George h. axinn (2 resultados)

Condición: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed with light soiling to the rear wrap. There is an owner's name penned on the front wrap with a small stain to its lower half & a tear to its top edge. Half-title, title, [2] leaves & 194 pages. There is an owner's stamp & price stamp on the half-title. The publisher's American address has been corrected in green ink on the verso of the title & there are a few pencil markings to the last leaf of the text. There is a paper-clip mark to the top edge of 2 leaves & the bottom corner of the rear endpaper is lightly creased. Illustrated with black-and-white diagrams. Very good. Scarce.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. Ex-Libris; B&W Illustrations; 6 3/4 x 9 3/4; 194 pages; Soft cover has white spine. Covers have some light sunning, rubbing, scuffing, bumping. A blind stamp on title page of the previous owner. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with some b/w diagrams. "If the path to a better rural life is to be a changepreferred by the rural people involved, recent world experience wouldsuggest that it must be a change born from within the given ruralsocial system, be controlled by its beneficiaries, and be integratedinto the larger system of which it is a part. Such a perspective andsuch a process might be labeled "rural renaissance", for asperspective, it gives priority to the view of the farming family, andas process, it draws initiative and energy from that same family. Rural renaissance, then, may be defined as the marriage betweentraditional patterns (values, norms, technologies, and behavior) andthose innovative patterns which result in the birth of change.".…