{"title":"Population and demography Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"end-game-tipping-point-for-planet-earth-9780007548170","title":"End Game Tipping Point for Planet Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when vast population growth endangers the world’s food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet’s biodiversity? What happens if these all become critical at once? Just what is our future?\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Just because we have collectively lost interest in the doom clock doesn't mean it has stopped ticking … Barnosky and Hadly are serious players … When tipping points are reached, the change can be violent as well as sudden … you cannot fault the authors' determination to try to warn us’ Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘In ‘End Game’, academics Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly eloquently lay out the ecological perils we face, deftly showing how they might segue into food and water shortages, disease, resource wars and mass migrations … Now we know the challenges for the 21st century; we just need to act’ Fred Pearce, New Scientist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832396628311,"sku":"9780007548170","price":7.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780007548170.jpg?v=1710332107"},{"product_id":"covid19-9780349128351","title":"COVID19","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn accessible, authoritative book about the coronavirus pandemic by a leading journalist on the subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order \u003c\/b\u003ethan Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an\u003cb\u003e authoritative yet readable \u003c\/b\u003eexplanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don't change -- Tim Harford, author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, ADAPT and MESSY\u003cbr\u003eThis definitely deserves a read -\u003cb\u003e the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she's talking about\u003c\/b\u003e -- Laura Spinney, Author of PALE RIDER: THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918 AND HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eImpressively paced and comprehensive\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcellent \u003c\/b\u003e. . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eI loved this book. \u003cb\u003eFast-paced, engaging, couldn't put it down. A heart-pounding telling of the misadventures that led to one of the worst pandemics in history.\u003c\/b\u003e A story that we all think we know, but don't. And a story whose lessons, if unlearned, we will be condemned to repeat -- Dr Paul Offit, Author of PANDORA'S LAB and VACCINATED, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating behind the scenes look\u003c\/b\u003e ... If someone asks you why the COVID-19 epidemic happened and how we can prevent the next one, hand them this book -- Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Diego, and co-author of THE PERFET PREDATOR: A SCIENTIST'S RACE TO SAVE HER HUSBAND FROM A DEADLY SUPERBUG\u003cbr\u003eA vivid account of the origins and fortunes of coronavirus, warning that worse may be yet to come ... Charting the etiology and course of the virus, MacKenzie observes that nearly everything about its origins and spread offers lessons on how \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e to act when the next pandemic comes ... \u003cb\u003eEssential, enlightening reading\u003c\/b\u003e in a time of panic and plague -- Starred review * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMacKenzie wisely leaves the specifics of who got what wrong when for another day\u003c\/b\u003e. Instead, she focuses on the scientists and philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, who tried to alert the world to the threat ... Until we repair our injured planet and address the linked issues of globalisation and the disruption of animal habitats, Sars-CoV-2 is unlikely to be the last pandemic virus; MacKenzie also cautions that \"hindsight helps you win the next battle, not the last one\" * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eDebora MacKenzie is a leading science journalist, with vast experience writing about pandemic threats and neglected diseases. She uses her background to hit the ground running on one of the first books written on the emergence of COVID-19. As politicians and elected leaders increasingly work to change the narrative on COVID-19 on their steps to first contain and mitigate the pandemic, Debora's efforts lay it all out in stark terms -- Dr Peter Hotez, Author of VACCINES DID NOT CAUSE RACHEL’S AUTISM, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine\u003cbr\u003eSo often, people look at the nature of disease in the midst of an outbreak when, really, it's the interaction between the disease and people that matters. That is at the heart of epidemiology, and it's what MacKenzie does beautifully in her book. Whether it's cultural practices with animals like bats, or the fear and delay in labeling it pandemic, to a woeful lack of funding for public health and vaccine research, or the misguided notion that disease will recognize boundaries just because people do-\u003cb\u003eMacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective \u003c\/b\u003eand, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next one -- Molly Crosby, author of THE AMERICAN PLAGUE, ASLEEP and THE GREAT PEARL HEIST\u003cbr\u003eSome people write interesting autobiographical recollections of people, places, and events, while others offer an extensive and comprehensive anthology of a topic area. Deborah Mackenzie has not only succeeded in doing both in a single volume, but in a manner that is\u003cb\u003e immensely engaging\u003c\/b\u003e ... an excellent work for general consumption as well as for those already involved in communicable disease control, microbiology, epidemiology, and medical journalism. In our present climate of regrettable tweets, unverified facts, and deliberate misinformation, this timely book provides \u003cb\u003ea delightful and important excursion into the world of outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tim Sly, epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Ryerson University's School of Public Health\u003cbr\u003eQuickly spiralling from a local outbreak to a global crisis, Debora MacKenzie provides \u003cb\u003ea down-to-earth account of how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out so far \u003c\/b\u003eand, crucially, how the world can be better prepared for the ever-present risk of another epidemic -- Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\u003cbr\u003eScience journalist MacKenzie delivers\u003cb\u003e a wise and accurate account\u003c\/b\u003e of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplying readers with an objective assessment of where we are, how we got here, and how to prepare for future emerging infections * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eIt's difficult for any fellow journalist not to feel a deep professional respect, tinged with awe, for the sheer depth of knowledge and expertise she brings to what is her first book, and for the fast-paced, well-structured and highly accessible style in which she tells the Covid-19 story * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eFor deep understanding of the years of policy mistakes, the ignored warnings and the viruses lurking as we invade ever more ecosystems, turn to Debora MacKenzie's \u003cb\u003emagnificent\u003c\/b\u003e COVID-19. Read about the Nipah virus and see what a civilisation-threatening pandemic might be like. Be afraid. * New Scientist *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833053561175,"sku":"9780349128351","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349128351.jpg?v=1710341254"},{"product_id":"stopping-the-next-pandemic-9780349128375","title":"Stopping the Next Pandemic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''You could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who''s been on this story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable explanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don''t change''\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Harford, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Undercover Economist, Adapt\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Messy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This definitely deserves a read - the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she''s talking about''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Spinney, author of \u003ci\u003ePale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order \u003c\/b\u003ethan Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an\u003cb\u003e authoritative yet readable \u003c\/b\u003eexplanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don't change -- Tim Harford, author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, ADAPT and MESSY\u003cbr\u003eThis definitely deserves a read -\u003cb\u003e the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she's talking about\u003c\/b\u003e -- Laura Spinney, Author of PALE RIDER: THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918 AND HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eImpressively paced and comprehensive\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcellent \u003c\/b\u003e. . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eI loved this book. \u003cb\u003eFast-paced, engaging, couldn't put it down. A heart-pounding telling of the misadventures that led to one of the worst pandemics in history.\u003c\/b\u003e A story that we all think we know, but don't. And a story whose lessons, if unlearned, we will be condemned to repeat -- Dr Paul Offit, Author of PANDORA'S LAB and VACCINATED, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating behind the scenes look\u003c\/b\u003e ... If someone asks you why the COVID-19 epidemic happened and how we can prevent the next one, hand them this book -- Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Diego, and co-author of THE PERFET PREDATOR: A SCIENTIST'S RACE TO SAVE HER HUSBAND FROM A DEADLY SUPERBUG\u003cbr\u003eA vivid account of the origins and fortunes of coronavirus, warning that worse may be yet to come ... Charting the etiology and course of the virus, MacKenzie observes that nearly everything about its origins and spread offers lessons on how \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e to act when the next pandemic comes ... \u003cb\u003eEssential, enlightening reading\u003c\/b\u003e in a time of panic and plague -- Starred review * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMacKenzie wisely leaves the specifics of who got what wrong when for another day\u003c\/b\u003e. Instead, she focuses on the scientists and philanthropists, such as Bill Gates, who tried to alert the world to the threat ... Until we repair our injured planet and address the linked issues of globalisation and the disruption of animal habitats, Sars-CoV-2 is unlikely to be the last pandemic virus; MacKenzie also cautions that \"hindsight helps you win the next battle, not the last one\" * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eDebora MacKenzie is a leading science journalist, with vast experience writing about pandemic threats and neglected diseases. She uses her background to hit the ground running on one of the first books written on the emergence of COVID-19. As politicians and elected leaders increasingly work to change the narrative on COVID-19 on their steps to first contain and mitigate the pandemic, Debora's efforts lay it all out in stark terms -- Dr Peter Hotez, Author of VACCINES DID NOT CAUSE RACHEL’S AUTISM, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine\u003cbr\u003eSo often, people look at the nature of disease in the midst of an outbreak when, really, it's the interaction between the disease and people that matters. That is at the heart of epidemiology, and it's what MacKenzie does beautifully in her book. Whether it's cultural practices with animals like bats, or the fear and delay in labeling it pandemic, to a woeful lack of funding for public health and vaccine research, or the misguided notion that disease will recognize boundaries just because people do-\u003cb\u003eMacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective \u003c\/b\u003eand, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next one -- Molly Crosby, author of THE AMERICAN PLAGUE, ASLEEP and THE GREAT PEARL HEIST\u003cbr\u003eSome people write interesting autobiographical recollections of people, places, and events, while others offer an extensive and comprehensive anthology of a topic area. Deborah Mackenzie has not only succeeded in doing both in a single volume, but in a manner that is\u003cb\u003e immensely engaging\u003c\/b\u003e ... an excellent work for general consumption as well as for those already involved in communicable disease control, microbiology, epidemiology, and medical journalism. In our present climate of regrettable tweets, unverified facts, and deliberate misinformation, this timely book provides \u003cb\u003ea delightful and important excursion into the world of outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tim Sly, epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Ryerson University's School of Public Health\u003cbr\u003eQuickly spiralling from a local outbreak to a global crisis, Debora MacKenzie provides \u003cb\u003ea down-to-earth account of how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out so far \u003c\/b\u003eand, crucially, how the world can be better prepared for the ever-present risk of another epidemic -- Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine\u003cbr\u003eScience journalist MacKenzie delivers\u003cb\u003e a wise and accurate account\u003c\/b\u003e of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplying readers with an objective assessment of where we are, how we got here, and how to prepare for future emerging infections * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eIt's difficult for any fellow journalist not to feel a deep professional respect, tinged with awe, for the sheer depth of knowledge and expertise she brings to what is her first book, and for the fast-paced, well-structured and highly accessible style in which she tells the Covid-19 story * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eFor deep understanding of the years of policy mistakes, the ignored warnings and the viruses lurking as we invade ever more ecosystems, turn to Debora MacKenzie's \u003cb\u003emagnificent\u003c\/b\u003e COVID-19. Read about the Nipah virus and see what a civilisation-threatening pandemic might be like. Be afraid. * New Scientist *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47833053921623,"sku":"9780349128375","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349128375.jpg?v=1710341259"},{"product_id":"london-labour-and-the-london-poor-9781840226195","title":"London Labour and the London Poor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. 'To pass from one to the other', writes one authority,' is to cross sides of the same street'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wordsworth Editions Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850813784407,"sku":"9781840226195","price":6.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781840226195.jpg?v=1710622012"},{"product_id":"head-hand-heart-9780141990415","title":"Head Hand Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed new book from the celebrated author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Road to Somewhere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brilliant, will become a classic'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Utterly compelling ... one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known: that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers and cleaners are doing essential work that keeps us all alive, fed and cared for. Until recently much of this work was regarded as menial by the the same society that now lauds them as ''key workers''. Why are they so undervalued?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this timely and original analysis, David Goodhart divides human aptitudes into three: Head (cognitive), Hand (manual and craft) and Heart (caring, emotional). It''s common sense that a good society needs to recognise the valu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUtterly compelling ... Goodhart is one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe. He has consistently been ahead of the curve, no doubt because of his willingness to point out flaws in our liberal consensus before it was fashionable to do so * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant ... a book every MP should read ... \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic and I think \u003ci\u003eHead Hand Heart\u003c\/i\u003e will become a classic too. -- Kenneth Baker * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eVoices the predicament of those whose dream - to live an ordinary, decent life - is often thwarted by a cognitive-obsessed society that disdains those who are not natural exam-passers -- James Bloodworth * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eGoodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the 'knowledge economy', as the age of automation approaches ...  by highlighting dimensions of life and work that have been stripped of prestige in an age of individualism, he performs a valuable service. -- Julian Coman * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eGoodhart and his publishers may reflect on the freakishly good fortune of the book's timing ... joins the dots of Britain's current cultural and economic malaises. Goodhart is impassioned and hopeful, but the underlying ideological message is stark -- William Davies * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIt's a topsy-turvy world where the work of the heart and hand is undervalued. It's time for a radical rethink in what we value - and Goodhart's book is a part of this urgent endeavour -- Nicci Gerrard\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goodhart - the man who made the words \"anywheres\" and \"somewheres\" must-use terms of reference - turns his searching gaze and his genius for pithy formulation to another cause of division in the West: the fact that, as he puts it, \"smart people have become too powerful. -- Tom Holland\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goodhart is among the most insightful analysts of Anglo-American society, and of why the elites in our two countries so badly misunderstand the values, needs, and worth of most citizens. If you dream of a society that is more just and humane, offering more people more routes to dignity, prosperity, and happiness, then you will love \u003ci\u003eHead, Hand, Heart\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jonathan Haidt\u003cbr\u003eGoodhart argues compellingly that an overvaluation of the role of cognitive elites in government and society has blinded us to the importance of the caring professions and vocations based on practical skills. Presenting an agenda that has become all the more urgent since the pandemic, \u003ci\u003eHead, Hand and Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful successor to Goodhart's hugely influential \u003ci\u003eRoad to Somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e. For anyone concerned with the state of politics and society, this is a real must-read -- John Gray\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goodhart means to start a reformation. With great clarity and unfailing sympathy for the human condition, he charts a path toward a society in which a fuller range of aptitudes will receive the recognition they are due. * Matthew Crawford *\u003cbr\u003eAn uplifting book, celebrating wisdom and virtue. And a hopeful book at just the time when we need it -- Paul Collier\u003cbr\u003eDavid Goodhart is one of Britain's most influential thinkers...