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From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' E...

This study addresses the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes in developing countries. Higher incomes are essential for sustained progr...

Half the world''s population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education....

Look at any list of America's top foodie cities and you probably won't find Boise, Idaho or Sitka, Alaska. Yet they are the new face of the food mo...

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this littl...

In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to down-...

Eduardo Galeano writes: These pages, written in bursts, disorderly, jubilant and desperate, tell of the adventures and misfortunes of the man who h...

This is the personal journal of a young American woman, living for six months amongst the Dodoth cattle-herdsmen in Northern Uganda. It is also an...

'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own vers...

When it was first published in 1987, this picture of the lives of country folk from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth completed a trilo...

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...

The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patte...

Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of c...

In many communities across North America in the 1960s and 1970s, the rural-relocation movement became both a way of life and a path forward for man...

Rural England is a mythic space, a complex canvas on which people from many different backgrounds project all kinds of fantasies, prejudices, desir...

Theres more to life than being fabulous but its a startRoz and Jamie have moved to leafy Suffolk from London in search of a quiet life, so its a sh...

*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021**Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History*'Preposterously entertaining' Observer...

'Absolutely loved this ... brought me to tears of joy at the end ... I cannot recommend this book enough' Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars'Bought it for my...

Can the magic of Christmas and the community of Thorndale bring two lost souls together in love?Olivia doesnt have time for Christmas or for romanc...

'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine ...

THE STUNNING NEW BOOK FROM THE HOST OF BBC 2'S VILLAGES BY THE SEAEngland's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. ...

Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain t...

The compelling new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica JamesReaders are enchanted by Erica''s sweeping novels...''A glorious summer st...

A captivating love story about community and second chances, from Australian author Alissa Callen. Are some things worth risking everything for?Cou...

Rural tourism is a form of tourism that is based on natural resources and requires intertwining with rural areas. It can be easily integrated with ...

With an introduction by Robert PlantAgainst an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the ...