Population and demography

McQuillan shows that the population of the once largely German-speaking region of Alsace was sharply divided into two major religious communities, one Catholic, the other Lutheran.

During the Bureau's history Canada has developed from a country dependent on a staple economy to a mature industrial power poised at the brink of the information era.

The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community.

"e;Nations Are Built of Babies"e; documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century.

Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and 1990.

This book explores changes in economic fortunes, social life, and political issues over 200 years in western New York.

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.

Un libro indispensable para entender el presente y prepararnos para el futuro.

This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition.

Demography is not destiny.

Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries.

China is home to a fifth of the world's inhabitants.

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery.

Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

Community Development through Tourism examines the development of local communities through the healthy integration of community planning, business planning and tourism planning.

Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns.

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.

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 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.

This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time.

In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children s characteristics.

The mapping of human genes is proceeding rapidly.

A trusted classic on the key methods in population sampling now in a modernized and expanded new edition Sampling of Populations, Fourth Edition continues to serve as an all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling.

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging synthesizes the economic literature on aging and the subjects associated with it, including social insurance and healthcare costs, both of which are of interest to policymakers and academics.

What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century?

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1A, provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, including social insurance and healthcare costs.

Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volume 1B provides the economic literature on aging and associated subjects, presenting comprehensive portraits of both social and theoretical issues.

The demographic history of twentieth-century Russia has been marked by a series of tragedies.

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups.

This book examines the impacts of three major patterns in the future population of the United States.

This book, a comprehensive introduction to the problem of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the infectious disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations.

The demographic history of twentieth-century Russia has been marked by a series of tragedies.

In the United States, older populations exhibit the highest levels of economic inequality of all age groups.

This book examines the impacts of three major patterns in the future population of the United States.

This book, a comprehensive introduction to the problem of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), lays out the medical facts and social epidemiology of the infectious disease and illuminates the complex social problems this disease poses for the United States and other nations.

Originally published in 1969, this is a study of the Congolese community of Kinsangani (formerly Stanleyville), as it was in 1952-3 under Belgian administration.