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Author: Massimo Livi Bacci
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Edition: 4th Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.70cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.30cm
Weight: 0.584kg
ISBN: 9781405146951
ISBN 10: 1405146958
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 November 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
This is one of the best recent texts on population changes: it deserves the widest readership. TEGNews<!--end--> Professor Livi-Bacci is a veritable expert at being able to impart his knowledge to the student community. A Concise History of World Population is noted for its clarity and depth, as Livi-Bacci transfers complicated ideas to the page in cogent and well-defined terms, speaking to his readers in a style that inspires deeper introspection of a subject that will affect them long after they have left the classroom. Recommended a primary text in all courses that study population patterns. The Electric Review An important book for people who are interested in demography and history, and can be used as a valuable reference. Journal of Population Research
This is one of the best recent texts on population changes: it deserves the widest readership. TEGNews<!--end--> Professor Livi-Bacci is a veritable expert at being able to impart his knowledge to the student community. A Concise History of World Population is noted for its clarity and depth, as Livi-Bacci transfers complicated ideas to the page in cogent and well-defined terms, speaking to his readers in a style that inspires deeper introspection of a subject that will affect them long after they have left the classroom. Recommended a primary text in all courses that study population patterns. The Electric Review An important book for people who are interested in demography and history, and can be used as a valuable reference. Journal of Population Research
Author Information
Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. He has been President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on contemporary demography as well as on the history of population, and has taught or held fellowships at universities all over the world, including the College de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University, Providence, RI. His books include Population and Nutrition (1991), The Population of Europe. A History (1999), and Conquista. The Destruction of American Indios (in Italian; 2005).