\u003ci\u003eHead, Hand, Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Goodhart - compelling, challenging, evidence-led. It throws light on how our social fabric is coming apart and why some groups have good reason to feel left behind and left out. When people ask me how we can fix our divided societies I give them two words: read Goodhart -- Matthew Goodwin, Sunday Times bestselling author of National Populism\u003cbr\u003eIn a book that offers an entertaining and educative amalgam of political and sociocultural insight, statistical data, and crisp opinion, the author digs deeply into the different capacities of human intelligence and how, in global societies, the perception of intellect has mutated into a hierarchical plateau with differing levels of status and influence... A thoughtful, commanding analysis that applauds essential workers and cognitive diversity * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eA provocative and probing account... a deeply felt and persuasive call for rethinking the social order * Publishers Weekly *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732512223575,"sku":"9780141990415","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141990415.jpg?v=1719997206"},{"product_id":"war-work-and-want-9780197657690","title":"War Work and Want","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago created a world that is addicted to mass migration.The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle Eastern politics; and it set in train processes that led to over one hundred million unexpected--and unwanted--immigrants. In War, Work, and Want, Randall Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. The answer, he argues, lies in how the OPEC Oil crisis transformed the global economy, Middle Eastern geopolitics and, as a consequence, international migration. The quadrupling of oil prices and attendant inflation destroyed economic growth in the West while flooding the Middle East with oil money. American and European consumers, their wealth drained, rebuilt their standard of living on the back of cheap labor--and cheap migrants. The Middle East enjoyed the benefits of a historic wealth transfer, b\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRandall Hansen has written a panoramic and passionate book that casts global political and economic history after 1973 in a new light. Alongside a deft and richly informed argument about the destabilizing consequences of wars and shifts in government policies as well as recurrent hostility toward immigrant newcomers, he never loses sight of the impact on successive generations who labored for low wages in the globalized economy. His book has the hallmarks of a classic. * Peter Gatrell, University Of Manchester, And Author Of The Unsettling Of Europe: How Migration Reshaped A Continent *\u003cbr\u003eThe depth of my disagreement with Hansen's conclusions about immigration is matched only by my admiration for his intellectual curiosity and the rigor of his historical scholarship. This book is a page turner. * David Goodhart, Author Of Head Hand Heart: The Struggle For Dignity And Status In The 21st Century *\u003cbr\u003eIn this magnificent book, Randall Hansen shows how one event, the 1973 oil crisis, has changed the world. In the West, it sent capitalism into a low-wage spiral that made life cheaper for the middle classes, but on the backs of exploited migrant workers at home and abroad. In the Middle East, the sudden oil riches produced war, instability, and refugees far beyond the region, with no end in sight. That history is events explained by other events, has never been more powerfully demonstrated. * Christian Joppke, University Of Bern, And Author Of Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration And The Rise Of The Populist Right *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface            Chapter 1: Introduction           Chapter 2: Prussians and Jews: The Six-Day War and Its Aftermath   Chapter 3: The Great Revaluation: OPEC        Chapter 4: Black Gold: Wealth and Immigration in the Middle East    Chapter 5: Oil in Oil-Poor States: Egypt         Chapter 6: Oil's Curses: Iran and Iraq        Chapter 7: Drunk on Oil and Gas: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan    Chapter 8: No Blood for Oil: Iraq, 1990        Chapter 9: The Taliban, 9\/11, and the Second Iraq War  Chapter 10: The Arab Nightmare: Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Global Displacement in the 2010s    Chapter 11: ISIL and the European Refugee Crisis       Chapter 12: Expensive Oil, Cheap Goods        Chapter 13: The Assault on Working-Class Wages       Chapter 14: Where We Shop          Chapter 15: What We Eat I: The Rise and Fall of Meatpacking Unions    Chapter 16: What We Eat II: Immigration and the Meatpacking Industry    Chapter 17: What We Eat III: Fish, Fruit, and Vegetables    Chapter 18: Where We Live I: Migrants in the US Construction Business    Chapter 19: Where We Live II: Building Europe       Chapter 20: Where We Live III: Asia        Chapter 21: How We Live: Keeping our Houses, Raising our Children    Chapter 22: What We Wear          Conclusion: Back to the Future: Inflation, the Global Economy, and Migration in the 2020s Notes  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732669739351,"sku":"9780197657690","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"demographic-methods-and-concepts-9780198752639","title":"Demographic Methods and Concepts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the commonly needed techniques for working with population statistics, irrespective of the reader's mathematical background. This book provides concepts and strategies needed in the interpretation of demographic indices and data. It includes a CD-ROM containing integrated learning modules and applications facilitating demographic studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A key feature of the text is a diskette that contains Microsoft Excel-based programs for illustrating and doing fundamental demographic calculations (life tables, growth rates, standardization, and so forth)...The book is a very good compendium of basic demography that clearly is based on the author's practical teaching experience. It has re-opened for me the possibility of successfully teaching demographic methods to students not primarily interested in population studies. I look forward to using it'. Population Studies, Vol.58, No.2, 2004, pp255-256.\u003cbr\u003e'Demographic Methods and Concepts is likely to have such a broader readership, since it is designed to serve also as a self-contained introduction and instructional manual on its subject. It is well written (enlivened with apt quotations from Graunt) and requires little mathematical backround. The graphics are excellent. Fully up-tp-date in terms of 'desktop demography, it has bibliographies that cater to the internet generation as well as to old-style page turners, numerous spreadsheet exercises, and an attached CD-ROM containing excel modules linked to the text'. Population and Development Review 2003.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEACH CHAPTER CONTAINS STUDY RESOURCES INCLUDING GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS, FURTHER READING, INTERNET RESOURCES, EXERCISES, AND SPREADSHEET EXERCISES; SECTION 1. POPULATION DYNAMICS; SECTION 2. ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; SECTION 3. VITAL PROCESSES; SECTION 4. DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS; SECTION 5. SPATIAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES; SECTION 6. APPLIED DEMOGRAPHY; APPENDICES; A: BASIC MATHS; B: USING THE EXCEL MODULES; C: INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL; D: ANSWERS TO EXERCISES","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732777578839,"sku":"9780198752639","price":60.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198752639.jpg?v=1719998356"},{"product_id":"an-essay-on-the-principle-of-population-oxford-worlds-classics-9780199540457","title":"An Essay on the Principle of Population Oxford","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732855042391,"sku":"9780199540457","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199540457.jpg?v=1719998686"},{"product_id":"malthus-a-very-short-introduction-very-short-introductions-9780199670413","title":"Malthus A Very Short Introduction Very Short","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies Malthus''s ideas, assessing the profound influence he has had on modern economic thought. Concentrating on his writings, Winch sheds light on the context in which he wrote and why his work has remained controversial. Looking at Malthus''s early life as well as the evolution of his theories from population to political economy, Winch considers why and how Malthus''s writings have been so influential in the thought of later figures such as Darwin and Keynes. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith population growth and food availability remaining major economic and social issues today, it is little wonder that Malthus ideas continue to resonate. This accessible and thorough clarification of his ideas is therefore as timely and relevant as ever. * Nicholas J. McMeniman, Australian Commonwealth Government, Political Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements ; 1. Reputation ; 2. Life ; 3. Population: the first Essay ; 4. Population: the second Essay ; 5. From population to political economy ; 6. The political economy of stable growth ; 7. Conclusion ; References ; Further reading","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732879880535,"sku":"9780199670413","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199670413.jpg?v=1719998790"},{"product_id":"why-women-are-poorer-than-men-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-9780241433171","title":"Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeel empowered with your finances and discover the route to economic equality in this astonishing dissection of the gender wealth gap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Uncovers the realities of money in the modern world'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This book will open your eyes'' \u003c\/b\u003e5***** Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Goes beyond talks of glass ceilings and gender pay gaps'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Shocking and brilliant'' \u003c\/b\u003e5***** Reader Review\u003cbr\u003e________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid you know?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNearly 70% of Britain''s homeless are women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere are more men called Dave running the UK''s top 100 companies than there are women altogether.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWomen outperform men educationally at every level from high school to PhD - but still get paid less.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this astonishing dissection of the gender wealth gap, financial journalist Annabelle Williams explains why so few women rank among the super-rich and why women are the majority of those in poverty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the personal - feeling \u0026lt;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnabelle Williams uncovers the realities of money in the modern world, and what exactly we can do about the fact that women are poorer than men\u003c\/b\u003e * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliams' book goes beyond talks of glass ceilings and gender pay gaps to a more nuanced look at the institutional oppression faced by women on a daily basis\u003c\/b\u003e * Dazed *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is refreshing to see Williams challenge well-worn sexist myths . . . These debates are now greatly enriched thanks to Williams' contribution, democratic style and energetic lightness of touch\u003c\/b\u003e * i *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTells us how to fight to be a financial feminist\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential reading for all serious feminists and 'femanists' and an important reminder that a lack of female leadership and representation at the top leads to an economic gender equality that affects all women, whatever their income level or role in society\u003c\/b\u003e * Gill Whitty-Collins, author of Why Men Win At Work *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliams is passionate in her mission to educate women about finance... the great strength of this book comes from her generosity of spirit and desire to share her considerable financial expertise, providing a practical, democratic, user-friendly guide to the world of finance\u003c\/b\u003e * i *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnabelle Williams demolishes the idea that women are just worse at negotiating pay, or choose low-wage industries\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSets out to get to the bottom of why the modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour.\u003c\/b\u003e * Stylist *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733113057623,"sku":"9780241433171","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241433171.jpg?v=1719999445"},{"product_id":"reproductive-justice-an-introduction-9780520288201","title":"Reproductive Justice  An Introduction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. This book shows how reproductive justice is a political movement of reproductive rights and social justice. It illuminates how a low-income, physically disabled woman living in West Texas with no viable public transportation, healthcare clinic, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. A Reproductive Justice History  2. Reproductive Justice in the Twenty-First Century  3. Managing Fertility  4. Reproductive Justice and the Right to Parent  Epilogue: Reproductive Justice on the Ground   Acknowledgments  Notes  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733840310615,"sku":"9780520288201","price":28.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520288201.jpg?v=1720001856"},{"product_id":"la-nueva-california-9780520292536","title":"La Nueva California","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This study suggests that the future of Latinos in California will be neither complete assimilation nor unyielding separatism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLists of Figures and Tables  Preface  Acknowledgments   1 * America Defines Latinos  2 * Latinos Reject America's Definition  3 * Washington Defines a New Nativism  4 * Latinos Define Latinos  5 * Times of Crisis  6 * Latinos Define \"American\"  7 * Creating a Regional American Identity  8 * Latino Post-Millennials  9 * Latino Post-Millennials Create America's Future   Appendix  Notes  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733841326423,"sku":"9780520292536","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520292536.jpg?v=1720001857"},{"product_id":"liberal-lives-and-activist-repertoires-9781009297530","title":"Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining political performances' spatial arrangements, casting of roles, authorization of speech, oratorical techniques, styles of movement, behavioral conventions, and audience reactions, this book shows how nineteenth-century activists innovatively connected performative forms to critical content in order to make their activism more effective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With her distinctive form of precision historiography, Tracy Davis has given us a vital and necessary addendum to the long history and ongoing project of abolitionism. Focusing primarily on the lives and work of three Victorians, Davis elaborates a theory of performance that situates seemingly minor forms of activism - hosting dinners and attending meetings, letter-writing campaigns, journalistic reportage, and speechifying - as fundamental to the cultivation of solidarity and to the momentum of political engagement. This is a wonderful book: meticulously researched, compellingly argued, and beautifully narrated.' Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego\u003cbr\u003e'How was the work of social and political reform performed? And how did performance change the means and outcomes of that activism? In this remarkable, carefully-wrought book, Tracy Davis turns our attention to the importance of dramaturgy to the work of nineteenth-century reform movements, illuminating how one scholar can find performance in everything from petitioning to letter-writing and parades. A terrific feat of scholarship.' Carolyn Eastman, Virginia Commonwealth University\u003cbr\u003e'In her compelling new study, Tracy Davis challenges preconceptions about how early activists developed and shared their strategies, revealing networks of association and exchange that traversed the globe. This book invites readers to rethink what kinds of performances constitute activism and how historians can recover traces of those spectacles in even the most unlikely places.' Heather Nathans, Tufts University\u003cbr\u003e'Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires explores the formation of the modern, liberal society through a broad variety of performative interactions. Political rhetoric, sermons, social conversations, and theatre are the foundation for this, made visible through Frederick Chesson's meticulously written diaries. Following the traces of women's and men's private lives and commitments to form public, political personae, Tracy C. Davis unfolds a broad and colourful panorama of the emergence of activism based in England but with connections to the United States, India under British rule, and a global network. Davis sets a new, inspiring standard in thinking about political performance.' Peter W. Marx, Institut für Medienkultur und Theater\u003cbr\u003e'Tracy Davis' timely and urgent study of the history of liberal campaigning in the Nineteenth Century insists on returning the question of performance to the history of activism. Drawing on the performance frames of mises en scene, repertoire and dramaturgy, Davis's excellent book reveals the performance tactics that activists deployed to make their case. This is Performance Studies at its best, revealing the theatre as a vital resource for the campaigning tactics underpinning Victorian repertoires of protest and persuasion that are still being used by activists today.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: History as Performance History; 1. Forms and Increments of Performance; 2. Change Making: Incrementalism; 3. Bildung: Leveraging Critique to Propel the Precarious into Political Life; 4. Combative Pens; 5. Experiments in Becoming.