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  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    by Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s essential ... Read more

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    Population and Environment in Australia

    by Tim Flannery ...
    Series Book 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Read more

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  • Ten Billion

    by Stephen Emmott ...
    Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us.As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare.Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront ... Read more

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  • Unified Growth Theory

    by Oded Galor ...
    For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The ... Read more

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  • Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

    by Nathan D. Grawe ...
    The decisions we make in the next five years are critical in determining whether colleges thrive or flounder.2017 National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Award for Outstanding AACRAO SEM Research PresentationHigher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • You Had to Be There

    by Robert Collins ...
    They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation is likely to regain. They are proudly “old ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Demography of Roman Italy

    Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Society 201 BCE–14 CE

    by Saskia Hin ...
    This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic, climatic and social conditions in a period of intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the ... Read more

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  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

    Rereading the Principle of Population

    by Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Read more

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  • Social Sequence Analysis

    Methods and Applications

    by Benjamin Cornwell ...
    Series Book 37 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions, trajectories and other ordered phenomena. Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time scale and can be used in many different fields, including sociology, communication, information ... Read more

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  • Demographic and Socioeconomic Basis of Ethnolinguistics

    by Jacob S. Siegel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer’s perspective. It synthesizes the data on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this area into a coherent whole. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in addition to demography and sociolinguistics, including sociology, ... Read more

    $89.99 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

    $89.99 USD