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  • Reclaiming the Forest
    'This is an exciting, finely crafted edited collection which focuses on a group of Ewenki who are poorly known in the English language literature . . . The volume is evenly balanced with both academic and literary contributions by local Ewenki authors.' · David Anderson, University of Aberdeen'This book is a valuable contribution to the anthropology of northern Eurasian peoples...
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    184,44 €

  • Fertility and Scarcity in America
    Peter H. Lindert / Peter HLindert
    Scholars have charged population growth with lowering aggregate income per capita, depleting natural resources, reducing the quality of the environment, and causing more unequal distribution of income. Maintaining that the order of these concerns should be reversed, Peter H. Lindert emphasizes the tendency of higher fertility and population growth to heighten economic inequalit...
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    92,20 €

  • Singapore Perspectives 2014
    Singapore's demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to navigate the many differences in the country's ancestral, social and cultural affiliations even as they embarked on the urgent task of nation-building. A decade into the new century, many of the country's traditional understandings o...
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    46,00 €

  • The Population of Malaysia (Second Edition)
    Swee-Hock Saw
    The second edition of this book presents a most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the multiracial population of Malaysia, with painstaking effort and skill of the author in interpreting the vast array of materials and statistics at his disposal. The strength of the book lies in the author’s deep familiarity with the country where he was educated up to secondary level, ta...
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    46,90 €

  • Advances in Population Research
    Luke Chesterton
    This book explains upcoming aspects of population growth. It has been written by qualified and professional authors. This book seeks to explore the problems, reasons, and the impact of population growth on human life as well as earth. This book focuses on some of the very crucial aspects such as disease spread and control, problems related to female literacy and maternal mortal...
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    181,26 €

  • The World’s Population
    Fred Shelley
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    142,53 €

  • Feminisms and Ruralities
    Barbara Pini / Berit Brandth / Jo Little
    Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality depend on intersections of several identities in each individual life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the majority of feminist academics or at least their urban positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be tha...
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    141,54 €

  • Second Generations on the Move in Italy
    Roberta Ricucci
    The children of immigrants are growing and embarking on adult life. What are their expectations? With what qualifications do they face the world of work? What is their relationship with their origins? Above all, how does Italian society view them? Through the voices of the protagonists themselves, Second Generations on the Move in Italy: Children of Immigrants Coming of Age off...
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    131,94 €

  • Fertility, Education, Growth, and Sustainability
    David de La Croix
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    40,58 €

  • Post-Cosmopolitan Cities
    'What emerges as common features of these cities mark their unique contribution to an understanding of cosmopolitanism as ideal and practice, raising crucial questions about who is or can be cosmopolitan and where cosmopolitanism is in the world. Loosely connected by their orientation to both Europe and Asia, the shifting valences of this outlook over time have important conseq...
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    44,48 €

  • Recruiting and Training Genocidal Soldiers
    Greg Procknow / Gregory Procknow
    Human resource development (HRD) has contributed nothing to the historical archaeology of genocide. Furthermore, HRD theory has never been used by history educationists, social scientists, or comparative genocide researchers to reorganize and review the historical record relating to genocidal curriculums through an HRD lens to make better sense of the madness that genocides per...
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    33,71 €

  • Population Studies
    The scope of Population Studies as a discipline has expanded beyond its traditional focus on the three components of population and their dynamics - fertility, mortality and migration. It encompasses broader themes, including reproductive health and rights, gender and other social and cultural dimensions of population dynamics, human development and health and climate change. P...
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    70,77 €

  • A World of Populations
    'I learned something new on almost every page of A World of Populations, despite having worked very closely in this field. The case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, offering new geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued and curious about demography and world population all over again.' · Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of Glo...
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    184,23 €

  • Proclivity to Genocide
    Grace O. Okoye / Grace OOkoye
    This book examines proclivity to genocide in the protracted killings that have continued for decades in the northern Nigeria ethno-religious conflict, spanning from the 1966 northern Nigeria massacres of thousands of Ibos up to the present, ongoing killings between extremist Muslims and Christians or non-Muslims in the region. It explores the ethnic and religious dimensions of ...
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    148,28 €

  • From Provinces into Nations
    Susan Cotts Watkins
    Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe. In most of the fifteen countries examined here, differences in marital fertility, illegitimacy, and marriage from one province (counties, cantons, arrondissements) to another diminished considerably. From Provinces into Nations describes this shift to greater national demogr...
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    61,10 €

  • The British Fertility Decline
    Michael S. Teitelbaum / Michael STeitelbaum
    Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S. Teitelbaum assesses the dramatic decline in British fertility from 1841 to 1931 in terms of social transformations associated with the Industrial Revolution. His book is an intensive analysis of the British case at both county and national levels.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the l...
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    66,48 €

  • Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait
    Caroline B. Brettell / Caroline BBrettell
    The author examines not only the imbalance in the marital fortunes of men and women but its effect on the roles of women in the community.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve ...
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    83,65 €

  • Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
    Jamil Khader
    This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as 'actually-existing colonialisms.' These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial women writers such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Louise Erdrich, Aurora Levins Mora...
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    66,81 €

  • Job Placements and Job Shifts in China
    Lijuan Wu
     The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes — individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s. Using the longitudinal data of China Health and Nutrition Survey, the aut...
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    93,92 €

  • Access to Inequality
    Amy E. Stich / Amy EStich
    Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization, the postsecondary system is still charged with high levels of inequal...
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    63,07 €

  • The Dark Side of Nation States
    Philipp Ther
    Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely or...
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    184,10 €

  • Century and Some Change
    Ann Nixon Cooper
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    13,88 €

  • Domesticating Youth
    Sophie Roche
    Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a 'youth bulge' increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward s...
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    184,05 €

  • The Abbey of St. Gall as a Centre of Literature and Art
    J. M. Clark / JMClark
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    44,14 €

  • Disrupting Science
    Kelly Moore
    In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells the story of how scientists formed...
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    42,99 €

  • Migration and Remittances from Mexico
    Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States.The first part of the book provides an overview of three recent surveys, all carried out in Mexico. The surveys consider international...
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    63,62 €

  • Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription
    Andrew J. Pierce / Andrew JPierce
    Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way of a modified discourse ethic, demonstrating that it can provide the foundation f...
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    64,38 €

  • BEYOND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDENDS
    FANG CAI
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    118,15 €

  • Materializing Poverty
    Erin B. Taylor / Erin BTaylor
    Poverty is generally defined as a lack of material resources. However, the relationships that poor people have with their possessions are not just about deprivation. Material things play a positive role in the lives of poor people: they help people to build social relationships, address inequalities, and fulfill emotional needs. In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Tay...
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    130,71 €

  • The Flexible Imagination
    William H. Leggett / William HLeggett / William Leggett
    The Flexible Imagination: At Work in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia is a behind-the-scenes ethnography examining the social interactions between individuals from different cultural and national backgrounds who work together in the halls of some of the most notorious Fortune 500 corporations out of Southeast Asia. In the transnational corporate spaces ...
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    125,39 €


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