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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone. “It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg...

This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the "rural voter"—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns. Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged and how it has roiled American politics. They show how perceptions of economic and social change, racial anxieties, and a traditional way of life under assault have converged into a belief in rural uniqueness and separateness.

Las vivencias recogidas en este tercer volumen de la serie iniciada con Entre limones y El loro en el limonero -que no sólo cosecharon un enorme éxito en España, sino que también suman más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos en Reino Unido- reflejan el particular talante de una persona con una incorregible tendencia a actuar movida por cierta visión idealista de las cosas.

Cent anys d'ofici, determinació i resiliència. Una crida a preservar el coneixement i les tradicions de les muntanyes. A Bruguera, un petit poble al peu del Taga, hi viu la pastora més vella de Catalunya. Amb quasi cent anys, la Marina Vilalta segueix exercint un ofici que estima però que té un futur incert. Un ofici sacrificat que requereix dedicació i paciència i que està íntimament lligat a la terra.

Der Pulitzer-Preis-Finalist und National Book Critics Circle Award-Preisträger von Newjack führt durch ein wildes Amerika abseits des Zivilisation, wo es neben Unabhängigkeit und atemberaubenden Aussichten auch heftige Winde, Nachbarn mit krimineller Vergangenheit und minimale staatliche und medizinische Versorgung gibt.

In Great Leaps, Colin Flahive explores China's rural-urban migration against the backdrop of his own transition from Colorado to southwest China. There he partnered with three friends to open a café that became much more than simply an outpost of Western cuisine in a far-flung corner of the world. Over the course of a decade, Salvador's Coffee House became home to more than 50 young women from mountain villages in the surrounding countryside. Most knew nothing about coffee or Western food, but they moved to the city to work at Salvador's and earn their independence.

A Sometimes Paradise is a moving personal journey into the rugged beauty and hardscrabble challenges of Wyoming ranch life that shaped Mark Miller as a boy and then as a young man. Against the backdrop of deadly ice storms and punishing droughts in a harsh, unforgiving environment, Mark shares stories of adventures, misadventures, and invaluable lessons he learned along the way. As he adapted to the rugged Wyoming terrain, he forged an unbreakable connection with the land and animals—and discovered the true power of family and friendship.

‘A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside’ Sunday Times 'Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground is the brilliant result' Daily Telegraph 'Very funny. Acutely observed. An attempt to look...

A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.

El relat captivador de la vida a Buda, la primera illa d’Europa que desapareixerà engolida pel mar a conseqüència del canvi climàtic. Tan a prop i alhora tan lluny del nostre imaginari i de les nostres preocupacions. Fins que un dia, més aviat del que ens pensem, desapareixerà per sempre. Així és l’illa de Buda, una extensió de terra a la desembocadura de l’Ebre, a la punta del delta, que serà la primera illa d’Europa engolida pel mar. L’escriptor Gabi Martínez s’hi ha instal·lat durant tot un any per conèixer la realitat al delta de l’Ebre.

In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses listeners into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities.

The suburbs have become too liberal and diverse for many white American conservatives, so "exurbia"—areas outside the cities and their suburbs—are becoming the staging ground for the radical right extremist insurgency . . .

Its Faulkner meets Foxworthy! Jay McBride's portrayal of the hilarious antics and schemes of those surviving in the underbelly of southern culture not only ring true, but also reveal deep respect for a survival tool that transcends everything material: an active and ongoing sense of humor.

La desmovilización supondría una inserción grata a la normalidad, pero en la realidad esos posdesarmes del bastión grueso de unos y otros son la prueba del caos Estado-sociedad. Los crímenes cometidos contra la población tienen vivo el recuerdo de sus muertos y victimarios que, en la...

"Hay dos horizontes contrapuestos: el campesino, modesto en la escala, limitado en la acumulación de capital, pero estable desde el punto de vista social, y el minero empresarial, ambicioso, devastador y respaldado incondicionalmente por el gobierno. Es hora de mirar con detenimiento las...

Il libro che ha rivelato al mondo l'anima profonda dell'America. I nonni di J.D. sono sporchi, poveri e innamorati quando emigrano giovanissimi dalle regioni dei monti Appalachi verso l’Ohio nella speranza di una vita migliore. Ma quel sogno di benessere e riscatto è solo sfiorato, perché prima di diventare uomo il loro nipote lotterà a lungo con la miseria e la violenza domestica: una madre tossicodipendente, patrigni nullafacenti che si susseguono uno dopo l’altro, vicini di casa alcolisti capaci solamente di sopravvivere con i sussidi e lamentarsi del governo.