Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisThis comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are united in their general approach to the study of lives across age phases.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This weighty collection of 34 research studies comprehensively examines the 'life course,' defined as '...the age graded socially-embedded sequence of roles that connect the phases of life.' The text's strenghts: comprehensiveness and comparative and historical perspectives. Highly recommended. Reference collections, upper-division undergraduate and above." (S.D. Borchert, Lake Erie College, CHOICE) "Many of the current luminaries or up-and -comers in life course research are included. On balance this is a terrific book. And at 728 pages is is brimming with insights, syntheses, and reference material. (Just for fun, it weights 3 lbs. 13 oz). This book is well worth the price and will be a welcome addition to any library." (Timothy J. Owens, Purdue University, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews.)Table of ContentsPreface; J.T. Mortimer, M.J. Shanahan. I: The Life Course Perspective. 1. The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory; G.H. Elder Jr. et al. II: Historical and Cross-National Variability in the Life Course. 2. Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change; D.F. Alwin, R.J. McCammon. 3. Stratified Incentives and Life Course Behaviors; T. Kariya, J.E. Rosenbaum. III: Normative Structuring in the Life Course. 4. Age Structuring and the Rhythm of the Life Course; R.A. Settersten Jr. IV: Movement through the Life Course. A: Institutional Structuring of Life Course Trajectories. 5. Parental Identification, Couple Commitment and Problem Solving Among Newlyweds; I. Tallman. 6. Family Context and Individual Well-Being: Patterns and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective; P. Uhlenberg, M. Mueller. 7. Intergenerational Relations in Changing Times; N.M. Putney, V.L. Bengtson. 8. Educational Transitions, Trajectories and Pathways; A.M. Pallas. 9. From Work Trajectories to Negotiated Careers: the Contingent Work Life Course; W.R. Heinz. 10. Government and the Life Course; L. Leisering. B: Transitions. 11. The First Grade Transition in Life Course Perspective; D.R. Entwisle, et al. 12. From Student to Worker; A.C. Kerckhoff. 13. Midcourse: Navigating Retirement and a New Life Stage; P. Moen. C: Turning Point. 14. Desistance from Crime over the Life Course; R.J. Sampson, J.H. Laub. 15. Desistance from Crime and Deviance as a Turning Pointin the Life Course; C. Uggen, M. Massoglia. 16. Migration, Human Development, and the Lifecourse; G. Jasso. V: Life Course Construction. A: Agency. 17. Self-Agency and the Life Course; V. Gecas. B: Connections between Early and Subsequent Life Phases. 18. Connections between Chidhood and Adulthood; J.D. McLeod, E.P. Almazan. 19. How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important: The Sample Case of Long-term Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use; J.E. Schulenberg, et al. 20. Adolescent work and the Early Socioeconomic Career; J.T. Mortimer, et al. VI: Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches. A: Modes of Studying the Life Course. 21. Distinguishing Age, Period, and Cohort Effects; N.D. Glenn. 22. Event History Models for Life Course Analysis; L.L. Wu. 23. Panel Models for the Analysis of Change and Growth in Life Course Studies; C.N. Halaby. 24. Characterizing the Life Course as Role Configurations and Pathways: A Latent Structure Approach; R. Macmillan, S.R. Eliason. 25. Linking Life-Course and Life-Story: Social Change and the Narrative Study of Lives Over Time; B.J. Cohler, A. Hostetler. B: Interdisciplinary Collaborations. 26. Personality Trait Development In Adulthood; B.W. Roberts, et al. 27. Biological Models of Behavior and the Life Course; M.J. Shanahan, et al. 28. Socioeconomic Status and Health Over the Life Course: Capital as a Unifying Concept; J.R. Frytak, et al. VII: The Future of the Life Course. 29.

