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  • China Fights for the World

    by J. Gunnar Andersson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1939, is an account of J. Gunnar Andersson’s travels in China from 1914 to 1927 while he was serving as a mining advisor to the Chinese government. Andersson discusses China’s political and economic situation at the time, including the fight for unity, and the future of the region. This book will be of interest to students of history and Asian Studies. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Lumbar Spine Syndromes

    Evaluation and Treatment

    by Gunnar B.J. Andersson, Thomas W. McNeill ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The question facing anyone contemplating a book on low back pain is : Why write another book? It is certainly true that there are many books on this topic addressing a wide variety of audiences. Some books are all inclusive and scholarly in nature, others are personal descriptions of diagnostic and treat ment philosophies. This book is a combination of these two extremes. It represents our views ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Industrial Structure of American Cities

    by Gunnar Alexandersson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography
    This book analyzes the distribution of the urban population in an industrialized country. The USA was chosen as the object of the study because it had, at the time of writing, in 1956, the largest population for which homogeneous and comparable statistics were available. The first step in the quantitative analysis of population distribution, according to the method suggested here, is the breaking ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Demography of Europe

    Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, Christoph Bühler ...
    Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Nature's Metropolis

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  • An Empire of Wealth

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