Population and demography

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society?

During the 1980s the news media were filled with reports of soaring unemployment as 'downsizing' and `restructuring' became the new buzzwords.

From the Foreword: `The chief aim of this book is to present the reader with an integrated system of methods dealing with geographical statistics (`geostatistics') and their applications.

We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past.

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities.

Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States?

Called "e;the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted"e; by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families.

In the Course of a Lifetime provides an unprecedented portrait of the dynamic role religion plays in the everyday experiences of Americans over the course of their lives.

How does migration change a nation?

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness.

The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century.

The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration.

Return to Aztlan analyzes the social process of international migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen Mexican communities.

This book compares Australia with seventeen other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions.

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place.

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place.

This book offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

This book compares Australia with seventeen other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions.

A critical study of the field of demography from a postmodernist perspective.

This book offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create.

This volume provides an analysis of inequality in China, with an emphasis on public policy.

Uncertain Demographics and Fiscal Sustainability addresses the economic consequences of uncertainty in demographic forecasting.

This book asks: what are the threats to Australia''s social cohesion and how can they be countered?

An analysis contrasting economic mobility in American/British economies with corporate state models of continental Europe.

This book is devoted to the study of children''s skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts.

Original case study of how a peasant society in early modern Europe sustained its economy.

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

This book analyses the case of southern European migration using an economic approach.

A detailed reconstruction of the peasant society of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren.

In this study, first published in 2004, Nobel laureate Robert Fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries.

These essays explore the nature of worldwide economic growth, population, and fertility changes.

An exploration of the rise and fall of the dynastic Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.

The first full scale survey of the demographic history of America in one volume.

This book presents an important study of the history of ageing.

Definitive account of England''s transformation through industrial revolution, from one of the nation''s leading historians.

This book documents challenging consequences aging societies face: fewer workers, stretched pensions, questionable economic sustainability.

Applied Latent Class Analysis introduces several innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers.

This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful.

An introductory text on human population dynamics from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Innovative exploration of the theoretical and methodological issues in reconstructing demographic structure from archaeological populations.

A comparative ''micro-history'' for the period between the old and the new France, 1760–1820.

An analysis of the decline of infant mortality and fertility in Britain, 1891–1911.

Explores the epidemics of the past with modern epidemiological and computer-modelling.

Robert Woods examines the changing population history of England and Wales beween 1837 and 1914.

Examines how states pigeon-hole people within categories of race, ethnicity and language.

This book contains a collection of chapters about the Jewish family across different parts of the world, with contributions representing Africa (Ivory Coast and Ethiopia), Latin America, Australia, Europe (Germany), Russia, Israel, Canada, Indian families in Canada, and a comparative chapter of Ba'a lot Teshuva in the US and Argentina.