Primary Industries

From local legend, newspaper reports and family history, Alistair Findlay has pieced together a comprehensive documentary of Scotland's shale minin...

Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But after struggling with ter...

Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a traditional Briti...

This book is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mines Rescue Service in the Rhondda Valleys and South Wales Based at the Dinas Mines Rescu...

A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store How did an animal product that spoils easily, carri...

In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could...

This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivot...

Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the w...

Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working und...

A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation Ben Hartman has revolutionized his methods, cut down his work hours d...

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tra...