Befolkning & demografi

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 The acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of The Road to Somewhere 'Brilliant, will become a classic' Daily Telegraph 'Utterly compelling ... one of the most important in...

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Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still ...

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Despite the fact that international migration continues to rise higher and higher on the political agenda, the issue is often either misunderstood or misrepresented by the media. In this Very Short Introduction, Khalid Koser provides an objective ...

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A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another-from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. There are currently six generat...

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Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis of ancient DNA from human genomes. In this book, Stephen Shennan presents the latest res...

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This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a bett...

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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister st...

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'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birt...

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The ultimate, comprehensive guide to official country data and statistics, from the worlds most sophisticated intelligence-gathering organisation. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2023-2024 offers complete and up-to-date inform...

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City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approache...

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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard...

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For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation...

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Thomas Robert Malthus räknas som en av de mest inflytelserika klassiska ekonomerna. I sin berömda "En avhandling om befolkningslagen" (1798) - som hjälpte Charles Darwin att formulera teorin om det naturliga urvalet - tecknar han en dyst...

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An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet h...

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An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the s...

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För Sverige inom nuvarande gränser saknas folkmängdsuppgifter eller är svårtillgängliga för äldre tid. I olika handböcker cirkulerar totalsiffror på folkmängden 1571 och cirka 1630, men bara för de områden som vid den tiden tillhörde Sverige. Tätb...

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As the world's population continues to grow at a rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains ever more importance. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resou...

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From Simon & Schuster, Life and Death of a Druid Prince by Anne Ross and Don Robbins examine how the discovery of Lindow Man revealed the secrets of a lost civilization. This thrilling human drama and spellbinding scientific discovery—the mo...

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Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel...

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The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the sco...

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With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansass smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinati...

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The revised fourth edition of Migration Theory continues to offer a one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration. Editors Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield remain committed to include coverage that is comparative and global i...

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The notion of immigrant integration is used everywhere by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding unity from diversity after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle wa...

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Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is ...

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This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled. Hardin suggests radical approaches to overpopulation and considers the consequences. This book is an intellectual feast that will enrage, disturb,...

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Garrett Hardin, one of the leading thinkers on the problem of human overpopulation, and the originator of the concepts of "the tragedy of the commons" and "lifeboat ethics," addresses the arguments from economists about continued "sustainable" gro...

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This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.

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Runt om i världen har skilda slag av kyrkoanteckningar lämnat sina spår. Den gängse uppfattningen av kyrkböckerna som en produkt främst av stormaktstidens samhällssyn med överhet, politisk och social kontroll, utskrivning av soldater etc, behåller...

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Jordens befolkning har de senaste 50 åren ökat med över fyra miljarder människor. Hur har det gått till? Är det för att vi lever längre eller för att vi skaffar fler barn? Är befolkningsökning positivt eller negativt? Varför domineras vissa befolk...

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Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have ...

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