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ISBN: 9780470673201 - A Concise History of World Population A Concise History of World Population
Massimo Livi Bacci

ISBN10: 0470673206  ISBN13: 9780470673201
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Edition: 5th Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Mar 2012
This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in... More

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ISBN: 9781614702498 - The Demographic Transition of the United States The Demographic Transition of the United States
Matthew J Cesari

ISBN10: 1614702497  ISBN13: 9781614702498
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Feb 2012
The United States, the third most populous country globally, accounts for about 4.5 per cent of the world's population. This book provides an overview of the inexorable demographic momentum taking place, which may have important implications for... More

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ISBN: 9780230338678 - West African Migrations West African Migrations
Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Olufemi Vaughan

ISBN10: 0230338674  ISBN13: 9780230338678
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 Jan 2012
Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed... More

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ISBN: 9780230338661 - Transnational Africa and Globalization Transnational Africa and Globalization
Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Olufemi Vaughan

ISBN10: 0230338666  ISBN13: 9780230338661
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Dec 2011
The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North. Moving beyond the 'push and pull' framework that has dominated studies of this phenomenon, this collection instead... More

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ISBN: 9781608461400 - Too Many People? Too Many People?
Ian Angus, Simon Butler

ISBN10: 1608461408  ISBN13: 9781608461400
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Nov 2011

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ISBN: 9781406228564 - Coping with Population Growth Coping with Population Growth
Nicola Barber

ISBN10: 1406228567  ISBN13: 9781406228564
Publisher: Capstone Global Library Ltd Raintree
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 Jun 2011
Focuses on the pressure that population growth and unsustainable development is putting on the planet's resources, with particular emphasis on challenging readers to think about what they would do about a range of local and global environmental... More

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ISBN: 9781848766211 - The Chief Sea Lion's Inheritance The Chief Sea Lion's Inheritance
Tom Blaney

ISBN10: 1848766211  ISBN13: 9781848766211
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Matador
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2011
'One of the most important things in the world' was how Charles Galton Darwin described eugenics, selective breeding aimed at improving the human race. He was just one of Charles Darwin's descendants who led crusades for a eugenics-based world. More

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ISBN: 9780230228573 - The Migration-development Nexus The Migration-development Nexus
Thomas Faist, Margit Fauser, Peter Kivisto

ISBN10: 0230228577  ISBN13: 9780230228573
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2011
This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of... More

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ISBN: 9780262014519 - Fertility and Public Policy Fertility and Public Policy
Noriyuki Takayama, Martin Werding

ISBN10: 0262014513  ISBN13: 9780262014519
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Feb 2011
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the long-standing view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead... More

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ISBN: 9781111722210 - An Introduction to Population An Introduction to Population
John R Weeks

ISBN10: 1111722218  ISBN13: 9781111722210
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Edition: International ed of 11th revised ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Feb 2011
Introduces students to population issues, concepts, and theories by encompassing the entire field of demography, including both principle and practice. John R. Weeks' "An Introduction to Population, International Edition" introduces students to... More