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738032976215,"sku":"9781009297530","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781009297530.jpg?v=1723811694"},{"product_id":"lifescapes-9781009199872","title":"Lifescapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is an important - and genuinely affecting - book. By focusing on how landscape was lived, made sense of, and imagined by eight 'ordinary' women and men, Burchardt offers a vital rethinking of what landscape means and does in everyday life. The result is a compelling account that artfully demonstrates how, in a period of rapid urbanisation, the countryside and the natural world remained keystones of identity, wellbeing and hope.' Carl Griffin, author of The Politics of Hunger: Protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840\u003cbr\u003e'Lifescapes explores the profound role of rural landscape in the lives of ordinary people. It offers a 'deep history of landscape' - a history attentive less to abstract cultural discourse than personal, affective, real-life experience. Few books have the potential genuinely to be described as field-defining. This is one of them.' Paul Readman, author of Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity\u003cbr\u003e'Lifescapes offers a deep history of landscape by revealing how people remembered and traced their lives in relation to the landscapes and places in which they lived. Exploring the life-histories of eight diarists living in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, Burchardt reveals the value and richness of undertaking a biographical approach to landscape history. His work makes a significant contribution to understanding our emotional attachments to landscapes in the past, while raising important questions on how we dwell and find meaning in landscapes today.' Nicola Whyte, author of Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Introduction; 1. Diaries, life writing and popular ruralism; Adherers; 2. Beatrix Cresswell: Exeter antiquarian; 3. William Henry Hallam: Swindon turner; Withdrawers; 4. Katherine Spear Smith: Hampshire artist; 5. Violet Dickinson: itinerant craftswoman; Restorers; 6. Dr John Johnston: Bolton doctor; 7. Bert Bissell: Dudley probation officer; Explorers; 8. Sadie Barmes: London clerk; 9. Fred Catley: Bristol bookseller; Conclusion: towards a deep history of landscape; Bibliography.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738517254487,"sku":"9781009199872","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781009199872.jpg?v=1720049117"},{"product_id":"the-human-tide-9781473675162","title":"The Human Tide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Superbly explained'' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Fascinating'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Engrossing'' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution - from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America''s emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to China''s meteoric economy, to Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump - can be explained better when we appreciate the meaning of demographic change across the world.\u003ci\u003eThe Human Tide\u003c\/i\u003e is the first popular history book to redress the underestimated influence of population as a crucial factor in almost all of the major global shifts and events of the last two centuries - revealing how such events are connected by the invisible mutually catalysing forces of population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis highly original hist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA readable, trenchant, up-to-date overview of the biggest story on the planet\u003c\/b\u003e * Lionel Shriver, The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngrossing\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn admirable introduction to a vital subject\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Morland has rudely awakened us to the hidden hand of demography in shaping history and politics in the modern world ... If you want to understand our times, you must read this book.\u003c\/b\u003e * Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck University of London, author of 'Whiteshift' *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating account of how much sheer population numbers have mattered in human history - and why major demographic upheavals, happening now and over the next few decades, are going to affect us all\u003c\/b\u003e * Alison Wolf *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePopulation has been historically one of the key factors that has defined  the relations between states. As Paul Morland shows in this nuanced, highly informative and rigorously argued book, it has now become the defining factor for the political dynamics \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e states. \u003ci\u003eThe Human Tide \u003c\/i\u003eshows that we live in an age of hard and soft demographic engineering\u003c\/b\u003e * Ivan Krastev *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs Morland argues arithmetically but convincingly, a society's rise or downfall is mirrored in its numbers\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRigorous and detailed\u003c\/b\u003e * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA clever analysis\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003efascinating \u003c\/b\u003eaccount of how much sheer population numbers have mattered in human history - and why major demographic upheavals, happening now and over the next few decades, are going to affect us all * Alison Wolf *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739539091799,"sku":"9781473675162","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473675162.jpg?v=1720052537"},{"product_id":"understanding-global-cultures-9781483340074","title":"Understanding Global Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the fully updated \u003cstrong\u003eSixth Edition \u003c\/strong\u003eof \u003cstrong\u003eUnderstanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 34 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity\u003c\/strong\u003e, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor as a method for understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters of nations, continents, and diversity in each nation. A cultural metaphor is any activity, phenomenon, or institution that members of a given culture consider important and with which they identify emotionally and\/or cognitively, such as the Japanese garden and American football. This cultural metaphoric approach identifies three to eight unique or distinctive features of each cultural metaphor and then discusses 34 national cultures in terms of these features. The book demonstrates how metaphors are guidelines to help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture consider important.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each one of these chapters is very detailed and the metaphor is sensible… This is a great introduction to cultural diversity for many different reasons, such as economy (Italy), religion (Malaysia), language (Belgium, plus Canada and Switzerland among many others).  It meets the demand for a business cultural geography companion text.\" -- Jorge A. Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e\"This text more thoroughly increases cultural awareness to broaden students′ perspectives of what they may encounter as they travel to different parts of the world. The chapters are well written; my students are challenged by, and maintain an interest in, the level of the book. It is a book that provides a challenge for the level of students in my course.\" -- Nancy Lyons\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the only textbook that I have found that actually discusses relevant information about contemporary cultures from all over the world…This is a wonderful text! I actually encourage other instructors to use it for their comparative cultures classes. It is easy to read and understand, discusses relevant information, and helps students become more aware of cultures that they may very well come in contact with. I will be using the next editions of this text, as it is the best I′ve found.\" -- Heather M. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall I have enjoyed the text and have found it a useful resource for myself. Students who have used it as recommended reading have also found it helpful in developing a more colorful understanding of issues from the module.  The structure of the book is good, with an appropriate break up of countries as it demonstrates that despite major visible differences the cultures in each category actually have important base characteristics.  I am glad this text is available as it supports the broad themes of my course admirably well.\" -- Patrick Meehan\u003cbr\u003e\"It is one of the most interesting textbooks in the marketplace. The authors KNOW what they are doing. I love this textbook and have been using it for years now. It is one of the only textbooks that many of my students do NOT sell back to the campus bookstore!\" -- Patrice Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\"I enjoy using this book in my classes and students also seem to like it. I get positive comments on the text in student evaluations.\" -- Alexandre Ardichvili\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is a very useful resource for any one traveling to a foreign country because it provides unique in-depth insights to cultures. Thus, I encourage students to hang onto the book as a resource in dealing with customers from these countries. What I like about the current format is that the questions and the associated answers are infinite once you dig deeper into the metaphor and then start comparing\/contrasting metaphors.\" -- Brad Koch\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fantastic book and I will continue to use it in whatever format.\" -- Jennifer Basquiat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Understanding Cultures in Depth Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Understanding Cultural Metaphors    Language Barriers    Using Cultural Metaphors    Constructing Cultural Metaphors    Using Metaphor    Reading and Using This Book    A Two-Dimensional Typology of Cultures    A Scaling Perspective    Defining Culture or Identifying Its Determinants?    When Culture Does, and Does Not, Matter Part II. Authority-Ranking Cultures Chapter 2. The Thai Kingdom    Loose Vertical Hierarchy    Freedom and Equality    The Thai Smile Chapter 3. The Japanese Garden    Corporate Cultures    Garden as Metaphor    Wa and Shikata    Seishin Training    Combining Droplets or Energies    Aesthetics    Similarities and Contrasts Chapter 4. Bedouin Jewelry and Saudi Arabia    History and Geography    The Desert Bedouins    Bold Form    Handcrafted Appearance    Traditional Design    Female Ownership Chapter 5. Dòn Gánh: The Two Sides of Vietnam    History of Occupation    The French Defeat and Division Into Two    The Metaphor: The Dualities of Dòn Gánh Chapter 6. Kimchi and Korea    South Korea    Kimchi    The 60th Birthday    Strangers by Day, Lovers by Night    Kimchi’s Public Role    The Irish of Asia Part III. Scandinavian Egalitarian Cultures Chapter 7. The Swedish Stuga    Early History    Modern Evolution    Social Democracy    The Swedish Summer Home    Love of Untrammeled Nature and Tradition    Individualism Through Self-Development    Equality Chapter 8. The Finnish Sauna    From Survival to Political and Economic Success    Sauna: A Secular “Holy” Place of Equality    Communication: Comfort With Quietude Chapter 9. The Danish Christmas Luncheon    Interdependent Individualism    Geographic Ambivalence    Coziness Part IV. Other Egalitarian Cultures Chapter 10. The German Symphony    Postwar Evolution    The Symphony Orchestra    Diversity of Musical Instruments    Positional Arrangements of the Musicians    Conductors and Leaders    Precision and Synchronicity    The Unfinished Symphony Chapter 11. Irish Conversations    Early History    English Oppression    Identifying Links    Intersection of Gaelic and English    Prayer as Conversation    A Free-Flowing Conversation: Irish Hospitality    Places of Conversations: Irish Friends and Families    Ending a Conversation Chapter 12. The Canadian Backpack and Flag    Historical Background    Egalitarianism and Outlook    The Canadian Mosaic    Canadians as Non-U.S. Americans Chapter 13. Australian Outdoor Recreational Activities    Capturing the Imagination    New Realities: Beyond Stereotypes    Barbecue    Equality Matching Among the Tall Poppies Chapter 14. French Wine    Pureness    Classification    Composition    Suitability    The Maturation Process    The Changing Portrait Part V. Market-Pricing Cultures Chapter 15. American Football    The Tailgate Party    Pregame and Halftime Entertainment    Strategy and War    Selection, the Training Camp, and the Playbook    Individual Specialized Achievement Within the Team Structure    Aggression, High Risks, and Unpredictable Outcomes    Huddling    The Church of Football and Celebrating Perfection Chapter 16. The Traditional British House    The Traditional House    History, Politics, Economics: Laying the Foundations    Growing Up British: Building the House    Being British: Living in the House Part VI. Cleft National Cultures Chapter 17. The Malaysian Balik Kampung    Returning to Nearby Roots    Authority Ranking    Reinforcing Common Values Chapter 18. The Israeli Kibbutzim and Moshavim    Zionism, Types of Judaism, and the Palestinians    A New Country    Continuous War    Religious Conflict    Explicit Values    Size and Behavioral Outcomes    Traumas, Worldview, and Personality Chapter 19. The Italian Opera    North and South    The Opera Metaphor    The Overture    Pageantry and Spectacle    Voice    Externalization    Chorus and Soloists Chapter 20. Belgian Lace    Wallonian Versus Flemish    History of Lace    A Land of Contrasts    Control    Cooperation and Harmony Part VII. Torn National Cultures Chapter 21. The Mexican Fiesta    Historical Background    The Mexican Fiesta    Primary Focus on People    The Emphasis on Religion    Experiencing the Present    Freedom Within the Social Order Chapter 22. The Turkish Coffeehouse    A Unique History    Islam and Secularity    Recreation, Communication, and Community Integration    A Male Domain    A Modest Environment    Life Outside the Coffeehouse    Looking Ahead Part VIII. The Base Culture and Its Diffusion Across Borders (Clusters of Nations): The Example of China Chapter 23. China’s Great Wall and Cross-Cultural Paradox    The Great Wall: Long, Tortuous, and Complex History    Confucianism and Taoism    Sun Tzu, War, and the Marketplace Chapter 24. The Chinese Family Altar: The Expatriate Chinese Outside of China    The Importance of Family    The Expatriate Chinese    Roundness    Harmony    Fluidity Chapter 25. The Singapore Hawker Centers    Origins of the Hawker Centers    Singapore’s History    Ethnic Diversity but Unity    Efficiency    The Power of Women    Safety    Synthesizing Traditional and New Values Part IX. India: Tradition, Modernity, and Diversity Chapter 26. India: The Dance of Shiva    Shiva’s Dance    Indian Culture: Early History    Cyclical Hindu Philosophy    The Cycle of Life    The Family Cycle    The Cycle of Social Interaction    The Work and Recreation (Rejuvenation) Cycle Chapter 27. India: A Kaleidoscope of Diversity    The Kaleidoscope of Religions and Cultural Celebrations    Images of Festivals and Feasts    Cell Phones, Call Centers, and Curriculum: Images of Change    The Changing Image of Cricket Part X. An African Perspective Chapter 28. The Nigerian Marketplace    Diversity    Social Dynamism    Balancing Tradition and Change Chapter 29. South African Townships    An Insider’s View    An Outsider’s View Chapter 30. The Sub-Saharan African Bush Taxi    Basic Operations    A Short History of Africa    African Time Orientation and Fatalism    Communalism and Community Sharing    Hierarchy in African Society: Seating Arrangements in the Bush Taxi Part XI. The Struggle for Cultural Identity and the Splintering of Nations: The Case of the Russian Empire Chapter 31. Russian Ballet    An Apt Metaphor    A Flourishing Art    Echelons of the Ballet    Drama and Realism    The Russian Soul Chapter 32. Estonian Singing    Lyrics, or the Painful History of the Proud Nation    Vocalists, or Simple Pleasures Inspired by Nature    Performance, or Singing as a Weapon    Audience, or Estonia on the Global Stage Chapter 33. The Polish Village Church    Historical Background    Central Place of the Catholic Church    The Partitioning and Polish Identity    Survivors Part XII. Same Metaphor, Different Meanings Chapter 34. The Spanish Bullfight    The Bullfight Begins    Cuadrillas    Sol y Sombra    The Pompous Entrance Parade    Audience Involvement    The Ritual of the Bullfight Chapter 35. The Portuguese Bullfight    Pride in Traditions    Stratification Amid Unity    Artistry and Human Gore    Profitless Bravery Part XIII. Popular Music as Cultural Metaphors Chapter 36. The Brazilian Samba    Evolution of the Samba    Small-Step Circularity    Physical Touch    Undulation    Spontaneous Escape    Paradox of Dancers Chapter 37. The Argentine Tango    The Tango’s Evolution    Tango Music and Composers    The Dynamics of the Dance    Tango Singers and Their Lyrics    Gender Relations    Applying What We’ve Learned    Summary Part XIV. Overlapping Cultural Metaphors for Geographically Related Nations Chapter 38. Cultural Metaphors for the Caribbean    A Brief History of the Caribbean Region    Cultural Metaphors for the Caribbean    Personal Experiences With Caribbean Metaphors    Developing Complementary Cultural Metaphors    Conclusions References Index About the Authors","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739655090519,"sku":"9781483340074","price":135.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781483340074.jpg?v=1720052835"},{"product_id":"lineages-of-modernity-a-history-of-humanity-from-the-stone-age-to-homo-americanus-9781509534470","title":"Lineages of Modernity: A History of Humanity from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present situation, and where we are heading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this major new book, the leading sociologist, historical anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd sheds fresh light on our current predicament by reconstructing the historical dynamics of human societies from the Stone Age to the present. Eschewing the tendency to attribute special causal significance to the economy, Todd develops an anthropological account of history, focusing on the long-term dynamics of family systems and their links to religion and ideology – what he sees as the slow-moving, unconscious level of society, in contrast to the conscious level of the economy and politics. He also analyses the dramatic changes brought about by the spread of education. This enables him to explain the different historical trajectories of the advanced nations and the growing divergence between them, a divergence that can be observed in such phenomena as the rise of the Anglosphere in the modern period, the paradox of a \u003ci\u003eHomo americanus\u003c\/i\u003e who is both innovative and archaic, the startling electoral success of Donald Trump, the lack of realism in the will to power shown by Germany and China, the emergence of stable authoritarian democracy in Russia, the new introversion of Japan and the recent turbulent developments in Europe, including Brexit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis magisterial account of human history brings into sharp focus the massive transformations taking place in the world today and shows that these transformations have less to do with the supposedly homogenizing effects of globalization and the various reactions to it than with an ethnic diversity that is deeply rooted in the long history of human evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the study of the United States, the Soviet Union and France, Emmanuel Todd has brought a unique combination of empirical rigour and humanist insight. Now, in \u003ci\u003eLineages of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, this great thinker has found his greatest subject.