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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s

Otto Friedrich

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Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

Brian Brett

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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Wendell Berry

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Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Noel Perrin

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Rural Wisdom: Time-Honored Values of the Midwest (Rural Life)

Jerry Apps

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Rural Planning and Development in the United States

Mark B. Lapping

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Rural Sociology in Canada

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Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities (Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.).)

Michele M. Hoyman

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Rural Gays and Lesbians: Building on the Strengths of Communities

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The Changing American Countryside: Rural People and Places

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

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Foxfire 2

Eliot Wigginton

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Five Acres and Independence

Maurice Grenville Kains

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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

Heather Lende

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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

Kristin Kimball

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The Illustrated Lark Rise to Candleford

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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Mildred Armstrong Kalish

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The Egg and I

Betty MacDonald

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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

Thomas J. Sugrue

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Diffusion of Innovations

Everett M. Rogers

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First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Noel Perrin

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Home Below Hell's Canyon

Grace Jordan

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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

Elliot Liebow

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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm

David Mas Masumoto

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Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West

Betty Henshaw

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All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family

Mary Clearman Blew

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Violence Through Environmental Discrimination: Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model

Gunther Baechler

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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Laurie Kaye Abraham

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Japanese Urban System

Y. Murayama

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Foxfire 10

George P. Reynolds

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From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texas

John Graves

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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

John Berger

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Measure of the Year

Roderick L. Haig-Brown

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Living More With Less

Doris Janzen Longacre

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The Crofter and the Laird

John McPhee

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The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

Henry Beston

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Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure

Jon Katz

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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

Helena Norberg-Hodge

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Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon

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Stillmeadow Daybook

Gladys Taber

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The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family, and the Land (Foxfire)

Angie Cheek

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On the Wild Edge: In Search of a Natural Life

David Petersen

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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Wendell Berry

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This Old Farm: A Treasury of Family Farm Memories

Michael Dregni

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Stillmeadow Sampler

Gladys Taber

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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America

Stephen G. Bloom

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The River Cottage Cookbook

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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Judgment Ridge

Mitchell Zuckoff

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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor

Sudhir Venkatesh

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One-Room Country Schools: History and Recollections

Jerry Apps

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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City

Mike Davis

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At Home in the Heart of Appalachia

John O'Brien

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Peter Moskos

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One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It

Bradford Angier

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Becoming Native to This Place

Wes Jackson

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Amish Society

John A. Hostetler

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Creeker: A Woman's Journey (Women in Southern Culture, 1)

Linda Scott Derosier

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A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

Stanley Crawford

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Stillmeadow Calendar

Gladys Taber

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Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Robert Korstad

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Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan

Junichi Saga

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The Cowboy at Work: All About His Job and How He Does It

Fay E. Ward

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Dead Cities: And Other Tales

Mike Davis

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Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America (Beacon paperback 400)

Patrick J. Carr

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Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Karl Jacoby

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Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

Elijah Anderson

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How to Be a Cowboy

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Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer

Richard Rhodes

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The Witness of Combines

Kent Meyers

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The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

James C. Scott

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The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream

Peter Calthorpe

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Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village

William Hinton

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Nothing to Tell: Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women

Donna Gray

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Arnold R. Hirsch

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عمارة الفقراء

Hassan Fathy

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ABC of Poultry Raising

J.H. Florea

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On This Hilltop

Sue Hubbell

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Life in a Medieval Village

Frances Gies

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Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook

David Werner

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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children

Gloria Ladson-Billings

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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Joe Bageant

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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Nick Reding

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Contemporary Urban Planning

John M. Levy

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The Complete Modern Blacksmith

Alexander G. Weygers

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Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Duane Elgin

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Loving and Leaving the Good Life

Helen Nearing

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The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)

Gene Logsdon

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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

William Hinton

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Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait

Arie Carpenter

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The Country Diary Birthday Book

Edith Holden

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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Ronald Blythe

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Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

Elizabeth Royte

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The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi

Richard B. Lee

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Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass

Gary Paulsen

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Another Turn of the Crank: Essays

Wendell Berry

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Sociology

Appalachia

John Alexander Williams

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Rural Communities: Legacy and Change

Jan L. Flora

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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo

Saskia Sassen

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Broken Earth

Steven W. Mosher

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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place

Harvey L. Molotch

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Readings in Planning Theory (Studies in Urban & Social Change)

Dave Campbell

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Place Matters: Metropolitics For The Twenty-First Century (Studies in Government and Public Policy)

John H. Mollenkopf

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Chen Village under Mao and Deng, Expanded and Updated edition

Anita Chan

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Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

Peter Medoff

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Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World

Scott Russell Sanders

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The New Urban Sociology

Mark Gottdiener

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Celebration U.S.A : Living In Disney's Brave New Town

Douglas Frantz

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Vermont People

Peter Miller

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The Moral Basis of a Backward Society

Banfield

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Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets Of The Amish Farm

Randy James

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Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982

Valerie J. Matsumoto

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Lord and Peasant in Russia

Jerome Blum

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Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)

Wayne Flynt

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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan

Margery Wolf

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Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Noel Perrin

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Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans

Herbert J. Gans

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On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm

Michael Ableman

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Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People

Paul Born

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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

Colin Gordon

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Villages of England

Richard Muir

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Urban Problems and Community Development

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The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators

Charles Landry

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Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

Setha M. Low

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A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda

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Still Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (Revised) (James A. Johnson Metro)

Anthony Downs

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From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

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The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

Matthew D. Lassiter

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For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities

AbdouMaliq Simone

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Key Concepts in Urban Studies (SAGE Key Concepts series)

Panu Lehtovuori

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Down the Asphalt Path

Clay McShane

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City Lights: Urban-Suburban Life in the Global Society

E. Barbara Phillips

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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened

Elizabeth Ewen

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Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform

Frederick M. Hess

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The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999

Ray Suarez

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New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities

Janet L. Abu-Lughod

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The list of books focuses on various aspects of rural life, including sociological studies, memoirs, historical accounts, and practical guides. Many of the books examine the traditions and practices of rural communities in different parts of the world, such as Appalachia, Ladakh, and the Kalahari Desert. Other books explore sustainable living, self-sufficient farming practices, and environmental issues related to rural areas. There are also several memoirs that recount personal experiences of leaving city life to live in a rural setting. Overall, the common theme among these books is a celebration of the simplicity and time-honored values that can be found in rural life.

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