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Book SynopsisFeel empowered with your finances and discover the route to economic equality in this astonishing dissection of the gender wealth gap''Uncovers the realities of money in the modern world'' Stylist''This book will open your eyes'' 5***** Reader Review''Goes beyond talks of glass ceilings and gender pay gaps'' Dazed''Shocking and brilliant'' 5***** Reader Review________Did you know?Nearly 70% of Britain''s homeless are women.There are more men called Dave running the UK''s top 100 companies than there are women altogether.Women outperform men educationally at every level from high school to PhD - but still get paid less.In 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.From the personal - feeling <Trade ReviewAnnabelle 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 * Stylist *Williams' 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 * Dazed *It 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 * i *Tells us how to fight to be a financial feminist * Daily Mail *Essential 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 * Gill Whitty-Collins, author of Why Men Win At Work *Williams 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 * i *Annabelle Williams demolishes the idea that women are just worse at negotiating pay, or choose low-wage industries * The Times *Sets out to get to the bottom of why the modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour. * Stylist *

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Book SynopsisIntroduces 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.Table of ContentsIntroduction 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

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Book SynopsisThe main contribution of this book lies in its focus on real alternatives in future population growth. At some time-taken as 1956 in India for this case study-a low-income country may have the option of effectively promoting the reduction of fertility, or (by inaction) of permitting fertility to remain at high levels. This book clearly shows the nature and extent of the economic gains resulting from fertility reduction. Since most low-income areas are destined for rapid population growth even with substantial fertility declines, the emphasis is placed between moderately rapid and very rapid growth. The extensive quantitative population projections show the importance of the growth rate itself and of changes in age distribution in addition to population size. The results for India have direct implications for all low-income, primarily agrarian areas entering a program of economic development.Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*Tables, pg. xv*Charts, pg. xx*I. Introduction, pg. 1*II. The Effects of Economic Development on Population Growth, pg. 9*III. The Effects of Population Growth on Economic Development, pg. 18*IV. India's Population-Current and Prospective, pg. 29*V. Recent Indian Mortality and Fertility Trends, pg. 43*VI. Prospective Changes in Indian Mortality and Fertility, pg. 55*VII. Guiding Principles In Indian Economic Development, pg. 75*VIII. Potential Development in Agriculture, pg. 85*IX. Agricultural Manpower, pg. 111*X. Agricultural And Overall Economic Development, pg. 119*XI. Nonagricultural and Total Output-limiting Factors and Development Policies, pg. 141*XII. The Financing of Development, pg. 148*XIII. The Productivity Of Developmental Outlays, pg. 181*XIV. Demographic Influences on India's Prospective Economic Growth, pg. 227*XV. Population Growth And Labor Supply, pg. 231*XVI. Population Growth and the Disposition of Income, pg. 238*XVII. Projections of the Effect of Reduced Fertility on Indian Economic Growth, pg. 259*XVIII. Summary and Conclusions of Part Four, pg. 284*XIX. Introduction to Part Five, pg. 295*XX. Population Change and Economic Development in Low-Income Areas with Different Demographic Conditions, pg. 297*XXI Population Change and Economic Development with Different Initial Economic Conditions, pg. 304*XXII. The Economic Effects of Different Courses of Fertility after 30 Years, pg. 321*XXIII. Population Growth and Economic Development in Low Income Areas: Summary, pg. 332*Appendix A. Methods Employed in Adjusting Indian Population Data and Preparing Projections of the Indian Population, 1956-1986, pg. 337*Appendix B. Methods Employed in Adjusting Mexican Population Data in Preparing Projections of the Mexican Population, 1955-1985, pg. 368*Appendix C. Notes on the Population of Mexico, pg. 375*Index, pg. 385