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Lind, author of \u003ci\u003eLand of Promise: An Economic History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Emmanuel Todd provides intellectual nourishment of the first order. His family-based, anthropological-historical account uncovers another part of the hidden wiring of human development and provides a welcome antidote to the relentless economism of so much contemporary analysis. And for those of us unfamiliar with the Todd perspective, he writes with clarity and erudition, marshalling a huge amount of evidence to provide a fresh but undogmatic perspective on the modern world, usually with half an eye on the ancient one.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Goodhart, member of the Policy Exchange think-tank and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Emmanuel Todd is an internationally known scholar whose work on the development and influence of family systems around the world has challenged many preconceptions. This is a bold, iconoclastic, wide-ranging study, marshalling a great deal of material from history, anthropology, demography and other disciplines. It is written from an unusual angle and rightly challenges the primacy of economic forces, emphasizing instead the role of family systems, ideology, education and culture in the shaping of human history. There is much to learn from this work.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Macfarlane, Life Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Vast and mind-expanding’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[Todd] Uncovers the hidden wiring of modernity using his own special historical-anthropological method — which predicted both the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Donald Trump.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface to the English edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. Homo sapiens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Ten. Homo americanus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Fifteen. The memory of places\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnvoi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-script: the future of liberal democracy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739836723543,"sku":"9781509534470","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509534470.jpg?v=1720053263"},{"product_id":"unnatural-selection-choosing-boys-over-girls-and-the-consequences-of-a-world-full-of-men-9781610391511","title":"Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize   A  Slate  Best Book of 2011   A  Discover Magazine  Best Book of 2011  Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more men than women.  The prognosis for China's neighbours is no less bleak: Asia now has 163 million females \"missing\" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S. where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound social upheaval.  Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex selection but Western complicity with them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKirkus Review, April 15, 2011 \"A hard-hitting, eye-opening study that not only paints a dire future of a world without girls but traces the West's role in propagating sex selection... Hvistendahl's important, even-handed expose considers all sides of the argument and deserves careful attention and study.\" Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University \"Unnatural Selection is an important book and a fascinating read. Mara Hvistendahl is a delightful writer: witty, engaging, and acute. But the tale she tells is deeply disturbing. Asia alone is missing 160 million women and girls, a number equal to the entire female population of the United States. According to Hvistendahl, the culprit is less deeply rooted cultural gender bias than rising wealth, elite attitudes, and Western influence and technology. Development, at least for the coming decades, will produce not only fewer children overall, but also many fewer girls. The result is a future for many parts of the world, from India to China, Azerbaijan to Albania, where brides are much more likely to be bought, women are much more likely to be trafficked, and men are much more likely to be frustrated. For the present, women who are pro-choice must confront the stark reality that the availability of ultrasound and ready abortion are sharply reducing the number of women in the world.\" Stephen J. Dubner, author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics \"Hvistendahl has a keen sense of detail, and her book is filled with lively encounters with the doctors, academics and bachelors who, she argues, all play a part in the changing demographics worldwide. Her research only gains in importance as these imbalanced generations, where men outnumber women by as much.\" Globe and Mail, July 1, 2011 \"Brave, well researched and imminently controversial... From the distant vista of the West, where we don't really consider what it would mean to have an only son who can never find a mate, the unbalanced sex ratio in Asia may seem like relatively small news. This remarkable book goes a long way to bringing the pain and the urgency of the issue home. Mara Hvistendahl is not just entering an important conversation, she's starting one.\" the dogged self-destruction of a braggadocio crippled by the conviction of his own superiority.\" Washington Post, July 3, 2011 \"Massively well-documented... [Hvistendahl] has written a disturbing, engrossing book.\" Evening Standard (UK), July 21, 2011 \"A well-researched account of how a preference for boys has made sex selective abortion commonplace in Asia and parts of Eastern Europe... Hvistendahl makes a persuasive case for the West being complicit in the spread of sex-selective abortion.\" \"Yes, it's a rigorous exploration of the world's 'missing women,' but it's more than that too: an extraordinarily vivid look at the implications of the problem. Hvistendahl writes beautifully, with an eye for detail but also the big picture. She has a fierce intelligence but, more important, a fierce intellectual independence; she writes with a hard edge but no venom -- rather, a cool and hard passion.\" Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide \"A fascinating and thoroughly researched book on a most important subject. The staggering population imbalances described by Hvistendahl should be of concern to all.\" Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves \"A critically important story of demographic surprises and skewed sex ratios, trafficked wives and mail-order brides. Thanks to the devaluation of females and misused technologies, sex selection has reached staggering dimensions in recent decades. Hvistendahl's call to action is the most well-documented and compelling yet.\" The Wall Street Journal, June, 18, 2011 \"Ms. Hvistendahl is a first-rate reporter and has filled Unnatural Selection with gripping details... There is so much to recommend.\" Bloomberg, June 19, 2011 \"Provocative, wide-ranging... A thoughtful, smartly researched overview of medical developments, policymaking and cultural trends that combined to upset the global sex ratio.\" The Daily Beast, Eleanor Clift, June 22, 2011 \"[Hvistendahl] approaches these sensitive subjects without an ideological ax to grind, whether pro-life or pro-population control, documenting how sex selection has taken hold thanks to technology, lower birth rates, and deep-seated cultural biases that require a boy to carry on a family's lineage.\" New York Times, Ross Douthat, June 26, 2011 \"Unnatural Selection reads like a great historical detective story, and it's written with the sense of moral urgency that usually accompanies the revelation of some kind of enormous crime.\" Marcy Darnovsky \"Ms. Blog\", June 7, 2011 \"An important contribution, disturbing but gripping, and challenging to all of us, perhaps especially to U.S. advocates of reproductive justice. It provides both a deep understanding of the staggering dimensions and consequences of sex selection, and an urgent prod to confront it.\" The Daily Brief, June 12, 2011","brand":"PublicAffairs,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740614504791,"sku":"9781610391511","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781610391511.jpg?v=1720055154"},{"product_id":"population-10-billion-9781780334913","title":"Population 10 Billion","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDistinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopulation 10 Billion\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740999823703,"sku":"9781780334912","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781780334912.jpg?v=1720056270"},{"product_id":"britain-by-numbers-a-visual-exploration-of-people-and-place-9781786496454","title":"Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful, compelling and eye-opening guide to the way we live in Britain today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e______________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBritain by Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e answers all these questions and more, vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here, where we work, who we marry, what crimes we commit and much else besides.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully designed and illustrated throughout, it takes the reader on a fascinating journey up and down the land, enriching their understanding of a complex - and contradictory - country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ingenious portrayal of a nation through data and statistics. * Bristol24-7 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: \tWho We Are 2: \tFamily and Relationships 3: \tHouse and Home 4: \tEducation and Employment 5: \tPersonal Finance 6: \tHealth and Fitness 7: \tCrime 8: \tSociety and Economics 9: \tLifestyle and Leisure","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741456970071,"sku":"9781786496454","price":18.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786496454.jpg?v=1723812388"},{"product_id":"the-economics-of-population-key-modern-writings-9781852787653","title":"The economics of population: Key Modern Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comprehensive two volume set includes the most important articles and papers on the subject written since World War II.  The main emphasis is on the effects of demographic change but the key modern writings on the determinants of population change are also included.\u003cp\u003eThe opening section of Volume I traces the development of modern thought on the connections between population growth and economic development.  The following section looks in particular at the effect of population density on agricultural practices, and the final section deals with population growth and the availability of natural resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume II opens with a further section on the effects of population density, including its impact on infrastructure and on the size and productivity of cities, and its consequences in the Third World.  There follows a brief section on formal theories, including models of technical progress.  Finally the determinants of population growth are explored in various studies on the economics of mortality and the correlation between economic conditions and fertility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Although many of the articles are well known and easily available, it is convenient for reference purposes to have them brought together.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- William A. Jackson, Economic Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Volume I:  Introduction  Part I:  Empirical Work and Analysis on General Consequences of Population  Part II:  Food and Land  Part III:  Natural Resources  Name Index  •  Volume II:  Introduction  Part I:  Other Consequences of Density  Part II:  Modern Formal Theory  Part III:  The Determinants of Population Growth and Density   Name Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742322340183,"sku":"9781852787653","price":490.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781852787653.jpg?v=1720060926"},{"product_id":"changing-population-issues-series-pshe-rse-resources-for-key-stage-3-4-435-9781861688959","title":"Changing Population: Issues Series - PSHE \u0026 RSE Resources For Key Stage 3 \u0026 4: 435","description":"","brand":"Cambridge Media Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742381977943,"sku":"9781861688958","price":11.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781861688958.jpg?v=1720061164"},{"product_id":"applied-multiregional-demography-through-problems-a-programmed-learning-workbook-with-exercises-and-solutions-9783030382148","title":"Applied Multiregional Demography Through","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eWritten by the 2018 Mindel C. Sheps Award winner, this textbook offers a unique method for teaching how to model spatial (multiregional) population dynamics through models of increasing complexity. Each chapter in this programmed workbook starts with a descriptive text, followed by a sequence of exercises focused on particular multiregional models, of increasing complexity, and then ends with the solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt extends the current developments in the spatial analysis of social data towards improving our understanding of dynamics and interacting change across multiple populations in space.  Frameworks for analyzing such dynamics were first proposed in multiregional demography, over 40 years ago. This book revisits these methods and then illustrates how they may be used to analyze spatial data and study spatial population dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003eTopics covered include spatial population dynamics, population projections and estimations, spatial and age structure of migration flows and much more.  As such this innovative textbook is a great teaching and learning tool for teachers, students as well as individuals who want to study demographic processes across space.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Uniregional Models With No Age Dependence.- 2 Spatial Population Dynamics: Location Without Age.- 3 Uniregional Population Dynamics: Age Without Location.- 4 Multiregional Population Dynamics: Age With Location.- 5 Multiregional Projection and Stable Growth.- 6 Birthplace-Specific Life Tables and Projections.- 7 The Spatial Patterns and Structures Of Migration.- A: Sample Datasets and Figures.- B: An Introduction To Matrix Algebra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743034552663,"sku":"9783030382148","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"census-2020-understanding-the-issues-9783030405779","title":"Census 2020: Understanding the Issues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe decennial Census is the US Government's largest statistical undertaking, and it costs billions of dollars in planning, execution, and analysis. From a statistical viewpoint, it is critical because it is the only database that maps every inhabitant into a geographic location. By constitutional mandate, census data are the basis for reapportioning the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The states use census data to redistrict their state legislatures and often to redraw boundaries for local elections. Census data inform the distribution of over $1.5 trillion in federal funding during the decade.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book details the fundamentals and significance of the 2020 Census for the non-specialist reader. It covers why the Census is the only statistical activity required by the US Constitution, the challenges of working towards an accurate and complete count, and what political ramifications flow from this process. Concise, timely, and comprehensible, this book provides helpful real-life examples while also offering an overview of the entwined statistical and political issues that surround the Census.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Census: A Pillar of American Democracy and American Society.- 2. Who, What, When, Where of the Census.- 3. Who’s Missing: Undercounting and Underreporting.- 4. The Citizenship Issue and Gerrymandering.- 5. Privacy and Data Protection. 6. Are There Alternatives to the Census?.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743035240791,"sku":"9783030405779","price":23.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"shared-physical-custody-interdisciplinary-insights-in-child-custody-arrangements-9783030684815","title":"Shared Physical Custody: Interdisciplinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical custody, legal frames regulating custody arrangements, stability and changes in arrangements across the life course of children, socio‐economic, psychological, social well-being of various family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an interdisciplinary collaboration, it is interesting read for social scientists in demography, sociology, psychology, law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody arrangements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: Advances in research on Shared Physical Custodyby interdisciplinary approaches.- Part I: Interdisciplinary overviews.- Chapter 2. Alternating homes – a new family form  - The family sociology perspective.- Chapter 3. Psychological Perspectives on Joint Physical Custody.- Chapter 4. A European Model for Harmonizing the Law on Parental Responsibilities.- PART II: Parents and JPC.- Chapter 5. Are “Part-Time Parents” Healthier Parents?  Correlates of Shared Physical Custody in Switzerland.- Chapter 6. Linkages Between Children's Living Arrangements After Divorce and the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship; Father involvement as important underlying mechanism.- Chapter 7. Who cares? An event history analysis of co-parenthood dynamics in Belgium.- PART III: Children and JPC.- Chapter 8. The SOHI: Operationalizing a new model for studying teenagers’ sense of home in post-divorce families.- Chapter 9. The Socioeconomic Gradient of Shared Physical Custody in two Welfare States: comparison between Spain and Sweden.- Chapter 10. Shared parenting after divorce and child outcomes.- PART IV: Dynamic view on JPC.- Chapter 11. The Different Ways of Implementing Shared Physical Custody in the French Context.- Chapter 12. Coparenting interventions and shared physical custody: Insights and challenges.- PATR V: Legal frameworks of Child Support.- Chapter 13. Shared Physical Custody After Parental Separation: Evidence from Germany.- Chapter 14. Shared physical custody and child maintenance arrange-ments: A comparative analysis of 13 countries using a model family approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743045464407,"sku":"9783030684815","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"a-multidisciplinary-approach-to-capability-in-age-and-ageing-9783030780623","title":"A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The AgeCap conceptual framework for research on capability in ageing.- Chapter 3. The ICECAP-O measure.- Chapter 4. The capability approach in epidemiological studies.- Chapter 5 – Good self-rated health as an indicator of personal capability in old age.- Chapter 6. Capability in research on cognition and well-being in ageing and retirement.- Chapter 7. The neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease: one of the most common causes of reduced capability in the adult population.- Chapter 8. The capability approach in research on ageing well at home for frail older people.- Chapter 9. eHealth literacy and capability in the context of the pandemic crisis.- Chapter 10. Increasing people’s capabilities by using design thinking in the decision-making process.- Chapter 11. The capability approach in social work with older people.- Chapter 12. A historical perspective on ageing and capability.- Chapter 13. The capabilities approach and the concepts of self-determination, legal competence and human dignity in social services for older people.