Population and demography

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century.

This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap.

An examination of population movements, both forced and voluntary, within the broader context of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, in both Western and Eastern Europe.

Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon.

Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics in one easy-to-follow, useful, and informative volume.

Because of federalism, Medicaid takes very different forms in different places.

This book captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the late twentieth century.

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon.

This book examines the nature and significance of the impact of population growth on the weIl-being of developing countries-in particular, the effects on economic growth, education, health, food supply, housing, poverty, and the environment.

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course.

For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladaress classic anthropological study of Brazils vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally establishedand even attractive and exoticrepresentation of poverty.

This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis.

Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area.

This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause.

Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world, with forced migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and other countries converging, either with hopes to settle in Turkey or to continue onwards to the European Union (EU).

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

Shiksa Speaks: A White, Non-Jew's Understanding of the Cuban Jewish Diaspora and Its Legacy focuses on Cuban Jews, or Jewbans, whose family emigrated from Eastern Europe to the island in the 1920s then again to the US after the 1959 revolution in which Fidel Castro took power.

A quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain.

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity.

Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910.

Democracy is on the run, and elected governments are suffering from a legitimacy crisis.

Interest in business cycles has had its 'ups and downs'.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat.

In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union).

This book offers a deparochial account of global justice and addresses disenchantment stemming from its West-centricity and provincial theoretical formulations.

Falko Trischler zeigt anhand empirischer Analysen, dass die soziale Ungleichheit der Alterseinkünfte in Folge des Wandels der Erwerbsverläufe und der Rentenreformmaßnahmen in den kommenden Jahren deutlich zunehmen wird.

Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings - whether urban design, border management or organisations - shape and form experiences of gender.

Conservation biology -- using concepts from traditional resource management and modern population biology to preserve biological diversity -- has emerged as one of the most important areas of ecology In order to really understand the problems of decreasing diversity and the solutions to maintaining it, the attention of ecologists must be focused on larger spatial and temporal scales than they are used to.

This Fourth Edition of a pioneering book provides a critical analysis of the origins and evolution of political and policy debates regarding race and racism in British society.

Completion of this Handbook would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated assistance of numerous people.

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Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States?

Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources.

This book clarifies how globalization, progress in the knowledge-based economy, and demographic change affect regional economic growth, using the latest analytical methods for economic growth.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts.

A groundbreaking, ';lavishly informative' (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

This book provides a demographic profile of the Syrian diaspora into Europe and identifies the issue of forced migration as a separate and increasingly salient topic within the more general field of migration research.

In recent years there have been alarming reports of rapid decreases in life expectancy in the New Independent States (former members of the Soviet Union).

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression.

World Population: Past, Present, & Future uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate in depth on important aspects of the evolution of world population not well addressed previously.

In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives.

This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew's body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and stereotypes.

This book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.