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Concepts of Ethnicity by William Petersen
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84The monumental Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United... -
Ethnicity Counts by William Petersen
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Official statistics about ethnicity in advanced societies are no better than those in less developed countries. An open industrial society is inherently fluid, and it is as hard to interpret social... -
Malthus: Founder of Modern Demography by William Petersen
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), one of the most influential of modern thinkers, is also one of the most misunderstood. Malthus' Essay on Population is a work that everyone cites but typically... -
Man in Adaptation: The Cultural Present by William Petersen 9781138527539
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95Underlying the anthropological study of man is the principle that there is a reality to which man must adapt if he is to survive. Reproduce, and to perpetuate himself. Populations must adapt to the... -
Against the Stream: Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer by William Petersen 9780765802224
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.08With the insight and clarity that mark all of Petersen's writings, Against the Stream brings together reflections of an unconventional demographer. Thirteen essays on various topics become a cohesive... -
From Persons to People: A Second Primer in Demography by William Petersen
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68Problems associated with aggregation and classification are the underlying theme of this book. When data assembled from individuals are presented as group characteristics, this process has logical... -
From Birth to Death: A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies by William Petersen 9781412814911
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws typically... -
What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179380Author Barbara ButcherFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher 9781982179397
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982179397Author Barbara ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Population Growth: The Vital Revolution by Ronald Freedman
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24The population of the modern world continues to grow at a rate unprecedented in human history. How are we to explain this massive increase in the number of living people? What is its consequence, now... -
The Economics of Population: Key Classic Writings by Julian Simon
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $67.65The economics of population has a long and controversial history as well as an exciting present. Vociferous popular debate, public policy, and population economics have unduly influenced one another:... -
Flyovers by Jeffrey Sweet 9780573698705
Booksplease Price: $16.45Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 2f Winner of Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Script Flyovers is a 90-minute play about a film critic who finds himself caught up in a Culture Clash of economics,...