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Healthy Longevity in China
By: Zeng, Yi (ed.); Poston, Dudley L. (ed.); Vlosky, Denese Ashbaugh (ed.); Gu, Danan (ed.)
Published by: Springer
China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this unprecedented living experience of human being and the unique Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) datasets with the aim to answer in this volume the following questions critical to the aging population world wide. Is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? Is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? The first section of the book presents the CLHLS project's study design, sample distribution, contents of data collected, and assessments of age reporting and data quality. The remaining chapters are grouped into sections dealing with the demographic, social, economic, familial and psychological dimensions of healthy longevity. This volume contributes to the development of scientific knowledge related to the ?slowing down? of the pace of progression of morbidity with mortality declines at older ages. Research findings reported in this book are instrumental in the ultimate realization of the long-term dream of healthy longevity, that is, not only living longer, but living a healthier life.
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Price: $189.00
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History of Settlement in Ireland
By: Barry, Terry
Published by: Routledge
This book aims to provide a stimulating overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to modern times. The contributors analyze issues such as settlement change and distribution within the environment.
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Price: $120.00
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Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population
By: Robine, Jean-Marie (ed.); Crimmins, Eileen M. (ed.); Horiuchi, Shiro (ed.)
Published by: Springer
Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics.
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Price: $199.00
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Human Population Dynamics
By: Macbeth, Helen; Collinson, Paul; Panter-Brick, Catherine
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Human Population Dynamics is an introductory text demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As such, it contains contributions from specialists in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecology and human geography. This text is aimed at academic researchers, graduates and undergraduates.
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Price: $48.00
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In the Break
By: Moten, Fred
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Fred Moten investigates the provocative connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics. He focuses in particular on the brilliant improvisatory jazz of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, and others, arguing that all black performance—culture, politics, sexuality, identity, and blackness itself—is improvisation.
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Price: $67.50
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Increase and Multiply
By: Glimp, David
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people. This need, in turn, called for a variety of institutions to train—and thus make, through a kind of nonbiological procreation—pious, enterprising, and dutiful subjects. In Increase and Multiply, David Glimp examines previously unexplored links between this emergent demographic mentality and Renaissance literature.
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Price: $72.00
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Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies
By: Smith, Melanie K.
Published by: Routledge
Examines the phenomenon of cultural tourism in its broadest sense, combining a rigorous and academic theoretical framework with practical case-studies and real-life examples, drawn from both the developed and developing world.
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Price: $49.95
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Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies
By: Ashcroft, Bill; Griffiths, Gareth; Tiffin, Helen
Published by: Routledge
This volume provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterise post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. In the language of post-colonial studies, some words are new, others are familiar words charged with new significance.
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Price: $19.95
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Landscapes of Settlement
By: Roberts, Brian
Published by: Routledge
A comprehensive analysis of the history and devel- opment of rural settlement in both the developed and developing worlds. Complete with detailed case studies and fully illustrated, this is essential reading for all geographers and archaeologists.
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Price: $59.95
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Liberal Eugenics
By: Agar, Nicholas
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children’s characteristics.:.; Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New World’ or a return to the fascist eugenics of the past.; Written from a philosophically and scientifically informed point of view.; Considers real contemporary cases of parents choosing what kind of child to have.; Uses ‘moral images’ as a way to get readers with no background in philosophy to think about moral dilemmas.; Provides an authoritative account of the science involved, making the book suitable for readers with no knowledge of genetics.; Creates a moral framework for assessing all new technologies.
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Price: $69.95
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