit of land that they could call their own. They had in mind keeping a few chickens, a kitchen garden, and renting out some camping space; instead, they fell in love with Lynbreck Croft - 150 acres of opportunity and beauty, shrouded by the Cairngorms and deep in the Highlands of Scotland.

Welcome to the wild, wacky and wonderful world of outback Aussie festivals! Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled far and wide to capture the true stories behind Australia's most unconventional festivals. You'll meet the larrikin locals, dedicated organisers and competitive spirits who turn cockroaches into champions, guinea pigs into thoroughbreds and dunnies into racing machines.

A sweeping history of the British village, both rural and urban, which makes a compelling case for why we need to protect our local communities, from bestselling author Simon Jenkins We are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit...

Magisch ist zurück im Haus hinter dem Knallerbsenwall mit einem Job, der nicht ganz legal ist. Mehr als fünfzehn Jahre sind vergangen, und Marie und Magisch sitzen unten am Feldweg bei der Pferdekoppel im Schatten der Büsche und trinken Fanta-Korn als wären sie nie weg gewesen. Doch Andi, Maries Bruder, ist auch noch da, war tatsächlich nie weg, ist mittlerweile in der Partei, und noch immer gefährlich. Als Magisch bedroht wird, ist für Marie der Zeitpunkt gekommen, die Frage nach der Brandmauer in der eigenen Familie neu zu stellen.

Jesus Hasn't Given Up on Small, Exploited, and Overlooked Places—and Neither Should We Many young people entering ministry and starting careers believe success requires them to leave their communities. After all, the fastest-growing congregations, the highest-profile ministries, and the best...

"Africulture is a gift and inspiration."—Michael W. Twitty, author of the James Beard Foundation Award-winning The Cooking Gene A bold, timely history illuminating the essential contributions to U.S. agriculture arising from the expertise and innovations of Black men and women. In Africulture...

Los años 50 constituyen la época más desconocida de la historia reciente de España. Entre los terribles años 40 de la posguerra y los cambios que trajeron los 60. Manuel Espín acude al rescate de esos tiempos en La España resignada (1952-1960) para devolvernos la imagen de un país que quiere dejar atrás los terribles recuerdos de la guerra y la posguerra para empezar a mirar hacia el futuro con esperanza.

गोदाताई परूळेकर यांच्या जेव्हा माणूस जागा होतो या पुस्तकाच्या सुवर्ण महोत्सवानिमित्त परिसंवाद आदिवासी...

लेखक ल. सि. जाधव यांच्या या आत्मकथनात त्यांनी मातंग समाजाचे व्यावसायिक व सामाजिक जीवन, त्यांच्या अंधश्रद्धा व...

Across America’s backroads, fields once plowed by calloused hands stand overgrown. Fence posts lean where generations once braced against the wind. Homesteads that echoed with cattle, hymns, and supper-time laughter now sit quiet beneath blinking red towers of green-energy deals, foreign investors, and promises that never came true.

The Farm is a lyrical and entertaining journey to the heart of rural life in New Zealand from one of our greatest living writers. When Bruce Ansley visited a friend on a sheep farm on Banks Peninsula, they pointed out a property for sale, down by the water. Down a drive curving through sycamores...

Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.

Willkommen auf dem Pelzershof! Bauern sind reich, arbeiten nur während der Erntezeit und sind innovationsfeindlich? Von wegen! Die Junglandwirte Lydia und Philipp Pelzer öffnen die Tore ihres Familienhofs und räumen gründlich mit alten Klischees auf. Ehrlich, humorvoll und mit viel Herzblut...

كانت القرية، دائماً، رمز البساطة في نظام حياتها وفي التركيبة النفسية للقرويين، الذين نادراً ما يعانون مما يسمى 'فوبيا' أو 'مانيا'، ويتقبلون كل ما يجري معهم كأمر...

«Hay dos horizontes contrapuestos: el campesino, modesto en la escala, limitado en la acumulación de capital, pero estable desde el punto de vista social, y el minero empresarial, ambicioso, devastador y respaldado incondicionalmente por el gobierno. Es hora de mirar con detenimiento las...

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses listeners into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities.

జాలరుల కుగ్రామంగా మొదలైన విశాఖపట్నం , రెండో ప్రపంచ యుద్ధం తరువాత మహానగరంగా అవతరించడానికి మూలకారణమైన భౌగోళిక...

A passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local. Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move to his home state of Minnesota with his wife and fellow tech exec, Mary Grove, and...