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Book SynopsisOffers recommendations for research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and development of coastal zones. This book is useful for researchers, research funders, and students.Table of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 PART I--PANEL REPORT: Executive Summary; 3 1 The State of Knowledge; 4 2 Recommended Research Directions; 5 References; 6 PART II--PAPERS: 3 Global and Case-Based Modeling of Population and Land Use Change--Gunther Fischer and Brian C. O'Neill; 7 4 Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains--Myron P. Gutmann, William J. Parton, Geoff Cunfer, and Ingrid C. Burke; 8 5 Population and Environment in Amazonia: Landscape and Household Dynamics--Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondizio, and Leah K. VanWey; 9 6 Population Change and Landscape Dynamics: The Nang Rong, Thailand, Studies--Stephen J. Walsh, Ronald R. Rindfuss, Pramote Prasartkul, Barbara Entwisle, and Aphichat Chamratrithirong; 10 7 The Urban Ecology of Metropolitan Phoenix: A Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Study--Charles L. Redman; 11 8 Economies, Societies, and Landscapes in Transition: Examples from the Pearl River Delta, China, and the Red River Delta, Vietnam--Karen C. Seto; 12 9 Beyond Population Size: Examining Intricate Interactions Among Population Structure, Land Use, and Environment in Wolong Nature Reserve, China--Jianguo Liu, Li An, Sandra S. Batie, Scott L. Bearer, Xiaodong Chen, Richard E. Groop, Guangming He, Zai Liang,; 13 10 People, Land Use, and Environment in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico--Pamela Matson, Amy L. Luers, Karen C. Seto, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio; 14 11 Patterns of Urban Land Use as Assessed by Satellite Imagery: An Application to Cairo, Egypt--John R. Weeks, Dennis P. Larson, and Debbie L. Fugate; 15 12 A Review of 10 Years of Work on Economic Growth and Population Change in Rural India--Andrew Foster; 16 Appendix About the Contributors; 17 Plates

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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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Book SynopsisWith the emergence of fertility declines in the greater part of the developing world, study of the phenomenon has increased profoundly over the last three decades, and a voluminous amount of literature has emerged.Table of ContentsPreface Concepts and Theories of Fertility Decline Fertility Decline in Latin America Fertility Decline in Asia Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa Fertility Decline in Developing Countries General Literature Indexes

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Book SynopsisDeforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.

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Book SynopsisAn accessible, authoritative book about the coronavirus pandemic by a leading journalist on the subjectTrade 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 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 SynopsisThis new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship, border control, integration and identity.Written by two geographers, the book incorporates insights from across the social sciences and is accessible to students in many disciplines. Providing a useful and timely introduction to migration, the textbook addresses migration in a holistic way and equips students with the tools they need to participate in contemporary debates about migration in sending and destination contexts. It conveys to students that the causes and effects of migration are geographically specific and contingent upon class, race, gender and other markers of social difference. Rather than identifying simple solutions to migration problems', the book encourages students to think about unauthorized migration, asylum, refugee resettlement, labour migration, and other forTrade Review"The second edition of Global Migration continues to fill an important gap as an outstanding and updated textbook for the study of a topic that is shaping our century. The book offers multidisciplinary insights into the global politics, patterns, and practices of migration and engages students in a highly accessible way." Professor Harald Bauder, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada."Clear, succinct and eminently readable, Global Migration, 2nd edition sets a high standard as a go-to text for the student of migration. It is comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date, and covers the big debates in migration, such as the refugee "crisis" and the relationship between migration and development."Professor Russell King, University of Sussex, UK. "This approachable and informative book constitutes a valuable guide to current debates and concepts in the field of migration studies. Using geographical perspectives, concise language and clear illustrations the volume provides a much-needed exploration of issues in global migration."Nick Gill, University of Exeter, UK.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Making sense of global migration Chapter 2 – Global migration in historical perspective Chapter 3 – Migrant labour in the economy Chapter 4 – Migration and development Chapter 5 – Refugees Chapter 6 – Immigration control and border politics Chapter 7 – The politics of citizenship and integration Chapter 8 – Migrant identities, mobilizations and place-making practices

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Book SynopsisONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW''S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data.The census isn't just a data-collection process; it's a ritual, and a tool, of American democracy. Behind every neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human storiesyou just have to know how to read them.In Democracy's Data, the data historian Dan Bouk examines the 1940 U.S. census, uncovering what those numbers both condense and cleverly abstract: a universe of meaning and uncertainty, of cultural negotiation and political struggle. He introduces us to the men and women employed as census takers, bringing us with them as they go door to door, recording the lives of their neighbors. He takes us into the makeshift halls of the Census Bureau, where hundreds of civil servants, not to mention machines, labored with pencil and paper to divide an

