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Reimagining Rural

Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

by Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas, Leanne M. Avery, Karl A. Jicha, Brian M. Lowe, Pilar Erin McKay, John W. Sipple, Barbara Ching, Karen E. Hayden0 ...

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Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

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