- Chapter 14. Invisible or powerful? Ageing in a mediatised society.- Chapter 15. System and life-course perspectives on capability to work and capability through work.- Chapter 16. Organisational capability for delayed retirement.- Chapter 17. Capability and political participation among ageing populations.","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743049429335,"sku":"9783030780623","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030780623.jpg?v=1720063888"},{"product_id":"towards-bayesian-model-based-demography-agency-complexity-and-uncertainty-in-migration-studies-9783030830410","title":"Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography: Agency,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from dedicated laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The material collected by Jakub Bijak and his team constitutes a valuable resource for scholars interested in modelling individual decisions, not necessarily restricted to migration processes. … Researchers who already gained some experience in social simulation will receive many inspirations for improving their own research and rise to the next level. In this way, this book has the potential to advance the art of modelling in the social sciences.” (Thomas Fent, European Journal of Population, Vol. 38, 2022)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Preliminaries: Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Uncertainty and complexity: towards model-based demography.- Part II: Elements of the modelling process.- Chapter 3. Principles and state of the art of agent-based migration modelling.- Chapter 4. Building a knowledge base for the model.- Chapter 5. Uncertainty quantification, model calibration and sensitivity.- Chapter 6. The boundaries of cognition and decision making.- Chapter 7. Agent-based modelling and simulation with domain-specific languages.- Part III: Model results, applications, and reflections.- Chapter 8. Towards more realistic models.- Chapter 9. Bayesian model-based approach: impact on science and policy.- Chapter 10. Open science, replicability, and transparency in modelling.- Chapter 11. Conclusions: towards a Bayesian modelling process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743052411223,"sku":"9783030830410","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"population-health-and-the-future-of-healthcare-9783030838898","title":"Population Health and the Future of Healthcare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model. It clarifies what population health is and is not. It discusses health disparities and the social determinants of health and illness and provides new ways of moving forward towards a more sustainable healthcare model in a changing society, thereby pointing out the importance of multi-sector collaboration for collective impact for community health improvement. The book takes this further by providing sources of data to support the population health model. As such, this book provides a must-read for students and anyone working, teaching or consulting in population healthcare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1\tDefining Population Health2\tThe Road to Population Health: A Changing Society3\tThe Road to Population Health: A Changing Healthcare System 4\tThe Roots of Population Health5\tHealth Status and How to Measure It6\tThe Social Determinants of Health and Illness7\tPaying the Piper:  Health Disparities8\tPopulation Health and Healthcare Delivery9\tPopulation Health and Public Policy10\tTraditional Approaches to Community Health Data11\tData Needs for the Population Health Model12\tThe Role of the Community in Population Health Improvement\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743052968279,"sku":"9783030838898","price":66.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"gender-and-migration-imiscoe-short-reader-9783030919702","title":"Gender and Migration: IMISCOE Short Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches  in major areas, such as: gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond  domestic and care work to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance of families in migration and transnational families; displacement, asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Gender and Migration: an Introduction.- Chapter 2: Gendered Migrations and Conceptual Approaches: Theorising and Researching Mobilities.- Chapter 3: Gendered Labour.- Chapter 4: Transnational Families, Intimate Relations, Generations.- Chapter 5: Gendering Asylum.- Chapter 6: Engendering Integration and Inclusion.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743058243927,"sku":"9783030919702","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030919702.jpg?v=1720063927"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-death-the-scientific-possibility-of-physical-immortality-and-its-moral-defense-9783031289262","title":"The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality.\u003cbr\u003eThis accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRay Kurzweil, co-author of \u003ci\u003eFantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever\u003c\/i\u003e and co-founder of Singularity University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of \u003ci\u003eEnding Aging\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: by Aubrey de Gray, PhD Warnings Introduction: The greatest and oldest dream of humanity Chapter 1: Life appeared to live Chapter 2: What is aging? Chapter 3: The biggest industry in the world has been born Chapter 4: From the linear to the exponential world Chapter 5: How much does it cost? Chapter 6: The terror of death Chapter 7: Paradigms: good, bad and “experts\" Chapter 8: Plan B: human cryopreservation Chapter 9: The future depends upon us Conclusion: The moment has come Epilogue Appendix: Chronology of life on EarthBibliography Acknowledgments","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743079215447,"sku":"9783031289262","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031289262.jpg?v=1720064020"},{"product_id":"current-perspectives-on-centenarians-introduction-to-lifespan-and-healthspan-9783031309144","title":"Current Perspectives on Centenarians:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk factors, dementia, nutrition, physical activity, African American and Hispanic centenarians, financial planning, religion, spirituality, whole health, wellness, oral health, and nature. The book also delves into the lives of supercentenarians, defined as expert survivors who have lived beyond 110 years old. The implications of the Age-Friendly Healthcare Systems (AFHS) Movement on the care of centenarians are also discussed. This book is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, epidemiologists, public health professionals, policy makers, and anyone interested in the study of aging and longevity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tAGEISM REVOLUTION \u0026amp; HUMAN LONGEVITY BEYOND AGE 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDIANE MARTIN, NADIA IJAZ AND  RAYA ELFADEL KHEIRBEK \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tDEMOGRAPHICS OF CENTENARIANS AROUND THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEMILY ZAGORSKI AND CONRAD MAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tGENETICS \u0026amp; EXTREME LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFESPAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRAXTON D. MITCHELL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tCARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN CENTENARIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAMANDA LANGE, MICHAEL A. SILVERMAN, AND ADAM G. GOLDEN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tDO CENTENARIANS GET DEMENTIA? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJORY CRULL, KATHERINE BARLIS, OLGA-BRAWAMAN-MINTZER, CHRISTOPHER BLASY, AND JACOBO MINTZER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tNUTRITION IN CENTENARIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGALYA BIGMAN AND ALICE S. RYAN \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tPHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CENTENARIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eALICE S. RYAN AND MARGARITA S. TREUTH \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8.\tAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTENARIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRITA HARGRAVE AND KANYA NESBETH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9.\tHISPANIC PARADOX\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDANYA P. ANOUTI AND ALEXANDER. BEARD, MARITZA BUENAVER, MARIA D. LLORENTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10.\tFINANCIAL PLANNING \u0026amp; FISCAL POLICY FOR CENTENARIANS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADRIAN A. LLORENTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11.\tRELIGION, SPIRITUALITY \u0026amp; L ONGEVITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENI COOK, CAITLYN GUDMUNDSEN, RAY FURR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12.\tWHOLE HEALTH, WELLNESS \u0026amp; LONGEVITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY GALLAGHER-SEAMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13.\tDENTAL CARE AND LONGEVITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePIERRE M. CARTIER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14.\tCONTRIBUTIONS TO LONGEVITY AND WELLBEING FROM NATURE \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTOINETTE V. SHAPPELL, SEAN H. GARTLAND, KELLY A. BURNETT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15.\tSUPERCENTENARIANS \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAITHRI KONDAPAKA AND  RAYA ELFADEL KHEIRBEK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16.\tAGE FRIENDLY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANISA NAHABEDIAN AND NICOLE BRANDT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743080362327,"sku":"9783031309144","price":85.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031309144.jpg?v=1720064024"},{"product_id":"the-super-age-9780063048751","title":"The Super Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intelligent warning to pay more attention to your elders. . . . Schurman combines ideas for an elderly-friendly future with a denunciation of present conditions. . . . Good insights for right now.\" — Kirkus Reviews  \"[Schurman's] insistence on a more thoughtful approach to an aging society is buoyed by his optimism and his dedication to justice and care for all citizens: ‘The future may be gray,’ he writes, ‘but it’s incredibly bright.’ Policymakers and business leaders, take note.\" — Publishers Weekly  “The Super Age is upon us. Bradley Schurman inspires and challenges us to confront head-on the implications for the economy, business, how we live, and how we treat one another. He offers a road map for seizing the opportunities that are ahead and offers a clear view of the risks of inaction.” — Almar Latour, CEO, Dow Jones  “Global aging is transformational on the scale of climate change, the freight train we can see coming, and in The Super Age, Bradley Schurman reveals it to us in all its complexity and opportunity. Discarding the tired discourse of the burdens of an aging planet, he offers instead a fundamental revisioning of what life could look like—of what our lives could look like—a new world that is hugely exciting, if we do it right.” — Claire Casey, global head of Policy \u0026amp; Insights, Economist Impact, The Economist Group  “Demography may be destiny, yet there are few prognosticators who can see the future like Bradley Schurman. The Super Age is a super-readable book, a crystal ball into a society like we’ve never seen before. This book will help you tap into the longevity dividend.” — Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author and founder, the Modern Elder Academy  “The Super Age provides one of the most comprehensive understandings of the gift of longevity and the work we need to do as a society to maximize the ability for all to age well. This timely book provides leaders the data, insights, and tangible solutions needed to tap into the moral, economic, and societal benefits of truly embracing the Super Age. Leaders from every sector (public, private, and nonprofit) should read and share the book.” — Ramsey Alwin, president and CEO, National Council on Aging (NCOA)  “This book is an eye-opener to those already in, or those preparing to serve, older and generationally diverse markets. Schurman gives both an objective view of the existing landscape and a bright road map for future growth. Customers are changing at a rapid pace, and in many cases, they are becoming healthier and wealthier. Those who truly understand and embrace the Super Age will be the winners.” — Jee Eun “Geannie” Cho, CEO, CIGNA Korea  “Be prepared to have your conception of aging—and the power potential of the ‘gray’ generation—turned upside down . . . or in this case, right side up.” — Rebecca Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of War Dogs and Into the Forest  “The Super Age focuses on one of the biggest trends that will shape our individual and collective future. It also shows in a nuanced and insightful way why the pessimism around an aging society is too simplistic to capture the fundamental changes that are happening and need to happen.” — Andrew Scott, professor of economics, London Business School, and coauthor of The 100-Year Life  “We have entered a new Super Age—which will profoundly alter public policies, education, careers, communities, and commerce. For business leaders, it is especially imperative to understand this and to rethink products, services, and markets in the new world of longevity. This book is the road map.” — Bill Novelli, professor of business, Georgetown University; former CEO, AARP; and author of Good Business  “Powerful and provocative. . . . Bradley Schurman breaks through as a much-needed, compelling new demographic futurist—and just in the nick of time.” — Michael Adams, CEO, SAGE  “At a time when ageism is on full display, Bradley Schurman’s The Super Age is a much-needed counterpoint to the dominant and negative narrative. . . . An invaluable resource for any business interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion.” — Fabrice Houdart, managing director, Out Leadership  “Beautifully written and magically orchestrated by Bradley Schurman, The Super Age is like a symphony where all the chords, the tones, the nuances about our demographic past, present, and future come together.” — Nicola Palmarini, director, UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA), and author of Immortali  “The Super Age brilliantly explores the new economic, political, social, and cultural norms that are reshaping our world—and how we got here. . . . A must read for anyone who wants to truly understand how these demographic megatrends will impact us all.” — Jake Rothstein, founder, Papa and UpsideHoM  “Thoroughly researched and elegantly written. . . . An excellent narrative about what is indeed the Super Age.” — Jim Mellon, founder and executive chairman, Burnbrae Group, and coauthor of Juvenescence  “Schurman describes a megatrend that cannot be debated, nor ignored: the Super Age. It urges you to stop discussing and start acting. That probably makes it the best book on aging yet.” — Arjan in ’t Veld, cofounder and CMO, The Aging Group BV  “Bradley lays forth a vision for the Super Age that is inclusive of all people, regardless of age, race, gender, or sexuality, as key contributors and consumers.” — Patrick Church, multimedia artist and fashion designer  “Will population aging lead to stagnation and decline, or a new era of innovation and human flourishing? There are daunting challenges, to be sure, but Schurman’s book offers hope for a brighter future. It’s a must read and a must reference.” — Paul Irving, chairman, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging; distinguished scholar-in-residence, University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology; and chairman, Encore.org  “Aging, like gender equality and climate change, is an essential lens for any community, business or policy leader with foresight. Schurman's book gives a comprehensive view of the latest research on the complexities, challenges and opportunities of creating an age inclusive society.”  — Cynthia Wu, executive director, Shin Kong Life Foundation   “Finally, a modern take on the perception of ageism, marginalization, and inequality for the rapidly evolving 50+ demographic. . . . Schurman shows us a path toward a hopeful future.” — Jeff Tidwell, founder and CEO, Next For Me  “Finally—everything you’ve ever wanted to know about age and longevity in one package, or rather under one cover! . . . The best part is the optimism about the future of longevity and opportunities it brings for the business environment and for society at large.”  — Stela Lupushor, chief reframer, Reframe.Work Inc.  “A comprehensive and fast-paced tour through the past, present and future of our rapidly Super Ageing Societies, written by one of the leading proponents in the space.”  — Stephen Johnston, co-founder, Aging2.0","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864121454935,"sku":"9780063048751","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"blind-injustice-a-former-prosecutor-exposes-the-psychology-and-politics-of-wrongful-convictions-9780520287952","title":"Blind Injustice A Former Prosecutor Exposes the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book I’ve read on the criminal justice system since Michelle Alexander’s \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . This is the rare book that looks at criminal justice from the perspective of culture. And Godsey has the chops to tell it.\" * Daily Kos *\u003cbr\u003e“The book, which is in part a confessional, looks at how innocent people can become the victims of faulty eyewitness testimony, bad forensics, and a variety of blinding cognitive biases on the part of law-enforcement personnel, prosecutors, and judges, and why the system so tenaciously defends the status quo, even when it’s guilty of railroading innocent citizens. With so much attention rightly focused on racial injustice in recent years, Godsey’s book offers another important piece of the puzzle.” * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mark Godsey's] book is about how his career change also changed his outlook, by showing up 'problems in the system that I, as a prosecutor, should have seen, but about which I had simply been in denial'. . . . Mr Godsey’s work is memorable because he is able to show precisely how these flaws work in action.\"\u003cbr\u003e   * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003e\"A breathless page-turner, especially for true crime readers, drawing together Godsey and his indefatigable staff as they relentlessly power through volumes and volumes of evidence in pursuit of the truth.” * Salon *\u003cbr\u003e“Mark Godsey, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Ohio Innocence Project, examines the causes of wrongful convictions, from faulty eyewitness identifications to investigator tunnel vision, while drawing on a depressingly vast array of shocking examples. He graciously allows that the police, prosecutors, and judges whose ‘unreasonable and intellectually dishonest positions’ have led to unjust convictions and avoidable suffering acted not out of malice but out of the abundant capacity for human error.” - OUR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 * The Progressive *\u003cbr\u003e“Passionate and readable, this book provides meaningful support for the Innocence movement and startling insights into the justice system while admitting the reality of systemic racism but omitting its direct discussion.” * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Blind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e is worth the read.  