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The New Zealand Family from 1840

A Demographic History

by D. Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam, Janet Sceats
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

An authoritative demographic history of the New Zealand family from 1840–2005, this reference is a collection of statistics that interprets the changing role of the family and its members. Using detailed research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the 19th...
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by Andrew J. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way...
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Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms

Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics

by Jamil Khader
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as “actually-existing colonialisms.” These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial...
Cover of The Polish Middle Class
by Henryk Domanski
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015

This book discusses the viability of «importing» the middle class to Poland. The 1990s were a step forward in the formation of the Polish middle class and, systematically yet barely discernible in daily life, the process was triggered by an increase in consumption and affluence. However, the changes...
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This Land

America, Lost and Found

by Dan Barry
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive "This Land" columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry...
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Citizen U.S.A.

A 50 State Road Trip

by Alexandra Pelosi
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

The official companion book to the brand new HBO(r) documentary In the HBO(r) documentary tentatively titled Citizen USA, acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi sets out on a road trip across America to attend naturalization ceremonies in all fifty states to meet brand-new citizens and find out why...
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by Lawrence E. Estaville, Kristine Egan, Dr. Abel Galaviz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

With almost two hundred pages of original demographic and health-related maps that display county-by-county and regional information covering everything from the distribution of pharmacies, trauma centers, and emergency rooms to the number of lung, colon, and breast cancer patients in major metropolitan...
Cover of Regional Cultures and Mortality in America
by Stephen J. Kunitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

Across the contiguous 48 states, populations in states with more activist civic cultures have lower mortality than states that do not follow this model. Several different factors can be pointed to as causes for this discrepancy - net income, class inequality, and the history of settlement in each...
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Rooms:

On Human Domestication and Submission

by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019

Mobility runs deep in our evolutionary history. From our beginnings as a species our small bands were on the move. About 10,000 years ago Agriculture hobbled us. Over millennia, we gradually relinquished our traditional mobility by living in permanent rooms. For millennia our world has been constructed...
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After the Baby Boomers

How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion

by Robert Wuthnow
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion--are not so well...
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Latino Stats

American Hispanics by the Numbers

by Idelisse Malavé, Esti Giordani
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

At a time when politics is seemingly ruled by ideology and emotion and when immigration is one of the most contentious topics, it is more important than ever to cut through the rhetoric and highlight, in numbers, the reality of the broad spectrum of Latino life in the United States. Latinos are both...
Cover of Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945
by Patrick Brode
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history.
Cover of Global Demographic Change and Its Implications for Military Power
by Martin C. Libicki, Howard J. Shatz, Julie E. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011

What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the influence of demographics on manpower, national income and expenditures, and human capital;...
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Persisting Undernutrition in India

Causes, Consequences and Possible Solutions

by Nira Ramachandran
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014

The book revisits the causes of persisting under nutrition in India, but moves away from the usual focus on women and children to a broader view of the entire population. It estimates the economic losses resulting from ignoring under nutrition in the adult working population and questions the current...
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