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Book SynopsisDemography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and change, but also on how social influences affect individual behaviour and how actions at the individual level contribute to the composition of the population.Globally, population issues are of increasing concern to governments and other policy-makers. Particularly over the last fifty years or so, there have been many iterations of the population âproblemâ. From overpopulation to population ageing, to ultra-low fertility, this new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the most important thinking about, and theories on, population to enable users to make sense of a vastâand rapidly expandingâcorpus of scholarship.With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Population Studies is an essential work of reference. For researchers, students, and policy-makers, it is as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsThe Anatomy of Aging 1. Demographics Globally and Through Time David Bloom and Dara Lee Luca The Household Perspective 2. Labour Force Participation and the Retirement Decision Richard Blundell and Eric French 3. Conflict and Cooperation within the Family, and between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security Alessandro Cigno 4. Consumption and Saving Orazio Attanasio, Sagri Kitao, Guglielmo Weber and Andrea Bonfatti 5. Decision-making, Markets and Cognitive Decline Michael Keane and Susan Thorp 6. Investment and Portfolio Allocation Raimond Maurer and Barbara Kaschuetzke Economic Impacts of Population Aging 7. Macroeconomics, Aging and Growth Ronald Lee 8. Insurance Markets for the Elderly Hanming Fang 9. Economic Aspects of Occupational Pensions Olivia S. Mitchell and John Piggott 10. The Political Economy of Population Aging Georges Casamatta and Loïc Batté 11. Migration and Demographic Shift Klaus F. Zimmermann and Anzelika Zaiceva 12. Longevity and Morbidity Projections Michael Sherris 13. Intergenerational Risk Sharing Roel Beetsma and Ward Romp Public Policy with an Aging Population 14. Taxation Alan Woodland and John Piggott 15. Aging and Poverty Timothy Michael Smeeding and Joseph Marchand 16. Social Security and Public Insurance Axel Borsch-Supan 17. Health and Long Term Care Edward Norton 18. Population Aging Data Sets and their Analysis James P. Smith and Isabella Dobrescu

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Book SynopsisA trusted classic on the key methods in population samplingnow in a modernized and expanded new edition Sampling of Populations, Fourth Edition continues to serve as an all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling. Maintaining the clear and accessible style of the previous edition, this book outlines the essential statistical methodsfor survey design and analysis, while also exploring techniques that have developed over the past decade. The Fourth Edition successfully guides the reader through the basic concepts and procedures that accompany real-world sample surveys, such as sampling designs, problems of missing data, statistical analysis of multistage sampling data, and nonresponse and poststratification adjustment procedures. Rather than employ a heavily mathematical approach, the authors present illustrative examples that demonstrate the rationale behind common steps in the sampling process, from creating effeTrade Review“The book remains a very appropriately written text for classroom use, especially for students studying public health or epidemiology, or for undergraduate majors in statistics and related fields.” (Biometrics, June 2009)Table of ContentsTables. Boxes. Figures. Getting Files from the Wiley ftp and Internet Sites. List of Data Sites Provides on Web Site. Preface to the Fourth Edition. Part 1: Basic Concepts. 1. Use of Sample Surveys. 2. The Population and the Sample. Part 2: Major Sampling Designs and Estimation Procedures. 3. Simple Random Sampling. 4. Systematic Sampling. 5. Stratification and Stratified Random Sampling. 6. Stratified Random Sampling: Further Issues. 7. Ratio Estimation. 8. Cluster Sampling: Introduction and Overview. 9. Simple One-Stage Cluster Sampling. 10. Two-Stage Cluster Sampling: Clusters Sampled with Equal Probability. 11. Cluster Sampling in Which Clusters Are Sampled with Unequal Probability: Probability Proportional to Size Sampling. 12. Variance Estimation in Complex Sample Surveys. Part 3: Selected Topics in Sample Survey Methodology. 13. Nonresponse and Missing Data in Sample Surveys. 14. