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  • Rural Revival?

    Place Marketing, Tree Change and Regional Migration in Australia

    How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europe and North America, ... Přečtěte si více

    1 624,23 Kč

  • The Wisdom of Farmers

    What We Can Learn from the Land

    podle John Connell ...
    'There is hard-won wisdom here, and good cheer, and a reminder that the world is much wider, older and more interesting than you'd think' BILL McKIBBEN'Kind, wise and immensely readable' TIM FLANNERYA thoughtful, illuminating rumination on the life lessons we can take from those who work the land and the millennia of wisdom they draw upon when they go about their day, 'making a living by turning ... Přečtěte si více

    188,09 Kč

  • Papua New Guinea

    The Struggle for Development

    podle John Connell ...
    Série série Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include:* rapid economic growth and political conflict* civil war on the island of Bougainville* population growth and urbanisation* mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts* uneven development and social divisions. ... Přečtěte si více

    952,02 Kč

  • The Cow Book

    A Story of Life on a Family Farm

    podle John Connell ...
    Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the ways of the farmer and the way of the cows.Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day - cleaning the outhouses, milking the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. But ... Přečtěte si více

    413,19 Kč

  • A School for Scandal

    The Radical Educational Experiment That Shocked Interwar Britain

    podle John O'Connell ...
    No knowledge should be withheld from children. Respect the individual peculiarities of the child. Morality to arise from the child's actual experience, never from the authority of adults.When philosopher Bertrand Russell and his activist wife Dora founded a school in 1927, it was a radical experiment to create 'fearless children': sensitive, gifted citizens, empowered to think and act freely.But ... Přečtěte si více

    367,29 Kč

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  • The Running Book

    A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

    podle John Connell ...
    ‘Sensational! John Connell has done it again’ – Dean KarnazesFrom the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow BookIn The Running Book, John Connell vividly describes a marathon through County Longford, Ireland, where he lives and farms. Because running is as much about the mind as the body, the book is about more than the physical experience. What John sees on his journey prompts him to ... Přečtěte si více

    268,49 Kč

  • Twelve Sheep

    Life lessons from a lambing season

    podle John Connell ...
    For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring.The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment. After years of hard work, John felt a deep tiredness creeping up on him, a sadness that he couldn't ... Přečtěte si více

    161,09 Kč

  • Island Challenges

    Caribbean and Pacific Futures

    Série série Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the key development challenges facing the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean and the Pacific, focusing on livelihoods and state security and stability in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides a comprehensive overview by exploring six broad and interrelated themes: state capacity to provide basic services (such as health, water, ... Přečtěte si více

    2 843,99 Kč

  • The Farmer's Son

    Calving Season on a Family Farm

    podle John Connell ...
    A poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world.Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the ... Přečtěte si více

    272,79 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Stream of Everything

    podle John Connell ...
    It's summer, and John Connell finds himself, like so many others, confined to his local area, the opportunity to freely travel and socialise cut short. His attention turns to the Camlin river – an ever-present source of life for his hometown's inhabitants and, for John, a site of boyhood adventure, first love, family history and local legend.He decides to canoe its course with a friend, a two-day ... Přečtěte si více

    433,79 Kč

  • The End of Tradition

    Country Life in Central Surrey

    podle John Connell ...
    Série série Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1978, The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages, the Horsleys and Clandons, close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century, a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on the nearby towns and cities replaced a traditional rural village life. Estates were broken up, ... Přečtěte si více

    896,00 Kč

  • Rural Change in Australia

    Population, Economy, Environment

    podle John Connell ...
    New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new relationships with indigenous populations. Challenges also exist around the 'patchwork economy' and ... Přečtěte si více

    1 624,23 Kč