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Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare addict who was chewed up and spit out by the ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much...

Thorkild Gravlunds lille roman tager os med tilbage til starten af det tyvende århundrede og viser os, hvordan bøndernes liv forløb. Her har man levet i pagt med naturen i århundreder, men de seneste år er tingene begyndt at forandre sig. Teknologiske fremskridt og moderne ideer er lige så stille ved at nå ud til det lille vestsjællandske sogn, og det sætter gang i en både spændende og skræmmende udvikling. Thorkild Gravlund (1879-1939) var en dansk forfatter og folkemindeforsker.

Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being "out, loud, and proud." Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation.

Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth Hoffman's eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. The couple also must balance the books, hoping that farming isn't a fantasy that takes every cent of their savings.

Sie könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein und müssen doch gemeinsam einen Mörder jagen - der zweite Fall für das deutsch-österreichische Ermittlerteam Alexa Jahn und Bernhard Krammer. Nichts geht mehr in der Grenzregion Karwendel, heftige Schneefälle bringen über Nacht alles zum Erliegen. Mitten im Chaos verschwindet in der Jachenau eine junge Frau auf dem Weg zu ihrem Elternhaus. In Innsbruck kommt es zu einem Zwischenfall in einem Studentenwohnheim, zwei Studentinnen werden seither vermisst. Alexa Jahn und Bernhard Krammer haben alle Mühe, unter den erschwerten Bedingungen grenzübergreifend zusammenarbeiten.

Tengo que morir todas las noches es una crónica excepcional sobre la ciudad de México durante los años ochenta; la cultura gay y los movimientos artísticos, literarios y musicales que se expresaban en los linderos de la sociedad.

Die Bürger der Gemeinde Alpen sind skeptisch, als Anna von Betteray die Vertretung des erkrankten Pastors übernimmt. Schließlich ist sie geschieden, blaublütig, mit Mitte 30 viel zu jung für den Posten und eine Frau. Während Anna versucht, ein dunkles Kapitel ihrer Vergangenheit zu bewältigen und die Gemeinde behutsam zu modernisieren, gerät das Leben ihrer Schwester Maria komplett aus den Fugen. Ihr Mann wird verhaftet, kurz darauf verschwindet auch noch ihr Sohn. Und das passiert ihr, die in den Augen der standesbewussten Mutter die Vorzeigetochter war.

Commoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family lived in direct relation with the land since before recorded time.

Combining detailed, step-by-step instructions with tips for successful process and an overview of completed projects, Common Threads is a different kind of weaving book. This inspirational guide is designed to help artists and activists foster community, build empowerment, and develop a do-it-together attitude while planning and implementing works of collaborative eco-art.

This is a simple book. It is a collection of ideas and parallels between humanity's past and today.

Esta obra clássica, foi revisitada por seu autor, José de Souza Martins, que incorporou novos trechos e atualizou a discussão sobre as questões tratadas. O cativeiro da terra é a matriz estrutural e histórica da sociedade que somos hoje. Ele condenou a nossa modernidade e a nossa entrada no mundo capitalista a uma modalidade de coerção do trabalho. Aí encontramos a explicação de nossa lentidão histórica e a postergação da ascensão social dos condenados à servidão.

Night delivers a litter of eight puppies in a poor neighborhood in Springfield, Tennessee, the week before Melissa Armstrong first meets her. As a volunteer for a local nonprofit, Melissa has experience with strays and plans to rescue Night and her litter within days. But nothing goes as planned. For the next six months, Melissa and a ragtag cast of characters try to trap the mutt with nets, catchpoles, spring traps, cheeseburgers, hot dogs stuffed with Benadryl, and the dog’s crying puppies. They fail so many times that Melissa is on the brink of giving up.

What is a normal life, anyway? Perfect parents, who never argued or made a mistake? Some 2.2 perfectly behaved children who magically morphed into honor students, then doctors and lawyers with no problems, or nary a regret? All this, evolving from the safety of some picket fence inside the boundaries of which never a harsh word was spoken? How far back must you go in your family before hitting grief or hurt? Steve Watkins never knew what to call it, but he knew something about growing up on a small rural farm in the 1980s felt different. Something strange and out of the ordinary.

Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to the human drama the author recounts. Judith and Kip Plant's family includes her children; Willie takes to the new life, but his sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, stricken with cancer, is dying.

In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the Basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray–Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of politics over decades to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change.

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., was born in Southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet, as he came of age, he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of Eastern Kentucky.

This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that Northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-1856 and the birth of a sectionalized party system.

Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside the big Australian cities - indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defined by their strength and humility, these are characters whose grit and good humour will uplift and inspire. Meet strong women like Joan Sinclair, still riding horses in her 80s; Heather Jones from the Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls; and Diane Reeves, a transgender former dairy farmer, shearer and truck driver....

G.C. "Red" Jones' classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan", and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history. 

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction* Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible...