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  • Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime

    A Critical Analysis

    Edited by Alessandro Bonanno, Steven A. Wolf ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to generate a coherent, informed and updated analysis of resistance in agri-food, empirical and theoretical contributions analyze the relationship between expressions of the neoliberal corporate system and various projects of opposition.Contributions ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Main Street

    by Lewis, Sinclair ...
    Main Street is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, offering a searing critique of small-town America and the conformity of middle-class society in the early 20th century. Set in the fictional town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the story follows Carol Milford, a young woman filled with dreams of cultural enlightenment and social reform, who becomes disillusioned with the narrow-mindedness and conservatism ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach

    An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

    by Tomás O'Crohan ...
    Translated by Gary Bannister, David Sowby ...
    This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O'Crohan's autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Country

    Dispatches from the Frack Zone

    by Seamus McGraw ...
    “A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star TribuneSusquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, is a community of stoic, low-income dairy farmers and homesteaders seeking haven from suburban sprawl—and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

    A Book About Noise

    by Garret Keizer ...
    Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Praying for Sheetrock

    A Work of Nonfiction

    by Melissa Fay Greene ...
    A National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book, the true story of a black community standing up to a white, corrupt lawman."An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality." —Coretta Scott KingFrom award-winning author and journalist Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Village Japan

    Everyday Life in a Rural Japanese Community

    by Malcolm Ritchie ...
    In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Joy of Camping

    For Those Who Love the Great Outdoors

    by Phoebe Smith ...
    ‘For as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.’Robert MacfarlaneThis pocket-sized miscellany, packed with tips on equipment, food, surviving bad weather and finding the right campsite, and with facts and stories from the world of camping, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy and adventure of pitching their tent under an open sky. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Hillbilly Hellraisers

    Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks

    by J. Blake Perkins ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural heritage play an exceptional role in the perpetuation of these attitudes? Have such outlooks been continuous?J. Blake Perkins searches for the roots of rural defiance in the Ozarks--and discovers how it changed over time. Eschewing generalities, Perkins ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977)

    Edited by Raphael Samuel ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series
    Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Pembroke

    A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes

    by Dave Baron ...
    Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017With a population of about two thousand, Pembroke Township, one of the largest rural, black communities north of the Mason-Dixon Line, sits in an isolated corner of Kankakee County, Illinois, sixty-five miles south of Chicago. It is also one of the poorest places in the nation. Many black farmers from the South came to this area during the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Culture Gap

    Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley

    by Judith Plant ...
    Series Book 22 - Transmontanus
    This fascinating memoir recounts two years of adventure, hardship, and life lessons as a woman moves her family to the Camelsfoot Commune in BC, Canada.The time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by Fred Brown, their professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near the Yalakom River, deep in Coast Mountains ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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