Give a copy to your favorite prosecutor.  And maybe to your neighbor.\" * GAMSO - for the Defense *\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent resource for psychology and law courses. . . . Highly recommended\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlind Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e, instructive and passionate, is an excellent introduction to major wrongful conviction themes. It is an accessible book for laypersons and criminologists who are new to the subject. It would make a lively text in a wrongful conviction course. One wishes that it would be read by prosecutors across America. If they did, perhaps like the author, they would say, as the hymn \u003ci\u003eAmazing Grace\u003c\/i\u003e has it— 'was blind but now I see.' . . . An attention-grabbing book that powerfully instructs.\" \u003cbr\u003e * Social Science Research Network *\u003cbr\u003e\"Godsey’s book is splendid. Everyone who cares the least bit about justice must read it. Parts will make you shake your head in amazement, parts will give you a sense of elation, and parts will make you cry. . . . There have been, over the past dozen or so years, several excellent books examining the failings of the American criminal justice system. A skeptic might wonder what there is new to say about the problems that infect the system.  But that skepticism melts almost instantly when one opens Godsey’s book. Mark Godsey brings a unique perspective to bear on the problem of convicting the innocent.\" * Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law *\u003cbr\u003e“If, like me, you enjoyed the Netflix ‘docudrama’ Making A Murderer, you will be right at home with this excellent exposé of certain problematic features of the American criminal justice system. Former prosecutor, now professor, Mark Godsey takes his readers through a multitude of cases in which he acted as legal counsel, and where wrongful convictions emerged at the end of the day. The fact that this leading light in the Ohio Innocence Project was on the ‘other side’ of the justice ‘coin’ for many years, employing the same tactics that are likely to give rise to mistakes, gives his writing the credibility that other ‘justice system in crisis’ or ‘criminal injustice system’ books simply do not have.” * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Godsey offers a fresh viewpoint\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\"An easy and interesting read. . . . It is Godsey’s experience as a former prosecutor that gives this book its power. His story of transformation is one that every lawyer could learn from. I will certainly be buying copies for my students who begin their careers in prosecution.\" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e About This Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. EYE OPENER\u003cbr\u003e 2. BLIND DENIAL\u003cbr\u003e 3. BLIND AMBITION\u003cbr\u003e 4. BLIND BIAS\u003cbr\u003e 5. BLIND MEMORY\u003cbr\u003e 6. BLIND INTUITION\u003cbr\u003e 7. BLIND TUNNEL VISION\u003cbr\u003e 8. SEEING AND ACCEPTING HUMAN LIMITATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864899137879,"sku":"9780520287952","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520287952.jpg?v=1722273270"},{"product_id":"cumin-camels-and-caravans-9780520379244","title":"Cumin Camels and Caravans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade.    Traveling along four prominent trade routesthe Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. His stories, recipes, and linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflictArabs and Jewshave spent much of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly embroidered with detail, Cumin, Camels, and Caravans by scholar Gary Paul Nabhan is part history, part geography, part cookbook, and part travel memoir. . . . Interspersed with recipes from various stops on historical spice routes, Nabhan discusses the botany, linguistic history, and trade history of each substance, but far from being dry accounts, they bring the wonder of many ingredients we now view as commonplace into focus; Nabhan's painstaking research has not eclipsed an evident natural knack for storytelling.\" * Saveur *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nabhan is the ideal travelling companion. With an ancestry that stretches back to the spice-trading Nabheni tribe of Oman, Nabhan is by profession an ethnobotanist and food writer with a clutch of culinary history books under his belt. And he wears his erudition lightly. Although the book is referenced like an academic tome, it reads like a detective story – albeit one with generous pinches of exotic smells and alluring flavours thrown in.  Spiced locusts, anyone?\" * History Today *\u003cbr\u003e\"Heady historical and cultural study of ancient trade routes. . . . Nabhan adds pungent pinches of botany and gastronomy.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gary Paul Nabhan, a food scholar and prolific author, is the guide on a journey that also travels through subjects as diverse as botany and archaeology. Even when following well-worn paths, he is never a dull host. . . . While the book is ostensibly about spices, what holds it together is a deeper sense of distance from nature and the deep past, a force that continues to impel pilgrims, travellers and even foodies towards distant and exotic places.\" * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"...a worthwhile read. Nabhan achieved what he set out to in this book, and brings to light a cultural historical geography of spices and people that has not, to my knowledge, been pulled together in quite the way he has done before.\" * AAG Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gary Paul Nabhan weaves a fascinating story.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * Santa Fe New Mexican *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a singular achievement . . . . A most absorbing book and highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Chicago Botanic Garden *\u003cbr\u003e“Anyone who has traveled ancient routes, or dreamed of doing so, will find deep satisfaction in\u003ci\u003e Cumin, Camels and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey.\"\u003c\/i\u003e * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Recipes\u003cbr\u003e List of Spice Boxes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Origin of “Species”\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places\u003cbr\u003e 2. Caravans Leaving Arabia Felix\u003cbr\u003e 3. Uncovering Hidden Outposts in the Desert\u003cbr\u003e 4. Omanis Rocking the Cradle of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mecca and the Migrations of Muslim and Jewish Traders\u003cbr\u003e 6. Merging the Spice Routes with the Silk Roads\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Flourishing of Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Iberia \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Crumbling of Convivencia and the Rise of Transnational Guilds\u003cbr\u003e 9. Building Bridges between Continents and Cultures\u003cbr\u003e 10. Navigating the Maritime Silk Roads from China to Africa\u003cbr\u003e 11. Vasco da Gama Mastering the Game of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e 12. Crossing the Drawbridge over the Eastern Ocean\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Culinary Imperialism and Its Alternatives\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864919191895,"sku":"9780520379244","price":18.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520379244.jpg?v=1722273294"},{"product_id":"contraception-and-abortion-from-the-ancient-world-to-the-renaissance-9780674168763","title":"Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century with forays into Victorian England. He explores whether it was possible for premodern people to regulate their reproduction without resorting to dangerous surgical abortions, the killing of infants, or the denial of biological urges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiddle’s study is a true turning point in the history of contraception and abortion, which may have large implications for the history of the medical and psychic experience of women in antiquity, folk medicine, and premodern demography. -- W. V. Harris * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eRiddle shows us that ancient contraceptive medical practices were safe, effective and commonly used. Sociological studies on their use remain to be carried out. But it is possible that, between the Middle Ages and the rise of modern contraception, the well-off and city dwellers had little access to effective contraception, thanks to the growth of conventional medicine and the soaring social power of the physician. This is just one of the many intriguing lines of investigation to arise from this book, which shines a different light on what we are generally taught about the ‘progress’ of the modern world. -- Michel Raymond * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e[Riddle’s] findings carry important implications for the history of theology, casuistry, pastoral care, social history, the history of sexuality, and the history of popular culture, as well as the history of botany, pharmacy, medicine, and biochemistry… These findings should earn Riddle the gratitude of the numerous historians for whom the reproductive strategies of past generations are an important issue. -- James A. Brundage * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eGives us a valuable glimpse of the long reach of history on fertility and provides food for thought on possible options that science should research for both safety and efficacy. -- Portia Meares * Herb Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Population and Sex   Evidence for Oral Contraceptives and Abortifacients   Soranus on Antifertility Agents   Terminology in Dioscorides' De materia medica   Early Stage Abortifacients in Dioscorides and Soranus   Ancient Society and Birth Control Agents   Egyptian Papyrus Sources   Greek and Roman Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen   The Late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages   The Middle Ages: The Church, Macer, and Hildegard   Salerno and Medicine through the Twelfth Century   Islam, Arabic Medicine, and the Late Middle Ages   Knowledge of Birth Control in the West   The Renaissance   Later Developments    Abbreviations   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865481883991,"sku":"9780674168763","price":26.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674168763.jpg?v=1722274177"},{"product_id":"interaction-ritual-chains-9780691123899","title":"Interaction Ritual Chains","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttempts to develop a \"radical microsociology\". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Collins again demonstrates why he is considered one of the leading social theorists. This ... work of Collins, in particular, transcends the boundaries of sociology... This is an outstanding work for theoretically oriented professional and advanced students in sociology, social psychology, and psychology.\"--Choice \"Collins argues in this pathbreaking book that ritual--whether in face-to-face conversations or at national presidential funerals--is the key sociological factor that ties group structure and collective beliefs together... Collins plows new ground in several ways. First, he argues that ritual is the central category for all sociological analysis because ritual connects and mediates group structure and beliefs... Second, his work breaks new paths because it proposes a comprehensive theory of ritual grounded in everyday solutions... Finally, Collins bushwhacks new paths when he emphasizes the importance of the emotional energy, what he calls 'collective effervescence,' that is generated by ritual.\"--Donald B. Kraybill, Christian Century \"Collins's book is a major contribution to contemporary sociological theory. His approach--a genuinely sociological microfoundation of sociology--is well chosen and carefully carried out ... Interaction ritual theory helps to enrich our knowledge about a core process of social life. Interaction Ritual Chains is a book offering rich insights into this core process.\"--Richard Munch, American Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix  Preface xi  Acknowledgments xxi  PART I. Radical Microsociology  Chapter 1  The Program of Interaction Ritual Theory 3  Situation rather than Individual as Starting Point 3  Conflicting Terminologies 7  Traditions of Ritual Analysis 9  Subcognitive Ritualism 9  Functionalist Ritualism 13  Goffman's Interaction Ritual 16  The Code-Seeking Program 25  The Cultural Turn 30  Classic Origins of IR Theory in Durkheim's Sociology of Religion 32  The Significance of Interaction Ritual for General  Sociological Theory 40  Chapter 2  The Mutual-Focus \/ Emotional-Entrainment Model 47  Ritual Ingredients, Processes, and Outcomes 47  Formal Rituals and Natural Rituals 49  Failed Rituals, Empty Rituals, Forced Rituals 50  Is Bodily Presence Necessary? 53  The Micro-Process of Collective Entrainment in Natural Rituals 65  Conversational Turn-Taking as Rhythmic Entrainment 66  Experimental and Micro-Observational Evidence on Rhythmic Coordination and Emotional Entrainment 75  Joint Attention as Key to Development of Shared Symbols 79  Solidarity Prolonged and Stored in Symbols 81  The Creation of Solidarity Symbols in 9\/11 88  Rules for Unraveling Symbols 95  Chapter 3  Emotional Energy and the Transient Emotions 102  Disruptive and Long-Term Emotions, or Dramatic Emotions and Emotional Energy 105  Interaction Ritual as Emotion Transformer 107  Stratified Interaction Rituals 111  Power Rituals 112  Status Rituals 115  Effects on Long-Term Emotions: Emotional Energy 118  Emotion Contest and Conflict Situations 121  Short-Term or Dramatic Emotions 125  Transformations from Short-Term Emotions into Long-Term EE 129  The Stratification of Emotional Energy 131  Appendix: Measuring Emotional Energy and Its Antecedents 133  Chapter 4  Interaction Markets and Material Markets 141  Problems of the Rational Cost-Benefit Model 143  The Rationality of Participating in Interaction Rituals 146  The Market for Ritual Solidarity 149  Reinvestment of Emotional Energy and Membership Symbols 149  Match-Ups of Symbols and Complementarity of Emotions 151  Emotional Energy as the Common Denominator of Rational Choice 158  I. Material Production Is Motivated by the Need for Resources  for Producing IRs 160  II. Emotional Energy Is Generated by Work-Situation IRs 163  III. Material Markets Are Embedded in an Ongoing Flow of IRs Generating Social Capital 165  Altruism 168  When Are Individuals Most Materially Self-Interested? 170  The Bottom Line: EE-Seeking Constrained by Material Resources 171  Sociology of Emotions as the Solution to Rational Choice Anomalies 174  The Microsociology of Material Considerations 176  Situational Decisions without Conscious Calculation 181  Chapter 5  Internalized Symbols and the Social Process of Thinking 183  Methods for Getting Inside, or Back Outside 184  Intellectual Networks and Creative Thinking 190  Non-Intellectual Thinking 196  Anticipated and Reverberated Talk 197  Thought Chains and Situational Chains 199  The Metaphor of Dialogue among Parts of the Self 203  Verbal Incantations 205  Speeds of Thought 211  Internal Ritual and Self-Solidarity 218  PART II. Applications  Chapter 6  A Theory of Sexual Interaction 223  Sex as Individual Pleasure-Seeking 228  Sex as Interaction Ritual 230  Nongenital Sexual Pleasures as Symbolic Targets 238  Sexual Negotiation Scenes rather than Constant Sexual Essences 250  Prestige-Seeking and Public Eroticization 252  Chapter 7  Situational Stratification 258  Macro- and Micro-Situational Class, Status, and Power 263  Economic Class as Zelizer Circuits 263  Status Group Boundaries and Categorical Identities 268  Categorical Deference and Situational Deference 278  D-Power and E-Power 284  Historical Change in Situational Stratification 288  An Imagery for Contemporary Interaction 293  Chapter 8  Tobacco Ritual and Anti-Ritual: Substance Ingestion as a History of Social Boundaries 297  Inadequacies of the Health and Addiction Model 299  Tobacco Rituals: Relaxation \/ Withdrawal Rituals, Carousing Rituals, Elegance Rituals 305  Ritual Paraphernalia: Social Display and Solitary Cult 317  Failures and Successes of Anti-Tobacco Movements 326  Aesthetic Complaints and Struggle over Status Display Standards 327  Anti-Carousing Movements 328  The End of Enclave Exclusion: Respectable Women Join the Carousing Cult 329  The Health-Oriented Anti-Smoking Movement of the Late Twentieth Century 331  The Vulnerability of Situational Rituals and the Mobilization of Anti-Carousing Movements 337  Chapter 9  Individualism and Inwardness as Social Products 345  The Social Production of Individuality 347  Seven Types of Introversion 351  Work-Obsessed Individuals 351  Socially Excluded Persons 353  Situational Introverts 354  Alienated Introverts 355  Solitary Cultists 356  Intellectual Introverts 357  Neurotic or Hyper-Reflexive Introverts 360  The Micro-History of Introversion 362  The Modern Cult of the Individual 370  Notes 375  References 417  Index 435","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865518780759,"sku":"9780691123899","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691123899.jpg?v=1722274357"},{"product_id":"reds-whites-and-blues-9780691162089","title":"Reds Whites and Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusic, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2011 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association \"Although some of Roy's theoretical discussions in the early chapters should interest folk music scholars, his book will be more important to students of social movements.\"--Robert V. Wells, Journal of American History \"The importance of this excellent book is that it revisits these two movements and reveals once again the power of culture.\"--Ron Eyerman, American Journal of Sociology \"With these carefully documented and well-argued case studies, Roy makes a considerable contribution to cultural sociology in general and social movement studies in particular, and those with a background in the latter field will gain the most from the work as a whole.\"--Dana Sawchuk, Political Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  Chapter One: Social Movements, Music, and Race 1  Chapter Two: Music and Boundaries: Race and Folk 28  Chapter Three: The Original Folk Project 49  Chapter Four: White and Black Reds: Building an Infrastructure 79  Chapter Five: Movement Entrepreneurs and Activists 100  Chapter Six: Organizing Music: The Fruits of Entrepreneurship 126  Chapter Seven: The Highlander School 155  Chapter Eight: Music at the Heart of the Quintessential Social Movement 181  Chapter Nine: A Movement Splintered 213  Chapter Ten: How Social Movements Do Culture 234  Appendix: Coding of Songbooks and Song Anthologies 251  Notes 253  References 263  Index 277","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865530708311,"sku":"9780691162089","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691162089.jpg?v=1722274416"},{"product_id":"codes-of-finance-engineering-derivatives-in-a-global-bank-9780691163956","title":"Codes of Finance  Engineering Derivatives in a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products... Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank ... And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical.