Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Farmer's Advocate and Home Journal
Author: Working the Garden
Author: William ConloguePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807826685
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Pastoral literature is examined in light of the agricultural and industrial changes in American economics during the turn of the century, as small family farms in the latter half of the nineteenth century evolved into larger agribusiness conglomerates.
How To Use Wind Power to Light and Heat Your Home (and Who's Already Doing It)
Author: Claire O'NealPublisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1612282407
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Go outside on a gusty day and you'll feel the wild force of the wind. For at least a thousand years, people have sought to harness its power. We've used sails to push boats to new distances, and windmills to pump water or grind corn. Today, we're using the wind to create electricity. In our polluted, energy-hungry world, wind power comes forward as a clean, green, renewable answer. In 2008, the United States became the world's top producer of wind energy, and China doubled its wind power capacity. The real beauty of wind, however, is that you don't have to wait for the power company to install a wind farm near you. Concerned citizens all over the world are looking to be part of the new energy solution, installing their own personal wind turbines in their backyards or even on their roofs. Can your family join them and harness the power of the wind?
Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: The migrant subculture
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory LaborPublisher:
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Farm Journal
Author: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory LaborPublisher:
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Category : Migrant agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Sufficient Living
Author: Jerome D. BelangerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101152044
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
How to be green, save green, grow greens-even turn a thumb green Self-sufficient living can mean a healthier life, a way to protect the earth, or a way to save money. This guide helps readers find their perfect degree of self reliance in the areas of food, shelter, energy, clothing, and more. For both the urban and rural dweller, it covers gardening, cooking from scratch, preserving food, raising livestock, keeping chickens, generating or supplementing energy, essential tools and equipment, foraging for wild foods, hunting, fishing, and trapping. • Saving money in today's economy and self-sufficiency go hand-in-hand • For the growing number of eco-friends considering self-sufficiency • Existing books focus on either rural or urban self-sufficiency, but this covers both
Farmstead, Stock and Home
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
The Amish
Author: Donald B. KraybillPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait of Amish life, The Amish explores not only the emerging diversity and evolving identities within this distinctive American ethnic community, but also its transformation and geographic expansion. Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt spent twenty-five years researching Amish history, religion, and culture. Drawing on archival material, direct observations, and oral history, the authors provide an authoritative and sensitive understanding of Amish society. Amish people do not evangelize, yet their numbers in North America have grown from a small community of some 6,000 people in the early 1900s to a thriving population of more than 320,000 today. The largest populations are found in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, with additional communities in twenty-eight other states and three Canadian provinces. The authors argue that the intensely private and insular Amish have devised creative ways to negotiate with modernity that have enabled them to thrive in America. The transformation of the Amish in the American imagination from “backward bumpkins” to media icons poses provocative questions. What does the Amish story reveal about the American character, popular culture, and mainstream values? Richly illustrated, The Amish is the definitive portrayal of the Amish in America in the twenty-first century.