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Book SynopsisAmerican Fascism and the New Deal demonstrate how fascist ideas gained popularity in the Associated Farmers of California during the 1930s and 40s. It shows that the politics of the intervening decades created economic and political policies that planted the seeds for these fascist ideas by forming alliances between the corporate-private realm and the state-public realm. These same alliances made FDR and subsequent political figures rethink the direction they wanted to take American democracy. Through a careful analysis of the Associated Farmers of California, Nelson A. Pichardo Almanzar and Brian Kulik show how the AFC formed positions in direct alliance with fascist ideas, but also why these ideas resonate with so many people even to this day.The analysis presented in American Fascism and the New Deal will be of particular interest to sociologists, especially social movement theorists; Chicana/o studies scholars; political scientists; business ethicists; and historians.Trade ReviewSociologists Pichardo Almanzar (Central Washington Univ.) and Kulik (Hawai'i Pacific Univ.) investigate the Associated Farmers (AF) of California during the Great Depression. The AF, an organization of elite growers founded as a pro-industrial reaction to workers, became sociopolitical by the late 1930s to counter the New Deal. The organization utilized vigilante violence to intimidate migrant agricultural workers who were on strike or attempted to organize. The authors look at the difference between European fascism and what developed in the United States. 'The AF's desire to institute a corporate state wrapped in a form of American nationalism achieved through violence and grounded on a palingenetic myth is what qualifies the AF as a fascist movement.' The AF attempted to become a national organization but was unable to gain a foothold outside the western states. The authors also take the characteristics of U.S. fascism during the interwar years and apply them to modern examples, such as the Tea Party. Ultimately, one must decide what constitutes fascism, but the authors make a strong case that the Associated Farmers qualify. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Defining Fascism Chapter Two: The Pro-Industrial Movement in California Chapter Three: The Trends of the Times Chapter Four: The rise of the Pro-Industrial Movement in California and the Associated Farmers of California, Inc., 1933-34 Chapter Five: Reorganization of the Associated Farmers, 1935-37 Chapter Six: Vigilantism and the Pro-Industrial Movement, 1936-38 Chapter Seven: The AF Goes National, 1938-39 Chapter Eight: The Decline of the AF Chapter Nine: American Fascism Chapter Ten: Theories of Social Movements, the State, and Corporate Behavior Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisArguing that climate injustice is one of our most pressing urban problems, this volume explores the possibilities and challenges for more just urban futures under climate change. Contributors to the volume build theoretical tools for interrogating the root causes of climate change, as well as policy failures.

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Book SynopsisOffers a damning chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion.Trade Review“What’s the last great book you read?”“I can’t just name one. I want to highlight three great books I recently read on America’s political economy. The first, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, is an expertly told history of the post-civil rights emergence of what Taylor terms “predatory inclusion”. The second, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is the best booklong case for reparations. The third, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson, adroitly examines a U.S. history of imperial racial capitalism with its crosswinds centered in St. Louis.” - Dr. Ibram Kendi, New York Times, March 20201

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Book SynopsisBringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates the struggle for self-determination in America's capital.

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Book SynopsisArgues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the US's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote business, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favoured causes - often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol.

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Book SynopsisIn 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. In 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 Homo americanus 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. This 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.Trade ReviewTo 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 Lineages of Modernity, this great thinker has found his greatest subject.’Michael Lind, author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States ‘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.’David Goodhart, member of the Policy Exchange think-tank and author of The Road to Somewhere: The New Tribes Shaping British Politics ‘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.’Alan Macfarlane, Life Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge ‘Vast and mind-expanding’The Independent“[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.”Evening StandardTable of Contents Preface to the English edition Introduction. The differentiation of family structures and the inverse model of history Chapter One. The differentiation of family systems: Eurasia Chapter Two. The differentiation of family systems: Indian America and Africa Chapter Three. Homo sapiens Chapter Four. Judaism and early Christianity: family and literacy Chapter Five. Germany, Protestantism and universal literacy Chapter Seven. Educational take-off and economic development Chapter Eight. Secularization and the crisis of transition Chapter Nine. The English matrix of globalization Chapter Ten. Homo americanus Chapter Eleven. Democracy is always primitive Chapter Twelve. Democracy undermined by higher education Chapter Thirteen. A crisis in Black and White Chapter Fourteen: Donald Trump as will and representation Chapter Fifteen. The memory of places Chapter Sixteen. Stem family societies: Germany and Japan Chapter Seventeen. The metamorphosis of Europe Chapter Eighteen. Communitarian societies: Russia and China Envoi Post-script: the future of liberal democracy Notes Index

