Demography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299329709Author Kjell Follingstad AndersonFormat HardbackImprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques. It allows students from the social and human sciences, demographers, consultants and anyone interested in applied...

This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible...

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India's population history; it had major...

This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782671213Author Sergei KapitsaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams) 195g

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World-mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789719268888Author Armando Ang AngFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Armando AngPublisher Armando AngWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Children, while being the most victimised group in society, rarely become a topic of sociological research, neither as victims nor as perpetrators. The sociological discussion on power and violence happens beyond generation as an important dimension of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801350679Author Tmc2021 TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013269141Author Eric SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636710501Author Robert L ScardamaliaFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Bernan PressPublisher Bernan PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782671220Author Sergei KapitsaFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Glagoslav Publications B.V.Publisher Glagoslav Publications B.V.Weight(grams) 354g

John Rennie Short critically explores the implications of demographic change from a social and economic perspective and considers what this means for public policy. He shows how events as varied and important as the Arab Spring, migration from Africa to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450535540Author Thomas MalthusFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

The past few decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the immigration of people of Asian Indian descent to the United States. This has predicated a need to understand the various sociocultural and political experiences that shape the identity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735344706Author Iberkis FaltasFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863958127Author Jennifer RaynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint RedbackPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013273841Author Matthias StuderFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint 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 9781013273285Author Tommy BengtssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint 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 9781013273063Author William P O'HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint 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 9781013269028Author Kenneth LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint 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 9781013276743Author Dimitri MortelmansFormat PaperbackPage 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 9781013273308Author Hal CaswellFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint 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 9780692848739Author French Equatorial AfricaFormat PaperbackPage Count 698Imprint Niawanda BooksPublisher Niawanda BooksWeight(grams) 916gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299110543Author J. KnodelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams)...

In 1997, then state Senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation in the Illinois General Assembly to study the newly passed federal welfare reform and how it would affect the citizens of Illinois. He believed that a sound piece of research assessing how...

Demographic changes directly affect political and socioeconomic dynamics. Whether they are the nationalities of migrating refugees, the percentage of women in the workforce, or aging as a phenomenon (population decline, age of marriage, number of...

The second edition of Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government's initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of...

This book, a project of Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the whole of Malaysia since its formation in 1963, using statistics collected in the four pan-Malaysia Population Censuses held in 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000, and data from other sources...

Knowing who, where, and how many of us there are is a powerful force that helps us understand the way we live now and, as Liz Allen powerfully shows, allows us to create a better future.We know what the population of Australia is. We know where these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814380980Author Saw Swee-HockFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more...

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated...

The major industrialized countries are undergoing a significant demographic transition associated with low fertility rates combined with reduced mortality rates. A major consequence of the current transition is that populations are expected to age...

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and...

In provocative terms that push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek propose a re-vamped US census based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866381659Author James A PalmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLester R. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy and Worldwatch Institutes. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the...

More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every...