Demography

Never before have so many people ended up in a place different from where they began, something which made the twentieth century a century of migration. Culture is central to the process of migration, yet it is rarely examined in studies of the political...

This work is part of a series of original articles on research in social movements, conflicts and change. It carries papers that are broad in scope and methodologically diverse.Book InformationISBN 9780762304509Author Louis KriesbergFormat HardbackPage...

The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul...

The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273070Author William P O'HareFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Susan M. De Vos uses comparative and life course perspectives to provide an in-depth demographic study of the household. Based on data gathered by the World Fertility Survey, this illuminating reference explores household composition in six Latin...

Hispanics in the United States, numbering 22.4 million at the 1990 census, are the nation's second largest and fastest growing minority population. Although recent studies have increased our knowledge of the demographic characteristics and culture of...

Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials. The study considers mortality among a range of populations, according to differentials such as age, gender, race,...

This timely study examines fertility rates and their trends and determinants in less-developed countries by testing an empirical, interdisciplinary model of the fertility transition. In light of the current official position of the United States on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273292Author Tommy BengtssonFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

European Populations: Unity in Diversity was the general theme of the 1999 European Population Conference, which convened in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 30 August to 3 September on behalf of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS),...

"Health demography" has come to play an increasingly important role within the larger field during the past twenty years; the number of health professionals who utilize its methods and materials has grown exponentially. In a thoroughgoing revision of the...

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are commonly used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to...

This work is a critical investigation into the relationship between religious affiliation, on the one hand, and fertility, family size preferences and family planning behaviour, on the other. Dr Chamie works from a set of unique data: the 1971 Fertility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806313771Author Evarts Boutell GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273858Author Matthias StuderFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313239687Author Karl SaxFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Future demographic developments in Europe will be caused by the specific economic, social and cultural context, and will, in turn, have a major influence on future economic and social conditions. To the extent that demographic trends differ across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013269158Author Eric SilvermanFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign...

Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government. Espousing what philosophers would call a consequentialist ethical...

At the end of the 20th century nearly all developed nations have become countries of immigration, absorbing growing numbers of immigrants not only from developed regions, but increasingly from developing nations of the Third World. Although international...

Although I feel honored to write a foreword for this important book, it is a task that I approach with some trepidation. The topics covered in the book summarize the current state of the art in technical demography. However, my knowledge and expertise...

Studying Human Populations is a textbook for graduate students and research workers in social statistics and related subject areas. It follows a novel curriculum developed around the basic statistical activities of sampling, measurement and inference...

Despite the constant refrain that family is the most important social institution in Middle Eastern societies, only recently has it become the focus for rethinking the modern history of the Middle East. This book introduces exciting new findings by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276750Author Dimitri MortelmansFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013269035Author Kenneth LandFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Two basic themes run throughout this book--the first is the control of fertility and the second overpopulation. It is intended for a general audience to whom the gravity of the situation may not previously have been apparent.Book InformationISBN...

Completion of this Handbook would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated assistance of numerous people. Several years ago Howard Kaplan, Editor of the Kluwer/Plenum Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, asked Dudley Poston to...

This book examines how transformations in Brazil's social, economic and political organization affect the demographic behaviour of people who live in different parts of the country and who occupy different positions in the social system. The authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464194118Author Thomas MalthusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 222g

This book is about social change in the Soviet Union. It explores the way in which the social, economic and political transformations encompassed by modernization affect values and behaviours. Its analytical focus is the family and the system of norms...

A great book on the people and development of Hawaii. Includes pictures of old and new Hawaii and tables of various statistics showing Hawaii's development over the years.Book InformationISBN 9780824811914Author Eleanor C. NordykeFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865690646Author Cornelius CaseyFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806300030Author Genealogical PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

EDITORS Hans V AN DEN BREKEL * and Fred DEVEN** * NIDI, P. O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands ** CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium The series "Population and Family in the Low Countries" (POPFAM), established in 1976,...

Many industrialized countries are facing large problems with their public pension systems in the 21st century. An unfavourable age distribution, with lower population shares in working ages and increasing shares and numbers of elderly persons in the...

Originally published in 1978 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, this is an interdisciplinary study of rapid urban growth in West Africa. Gugler and Flanagan first explore the history of the cities of the early West African...