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Book Synopsis'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.Trade Review"Lentin's book is necessary reading. Lentin explains the whitewashing of racial-colonial history and how structural white advantage must be dismantled for progress to take place."Sydney Morning Herald '13 Books to Take Your Mind Off 2020'"The sharp analysis that Lentin offers exposes what [discourses that advance racist ideas under the guise of realism or common sense] actually do – obscure, gaslight or shift blame in order that a white supremacist order is maintained. […A] vital book for those who wish to understand race, and more importantly, desire to make it matter less."Sydney Review of Books"A persuasive and exhaustive study of how race pervades our societies. [Alana Lentin] has crafted this book in race critical scholarship with meticulous attention to the world around us. […] This book is a clear exposition of how race has been made to appear insignificant in certain strands of scholarship and popular culture, and why this is dangerous and must be resisted at all costs."Patterns of Prejudice"A wide-ranging, powerful and timely account of what race is, what is does, and why it still matters in our supposedly 'post-racial' times. […] Eloquent and accessible, [… it] is also valuable to a popular audience for whom the book would provide a thorough entry point into thinking more deeply about race and racism and a resource from which to cultivate racial literacy."The Sociological Review"A bracing corrective to the simplifications and elisions that plague commonsensical and officially sanctioned conceptions of racism."Sivamohan Valluvan, Ethnic and Racial Studies review symposium"Lentin identifies the many actors entangled together in a battle of ideas (and lives) to powerfully portray the ideological mess that sabotages public understanding of how racism works. But although Lentin skilfully measures our many failures in contemporary discussions, she also invites the reader to pause and ask what we can do better. Rising to her own challenge makes the work reflective, insightful and therapeutic."Yassir Morsi, Ethnic and Racial Studies review symposium"An important book that sets out both the progressive and dangerous traits of anti-racism."Göteborgs-Posten"The most prominent strength of Why Race Still Matters is the breadth and depth of analyses, pulling from diverse sources from multiple national contexts to build upon and challenge contemporary discourses on race and racism. Lentin provides critiques of both the political right and left in the ways that both minimise the continued significance of race in the structuring of societies around the world."Chinelo L. Njaka, Sociology“Why Race Still Matters [considers] how our unwillingness to talk about race emboldens the power of whiteness to define and re-define what racism is. […] Centring the voices of Indigenous and Black communities and people of colour helps tear down the structures that presuppose who can and cannot be knowers about race matters.”Leah Hrycun, Aboriginal Policy Studies"Offers key insights on how racism is denied and why naming racism is seen as offensive based on cases in politics and media across US and Australia. These cases, Lentin clearly explains, underlie the systemic redefinition of racism to serve white agendas and make it challenging to bring racial literacy into public discourse. […] A valuable contribution and resource."F. Zehra Colak, European Centre for Populism Studies"Decolonial activists are troubled by the tendency, among certain scholars, towards what is ironically called ‘the race for theory’, or, in other words, academic work which is based on the concept of race but whose real purpose is personal career-building. Alana Lentin escapes this. Not only does this book draw inspiration from decolonial struggles and deepen them, it also fully recognises their legitimacy. For this, my infinite appreciation." Houria Bouteldja, Spokesperson for the Parti des Indigènes de la République (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic)​ "Presently, mainstream intellectual and public discourse fundamentally lacks literacy in race. Lentin's book provides this literacy with rigor, accessibility and honesty. Above all, Lentin explains why race still matters in sociologically and geopolitically expansive ways." Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionOne: Race Beyond Social ConstructionTwo: ‘Not Racism™’Three: Making it About RaceFour: Good Jew/Bad JewConclusion: Talking and Not Talking About RaceBibliographyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis 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.Trade Review"This will be a bible for demographers in coming years and decades." Professor James Vaupel, Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany "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." Professor Kenneth Hill, Director of the Johns Hopkins Population Center "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" Geographical Association "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. For 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." Journal of Population Research "This is a five-star book. Fantastic, terrific, exiting. Its authors deserve very great praise for the service that they have provided the discipline." Journal of Population ResearchTable of ContentsList of Boxes viii List of Tables x List of Figures xii Preface xiv Acknowledgments xv 1 Basic Concepts and Measures 1 1.1 Meaning of “Population” 1 1.2 The Balancing Equation of Population Change 2 1.3 The Structure of Demographic Rates 3 1.4 Period Rates and Person-years 5 1.5 Principal Period Rates in Demography 7 1.6 Growth Rates in Demography 8 1.7 Estimating Period Person-years 15 1.8 The Concept of a Cohort 16 1.9 Probabilities of Occurrence of Events 18 2 Age-specific Rates and Probabilities 21 2.1 Period Age-specific Rates 21 2.2 Age-standardization 24 2.3 Decomposition of Differences between Rates or Proportions 28 2.4 The Lexis Diagram 31 2.5 Age-specific Probabilities 32 2.6 Probabilities of Death Based on Mortality Experience of a Single Calendar Year 35 3 The Life Table and Single Decrement Processes 38 3.1 Period Life Tables 42 3.2 Strategies for Choosing a Set of N a X Values And/or for Making The N M X → N Q X Conversion 44 3.3 The Very Young Ages 47 3.4 The Open-ended Age Interval 48 3.5 Review of Steps for Period Life Table Construction 48 3.6 Interpreting the Life Table 51 3.7 The Life Table Conceived as a Stationary Population 53 3.8 Mortality as a Continuous Process 59 3.9 Life Table Construction Revisited 61 3.10 Decomposing a Difference in Life Expectancies 64 3.11 Adaptation of the Life Table for Studying Other Single Decrement Processes 65 Appendix 3.1 Life Table Relationships in Continuous Notation 69 4 Multiple Decrement Processes 71 4.1 Multiple Decrement Tables for a Real Cohort 71 4.2 Multiple Decrement Life Tables for Periods 73 4.3 Some Basic Mathematics of Multiple Decrement Processes 78 4.4 Associated Single Decrement Tables from Period Data 80 4.5 Cause-specific Decomposition of Differences in Life Expectancies 84 4.6 Associated Single Decrement Tables from Current Status Data 86 4.7 Stationary Populations with Multiple Sources of Decrement 89 5 Fertility and Reproduction 92 5.1 Period Fertility Rates 93 5.2 Decomposition of Period Fertility 99 5.3 Cohort Fertility 101 5.4 Birth Interval Analysis 106 5.5 Reproduction Measures 113 6 Population Projection 117 6.1 Projections and Forecasts 117 6.2 Population Projection Methodology 118 6.3 The Cohort Component Method 119 6.4 Projections in Matrix Notation 129 6.5 Population Forecasts 131 6.6 The USBOC Projection of the US Population 133 6.7 Alternative Forecasting Methods 134 6.8 Accuracy and Uncertainty 135 6.9 Other Uses of Population Projections 136 7 The Stable Population Model 138 7.1 A Simplified Example of a Stable Population 138 7.2 Lotka’s Demonstration of Conditions Producing a Stable Population 141 7.3 The Equations Characterizing a Stable Population 144 7.4 The “Stable Equivalent” Population 147 7.5 The Relation between the Intrinsic Growth Rate and the Net Reproduction Rate 150 7.6 The Effects of Changes in Fertility and Mortality on Age Structure, Growth Rates, Birth Rates, and Death Rates 155 7.7 The Momentum of Population Growth 161 7.8 Uses of the Stable Population Model in Demographic Estimation 167 8 Demographic Relations in Nonstable Populations 171 8.1 An Illustration 171 8.2 Relations in Continuous Age and Time 172 8.3 Extensions of the Basic Relations 176 8.4 Deconstructing the Age-specific Growth Rate 180 8.5 Age Structural Dynamics 182 8.6 Uses of Variable-r Methods in Demographic Estimation 184 9 Modeling Age Patterns of Vital Events 191 9.1 Model Age Patterns of Mortality 192 9.2 Age Patterns of Nuptiality 201 9.3 Age Patterns of Fertility 204 9.4 Model Age Patterns of Migration 208 10 Methods for Evaluating Data Quality 211 10.1 Statistical Methods for Identifying Coverage Errors 212 10.2 Statistical Methods for Evaluating Content Errors 214 10.3 Demographic Methods of Assessing Data Quality 215 11 Indirect Estimation Methods 224 11.1 Estimation of Child Mortality from Information on Child Survivorship: The Brass Method 224 11.2 Estimation of Adult Mortality Using Information on Orphanhood 233 11.3 The Sisterhood Method for Estimating Maternal Mortality 241 11.4 Estimating Mortality and Fertility from Maternity Histories 243 11.5 Indirect Estimation Methods Using Age Distributions at Two Censuses 246 12 Increment–Decrement Life Tables (Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin) 256 12.1 Introduction 256 12.2 Increment–Decrement Life Tables 257 12.3 Estimation of Increment–Decrement Life Tables 259 12.4 Formalization and Generalization of Relations 266 12.5 The Simplest Case: A Two-state System 270 12.6 Alternative Solutions: The Case of Constant Rates 271 12.7 Programs for the Calculation of Increment–Decrement Life Tables 271 References 273 Index 285

