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  • The Demographic Transition and Development in Africa

    The Unique Case of Ethiopia

    Edited by Charles Teller, Assefa Hailemariam ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    "The heated Malthusian-Bosrupian debates still rage over consequences of high population growth, rapid urbanization, dense rural populations and young age structures in the face of drought, poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, climate change, instability and the global economic crisis. However, while facile generalizations about the lack of demographic change and lack of progress ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    Reflections on a Multicultural Society

    by Arthur Meier Schlesinger ...
    The bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality are submerged in democracy — is being replaced by ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Malthus

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald Winch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus's ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Century and Some Change

    My Life Before the President Called My Name

    by Ann Nixon Cooper ...
    President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, singling her out of millions of voters, he said, because she was “born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons—because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.”Energized by this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity

    by David Chapman ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan’s Korean population (zainichi).Despite zainichi Korean existence being integral to, and interwoven with, recent ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R

    by Frans Willekens ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to multistate event history analysis. It is an extension of survival analysis, in which a single terminal event (endpoint) is considered and the time-to-event is studied. Multistate models focus on life histories or trajectories, conceptualized as sequences of states and sequences of transitions between states. Life histories are modeled as realizations of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Linking Sustainable Livelihoods to Natural Resources and Governance

    The Scale of Poverty in the Muslim World

    by Abdul-Mumin Abdulai, Elmira Shamshiry ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the current level and trend of poverty in the Muslim World, including selected countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific and South America. Authors explore themes of poverty reduction, poverty alleviation and the extent of influences on social and economic development, particularly natural resource endowments (especially mineral resources) ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Progress in Urban Geography (Routledge Revivals)

    by Michael Pacione ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    A substantial proportion of the world’s population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged as a major focus for research. This edited collection, first published in 1983, is concerned with the effects on the city of a wide range of economic, social and political processes, including pollution, housing, health and finance. With a detailed introduction ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Preterm Birth in the United States

    A Sociocultural Approach

    by Janet M. Bronstein ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This first-of-its-kind volume addresses the myriad of issues relating to—and reviews the plethora of responses to--premature births in the United States, both in national context and compared with other countries. In addition to current clinical data, it examines how preterm births in the U.S. fit in with larger social concerns regarding poverty, racial disparities, reproductive rights, gender ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Hope of the Country with a Large Population

    Theories and Practices of China's Population Transformation

    by Xueyuan Tian ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    China has the largest population in the world. However, according to the United Nations, India and China are expected to simultaneously reach a population of approximately 1.38 billion by 2030, with India taking a slight lead. China will be all too happy to surrender its position as the country with the largest population. Where does this attitude come from? For China, this situation is symbolic ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century

    A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by José Angel Hernández ...
    This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Social Demography of South Africa

    Advances and Emerging Issues

    Edited by Clifford O. Odimegwu, John Kekovole ...
    This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country. Contributors offer a compilation of in-depth analytical studies of substantive, technical and contemporary issues in the South African demographic landscape. Accessible and topical, it is a useful reference guide to those working in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD