{"title":"Rural communities \/ rural life Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"drowned-lives-9780751576283","title":"Drowned Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen Booth''s incredible new novel is awash with mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on the Chris''s doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals that he''ll realise was better kept buried.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter''\u003cbr\u003eVal McDermid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A modern master''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Crime writing of the finest quality''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric''\u003cbr\u003eReginald Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A first-rate mystery''\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClever, beautifully written and superbly plotted, this is \u003cb\u003ean entertaining page-turner with a compelling twist\u003c\/b\u003e in the tail. * Lancashire Evening Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brooding presence of Kinder Scout, the highest point in the Peak District, hangs over \u003cb\u003eStephen Booth's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003efine novel \u003ci\u003eFall down Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe historical details add \u003cb\u003efascinating \u003c\/b\u003edepth to this big fat mystery * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eStephen Booth (of the Cooper \u0026amp; Fry police series) has written \u003cb\u003ea crackerjack standalone \u003c\/b\u003enovel in \u003ci\u003eDrowned Lives\u003c\/i\u003e * Winnipeg Free Press *\u003cbr\u003eThe Peak District setting is as striking as ever . . . the ever-present threat of violence \u003cb\u003ewill get under your skin\u003c\/b\u003e. * Real Crime *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe master\u003c\/b\u003e of this territory * Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an \u003cb\u003eenjoyable, very readable\u003c\/b\u003e yet understated crime novel by an accomplished author. * Crime Fiction Lover *\u003cbr\u003eThe highest of the Derbyshire peaks is the \u003cb\u003edramatic \u003c\/b\u003esetting . . . \u003cb\u003eGripping\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe underlying mystery and the moments of high drama place the novel firmly in the crime genre, but the mix of ingredients adds up to far more. \u003ci\u003eDrowned Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eStephen Booth at the top of his game\u003c\/b\u003e * Mystery People *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003einteresting and absorbing\u003c\/b\u003e personal read that I enjoyed as a fan of Booth's many other crime thrillers. 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James Rebanks writes with his heart, and his heart is in the right place. We should listen to him.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jamie Blackett * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarvellous and moving\u003c\/b\u003e -- Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of Narrow Road to the Deep North\u003cbr\u003eIt moved me to tears, made me feel \u003cb\u003eexcited \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eoptimistic\u003c\/b\u003e, and said, so eloquently and succinctly, all the things I've been thinking and feeling ... It is not just a beautiful book to read, but so \u003cb\u003eimportant \u003c\/b\u003eand so \u003cb\u003etimely\u003c\/b\u003e. A wonderful, thought-provoking, \u003cb\u003eheartlifting \u003c\/b\u003eread. -- Kate Humble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRapturous ... For Rebanks writing and farming have proved complementary: while working long hours on the land he has produced a book in a pastoral tradition that runs from Virgil to Wendell Berry\u003c\/b\u003e -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have never met anyone so roaringly, joyously in context and content as James Rebanks, belting around his farm in the rain ... The story of Rebanks and his family is the story of what farming has been in Britain but, also, the story of what it could become\u003c\/b\u003e -- Caitlin Moran * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfectly judged\u003c\/b\u003e, it made me cry (twice) and left me with a new understanding of agriculture, and a real sense of hope. -- Melissa Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWonderful\u003c\/b\u003e ... 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A valuable work of literature and historical set piece, this collection\u003cb\u003e vividly captures the fabric of a kind of all-American life\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendell Berry writes with a good husbandman's care and economy\u003c\/b\u003e . . . His stories are \u003cb\u003efilled with gentle humor\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is the most complete-and the most powerful-vision of any American writer in my time.\u003c\/b\u003e The stories of the Port William Membership are a delight, a goad, and a testament less to what was than to what could be. \u003cb\u003eThey will leave no reader unmoved and unchanged\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bill McKibben\u003cbr\u003eWendell Berry gives us \u003cb\u003ean intimate portrayal of the mind and heart of rural America\u003c\/b\u003e. His graceful prose is \u003cb\u003etruthful and eloquent\u003c\/b\u003e. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain, sober and serious-all this and at times he is so funny you have to stop and roll on the floor -- Bobbie Ann Mason\u003cbr\u003e[Berry's] essays, poetry and fiction have fertilized a crop of great solace in my life, and helped to breed a healthy flock of good manners, to boot. As I travel this unlikely road of opportunity, as a woodworker and writer, sure, but most often as a jackass,\u003cb\u003e I have his writings upon which to fix my mind and my heart, to keep my life's errant wagon between the ditches\u003c\/b\u003e, as it were. Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow. -- Nick Offerman, New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe\u003cbr\u003eThe local nature of their canny, comic tonalities [...] might lead browsers to take these Berry stories as merely quaint. That would be a mistake. In fact, \u003cb\u003elike Isaac Bashevis Singer, Berry has been expanding by contraction, husbanding by close focus - \u003c\/b\u003ein Berry's case, on the familiar demesne of Port William, Ky... \u003cb\u003eA  masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e...Berry moves way beyond nostalgia toward an immersion in other lives that expresses itself as a sense of intimate apartness; a willingness to follow his characters, but not necessarily to change them. \u003cb\u003ePoetry nestled inside prose: startlingly and classically moving\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stories express a biblical reverence for life and community, yet they're funny, too, and so beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eThis bewitching book, a collage amounting almost to a novel, formed of 18 short stories linked to each other by people and place, nourishes deep-seated memories of the old country ways...Berry writes with such wisdom and understanding of the Kentucky countryside and its people that it scarcely seems like fiction. 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Readers interested in the future of innovation and prosperity will avail themselves of not only the most cutting-edge research, but also understand how it applies to their own community. Breznitz's provocative arguments against the Silicon Valley model and the Venture Capital Industry caused me to nod my head in agreement as the former Chief Scientist of Israel and wince in pain as an active Venture Capitalist at the same time. This's a tour de force and a must read for policy makers and concerned, but hopeful, citizens. * Avi Hasson, former Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy of the State of Israel *\u003cbr\u003eFinally, a book which is not only a masterful piece of research but is also extremely useful for policy makers. This very well written and superbly research book is a much-needed eye opener for the multiple opportunities that exist in our globalized world. * Victor Sánchez Urrutia, National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation, Panama *\u003cbr\u003eDan Breznitz has written a terrific piece which has influenced my thinking about the varied and multifaceted approaches to innovation that we need dependent on place. * Ro Khanna, Member of Congress *\u003cbr\u003eThe 'problem with startup ecosystems' says Breznitz, 'is the assumption of homogeneity. They think about their whole population as potential founders of new companies.' They need to instead 'realize that people have experience and capacities at all ages, all backgrounds. What a 45-year-old needs to start a real company is completely different from what three 22-year-olds will need.'    This is exactly right-and something that I explore in my own book (if I can get it finished).\" * Dane Stangler, Forbes.com     *\u003cbr\u003eIt's what I think the doctor ordered as an exploration for some of the deep social tensions.\" ~Rob Johnson, president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction  Part I: The State of Innovation Chapter 1: The New Globalization of Innovation Chapter 2: The Silicon Peaches Chapter 3: Startups are Everywhere! (But The Growth Statistics) Chapter 4: Making America Great Again? Part II: Innovation and Prosperity Chapter 5: Four are Better Than One (But First, Let Us Plan It Strategically) Chapter 6: Singing and Designing--Incrementally--Innovation-Based Growth Chapter 7: Out With The Old, In With The New! But in What Ways? 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Conn’s premise is that our enduring image of rural America is in large part illusory, also since most people in America, about 75%, now live in urban areas, he theorizes our perception of rural life gets distorted by idealistic visions which don’t correspond to reality.\" * Dayton Daily News *\u003cbr\u003e“Recent attention to rural America and its manifold ills is long overdue, but our understanding has been impeded by misleading generalizations and outright romanticization. \u003ci\u003eThe Lies of the Land\u003c\/i\u003e cuts through such platitudes and describes our small towns and open spaces in all their complexity—showing us that rural America is inextricably bound to the rest of the country, rather than a realm apart.\" -- Alec MacGillis, author of 'Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon'\u003cbr\u003e“When many imagine the American countryside, they think of quiet porches far from the bustling cities. That is not the world you’ll find in this brilliant book. 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Pearson provides a compelling and deeply personal story of one such place, the sand hills of Wisconsin. Both an ethnography and a study of state and local politics, \u003ci\u003eWhen the Hills Are Gone\u003c\/i\u003e richly describes community divisions and sudden activism in places where disruptive environmental change is ongoing.\"—Paul Robbins, director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For scholars, activists, and students seeking understanding of mining and rural politics in the United States, this book will be essential reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Magic Mineral\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Save Our Hills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Low Hanging Fruit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. 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By doing so, it reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume delivers a careful translation—supplemented with extensive notes and a substantive introduction—to cement Lefebvre’s central contribution to the political economy of rural sociology and geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOn the Rural \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable collection. Lefebvre wrote as a historian, a sociologist, a geographer, a political-economist, and a philosopher. 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