Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08686
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Pages 43-66 in William Ascher and John M. Heffron (eds.), Cultural change and persistence: new perspectives on development. Palgrave McMillan, New YorkCity, New York. 263 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00153
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AgComm Teaching. Hal R. Taylor Collection., Ithaca, NY : Agricultural Experiment Station, Dept. of Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca. 8 p. (Rural Sociology Publication 22)
USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
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Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
This printed item features only the Introduction and Part 1 of the article. Entire article is available via UI on-line subscription., Author argues that within the United States small-scale, alternative agriculture is a possible "middle ground" between nature and culture, wilderness and city, increasing the social and ecological connectivity of heterogeneous urban, suburban and rural patches within the landscape matrix.
USA: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, New York.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02153
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205 pages., Examines the contradictory cultural forces and value systems of rural and industrial communications. Offers a prospective model at the intersections between agriculture and professional communication in the form of a hybrid communication, "documents of coordination," designed to "go between minds, creating meanings and accommodating novelties to existing sets of beliefs and social institutions." Uses an extension project as a case analysis.
