Population and demography

The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression.

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship.

This volume examines the Census Bureau's program of research and development of the 2000 census, focusing particularly on the design of the 1995 census tests.

This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos.

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

Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various aspects of recent German emigrants' transnational relationships to core family members, specifically intimate partners, parents, and children.

Bastian Hartmann untersucht die Gründe für und die Konsequenzen von Ehescheidungen.

Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science.

This Palgrave Pivot presents experiments that reveal core dynamics of trade in a complex system.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

"e;Winner of the 2014 Kulp-Wright Book Award Presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association"e;.

This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change.

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them.

The initial purposes of this book were to update and extend the discussion and the results presented ill our previous book, The Labor Market and Business Cycle Theories.

This book presents a factual analysis of the history of population policy, especially the fertility policy, mainly the reproduction of the policy since the founding of New China, especially the promotion of one child per couple, including the background of the policy's introduction, the formulation of the decision, the prediction of possible problems, and the choice of decision to deal with them.

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.

Tracing the population assistance movement from its tentative beginnings to today, this book employs history to examine the new paradigm created from the Cairo Conference - the 'road map' for the population policy future.

In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement.

The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.

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Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them.

Fit im Kopf ein Leben langWie wir das Zusammenspiel der Milliarden Nervenzellen unterstützen, Gehirnzellen stärken und Alterungsprozesse ausgleichen könnenJeder Herzschlag, jeder Gedanke, jedes Gefühl wird von unseren Nerven bestimmt.

Based on original findings from research carried out in six low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of private higher education and social and academic inequality, a topic largely unexplored in the social science literature, particularly on private higher education.

Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world.

Canada's last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s.

New Land, New Lives captures the voices of Scandinavian men and women who crossed the Atlantic during the early decades of the 20th century and settled in the Pacific Northwest.

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The first systematic attempt to account for all the names of the counties, cities, town, water courses, bodies of water, and mountains that appear on readily available maps of Alabama In dictionary format, this volume contains some 2,610 place names, selected according to strict criteria as outlined in the introductions, from more than 52,000 available for the state of Alabama.

Welchen (Alltags-)Herausforderungen begegnen kinderreiche Familien und welche Bewältigungsstrategien wenden sie an?

This first-of-its-kind volume addresses the myriad of issues relating to-and reviews the plethora of responses to--premature births in the United States, both in national context and compared with other countries.

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.

Rethinks the temporal, spatial, and conceptual boundaries that conventionally structure historical narratives about the Age of Revolution in Latin America.

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "e;the black Mecca.

This book focuses on the latest advances and challenges in interregional migration research.

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The year 2008 marks the beginning of the baby boomer retirement avalanche just as the different demographics in advanced and most developing countries are becoming more pronounced.

An assessment of how Israel’s extraordinary population growth undermines the country’s environment, social equity, and quality of life—and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel’s population has increased from one to eight million people.

Sports have been on the world map from time immemorial.

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers, asylum seekers, international students, and foreign spouses.

Adopting a longitudinal approach, this book examines the dynamics of union and family formation in France and its effects on various aspects of life, such as employment, intergenerational transfers, etc.

This book offers a profoundly new examination of life strategies of migrants from regimes in crisis.