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  • Divorce in Europe
    Dimitri Mortelmans
    This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contai...
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    92,35 €

  • Divorce in Europe
    Dimitri Mortelmans
    This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contai...
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    76,84 €

  • Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
    Nico Keilman / Tommy Bengtsson
    This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological perspectives. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, prob...
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    87,83 €

  • Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting
    Nico Keilman / Tommy Bengtsson
    This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as behavioural and biological perspectives. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, prob...
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    73,47 €

  • Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling
    Eric Silverman
    This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sci...
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    64,14 €

  • Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling
    Eric Silverman
    This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain. The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life and population biology, then demonstrates the growing popularity and relevance of these methods in the social sci...
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    78,50 €

  • Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
    James W Vaupel / Kenneth Land / Roland Rau
    The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach may be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information about the mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis su...
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    57,94 €

  • Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
    James W Vaupel / Kenneth Land / Roland Rau
    The goal of this book is simple: We would like to show how mortality dynamics can be visualized in the so-called Lexis diagram. To appeal to as many potential readers as possible, we do not require any specialist knowledge. This approach may be disappointing: Demographers may have liked more information about the mathematical underpinnings of population dynamics on the Lexis su...
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    73,46 €

  • Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census
    William P O’Hare
    This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as 'differential undercount', by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur. In addition to focusing on measuring census coverage for several demographic characteristics, includin...
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    57,87 €

  • Differential Undercounts in the U.S. Census
    William P O’Hare
    This open access book describes the differences in US census coverage, also referred to as 'differential undercount', by showing which groups have the highest net undercounts and which groups have the greatest undercount differentials, and discusses why such undercounts occur. In addition to focusing on measuring census coverage for several demographic characteristics, includin...
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    73,38 €

  • Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
    Gilbert Ritschard / Matthias Studer
    This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as well as the methodological contributions proposed in this book pay special attent...
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    68,41 €

  • Sensitivity Analysis
    Hal Caswell
    This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate population models. Methods are presented for linear and nonlinear, deterministic and...
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    72,18 €

  • Sensitivity Analysis
    Hal Caswell
    This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate population models. Methods are presented for linear and nonlinear, deterministic and...
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    86,54 €

  • Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches
    Gilbert Ritschard / Matthias Studer
    This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as well as the methodological contributions proposed in this book pay special attent...
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    83,93 €

  • An American Idyll
    Cornelia Stratton Parker
    An American Idyll: The Life Of Carleton H. ParkerThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, form...
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    13,46 €

  • Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education
    Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for thinki...
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    54,37 €

  • Living on Thin Ice
    Steven C Dinero
    The Gwich'in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial, others suggest a weakening of what was once a strong and vibrant Nativ...
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    44,69 €

  • Reclaiming the Forest
    The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as "keepers of reindeer" as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Ewenki neighbors in Russian Siberia. Though to some their future seems problematic, this book focuses on the present, challenging the pessimistic outlook, reviewing current issues, and descr...
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    44,72 €

  • An Essay On The Principle Of Population
    Thomas Robert Malthus
    An Essay On The Principle Of Population: As It Affects The Future Improvement Of Society With Remarks On The Speculations Of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, And Other Writers.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we ...
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    14,57 €

  • L'Accroissement de la population française
    Charles Richet
    “... Avant d’entrer dans le détail des chiffres lamentables qui mettent en pleine lumière la diminution extrême des naissances françaises, il faut prouver que la puissance et la richesse d’un peuple sont proportionnelles au chiffre de sa population. Certains économistes ont soutenu le contraire ; mais les raisons qu’ils donnent paraissent insuffisantes. Nous allons d’abord les ...
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    8,54 €

  • State Profiles 2019
    Hannah Anderson Krog
    State Profiles 2019 provides a completely updated ten-page profile for each U.S. state plus the District of Columbia provides reliable, up-to-date information on a wide range of topics, including: population, labor force, income and poverty, government finances, crime, education, health insurance, voting, marital status, migration, and more. ...
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    262,82 €

  • Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else?
    This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South. ...
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    152,52 €

  • Lone Star Suburbs
    How is it that nearly 90 percent of the Texan population currently lives in metropolitan regions, but many Texans still embrace and promote a vision of their state’s nineteenth-century rural identity? This is one of the questions the editors and contributors to Lone Star Suburbs confront. One answer, they contend, may be the long shadow cast by a Texas myth that has served the ...
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    35,40 €

  • Millennials in America 2019, Third Edition
    Robert L. Scardamalia / Robert LScardamalia
    This completely updated third edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the Millennial generation. While the Baby Boom generation occupies much of our social and political dialogue, the Millennial generation is actually a larger generation. As the Boomers age, their numbers will decrease ...
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    160,68 €

  • The Who, What, and Where of America
    Deirdre Gaquin
    The Who, What, and Where of America is designed to provide a sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more. Who: Age, Race and Ethnicity, and Household StructureWhat: Education, Employment, and IncomeWhere: Migration, Housing, and Transpor...
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    193,95 €

  • History of the German element in Virginia (Volume I)
    Herrmann Schuricht
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    15,51 €

  • The settlement of the German coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German descent
    J. Hanno Deiler
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    9,08 €

  • Financial Services Sector Protection and Homeland Security
    Frank R. Spellman / Frank RSpellman / Frank Spellman
    The financial services sector is critical to the economy and represents a vital component of our nation’s critical infrastructure. Financial Services Sector Protection and Homeland Security provides readers with an understanding of the challenges and potential threats faced by this sector. ...
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    133,28 €

  • The History of Social Change in America
    Susan Ockert
    The History of Social Change in America provides readers with a compelling portrait of American society and how it has changed over the years. It contains current and historical information, insightful analysis, and easy-to-read graphs. Social change is defined as an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change may include changes in nature, social institutions, s...
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    123,44 €

  • Det nationalistiska manifestet
    Greg Johnson
    Ett spöke hemsöker världen - nationalismens spöke...Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Orbán, Salvini: Vit identitetspolitik är på frammarsch. Trots att hela det politiska etablissemanget, från höger till vänster, understödjer globalism så sveper en våg av nationalism över hela Europa och har placerat Donald Trump i Vita huset.I Det nationalistiska manifestet försvarar Greg Johnson den ytt...
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    21,00 €


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