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  • The Cairo Consensus
    Saul Halfon
    The Cairo Consensus explores population policy during the 1990s. Starting from the question of how the transition from 'population control' to 'women’s empowerment' was formulated as an international consensus, Halfon maps the discourses, technical practices, and institutional practices that made this transition possible and stable. ...
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    148,14 €

  • The Reluctant Economist
    Richard A. Easterlin / Richard AEasterlin
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    61,50 €

  • Travel Survey Methods
    Focuses on the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences (ISCTSC) on maintaining and improving the quality of data collection in transport surveys. This book is derived from papers that were a part of the 7th International Conference on Travel Survey Methods, held at Playa Herradura, Costa Rica, during August 2004. ...
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    327,33 €

  • Demography in Archaeology
    Andrew T. Chamberlain / Andrew TChamberlain
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    156,87 €

  • Demography in Archaeology
    Andrew Chamberlain / Chamberlain Andrew T.
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    68,07 €

  • The Demography of Roman Egypt
    Bruce W. Frier / Bruce WFrier / Roger S. Bagnall / Roger SBagnall
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    118,62 €

  • Saving America?
    Robert Wuthnow
    On January 29, 2001, President George W. Bush signed an executive order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This action marked a key step toward institutionalizing an idea that emerged in the mid-1990s under the Clinton administration--the transfer of some social programs from government control to religious organizations. However, despite ...
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    56,61 €

  • Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720 1888
    Laird W. Bergad / Laird WBergad
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    71,83 €

  • Death and the Metropolis
    John Landers
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    55,73 €

  • Complex Ethnic Households in America
    Laurel Schwede
    This lively interdisciplinary book on ’complex households’ in six U.S. ethnic groups uniquely combines rich ethnographic description conveying the ’sights and smells’ of fieldwork with theory-linked overviews and Census 2000 data. It explores interactions of household structure, ethnicity and gender, also illuminating factors affecting formation and dissolution of complex house...
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    179,84 €

  • Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas
    Soo im Lee
    Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education reveals how Japanese society is now in the midst of dramatic transformation brought on by demographic change and globalization. Foreigners are coming to Japan and many more will come in the near future to meet the demands of an economy that needs workers to compensate for an extremely low birth rate. The ramifica...
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    35,59 €

  • Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas
    Soo im Lee
    Japan’s Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education reveals how Japanese society is now in the midst of dramatic transformation brought on by demographic change and globalization. Foreigners are coming to Japan and many more will come in the near future to meet the demands of an economy that needs workers to compensate for an extremely low birth rate. The ramifica...
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    24,35 €

  • Below-Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies
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    74,05 €

  • People, Population, and Policy In Indonesia
    Terence H. Hull
    Since its inception in 1945, the Republic of Indonesia has experienced a series of profound social changes. The spread of schooling, the transformation of the economy, and the consolidation of a unified state have transformed the lives of Indonesian citizens. It is seldom recognized, however, that the most fundamental changes have occurred in the family sphere. Marriages that u...
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    24,58 €

  • Population Trends in Indonesia
    Widjojo Nitisastro
    The first comprehensive demographic study of Indonesia, this book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the political and economic problems - both past and present - of the world's fourth most populous country. It demonstrates that the period 1970 to 1980 will be particularly crucial for Indonesia and will require careful social and economic planning. The ...
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    36,93 €

  • Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
    Stanley Ulijaszek
    Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of th...
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    184,24 €

  • Nameless Relations
    M. Konrad / MKonrad
    'Konrad has produced an exceptionally interesting and totally original book . . . a major contribution to social theory.' · Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge UniversityBased on the author’s fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova and embryo donation. Giving voice to...
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    44,27 €

  • English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580 1837
    E. A. Wrigley / EAWrigley / J. E. Oeppen / JEOeppen / R. S. Davies / RSDavies
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    147,49 €

  • Population and Climate Change
    Brian C. O’Neill / Brian CO'Neill / Brian CO’Neill / F. Landis MacKellar / FLandis MacKellar / Wolfgang Lutz
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    46,13 €

  • Fewer
    Ben J. Wattenberg / Ben JWattenberg
    Ben Wattenberg explains how and why birthrates and fertility rates are now falling at an alarming rate in countries throughout the world. And he explores the major implications-for world politics, the environment, and the international economy-of this momentuous shift. ...
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    17,41 €

  • The Long Sexual Revolution
    Hera Cook
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    115,62 €

  • The Aging World
    Anil Bagchi
    The world is full of disparities where graying appears as a new social element. The demographic change, along with the differences in wealth and knowledge will greatly influence the future. Globalization will be faster and the knowledge network stronger. The slender family and the empty home will see growth of new human emotions, which will break away from the confines of biol...
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    33,31 €

  • The Aging World
    Anil Bagchi
    The world is full of disparities where graying appears as a new social element. The demographic change, along with the differences in wealth and knowledge will greatly influence the future. Globalization will be faster and the knowledge network stronger. The slender family and the empty home will see growth of new human emotions, which will break away from the confines of biol...
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    22,07 €

  • Aging
    Elizabeth Vierck / Kris Hodges
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    109,49 €

  • Worlds in Motion
    Douglas S. Massey / Douglas SMassey / Graeme Hugo / Joaquin Arango
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    105,39 €

  • Knowledge for Tomorrow
    Quinton Douglass Crawford
    Questions...... Why are there so many problems on our world? Are the children of the world going to be okay? What about the other holocausts! Why is everyone getting so sick? If there is so much money in the world, why are there poor people? Why are so many things called conspiracies? Was it always like this? Have today’s musical arts benefited anyone? Who are the heroes of to...
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    18,88 €

  • The Economics of Time Use
    Daniel SHamermesh / Gerard APfann
    These studies are based on information on time use in nine countries. It deals with the 'when?' and 'with whom?' questions describing human behavior, 'what is done?' questions of the quantities and determinants of economic activities as well as children’s issues and issues involved in the creation of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). ...
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    270,82 €

  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700 2100
    Robert William Fogel
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    145,44 €

  • Get ’Em All! Kill ’Em!
    Bruce Wilshire
    Why do groups become genocidal and try to incapacitate all members of an alien group, even sometimes killing fetuses? Prematurely alluding to evil or to the Devil blocks the possibility for further inquiry. Get ’Em All! Kill ’Em! is the first systematic attempt to explain what, up until now, has seemed to be inexplicable phenomena. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Culture, Biology, and Anthropological Demography
    Eric Abella Roth
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    92,96 €