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Arctic Village
Author: Robert Marshall
Publisher: Classic Reprint Series
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780912006512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic is an original work of literature by one of America's foremost conservationists and is an account of the people of the north, both Native and white, who give Alaska its special human flavor. First published over fifty years ago, the book is still a favorite among old-time Alaskans and, over the years, has prompted numerous readers to pack up and move to Alaska. The richness of statistical coverage in this book, and Marshall's careful descriptions of the characters he met, provide readers with a window to the world of 1930 and a nearly complete record of the Koyukuk civilization as he saw it. Readers learn what the people of Wiseman thought about sex, religion, politics, and the myriad of ways they found to cope with and enjoy life in a wilderness community.
Shinohata
Author: Ronald Dore
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0307831930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Not many foreigners have the chance to live in a Japanese village, certainly not foreigners who are sufficiently at home to do so as unobtrusively and intimately as the author of this book. Ronald Dore went to Shinohata twenty years ago when he was studying the land reform which broke the power of Japan's landlords. He went back many times thereafter to stay with friends. Now he has distilled his memories, field notes, diaries, and some recent forays with a tape recorder into a book which brings to life the village and its people, and vividly portrays the stunning transformation of Japanese village life. Shinohatais a story of extraordinary change from the traditional values and relationships to typically modern pursuits and aspirations that accompanied the post-war prosperity. Ronald Dore's gift for combining a sympathetic, and often humorous, response to unique individuals with the sociologist's ability to discern and analyze patterns make this an unusual and fascinating book.
Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village
Author: Juliet Du Boulay
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789607120052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Photographs by Dimitri. This book distills the authors experience, as a young traveler and later an anthropologist, of a way of life which, although seen here in a Greek context, was in its essentials once common throughout the world. Simple archetypal houses, terraced fields and plunging forests, the love of land and family, and a continual drama of jokes and quarrels formed the texture of Greek village life for centuries until the changes of the last decades.
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Bolton-le-Sands
Author: Barry Guise
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781874181965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This attractive book tells the fascinating story of Bolton-le-Sands in a unique and very human way. Using a variety of illustration, including postcards sent from the village by both locals and visitors.
It Takes a Village
Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1471108643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.
Magomero
Author: Landeg White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-09-14
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521389099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history.
Un Paese
Author: Cesare Zavattini
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interviews with villagers and descriptions of daily life accompany photographs of the people and town of Luzzara.
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