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Book SynopsisFinalist 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.Trade ReviewKirkus 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

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Book SynopsisOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.Trade ReviewFor decades, skateboarders have considered themselves outside of mainstream culture. The skateboard, for these folks, is an emblem of independence, liberty, and creative provocation. As a lifelong skateboarder, I found Moving Boarders to be an accurate reflection of skateboarding's cultural qualities. More than ever, skateboarding presents a healthy—if sometimes subversive—option for today's youth. Moving Boarders is a vital account of what works in skateboarding." - Peter Whitley, Programs Director, Tony Hawk FoundationTable of Contents Introduction Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape 1. Neo-liberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding 2. Social Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development 3. “They Were All About Police, Police, Police...We Don't Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult Organized Social Space 4. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred” 5. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley” 6. The Use of Skate Parks to Create New Spaces of Values for Youth, Families, and Urban Communities

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Book SynopsisIn this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "War on Terror." Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as religious intolerance. An innovative analysis of anti-Muslim racism and empire, Islamophobia argues that empire creates the conditions for anti-Muslim racism, which in turn sustains empire.This book, now updated to include the end of the Trump's presidency, offers a clear and succinct explanation of how Islamophobia functions in the United States both as a set of coercive policies and as a body of ideas that take various forms: liberal, conservative, and rightwing. The matrix of anti-Muslim racism charts how various institutions-the media, think tanks, the foreign policy establishment, the university, the national security apparatus, and the legal sphere-produce and circulate this particular form of bigotry. Anti-Muslim racism not only has horrific consequences for people in Muslim-majority countries who become the targets of an endless War on Terror, but for Muslims and those who "look Muslim" in the West as well.Trade ReviewIn this deftly argued book, Kumar unearths a genealogy of colonial construction that goes back to the earliest contacts between Muslims and Europeans. But the real power of her argument is when she grabs the politics of ideological domination by the throat and, with an astonishing moral and intellectual force, sets the record straight as to who and what the players are in turning a pathological fear of Muslims into a cornerstone of imperial hegemony. This is a must read on both sides of the Atlantic, where from mass murderers in Europe to military professors at the US military academies are in the business of manufacturing fictive enemies out of their fanciful delusions. Deepa Kumar has performed a vital public service. -- Hamid Dabashi * Columbia University, and author of The Arab Spring *In this remarkable primer Deepa Kumar expertly shows how racism is central to contemporary US imperial politics. An antiracist and antiwar activist, as well as a model scholar-teacher, Kumar has written a comprehensive and most readable guide to exposing and opposing the hatred of Islam. -- Gilbert Achcar * University of London and author, The Arabs and the Holocaust *This is a timely and crucial book. From historical roots to ideological causes, Islamophobia is studied in a holistic, profound and serious way. The reader will understand why we need to stop being both naive and blind. There will be no peaceful and just future in our democratic societies if we do not fight this new type of dangerous racism. -- Tariq Ramadan * Oxford University *Indispensable to anyone wanting to understand one of the most persistent forms of racism in the US and Europe. Kumar demonstrates that Islamophobic myths did not arise spontaneously after the end of the Cold War but are rooted in centuries of conquest and colonialism, from the Crusades to the 'War on Terror'. Kumar's text will be a crucial corrective to those who fail to see that the origins of the 'Islam problem' lie in empire not sharia -- Arun Kudnani * author of The Muslims Are coming! *[Kumar's] innovative understanding of Islamophobia raises important and wide-ranging questions about empire, the 'war on terror' and its inherent contradictions. -- Mariana Vieira * International Affairs *Table of ContentsTOC:Foreword, by Nadine NaberPreface to the Revised Second EditionIntroduction: Islamophobia Is Anti-Muslim Racism 1. Empire, Race, Orientalism: The Case of Spain, Britain, and France 2. The United States, Orientalism, and Modernization3. The Ideology of Islamophobia4. “Good” and “Bad” Muslims: The Foreign Policy Establishment and the “Islamic Threat” 5. Empire’s Changing Clothes: Bush, Obama, Trump6. Terrorizing Muslims: Domestic Security and the Racialized Threat 7. The New McCarthyites: The Right-wing Islamophobia Network and Their Liberal EnablersConclusion: Empire and the Matrix of Anti-Muslim RacismAcknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTo date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy. This book provides an essential overview of the skills revolution. It presents key milestones of the changes in economic development in the past few decades and explains the motivation behind the rise of talent, as well as its importance for cities and economies. It also offers advice on how to attract and manage talent – a major determinant of competitiveness for countries and regions around the world. In closing, the book explains the underlying theories and provides practical examples for students, researchers and practitioners alike. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Defining talent: Between human capital and the creative economy.- Positioning Talent: history, cities and the growing importance of talent.- Challenging talent: Cities and the cycle of rising disparities.- Raising talent: higher education and uneven career outcomes.- Exposing talent: Precarity and moments of crisis.- Empowering talent: Campaigning and activism for work and cities.- Conclusions

