Population & demography books

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Studies in Comparative Genocide

Studies in Comparative Genocide

Author: Levon Chorbajian ,  George Shirinian
ISBN: 9780312219338
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Many of the world's leading authorities from history, sociology, political science, and psychology shed new light...  Read More >>

Welfare Reform in California. Executive Summary :

Welfare Reform in California. Executive Summary :

Author: Zellman
ISBN: 9780833027207
Format: Paperback
$19.80

Examines the first year of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program.  Read More >>

Measuring a Changing Nation: Modern Methods for the 2000 Census

Measuring a Changing Nation: Modern Methods for the...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ISBN: 9780309064446
Format: Paperback
$93.15

This final report of the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies provides an assessment of the Census Bureau's...  Read More >>

Great Negroes: Past and Present Volume 2: Volume Two

Great Negroes: Past and Present Volume 2: Volume Two...

Author: Jawanza Kunjufu ,  Erica Myles
ISBN: 9780913543597
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Brief biographies of predominantly contemporary African Americans from the fields of science, government, education,...  Read More >>

Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960-1997: An Annotated Bibliography

Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960-1997:...

Author: Samuel Agyei-Mensah
ISBN: 9780313302428
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This bibliography provides a guide to the literature on fertility decline in Latin America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan...  Read More >>

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

Author: Louis Kriesberg ,  Michael N. Dobkowski
ISBN: 9780762304509
Format: Hardback
$273.95

Part of a series of original articles on research in social movements, conflicts and change, this work consists...  Read More >>

Who Counts?: The Politics of Census-taking in Contemporary America

Who Counts?: The Politics of Census-taking in Contemporary...

Author: Margo J. Anderson ,  Stephen E. Fienberg
ISBN: 9780871542564
Format: Hardback
$94.91

One of Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books of 2000 For those interested in understanding the historical...  Read More >>

Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West

Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion...

Author: John M. Riddle
ISBN: 9780674270268
Format: Paperback
$70.95

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Riddle showed that women from ancient Egyptian...  Read More >>

Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change

Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change

Author: Richard Leete (Manager, Data Systems, Technical and Policy Division, Manager, Data Systems, Technical and Policy Division, United Nations Population Fund)
ISBN: 9780198294399
Format: Hardback
$291.95

A collection of papers which centre around the Western shift from large extended families to a nuclear family in...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Global Population and Demographics

Encyclopedia of Global Population and Demographics

Author: James Ciment ,  Immanuel Ness
ISBN: 9781579581800
Format: Hardback
$147.00

This encyclopedia focuses on the population in each of the 194 countries of the world. Emphasis is on the world's...  Read More >>

The Pursuit of a Dream

The Pursuit of a Dream

Author: Janet Sharp Hermann
ISBN: 9781578061297
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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Growing up in Times of Social Change

Growing up in Times of Social Change

Author: Rainer K. Silbereisen ,  Alexander von Eye
ISBN: 9783110165005
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Social change is likely to impact normative as well as maladaptive development during adolescence. This book offers...  Read More >>

Survival Models and Data Analysis

Survival Models and Data Analysis

Author: Regina C. Elandt-Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC) ,  Norman L. Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC)
ISBN: 9780471349921
Format: Paperback
$315.95

Survival analysis deals with the distribution of life times, essentially the times from an initiating event such...  Read More >>

Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge

Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population...

Author: Lester R. Brown (Earth Policy Institute) ,  Gary T. Gardner (Worldwatch Institute)
ISBN: 9780393319064
Format: Paperback
$36.83

On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food...  Read More >>

People and their Planet: Searching for Balance

People and their Planet: Searching for Balance

Author: Barbara Sundberg Baudot ,  William R. Moomaw
ISBN: 9781349271849
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet's living and non-living resources....  Read More >>

Migration and Gender in the Developed World

Migration and Gender in the Developed World

Author: Paul Boyle (Univ. of Leeds University of Leeds University of Leeds University of Leeds) ,  Keith Halfacree (Univ. of Wales, Swansea University of Wales, Swansea University of Wales, Swansea University of Wales, Swansea)
ISBN: 9781280109416
Format: Electronic book text
$804.67

The subject of migration has traditionally been analysed through the lens of economic factors. The importance of...  Read More >>

How Does Congress Approach Population and Family Planning Issues?

How Does Congress Approach Population and Family Planning...

Author: Sally Patterson ,  David M. Adamson
ISBN: 9780833027047
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Results of interviewed legislative directors.  Read More >>

An Essay on the Principle of Population

An Essay on the Principle of Population

Author: Thomas Robert Malthus
ISBN: 9781573922555
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Shows that population, when unchecked, tends to increase faster than the availability of subsistence therefore preventive...  Read More >>

The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and Afirican American Leaders in the 1960s

The Rise and Decline of an Alliance: Cuba and Afirican...

Author: Ruth Reitan
ISBN: 9780870134982
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Argues that the parameters that governed the relationship between the Cuban government and increasingly radicalized...  Read More >>

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