Demography category: 971 books
A Young Generation Under Pressure?
The Financial Situation and the "Rush Hour" of the Cohorts 1970 - 1985 in a Generational Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Justice between generations is still not as prominent on any agenda as justice between rich and poor or men and women. For the first time, this three-part book explores the situation of young people of today in comparison to their direct predecessors. The first part, The Financial Situation of the...
Domesticating Youth
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential...
Black Feminism in Education
Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they have learned to resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize education research, teaching, and learning in ways that serve the individual, community, nation, and all...
Second Generations on the Move in Italy
Children of Immigrants Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Second Generations on the Move in Italy: Children of Immigrants Coming of Age offers—by means of an analytical perspective and in constant comparison with the findings of international research—a view of second–generation immigrants’ life paths in Italy. The focus at city level contributes...
Fifty Plus
Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In a groundbreaking call to arms, Fifty Plus takes an important look at the seventy-eight million strong American baby boomer revolution. From age 50+ on up, Americans are now refusing to rock away their retirement and are actively changing the face of aging in America. The Boomers are no strangers...
Von Memel bis Allenstein
Die heutigen Bewohner des ehemaligen Ostpreußens: Memelland, Kaliningrader Gebiet, Ermland und Masuren
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Autor zeigt den Verlauf der sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Prozesse in den Regionen Memelland, Kaliningrader Gebiet, Ermland und Masuren nach 1945 auf. Er vergleicht ihre jeweiligen Entwicklungen kritisch miteinander und rekurriert dabei auf die Nationalbildungsprozesse im späten...
Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994
Selected Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
EDITORS NIDI, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium This volume is the tenth edition in the series "Population and Family in the Low Countries". It is published by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo graphic Institute (NIDI,...
by Sudista Prasad Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
East is East and West is West, and never the twin shall meet (Rudy and kipling) This Concept is changed into post-modern concept of the global relationship where the East is meeting the west every year about thousands of women of former USSR are married to U.S. Citizens. Not only this a number of men...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The interaction of Judaism and economics encompasses many different dimensions. Much of this interaction can be explored through the way in which Jewish law accommodates and even enhances commercial practice today and in past societies. From this context, The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics...
by Suzy Braye, Michael Preston-Shoot
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Since the third edition of Practising Social Work Law published in 2010, new legislation – such as the Care Act 2014, the Equality Act 2010, and the Children and Families Act 2014 – has had a significant impact on the social work profession. Practitioners must not only know the law; they must...
The Passing of the Frisians
Anthropography of Terpia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Decisions to Have Children in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Australia
A Qualitative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book explores the process of decision-making around having children in a sample of 115 men, women and couples for whom family formation was a recent past, current or imminent future issue. The discussion is initially focused on the extent to which parenthood was contemplated in late adolescence...
European Immigration
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Fully updated and containing chapters on the new EU member states and the attempt to form a common EU migration policy, this new edition of European Immigration: A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in migration in all EU countries. With chapters following...
by Jason Dittmer, Daniel Bos
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Now in a thoroughly revised edition, this innovative and engaging text surveys the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Jason Dittmer and Daniel Bos connect global issues with the questions of...