Demography category: 971 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas. The authors...
by E. Digby Baltzell
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political...
On the Move
Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Americans...
Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies
Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments. It features papers written by leading experts in the field that will help readers to better understand the usefulness of ABM for population projections,...
A Shrinking Society
Post-Demographic Transition in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
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 historical consequence of the demographic transition...
Who Are We Now?
Interpreting the Pew Study on Jewish Identity in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Who is a Jew in 21st century America?
Is membership in “the tribe” defined by shared religious beliefs? Common ethnic backgrounds? Familiar holiday practices? Similar tastes in culture and cuisine? And what do the widely varying answers to those questions mean for the future of the American...
Singapore Perspectives 2014
Differences
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Singapore's demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to navigate the many differences in the country's ancestral, social and cultural affiliations even as they embarked on the urgent task of nation-building. A decade into the...
Undecided Nation
Political Gridlock and the Immigration Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
There is a broad consensus that the United States’ immigration system is broken, yet the political momentum behind the movement has not yet led to a consensus on how to fix it. This momentum has stemmed from the agreement that we have an immigration “crisis” on our hands – millions of undocumented...
Smart City
Human Capital in the Smart City. A Tale of Two Cities in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
La Carta di Milano, l'eredità immateriale di Expo Milano 2015, ci impegna a pensare e a dare forma a una diversa idea di convivenza urbana. Una città del futuro che comincia dal nostro presente. Negli ultimi anni si è assistito a un vero e proprio proliferare dell’uso del termine smart city e...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The census of agriculture is one of the key pillars of a national statistical system, and in many developing countries it is often the only means of producing statistical information on the structure and other relevant aspects of the agriculture sector. Moreover, it is the only data collection instrument...
Protest, Social Movements, and Global Democracy since 2011
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In light of the limited achievements of the Arab Spring and other pro-democracy movements, volume 39 examines and unpacks arguments that these protests represent both a new phase and new prospects for democratic mobilization. The volume engages with new theoretical and methodological perspectives...
Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations
Influence, Adaptation, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
This volume focusses on non-state actors and political conflicts but also attends to the broader themes of the series. The research emphases the roles and motivations of non-state actors in conflicts or post-conflict situations in the post-Cold War era; as well outlining the dynamics of social movements,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together narratives of being, knowing and contestation surrounding the claiming of identity for the self or the categorization of the other. It does this by exploring...
Great Divergence and Great Convergence
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical...