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Examining the main economic trends affecting rural areas today and the types of local programmes that are being implemented in response. The contributors to this text consider the lessening of federal government involvement and its long-term effects on states and localities.

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This work provides an understanding of what happened to a model socialist construction - the rural village co-operative of Israel, the Moshav. It presents a diversity of views from the perspectives of individual community members, community organisations themselves and expert interpreters.

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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the current rural health environment by sorting topics into coverage of the demand for rural health, the supply of resources (facilities and personnel), the broad application of technology, and the roles of government policies and rural sociology.

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A profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.

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The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics.

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The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement.

Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics.

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They also suggest alternate reforms designed to mitigate poverty in rural America.

Inequitable treatment of the rural poor is evidenced by the fact that although, by conventional measures at least, poverty rates are higher in rural than in urban regions of this country, the rural poor are far less likely to receive assistance.

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This volume examines the relationships between rural settlement processes and the spatial patterns they produce by mapping past and present patterns and tracing the historical processes which generated them.

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Rural quality of life is a multidisciplinary and critical contribution from 49 authors from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania to the understanding of quality of life in rural areas in the global North. They point to the need for vision among planners, policymakers, and people in general in the diversity in lived quality of rural life

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Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally publish

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With increasing awareness of the limits that natural resource reserves and environmental concerns impose on economic growth, rural sociologists have developed new ways of looking at the relationship between man and his environment.

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In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world.

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In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world.

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This inside look at America's most powerful radio host is based on unprecedented access to Rush Limbaugh and his private world.

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A former White House director of economic policy makes the outrageous argument that we don't really want to relax--we want to compete.

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Volume 12 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on Russell Kirk's conservative philosophy. >

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Combines interviews with international figures - including Mikhail Gorbachev - with insights gleaned from declassified archives in East Germany and her own understanding of Russian-German relations. This book shows how German strength and Russian weakness have governed the delicate dance of power between unified Germany and democratized Russia.

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This edited collection analyzes relations between Russia and the states of Northeast Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The contributors examine various historical, cultural, and diplomatic developments and argue that Russias influential role in Northeast Asia has often been underestimated by scholars.

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This edited collection analyzes relations between Russia and the states of Northeast Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The contributors examine various historical, cultural, and diplomatic developments and argue that Russias influential role in Northeast Asia has often been underestimated by scholars.

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