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Book Synopsis''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'' Financial Times''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''Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, Adapt and Messy''This definitely deserves a read - the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she''s talking about''Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the WorldIn a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus panTrade ReviewYou 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 -- Tim Harford, author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, ADAPT and MESSYThis definitely deserves a read - the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she's talking about -- Laura Spinney, Author of PALE RIDER: THE SPANISH FLU OF 1918 AND HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLDImpressively paced and comprehensive * New Statesman *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 * Financial Times *I loved this book. Fast-paced, engaging, couldn't put it down. A heart-pounding telling of the misadventures that led to one of the worst pandemics in history. 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 PhiladelphiaA fascinating behind the scenes look ... 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 SUPERBUGA 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 not to act when the next pandemic comes ... Essential, enlightening reading in a time of panic and plague -- Starred review * Kirkus *MacKenzie wisely leaves the specifics of who got what wrong when for another day. 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 *Debora 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 MedicineSo 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-MacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective and, 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 HEISTSome 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 immensely engaging ... 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 a delightful and important excursion into the world of outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics -- Tim Sly, epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at Ryerson University's School of Public HealthQuickly spiralling from a local outbreak to a global crisis, Debora MacKenzie provides a down-to-earth account of how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out so far and, 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 MedicineScience journalist MacKenzie delivers a wise and accurate account 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 *It'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 *For 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 magnificent COVID-19. Read about the Nipah virus and see what a civilisation-threatening pandemic might be like. Be afraid. * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisMany feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, and yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women's protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, The Feminist War on Crime documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tendto make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil pTrade Review“This interesting, densely written, challenging book illustrates the phenomenon of unintended consequences. . . . Following from Gruber's main point that now is the time to recognize that incarceration is not a solution, the state should concentrate on increasing the resources available to women affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"Gruber offers an exciting and brave book that tackles the cause and effect between gender-based violence, mass incarceration, and a broken legal system." * PEN America *"The Feminist War on Crime is a timely call for feminists to reckon with the harms of the criminal institutions they helped to build. Ultimately, Gruber is asking for a new wave of feminism that prioritizes material gains for all women over expressive protection for the elite few. . . . The key lesson from Gruber’s book is that instead of punishing our way into good governance, feminists should define new modes for accountability and devote energy toward the provision of resources that actually improve the lives of women. As Gruber argues, now is the time for millennial feminists to move away from punishment." * Harvard Law Review *"The Feminist War on Crime is at the same time provocative, educational, and necessary for our moment where people are beginning to question the utility of imprisonment as a panacea for social ills without denying the fact that those ills demand our attention and effort." * Law & Society Review *"Deeply researched and forcefully argued. Gruber outlines the long-term corrosiveness of carceral anti-violence policies and compels readers to take anti-violence and anti-incarceration as inseparable political commitments." * Feminist Formations *"Gruber brings to light the ties between feminist movements and mass incarceration in this deeply researched, timely analysis." * Library Journal *"The Feminist War on Crime is cutting, provocative, and crucial reading for critical scholars, intersectional feminist thinkers, and anyone who seeks to pursue justice without further retrenching unjust systems." * Springer Nature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Opening Battle: Fighting Patriarchy with Purity 2 • The Enemy: From “the Man” to Bad Men 3 • The Battle Plan: Arrest Is Best 4 • The Weapon: Ideal Victims 5 • The New Front: Date Rape 6 • From the Sexual Cold War to the New Sex Panic 7 • Endless War? Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequalitya critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe? The persistence of povertyin rich and poor countries alikeis one of the most serious problems facing humanity. Better measurement of poverty is essential for raising awareness, motivating action, designing good policy, gauging progress, and holding political leaders accountable for meeting targets. To help make this possible, Atkinson provides a critically important examination of how poverty isand should bemeasured. Bringing together evidence about the nature and extent of poverty across the world and including case studies of sixty countries, Atkinson addresses both financial poverty an

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and tax decisions. It has served as an essential tool of representative democracy since 1790. The raw data from the census also serve as a decennial snapshot of the nation, a very long list, organized by household, ideally of all people resident on census day, with additional information on the name, age, race, sex, geographic location, and other characteristics for each individual. Americans recognized early in their history that the raw data, the list, could serve additional governmental functions, and over the centuries, erected guardrails to prevent improper use. They are encapsulated in the presidential proclamations announcing the upcoming census. The information collected from individual households is for aggregated use only, and cannot be used for the “taxation, regulation, or investigation” of individual persons or businesses. Americans have heeded the call to “stand up and be counted.” They also engage in an ongoing conversation to make sure that the information is used properly and ethically, that the census serves as a tool of representative democracy and advances the rights – including human rights -- of all Americans. The record, however, reveals that there have been failures to meet this goal and that as a result the information provided by the responding public sometimes has been misused, causing considerable harm to vulnerable individuals, groups and entities. Today, as governments and social media are suspect for their exploitation of data about individuals, the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II provides a chilling example of such misuse of census data. This book reveals how census officials stepped beyond their normal roles as unobtrusive monitors of American demographic life and helped justify and administer the relocation and incarceration program. Census officials mobilized the substantial administrative and technical resources of the 1940 census, to map the neighbourhoods where Japanese-Americans lived, and planned their systematic removal. The officials then built “census-like” data systems to track the “evacuees” for the duration of the war, monitor their lives in the camps, and certify which “loyal” evacuees might be released from the camps for military or civilian service. After the war, census officials drafted an official history of their activities, but did not publish it. This book has lessons for policy makers and ordinary Americans alike, as we confront the new digital world in which we live. And it speaks to two of the great issues of our time: distrust in the institutions of government and the victimization of minorities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Before Pearl Harbor. - Chapter 3. December 1941.- Chapter 4. Executive Order 9066.- Chapter 5. June 1942 Evacuation.- Chapter 6. Military Area 2.- Chapter 7. Second War Powers Act.- Chapter 8. Commission of Wartime Reolcation and Internment of Civilians.

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Book SynopsisGary 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. Trade Review"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 *"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 *"Heady historical and cultural study of ancient trade routes. . . . Nabhan adds pungent pinches of botany and gastronomy." * Nature *"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 *"...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 *"Gary Paul Nabhan weaves a fascinating story." * Santa Fe New Mexican *"This book is a singular achievement . . . . A most absorbing book and highly recommended." * Chicago Botanic Garden *“Anyone who has traveled ancient routes, or dreamed of doing so, will find deep satisfaction in Cumin, Camels and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey." * Forbes *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Recipes List of Spice Boxes Introduction: The Origin of “Species” 1. Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places 2. Caravans Leaving Arabia Felix 3. Uncovering Hidden Outposts in the Desert 4. Omanis Rocking the Cradle of Civilization 5. Mecca and the Migrations of Muslim and Jewish Traders 6. Merging the Spice Routes with the Silk Roads 7. The Flourishing of Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Iberia 8. The Crumbling of Convivencia and the Rise of Transnational Guilds 9. Building Bridges between Continents and Cultures 10. Navigating the Maritime Silk Roads from China to Africa 11. Vasco da Gama Mastering the Game of Globalization 12. Crossing the Drawbridge over the Eastern Ocean Epilogue: Culinary Imperialism and Its Alternatives Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Revised and expanded edition’s forty-two papers examine issues related to the funding and provision of resources in education, discussing returns to education, determinants of test scores, the behavioral economics of education, and recent policy developments." --Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsEducation Markets, Choice, and Incentives 1. The Economic Role of the State in Education 2. Educational Privatization 3. Tiebout Sorting and Competition 4. The Economics of Catholic Schools 5. Competition and Student Performance 6. The Economics of Charter Schools 7. The Economics of Parental Choice 8. The Efficacy of Educational Vouchers 9. The Economics of School Accountability 10. Student Incentives Overview 1. Theoretical Concepts in the Economics of Education 2. Empirical Research Methods in the Economics of Education 3. Data in the Economics of Education Private and Social Returns to Human Capital Investments 1. Human Capital 2. Signaling in the Labor Market 3. Returns to Education in Developed Countries 4. Returns to Education in Developing Countries 5. School Quality and Earnings 6. Education and Economic Growth 7. The External Benefits of Education 8. Education and Health 9. Education and Civic Engagement 10. Education and Crime 11. Education and Inequality 12. Race Earnings Differentials 13. The Economics of High School Dropouts Production, Costs, and Financing of Education 1. Education Production Functions Concepts 2. Education Production Functions Evidence from Developed Countries 3. Education Production Functions Evidence from Developing Countries 4. Family Environment in the Production of Schooling 5. Parental Socioeconomic Status, Child Health, and Human Capital 6. Neighborhoods and Peers in the Production of Schooling 7. Desegregation, Academic Achievement, and Earnings 8. Teacher Quality in Education Production 9. The Economics of Class Size 10. The Economics of Early Childhood Interventions 11. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis 12. Economic Approaches to Adequacy 13. Economic Approaches to School Efficiency 14. School Finance: An Overview 15. School Finance Reform 16. The Economics of Tuition and Fees in American Higher Education Teachers and Teacher Labor Markets 1. Teacher Labor Markets: An Overview 2. Teachers in Developing Countries 3. Teacher Supply 4. Economic Approaches to Teacher Recruitment and Retention 5. Compensating Differentials in Teacher Labor Markets 6. Teacher Incentives 7. The Economics of Teachers Unions in the United States 8. Teacher Training and Preparation in the United States

