Demography category: 971 books
Date-onomics
How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
It’s not that he’s just not that into you—it’s that there aren’t enough of him. And the numbers prove it. Using a combination of demographics, statistics, game theory, and number-crunching, Date-onomics tells what every single, college-educated, heterosexual, looking-for-a-partner woman...
How to survive Holland
Dealing with the Dutch before they deal with you
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
'So this must be Holland, honey..... Get your camera ready and watch out for the natives', said an American tourist arriving in Amsterdam. Reading this survival kit will prevent you from sharing his fate. It introduces nothing less than the very soul of the Dutch. Packed with humorous descriptions...
Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography,...
Fractured
Race Relations in «Post-Racial» American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
«What do you think is meant by the term ‘post-racial’ and how far do you think we’ve come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers,...
Access to Education
New Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is difficult for us today to imagine that equal educational opportunity, with which we are so deeply preoccupied, was at one time considered to be if not an evil at least a futile objective, and that those who held such an opinion were completely insincere and even disinterested. For a vertically...
International Migration in Cuba
Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue....
Jewish Family
Identity and Self-Formation at Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor advance a new appreciation for the deep significance of Jewish family in developing Jewish identity. This book is the result of ten years of research focused on a small sample of diverse families. Through their...
Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized...
Where Did You Get This Number?
A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
CBS News’ Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we’re headed as a nation.
As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it’s Anthony Salvanto’s job to understand you—what you think...
Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory
Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text brings together studies in various aspects of the theory of the capitalist economy. It focuses on major themes of the Marxist tradition that postulate the existence and importance of social relations and structures underlying the esoteric realm of economic categories: prices, profits, wages,...
by Donald Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Home Fires is the powerful saga of the Gordon family-real people, names unchanged. Spanning nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, their story has the scope, depth, wealth of incident, and emotional intensity of a great novel, and an abundance of humor, scandal, warmth,...
Household and Living Arrangement Projections
The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country....
Minority within a Minority
Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. The book is...
Uprooting Urban America
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Shifts in America’s socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments continue to scale back social...