In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health....
Rural conditions
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Author:Foster, Karen R.Summary: -
Author:Hallström, Lars K., Beckie, Mary A., Hvenegaard, Glen T., Mündel, Karsten, Alexander, Donald, Baccar, Kirstine, Barr, Michael, Calder, Moira, Carter, Meredith, Chan, Yolande, Connelly, Sean, Corbett, Jonathan, Davis, Anthony, Dixon, Jeffrey, Douglas, David, Epp, Roger, Green, Kelly, Halseth, Greg, Hamilton, Casey, Houle, Karen, Irvine, Melanie, Jones, Bernie, Keenan, Robert, Koster, Rhonda, Lane, Ryan, Markey, Sean, McMann, Shelly, McMillan, Leslie, Moffitt, Morgan, Morrison, Karen, Mündel, Karsten, Pollett, Craig, Prosper, Kerry, Roseland, Mark, Ryser, Laura, Sanders, Claire, Sumner, Jennifer, Vodden, Kelly, von der Gonna, Marc, Wright, ShayneSummary:Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to...
- Author:Bernstein, SarahSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023. For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed...
- Author:Lincoln, ChristineSummary:
Through 12 expressive and haunting short stories, Lincoln explores the lives of an African American community in the South. Each of the families survives loss and disappointment, and through growth and change discovers its place in...
- Author:Giffen, P. J.Summary:
At the close of WW II, politicians throughout western Canada were concerned about how small prairie towns would adapt to the new technologies and society of the post-war era. In Manitoba, Premier Stuart Garson appointed a Royal...
- Author:Little, J.I.Summary:
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of Henry Trentare not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and literary scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly...
- Author:Caldwell, Wayne J., Caldwell, Wayne, Ferguson, Erica, Lapierre-Fortin, Emanuel, Ball, Jennifer, Reid, Suzanne, Kraehling, Paul, Marr, Eric, Devlin, John, White, Chris, McQuail, Tony, Graves, Margaret, Deen, Bill, Martin, Ralph, Bryant, ChristopherSummary:
Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the...
- Author:Wigmore, GillianSummary:
Three poetic novellas centred around the author's background of growing up as the child of a veterinarian.Full of humour and compassion, Night Watchcollects three novellas that explore the lives of rural veterinarians. Wigmore's vets...
- Author:Eaton, Emily, Zink, ValerieSummary:
Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006–2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Author:Zink, Valerie, Eaton, EmilySummary:Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006-2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Author:Westover, TaraSummary:Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance...
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year" An Oprah's Book Club Selection An Instant New York Times Bestseller An Instant Wall Street Journal...
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This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and nature of contemporary cultural and religious discrimination in rural Canadian communities, the editors and...
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Author:Furey, HubertSummary:Stories, Tall Tales, and Truths of Newfoundland and Labrador
In this diverse collection of stories, Hubert Furey transports the reader back in time to an outport culture in which he lived and which has long since disappeared. It...
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Author:Hennel, LeahSummary:A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta. Growing up in the city, Leah Hennel would spend summers with her cousins on a...
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Author:Doucette, DavidSummary:At 46, Miles Hann gives it all up for the little cottage he has built on the slopes of his native Ingonish, Cape Breton. Miles has five times circumnavigated the globe and in his years of wandering has grown weary of man’s work of...
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Author:Macdonald, FrankSummary:A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum and his aging friends illuminate for us...
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Author:Bruneau, CarolSummary:It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together-though they have little idea how to create such a life. Enman brings Una...
