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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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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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The tumultuous events taking place in Eastern Europe have resulted in an avalanche of publications in English about that part of the world.

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This work argues that, far from bringing peace in the war between the sexes, Margaret Mead's "gender/sex" constructions escalated the conflict. It shows that this construction does accord with biological reality and that an improved understanding of sex/gender would hasten sex equality.

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Through an examination of the experience of transsexuals, this book enhances understanding of how gender can and does function in complex and subtle ways. This book investigates the pressures and motivations to conform to expected gender roles, and the ways in which these are affected by social, educational, and professional status.

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Challenging the belief that the use of animals in biomedical research is necessary for the advancement of human medical knowledge, the authors of this text assert that the use of animals in medical research is unethical because faulty science underpins such experimentation.

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This interdisciplinary collection is a new landmark in the study of the world's pilgrimage traditions. In-depth accounts of patterns of pilgrimage ranging from Hindu practices to a comparison of Catholic and Baptist pilgrimage in Haiti and Trinidad, to a narration of a Maori sacred journey, provide valuable comparative information.

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Traces the development of the Anzac cult, as well as looking at those who rejected it. This title also examines a paradox: why, as Australia's wars recede in memory, have these memorials and what they stand for become cherished more than ever

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As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. -- .

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As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers. Stuart Hodkinson has those answers. -- .

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Based on extensive research, recent events, and numerous first-person accounts, this revealing book illuminates both the challenges and triumphs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth, and offers effective strategies for combating LGBT marginalization in our nation's schools and communities.

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Focusing on the idiosyncrasies of Hispanic culture, this work shows that understanding cultural nuances is as important as language learning for communication and social interaction.

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A fascinating insight into the culture of the saltwater peoples of northern Australian coasts, their profound knowledge of and attachment to their sea country, how this endured despite dislocation and repression, and how this has shaped their values and relations with territory - with telling contrasts to our own western institutions and their origins.

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A comprehensive anthology on homosexuality. It explores historical conceptions of homosexuality, homosexual identity, and a variety of public policy issues, ranging from gay marriage to military service. It also examines the issues from ethical, religious and scientific perspectives.

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The same-sex marriage debate is currently a central preoccupation of Western society, and both those for and against it have their points of view.