Demography category: 971 books
Materializing Poverty
How the Poor Transform Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities,...
Brown Is the New White
How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America’s new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 election
With a new preface and afterword by the author
When it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016...
Generational Cycles
Predicting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
In this interview with Dr Nicholas Beecroft, Neil Howe explains the theory and sets out his observations of the current stage of the generational cycle during this “Fourth Turning” crisis period. He describes the interactions between all the various generations and predicts how the future in areas...
One Child
The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates...
Generation Jan
The X'ers as Middle Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
As the first wave of Baby Boomers begins to retire, their departure presents an awkward power vacuum in the American cultural, political, and business arenas. Though many members of Generation X expected to inherit the reins of power and influence in the late 2000s, workplace trends at the time showed...
by John McCoist
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
History of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its birth to defend Ulster against home rule, its major part in the battles of France in world war one, it's reincarnation into the fierce and ruthless paramilitary machine during the troubles that took on the Irish Republican terrorists on all fronts and what it's role is today.
7 Billion
How Your World Will Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Sometime in late October 2011, the 7 billionth citizen of planet Earth will be born. To mark the event, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the fascinating issues—including demographics, food security, climate change, fertility trends, managing biodiversity—surrounding...
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based...
by Lionel Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
If you live in a developing country with few opportunities for advancement, it is natural to develop a strong desire to move to a new country with more opportunities in order to make your life and those of your family members better. What's more, it is your right to act on this desire so that you...
American Fascism and the New Deal
The Associated Farmers of California and the Pro-Industrial Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
American Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming...
Generation X Professors Speak
Voices from Academia
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
While the Baby Boomer generation has consistently commanded widespread attention—both scholarly and popular—little has been written about Generation X, the 46 million Americans born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s. But with Baby Boomers now moving into retirement, members of Generation X...
Working Lives
Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women’s employment in post-war Britain.
A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis...
by Shanti Sadiq Ali
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
One of the few studies of kind, this book provides a historical overview of the African heritage in Indiafrom medieval to modern time. It focusses on the African dispersal in the Deccan region covering modern Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, the Coromandel Coast and western coastal India. Beginning...
Empty Planet
The Shock of Global Population Decline
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape
For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned...