Demography category: 971 books
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled...
Humanitarian Crises and Migration
Causes, Consequences and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Whether it is the stranding of tens of thousands of migrant workers at the Libyan–Tunisian border, or the large-scale displacement triggered by floods in Pakistan and Colombia, hardly a week goes by in which humanitarian crises have not precipitated human movement. While some people move internally,...
The Japanese Population Problem
The Coming Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This volume analyzes what the pressure of population growth in Japan in the early twentieth century consisted of and attempts to indicate what form it would take in the future. It examines not only the relationship between the number of inhabitants and the economic resources of the country but also...
Real Indians
Identity and the Survival of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and...
Welcome to the Jungle
The Why Behind Ggeneration X
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The population bomb/a white one for twenty-one days, a pink one for seven/pretty baby/it's a mad mad mad mad world/meet your new family/the warehouse generation/quality time/give a hoot dont pollute/birth of a disease/I was bad because you forgot to give me my pill/teach your chidlren wrong/the feel-good...
Population Geography
Tools and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This compact and accessible text provides a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. First grounding students in the fundamentals, Bruce Newbold then explains the tools and techniques commonly used to describe and understand population concepts using real-world issues and...
Globalization, Violence and Security
Local Impacts of Regional Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributions and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil. The book...
Stat-Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This...
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”;...
by Randall Collins
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to...
Politicizing Asian American Literature
Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’...
The City
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines...
Social Structures
Demographic Changes and the Well-Being of Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007
Significant demographic changes are altering the structure of the American population. Larger numbers of immigrants are entering the work force, will become part of our aging population, and increasingly, are providing care for the elderly. Family structures and communities are evolving as marriage,...