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Demography

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  • Unnatural Selectionby Mara Hvistendahl

    PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 15.99

    A shocking exposé of the causes of Asia's massive gender imbalance and its consequences across the globe more...

  • Elephants In the Volkswagenby Lindsey Grant

    Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 7.99

    In the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far? How can an optimum population be identified and achieved, and how can we confront the problems now facing our overcrowded country? The Negative Population Growth group put these questions to specialists on the environment, food and energy... more...

  • World Population Shiftsby Kevin F. McCarthy

    RAND Corporation 2000; US$ 9.95

    This presentation examines population shifts in different parts of the world, their effects on the flow of people across borders, and potential responses by the developed world to growing immigration pressures. more...

  • Handbook of Populationby Dudley L. Poston; Michael Micklin

    Springer 2006; US$ 84.99

    Provides an overview of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. This work contains chapters on population size and growth, age and sex composition, marriage and family structure, and demographic analyses of gender, aging, race and ethnicity, and the labor force. more...

  • Multilevel Synthesisby Daniel Courgeau

    Springer 2007; US$ 139.99

    Presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins onwards, and uses it to demonstrate how the multilevel approach can resolve some of the contradictions that have become apparent and achieve a synthesis of the different approaches employed. more...

  • Education and Postponement of Maternityby Siv Gustafsson; Adriaan Kalwij

    Springer 2006; US$ 199.99

    Examines various economic aspects of the role of women's education in the postponement of maternity in ten industrialized countries. This book investigates one of these countries in each of its chapters using individual/household survey data, particularly focusing on the increasing age at motherhood with the investment in education of the mother. more...

  • Death at the opposite ends of Eurasian continentby Theo Engelen; John R. Shephard; Yang Wen-shan

    Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 42.50

    Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representatives of the West-European and Chinese mortality... more...

  • Searching for Whitopiaby Rich Benjamin

    Hyperion 2009; US$ 18.99

    Between 2007 and 2009, Rich Benjamin, a journalist-adventurer, packed his bags and embarked on a 26,909-mile journey throughout the heart of white America, to some of the fastest-growing and whitest locales in our nation. By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority. As immigrant populations--largely people of color--increase in cities... more...

  • Transition and Challengeby Zhongwei Zhao; Fei Guo

    OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 124.99

    With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. Extraordinary demographic changes took place in China in the second half of the twentieth century having wide-ranging consequences. This book, written by a group of leading experts, examines these profound changes... more...

  • Population, Family and Society in Pre-Modern Japanby Akira Hayami

    BRILL 2010; US$ 121.00

    This collection of Akira Hayami?s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. It contains twenty key essays in five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. more...