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Experience and Representation
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Experience and Representation brings together influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the analysis of migration, race and contemporary Australian culture and politics. As such, it will be of interest not only to scholars of migration, but also those working in the field of cultural studies, social theory and media. more...
Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00First published in 1972, this reissue deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world. Written by a world-renowned demographer and family planning specialist, the book deals specifically with the Indian experience. Reviewing population change in India over the last... more...
Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 27.00This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. more...
Demography
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 46.00Demography is the study by statistical methods of human populants involving the measurement of their size, growth and diminution. more...
Population, Gender and Politics
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 44.00This is a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, that asks why fertility levels are higher among the Muslim Sheikhs than the Hindu Jats. more...
Situating Fertility
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00A collection of essays outlining new anthropological approaches to the issue of fertility. more...
The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour... more...
Tibetan Transitions
BRILL 2008; US$ 147.00Tibetan Transitions uses the dual lenses of anthropology and demography to analyze population regulating mechanisms in traditional Tibetan societies, and to link recent fertility transitions with family systems, economic strategies, gender equity, and family planning ideologies. more...
Population Matters
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 59.99The effect of demography on economic performance has been the subject of intense debate in economics for nearly two centuries. In recent years opinion has swung between the Malthusian views of Coale and Hoover, and the cornucopian views of Julian Simon. Unfortunately, until recently, data were too weak and analytical models too limited to provide clear... more...
The Population of Singapore
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2007; US$ 49.90The second edition of this book presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of population trends and patterns in Singapore since its foundation in 1819 to the present day. Separate chapters are devoted to population growth and distribution, changing population structure, mortality trends and differentials, marriage trends and patterns,... more...