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Book SynopsisThomas 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.Trade ReviewWith 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 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; 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

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Book SynopsisThe Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against the characterizationmore by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture mroe accurately and sympathetically the essence of the Italian peasant life: fortuna (fate), onore (honor, dignity), famiglia (family), and campanilismo (village). Fortuna is the cultural wellspring of Italian peasant society, the world view from which all social life flows. The concept of fortuna does not refer to philosophical questions, predestination, or value judgments. Rather, fortuna is the sum total of all explanations of outcomes perceived to be beyond human control. Thus, in Bell's view, high mortality does not lead peasants to a resigned acceptance of their fate; instead, they rely on honor, reciprocal exchanges of favors, and marriage to forge new links in their familial and social networks. With thorough documentation in graphs and tables, the author evaluates peasant reactions to time, work, family, space, migration, and protest to portray rural Italians as active, flexible, and shrewd, participating fully in shaping their destinies. Bell asserts that the real problem of the Mezzogiorno is not one of resistance to technology, of high birth rates, or even of illiteracy. It is one of solving technical questions in ways that foster dependency. The historical and sociological practice of treating peasant culture as backward, secondary, and circumscribed only encourages disruption and ultimately blocks the road to economic and political justice in a postmodern world.

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Book SynopsisIn the past anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other's assumptions and methods. In order to show that they have much to offer each other, this book seeks to bridge the demography/anthropology divide, and examines major issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Toward an Anthropological Demography David I. Kertzer, Tom Fricke. 2: Kinship Systems and Demographic Regimes Monica Das Gupta 3: Family Systems and Demographic Processes G. William Skinner 4: Reproduction in Anthropology and Demography Nicholas Townsend 5: Similarities and Differences: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives on Gender Nancy E. Riley 6: Population and Identity Philip Kreager 7: Anthropology and Demography: Marriage, Liaison, or Encounter? E. A. Hammel, Diana S. Friou. 8: Demography without Numbers Nancy Scheper-Hughes 9: "Truth Lies in the Eye of the Beholder": The Nature of Evidence in Demography and Anthropology Allan G. Hill 10: Culture Theory and Demographic Process: Toward a Thicker Demography Tom Fricke Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in 18 high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures.

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Book SynopsisYields findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence the effects of demographic shift. This title explores topics such as the implications of differential mortality rates by income on Social Security, the link between cognition and economic outcomes.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 Key Messages; 3 A Window of Opportunity; 4 The Changing Demography of Asia; 5 What Is Important To Know; 6 Strengthening Science To Inform Policy; 7 Looking To The Future; 8 Notes

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