\"--The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii Preface Financial Innovation from within the Bank ix Prologue A Day in a Trader's Life 1 Introduction Questioning Finance 6   Part I From Models to Books 23 Chapter 1: Thinking Financially and Exploring the Code 29 Chapter 2: Hedging and Speculating with Portfolios 55   Part II: Topography of a Secret Experiment 87 Chapter 3: The Trading Room as a Market 91 Chapter 4: The Memory of Banking 119   Part III: Porous Banking: Clients and Investors in Search of Accounts 153 Chapter 5: Selling Finance and the Promise of Contingency 157 Chapter 6: The Costs of Price 182 Chapter 7: Reverse Finance 204 Conclusion What Good Are Derivatives? 222   Appendix A: Capital Guarantee Product: The Full Prospectus 233 Notes 235 Bibliography 265 Index 277","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865531494743,"sku":"9780691163956","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691163956.jpg?v=1722274419"},{"product_id":"defend-the-sacred-9780691190907","title":"Defend the Sacred","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, Association of American Publishers\"\u003cbr\u003e\"An immensely validating book for advocates and community members immersed in Indigenous Peoples’ religious freedom.\" * Harvard Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"An exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, McNally’s book brings much-needed critical attention to the religious claims of Native peoples and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in securing greater legal protection for Native religious freedom.\"\u003cb\u003e---N. Bruce Duthu, \u003ci\u003eNative American and Indigenous Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Comprehensive and widely accessible. . . . McNally successfully exposes the real breadth of Native American religious freedom discourse, making this text an important read for those working in law and policy on the ground as much as those students and scholars working at the intersections of law, religion, and Indigenous studies.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nicholas Shrubsole, \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865542144343,"sku":"9780691190907","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691190907.jpg?v=1722274472"},{"product_id":"figures-of-the-future-9780691199467","title":"Figures of the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation—one that will purportedly change the “face” of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing populations than with past and present struggles shaping how demographic trends are popularly imagined and experienced. Offering an original and timely window into these struggles, \u003ci\u003eFigures of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e explores the population politics of national Latino civil rights groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on eight years of ethnographic and qualitative research, spanning both the Obama and Trump administrations, this bo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Best Book Award, Latino\/a Section of the American Sociological Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Honorable Mention for the Charles Tilly Distinguished Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Incredibly original and innovative. . . . [\u003ci\u003eFigures of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e] is an outstanding contribution to the field.\"\u003cb\u003e---Julie A. Dowling, \u003ci\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Rodríguez-Muñiz] takes readers to the frontline of Latino advocacy and vividly describes how activists use demographic figures for political persuasion. . . . As the lofty optimism of a supposedly post-racial future was shattered by a dystopian embrace of white supremacy, many of us are still dizzy from this ride. Against this backdrop, Rodríguez-Muñiz provides us with critical tools to evaluate where we stand and where we go from here.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sunmin Kim, \u003ci\u003eSociology of Race and Ethnicity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rodríguez-Muñiz crafts a conscientious, sociologically informed narrative that is approachable yet critical, and that engages while challenging the reader.\" * Sociological Viewpoints *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865544995159,"sku":"9780691199467","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691199467.jpg?v=1722274486"},{"product_id":"empty-planet-9781472142979","title":"Empty Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eMUST-READ**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Riveting and vitally important'' - Steven Pinker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A gripping narrative\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e of a world on the cusp of profound change'' - Anjana Ahuja, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpty Planet \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth''s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, we''re thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating study\u003c\/b\u003e -- David Goodhart * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebold thesis,\u003c\/b\u003e but the authors are \u003cb\u003econvincing\u003c\/b\u003e . . . this briskly \u003cb\u003ereadable\u003c\/b\u003e book demands \u003cb\u003eurgent attention\u003c\/b\u003e -- Sarah Ditum * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThe \"everything you know is wrong\" genre has become tedious, but \u003cb\u003ethis book is riveting and vitally important\u003c\/b\u003e. With \u003cb\u003eeye-opening data\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003elively writing\u003c\/b\u003e, Bricker and Ibbitson show that the world is radically changing in a way that few people appreciate -- \u003cb\u003eSteven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Better Angels of Our Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Bricker and Ibbitson] have written a \u003cb\u003esparkling\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eenlightening\u003c\/b\u003e guide to the contemporary world of fertility as small family sizes and plunging rates of child-bearing go global. -- Paul Morland * Globe and Mail *\u003cbr\u003eBricker and Ibbitson work their way around the globe in pacey, sometimes breathless journalistic prose, although their argument is \u003cb\u003erefreshingly clear and well balanced\u003c\/b\u003e . . . -- Robert Mayhew * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe authors combine a \u003cb\u003emastery of social-science research\u003c\/b\u003e with enough \u003cb\u003ejournalistic flair\u003c\/b\u003e to convince fair-minded readers of a simple fact: fertility is falling faster than most experts can readily explain, driven by persistent forces . . . \u003ci\u003eEmpty Planet\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds as a long-overdue skewering of population-explosion fearmongers -- Lyman Stone * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ehighly readable\u003c\/b\u003e, controversial insight into a world rarely thought about - a world of depopulation under ubiquitous urbanisation -- \u003cb\u003eGeorge Magnus, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Aging\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRed Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the global population is swelling well over 7.5 billion people today, birth rates have nonetheless already begun dropping around the world. Past population declines have historically been driven by natural disasters or disease - the Toba supervolcano, Black Death or Spanish Flu - but this coming slump will be of our own demographic making. In this \u003cb\u003efascinating and thought-provoking book\u003c\/b\u003e, Bricker and Ibbitson compellingly argue why by the end of this century the problem won't be overpopulation but a rapidly shrinking global populace, and how we might have to adapt -- \u003cb\u003eProfessor Lewis Dartnell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo get the future right we must challenge our assumptions, and the biggest assumption so many of us make is that populations will keep growing. Bricker and Ibbitson deliver \u003cb\u003ea mind-opening challenge that should be taken seriously\u003c\/b\u003e by anyone who cares about the long-term future - which, I hope, is all of us -- \u003cb\u003eDan Gardner, author of \u003ci\u003eRisk\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eSuperforecasting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanks to the authors' painstaking fact-finding and \u003cb\u003ecogent analysis\u003c\/b\u003e, [\u003ci\u003eEmpty Planet\u003c\/i\u003e] offers ample and \u003cb\u003epersuasive \u003c\/b\u003earguments for a re-evaluation of conventional wisdom * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eWarnings of catastrophic world overpopulation have filled the media since the 1960s, so this \u003cb\u003eexpert, well-researched\u003c\/b\u003e explanation that it's not happening will surprise many readers . . . \u003cb\u003edelightfully stimulating\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArresting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . lucid, trenchant and very readable . . . \u003cb\u003ea stimulating challenge\u003c\/b\u003e to conventional wisdom * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003eriveting travelogue\u003c\/b\u003e that covers some of the most interesting places across the world -- Jinoy Josep * Business Line *\u003cbr\u003eThe beauty of this book is that it links hard-to-grasp global trends to the easy to-understand individual choices being made all over the world today . . . \u003cb\u003ea gripping narrative\u003c\/b\u003e of a world on the cusp of profound change -- Anjana Ahuja * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eambitious reimagining\u003c\/b\u003e of our demographic future -- Doug Bock Clark * New York Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867202597207,"sku":"9781472142979","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472142979.jpg?v=1722282182"},{"product_id":"migration-and-inequality-9781509522118","title":"Migration and Inequality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This short and brilliant synthetic work successfully reconfigures the study of international migration as a facet of global inequality. […] It is one of the most essential books to have been published in the field in a number of years.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Favell, \u003ci\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi’s book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today’s bewilderingly unequal and diverse world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation – create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[Moving] between concepts and empirical research at the macro, meso, and micro levels, [and] literature across disciplines and national contexts [… Safi] touches upon many of the most pressing concerns around migration today, including narratives of a migrant 'crisis', citizenship rights, and ever-present racial and ethnic inequalities. […] Safi provides a thoughtful approach to bridging migration and social stratification research, and the reader is sure to gain a richer understanding of connections between migration and forms of inequality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 From National to Migration Societies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual framework\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of Labor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratification\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial Classification\u003cbr\u003eStruggles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867389210967,"sku":"9781509522118","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509522118.jpg?v=1722283071"},{"product_id":"the-war-on-critical-race-theory-or-the-remaking-of-racism-9781509558544","title":"The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory, uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRT’s targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting white minority rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“No one who cares about our multiracial democracy can afford to ignore the coordinated, well-funded, and fabricated attack against Critical Race Theory. David Theo Goldberg tells us exactly what we need to know to understand what is at stake, why everyone should pay attention, and what must be done to recover the promise of a livable future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this breathtaking exposé of the war on Critical Race Theory, David Theo Goldberg probes the orchestrated outrage, intellectual make-believe, and sloppy architecture of ideas espoused by those seeking desperately to maintain the racist status quo.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuha Benjamin, Princeton University, and author of \u003ci\u003eRace After Technology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eViral Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Theo Goldberg does a masterful job of investigating the public conversation on Critical Race Theory. Through an extremely coherent and well-articulated set of analyses, he shows that many of CRT’s challengers stand on faulty intellectual ground and have dubious motivations for questioning it.​”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan, President of the Association of Black Sociologists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I suppose the most hysterical anti-CRT folks are more likely to ban Goldberg’s book than read it. But for those thinking people that may have heard rumours about the evils of CRT and aren’t sure what to think, it’s well worth picking up.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEarthbound Report\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Clearly indignant at the involuntary politicization of an entire field of research, Goldberg takes the reader on a tour de force of the misunderstandings that have permeated the debate on critical race theory, to then counter them. […] Goldberg delivers a highly compelling and nuanced response to how a group of people desperately try to hold onto or reproduce their old world while a new one is in its infancy.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY TID\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. What’s Going On?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: PRINCIPLES AND PRINCIPALS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The Headliners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Critical Race Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: FABRICATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. A Method of Misreading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Structural Racism?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. The Gospel of Colorblindness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Fictive Histories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Sounds of Silencing\u003cbr\u003ePART III: THE POLITICS OF “CRT”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Deregulating Racism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Executing Critical Race Theory","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867395633495,"sku":"9781509558544","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509558544.jpg?v=1722283097"},{"product_id":"the-wizard-and-the-prophet-science-and-the-future-of-our-planet-9781509884186","title":"The Wizard and the Prophet: Science and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Does the earth’s finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann’s brilliant book.' \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face – food, water, energy, climate change – through an exploration of the crucial work and wide-ranging influence of two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVogt (the Prophet) was the intellectual forefather of the environmental movement, and believed that in our using more than the planet has to give, our prosperity will bring us to ruin. Borlaug’s research in the 1950s led to the development of modern high-yield crops that have saved millions from starvation. The Wizard of Mann’s title, he believed that science will continue to rise to the challenges we face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMann tells the stories of these scientists and their crucial influence on today’s debates as his story ranges from Mexico to India, across continents and oceans and from the past and the present to the future. Brilliantly original in concept, wryly observant and deeply researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard and the Prophet \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s \u003ci\u003eSapiens\u003c\/i\u003e or Jared Diamond’s \u003ci\u003eGuns, Germs and Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, for anyone interested in how we got here and in the future of our species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMann’s storytelling skills are unmatched . . . [He] provides detail enough, and simplicity enough, that \u003cb\u003eanyone who is struggling with these puzzles will be enlightened and informed\u003c\/b\u003e. And entertained, which, given the subject matter, is no small feat. * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eDoes the earth’s finite carrying capacity mean economic growth has to stop? That momentous question is the subject of Charles Mann’s brilliant book . . . \u003cb\u003eA treasure house of knowledge . . . Indispensable\u003c\/b\u003e. * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eProphets say we must reduce consumption, Wizards say we must find more efficient means of production. \u003cb\u003eThis intense and carefully-researched book presents a balanced, scholarly and calm exploration\u003c\/b\u003e of society’s most pressing problems. -- Ten Of The Best Books About Climate Change, Conservation And The Environment of 2018 * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003eMasterful . . . Mann’s most spectacular accomplishment is to take no sides . . . An insightful, highly significant account that makes no predictions but lays out the critical environmental problems already us. * Kirkus starred review *\u003cbr\u003eThis unique, encompassing, clarifying, engrossing, inquisitive, and caring work of multifaceted research, synthesis and analysis humanizes the challenges and contradictions of modern environmentalism and and our struggle towards a viable future. * Booklist starred review *\u003cbr\u003eFascinating . . . Mann offers a sympathetic, nuanced way to understand one of the fundamental debates of our time: How will 10 billion humans live sustainably on Earth, when our demands for energy and food are growing? -- Annalee Newitz, editor, \u003ci\u003eArs Technica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 Fantastic Science Books to Binge Over the Holidays. -- The Year in Review, 2018 * Wired *","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867415163223,"sku":"9781509884186","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509884186.jpg?v=1722283177"},{"product_id":"tomorrows-people-the-future-of-humanity-in-ten-numbers-9781529046014","title":"Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘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 birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War.’ - \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e ‘The Best Books for Summer 2022’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through ten illuminating indicators, from the fertility rate in Singapore (one) to the median age in Catalonia (forty-three), Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomorrow’s People \u003c\/i\u003eranges from the countries of West Africa where the tendency towards large families is combining with falling infant mortality to create the greatest population explosion ever witnessed, to the countries of East Asia and Southern Europe where generations of low birth-rate and rising life expectancy are creating the oldest populations in history. Morland explores the geographical movements of peoples that are already under way – portents for still larger migrations ahead – which are radically changing the cultural, ethnic and religious composition of many societies across the globe, and in their turn creating political reaction that can be observed from Brexit to the rise of Donald Trump. Finally, he looks at the two underlying motors of change – remarkable rises in levels of education and burgeoning food production – which have made all these epochal developments possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomorrow’s People \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a fascinating, illuminating and thought-provoking tour of an emerging new world. Nobody who wants to understand that world should be without it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorland 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 birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War. * The Daily Telegraph  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompulsively readable. \u003c\/b\u003eRegarding the cultural and political implications of enormous pending shifts in human population, Morland manages to remain admirably neutral; readers can draw their own conclusions. Will the future be better or worse? Only one thing is certain: it will be very, very different. -- Lionel Shriver\u003cbr\u003ePaul Morland provides the demographic key to understanding so much of recent history and contemporary society - from Chinese cities, to global ageing and the rise of Africa. With great authority and an eye for the vivid detail he opens a door that I was scarcely aware of, persuading me that demography really is the master social science. -- David Goodhart\u003cbr\u003eAn accomplished whistle stop tour of world demographics. -- \u003cspan\u003eDanny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Morland is emerging as the foremost chronicler of today’s global demographic revolution. Through ten striking numbers, \u003ci\u003eTomorrow’s People\u003c\/i\u003e relates the breath-taking social changes produced by the spatially uneven transition from population explosion to decline. -- \u003cspan\u003eEric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867491447127,"sku":"9781529046014","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529046014.jpg?v=1722283536"},{"product_id":"demography-measuring-and-modeling-population-processes-9781557864512","title":"Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles and extensive applications are presented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This will be a bible for demographers in coming years and decades.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor James Vaupel, Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is really a graduate-level textbook of formal demography. As such, it is sorely needed. I will certainly use it as my basic textbook when it comes out. The authors have done an excellent job of keeping this interesting and informative.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Kenneth Hill, Director of the Johns Hopkins Population Center\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is not a text on population geography. That was not the creative intention of the authors: they provide a carefully crafted toolkit for advanced exercises on demographic analysis. It succeeds as an undergraduate level text and is reasonable priced\" \u003ci\u003eGeographical Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For the mathematically competent, it is terrific. The coverage of the book is indicated by its 12 chapters: basic concept and measures, age-specific rates and probabilities, the life table and single decrement processes, multiple decrement processes, fertility and reproduction, population projections, the stable population model, demographic relationships in non-stable populations, modelling age patterns of vital events, methods of evaluating data quality, indirect estimation methods, and increment-decrement life tables ( this chapter contributed by Alberto Palloni). As a text, the book could be used as a first course for those with particularly good mathematical skills but it is probably better employed as a successor to a simpler methods course in which the fundamental ideas of demography have been made clear. The earlier course would filter out those students who would most benefit from a course based on this book.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the practitioner, this is an excellent reference book. It takes the fear out of a lot of mathematical material in demograohy through clear and explicit explanantion...this is a five star book. Fantastic, terrific, exciting. Its authors deserve very great praise for the service that they provided to the discipline. Its emergence has already led us here at the ANU to consider a restructuring of our teaching to incorporate a course based on this book.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Population Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a five-star book. Fantastic, terrific, exiting. Its authors deserve very great praise for the service that they have provided the discipline.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Population Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Boxes viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Basic Concepts and Measures 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Meaning of “Population” 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 The Balancing Equation of Population Change 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 The Structure of Demographic Rates 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Period Rates and Person-years 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Principal Period Rates in Demography 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Growth Rates in Demography 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Estimating Period Person-years 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 The Concept of a Cohort 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 Probabilities of Occurrence of Events 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Age-specific Rates and Probabilities 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Period Age-specific Rates 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Age-standardization 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Decomposition of Differences between Rates or Proportions 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 The Lexis Diagram 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Age-specific Probabilities 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Probabilities of Death Based on Mortality Experience of a Single Calendar Year 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Life Table and Single Decrement Processes 38\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Period Life Tables 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Strategies for Choosing a Set of N a X Values And\/or for Making The N M X → N Q X Conversion 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 The Very Young Ages 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 The Open-ended Age Interval 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Review of Steps for Period Life Table Construction 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Interpreting the Life Table 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 The Life Table Conceived as a Stationary Population 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Mortality as a Continuous Process 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Life Table Construction Revisited 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 Decomposing a Difference in Life Expectancies 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.11 Adaptation of the Life Table for Studying Other Single Decrement Processes 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 3.1 Life Table Relationships in Continuous Notation 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Multiple Decrement Processes 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Multiple Decrement Tables for a Real Cohort 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Multiple Decrement Life Tables for Periods 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Some Basic Mathematics of Multiple Decrement Processes 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Associated Single Decrement Tables from Period Data 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Cause-specific Decomposition of Differences in Life Expectancies 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Associated Single Decrement Tables from Current Status Data 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Stationary Populations with Multiple Sources of Decrement 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Fertility and Reproduction 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Period Fertility Rates 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Decomposition of Period Fertility 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Cohort Fertility 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Birth Interval Analysis 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Reproduction Measures 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Population Projection 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Projections and Forecasts 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Population Projection Methodology 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 The Cohort Component Method 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Projections in Matrix Notation 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Population Forecasts 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 The USBOC Projection of the US Population 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Alternative Forecasting Methods 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Accuracy and Uncertainty 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Other Uses of Population Projections 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Stable Population Model 138\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 A Simplified Example of a Stable Population 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Lotka’s Demonstration of Conditions Producing a Stable Population 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 The Equations Characterizing a Stable Population 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 The “Stable Equivalent” Population 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 The Relation between the Intrinsic Growth Rate and the Net Reproduction Rate 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 The Effects of Changes in Fertility and Mortality on Age Structure, Growth Rates, Birth Rates, and Death Rates 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 The Momentum of Population Growth 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Uses of the Stable Population Model in Demographic Estimation 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Demographic Relations in Nonstable Populations 171\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 An Illustration 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Relations in Continuous Age and Time 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Extensions of the Basic Relations 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Deconstructing the Age-specific Growth Rate 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Age Structural Dynamics 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Uses of Variable-r Methods in Demographic Estimation 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Modeling Age Patterns of Vital Events 191\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Model Age Patterns of Mortality 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Age Patterns of Nuptiality 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Age Patterns of Fertility 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Model Age Patterns of Migration 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Methods for Evaluating Data Quality 211\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Statistical Methods for Identifying Coverage Errors 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Statistical Methods for Evaluating Content Errors 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Demographic Methods of Assessing Data Quality 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Indirect Estimation Methods 224\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Estimation of Child Mortality from Information on Child Survivorship: The Brass Method 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Estimation of Adult Mortality Using Information on Orphanhood 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 The Sisterhood Method for Estimating Maternal Mortality 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Estimating Mortality and Fertility from Maternity Histories 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Indirect Estimation Methods Using Age Distributions at Two Censuses 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Increment–Decrement Life Tables (Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin) 256\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Introduction 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Increment–Decrement Life Tables 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Estimation of Increment–Decrement Life Tables 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Formalization and Generalization of Relations 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 The Simplest Case: A Two-state System 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 Alternative Solutions: The Case of Constant Rates 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.7 Programs for the Calculation of Increment–Decrement Life Tables 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 285\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867568091479,"sku":"9781557864512","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781557864512.jpg?v=1722283913"},{"product_id":"meeting-the-challenge-of-cultural-diversity-in-europe-moving-beyond-the-crisis-9781786438164","title":"Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEurope has talked itself into a refugee and security crisis. There is, however, a misrecognition of the real challenge facing Europe: the challenge of managing the relationship between Europeans and the currently stigmatized 'others' which it has attracted. Making the case against a 'Europe of walls', Robin Wilson instead proposes a refounding of Europe built on the power of diversity and an ethos of hospitality rather than an institutional thicket serving the market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a robust critique of the moral panic surrounding migrants and security dominating the European public sphere, this book explains why old models for managing cultural diversity in Europe no longer work, and why their obsolescence has led to morbid symptoms. Incorporating discussion of the eurozone crisis and the associated insecurity and the rise of xenophobic populists, Wilson provides an insider account of how the Council of Europe has, over a decade and a half, developed a new paradigm of intercultural integration. He builds theory into this model, drawing on work on cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, also emphasizing the empirical validity of the approach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its handling of critical issues currently facing Europe, this book is of interest not only to academics across the social sciences, undergraduate students of politics and sociology and postgraduate students of cultural and European studies, but also to policy-makers and NGO practitioners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'In an extremely well-documented and surgically analytical volume, Robin Wilson charts the fall of Europe as a moral beacon of the free world during the 2015 ''refugee crisis'' and its aftermath. But he also raises hope amidst the gloom. A new paradigm of integration conjoining equality, diversity and inclusion is being embraced by a growing coalition of (mostly local) leaders. Wilson convincingly shows that intercultural integration is a win for both solidarity and prosperity. Is it also the early sign of a new liberal consensus to the assorted economic, environmental and geopolitical crises in the age of human mobility?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --Irena Guidikova, Head of Inclusion and Anti-discrimination Programmes, Council of Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Preface  1. Introduction: the Barbarian at the gate  2. The old order: how Europe used to manage cultural diversity  3. ‘Morbid symptoms’: the failure of prior social models  4. What went wrong?  5. In search of scapegoats: the crisis of European capitalism and its misrecognition  6. Europe’s moral conscience: the Council of Europe takes the stage  7. The new paradigm: intercultural integration  8. Cosmopolitanism: the class consciousness of frequent flyers?  9. Trying it out: the Intercultural Cities programme  10. Europe facing the world: an ethos of hospitality  11. Conclusions: beyond an unending ‘crisis’   Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868367761751,"sku":"9781786438164","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781786438164.jpg?v=1722287706"},{"product_id":"european-population-9780861963362","title":"European Population","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Libbey \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884819853655,"sku":"9780861963362","price":29.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780861963362.jpg?v=1722533604"},{"product_id":"aboriginal-populations-9780888646255","title":"Aboriginal Populations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtended and comparative social demography of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and beyond by world-renowned experts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aboriginal Populations examines the striking demographics of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Its scope is encyclopedic and compelling; its findings are often surprising; its commentaries are eloquent. Editors Frank Trovato and Anatole Romaniuk capture a community in transition after centuries of despair...\"  [Full review at http:\/\/bit.ly\/1viEFAl] -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *\u003cbr\u003e“… [The editors] have brought forward a collection of papers of very high quality, many of which engage the reader in terms of some of the most difficult conceptual and methodological issues to characterize research of this nature. “ -- Don Kerr * The International Indigenous Policy Journal *","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884962754903,"sku":"9780888646255","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780888646255.jpg?v=1722534255"},{"product_id":"heartland-strong-9780995109599","title":"Heartland Strong","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Massey University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885179351383,"sku":"9780995109599","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780995109599.jpg?v=1722535268"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/population-and-demography.oembed?page=14","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}