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  • Youth Development in South Africa
    Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future. ...
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    149,74 €

  • Essays on African Population
    Originally published in 1961, this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. ...
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    145,83 €

  • Population Growth and Levels of Consumption
    Belshaw Horace
    Originally published in 1956, this book considers the practical problems of economic development in countries in which the prevailing outlook and a recent or probable increase in population growth make it difficult to escape from a ’Malthusian situation.’ ...
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    146,27 €

  • Full House
    Hal Kane / Lester R. Brown
    Originally published in 1995, this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. ...
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    146,22 €

  • Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research
    Originally published in 1988, this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. ...
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    145,02 €

  • Analysing Population Trends
    Lincoln H. Day
    Originally published in 1983, this book examines the problems of fertility in predicting population trends. It varies a great deal according to mothers’ ages, ethnic groups, place and time. ...
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    146,22 €

  • West European Population Change
    The 1970s was a decade of significant population change in Western Europe. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the major trends: fertility decline, counter-urbanisation and the cessation of international labour migration from outside the former EEC. ...
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    146,19 €

  • Planning for Population Change
    Originally published in 1986, this book explores many important aspects of the relationship between population change and planning, exploring the impact of population change on service provision and its impact on the policy-making process. ...
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    146,36 €

  • Demographic Patterns in Developed Societies
    R. W. Hiorns
    Originally published in 1980, this volume reviews the demographic patterns of fertility, marriage and mortality with reference to developed societies in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America. ...
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    146,44 €

  • Taking Population Seriously
    Frances Moore-Lappe / Rachel Schurman
    Originally published in 1988 and 1990, this book asks what positive lessons can be learned from some of the developing world’s success stories on population. ...
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    129,43 €

  • The Growth and Distribution of Population
    S. Vere Pearson
    Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding. ...
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    145,34 €

  • Population Structures and Models
    Originally published in 1986, this volume brings together geographical modelling of population change and demographic analysis of population structures and pattern. ...
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    145,30 €

  • Every Fifth Child
    Leo A. Orleans
    Originally published in 1972, this book illustrates why China’s population problems are complex. It discusses 20th Century phenomena such as the decline in China’s death rate and the possible effects of density pressure on migration, on China’s ethnic minorities and on foreign policy. ...
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    146,57 €

  • People Who Count
    Dorothy Stein
    Originally published in 1995, this book confronts the contentious political issues on all sides of the population debate, including immigration, demographic competition, gender ratios, reproductive research and children’s rights. ...
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    146,29 €

  • Population and the Social Problem
    J. Swinburne
    Originally published in 1924, and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published, the author assumes that people exercise their powers of reproduction near to capacity. ...
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    145,66 €

  • Population Since the Industrial Revolution
    Neil Tranter
    Originally published in 1973, this book is an introduction to the study of population history since the Industrial Revolution and focuses on the experience of England and Wales. ...
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    146,48 €

  • Population Growth In Latin America And U.S. National Security
    John Saunders
    Originally published in 1986, this volume deals with both population growth in Latin America and the possible consequences of this growth for the security of the USA. The text analyses the demographic dimensions of the phenomenon and then considers the consequences for US security. ...
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    213,51 €

  • The Age of Decay
    Shamil Ismail
    Drawing on seemingly unrelated instances of essential worker shortages around the world, investment analyst Shamil Ismail connects the dots to build a compelling and well-researched narrative explaining why aging populations and declining birth rates are leading to a shrinking workforce of essential workers in developed countries, which could massively disrupt their societies a...
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    12,45 €

  • Chinese People’s Time Use and Their Quality of Life
    Fenglian Du / Wenbin Wang / Xiaoyuan Dong
    This book analyzes how Chinese people use their time, including how busy Chinese seek a healthy work-life balance, how some children win from the outset in terms of education, and how people pursue quality of life outside of or after work. General readers will get a vivid and detailed impression of the way Chinese people spend their time, while researchers will find a wealth of...
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    206,42 €

  • Gandhi and Architecture
    Venugopal Maddipati
    Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi’s philosophical emphasis on the need to establish finite boundaries and limits on one’s everyday actions. ...
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    73,35 €

  • Invisible Labour
    Indranil Chakraborty
    This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support-service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers in the Information Technology (IT) sector of India.  ...
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    73,52 €

  • Passages of Fortune?
    Aswini Kumar Nanda / Jacques Véron / S. Irudaya Rajan
    This book examines international out-migration from North India, focusing on the state of Punjab. It is the first-ever empirical exploration of the causes, processes, patterns and consequences of international out-migration based on a robust sample of 10,000 households. ...
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    72,73 €

  • Changes in Work and Family Life in Japan Under COVID-19
    This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer-employment relationship and seniority-based wage system. In return, long working hours, especially for men who are called 'salarymen' (salaried workers, or 'co...
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    55,79 €

  • International Handbook of the Demography of Obesity
    This handbook provides a demographic examination of global obesity trends by bringing together the range of research conducted in this field by demographers, sociologists, epidemiologists, and other quantitatively and demographically oriented social scientists. It utilizes a multidisciplinary demographic approach to provide insights into the global prevalence and mechanisms of ...
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    209,68 €

  • Current Perspectives on Centenarians
    This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk factors, dementia, nutrition, physical activity, African American and Hispanic centenarians, financial plannin...
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    132,60 €

  • Caste in Everyday Life
    This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations. Considering Guru and Sarukkai’s path-breaking work on ’Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social’ (2019), this volu...
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    168,76 €

  • Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement from Hong Kong and Beyond
    This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization’s 1978 ’Health for All’ campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context. The WHO declaration of 'Health for All by the Year 2000' mapped out a road towards primary health care for all people and demarcated it as essentia...
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    197,24 €

  • Age into Race
    Haim Hazan
    Age into Race is a socio-anthropological essay on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural status of the old. As the worldwide horrors of the Corona era have since been publicly repressed, the text is geared to revisit and relive the tenor of that time while considering its latent revolutionary aftermath. There was wide agreement that Covid-19 policies targete...
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    146,61 €

  • Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation Across the United States
    Amber R. Crowell / Mark A. Fossett
    This open access book provides new findings on and insights into trends and patterns in residential segregation between racial and ethnic groups in the United States. It draws on new methods that make it possible to investigate segregation involving small groups and segregation patterns in nonmetropolitan communities with greater accuracy and clarity than has previously been po...
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    71,22 €

  • Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation Across the United States
    Amber R. Crowell / Mark A. Fossett
    This open access book provides new findings on and insights into trends and patterns in residential segregation between racial and ethnic groups in the United States. It draws on new methods that make it possible to investigate segregation involving small groups and segregation patterns in nonmetropolitan communities with greater accuracy and clarity than has previously been po...
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    72,57 €


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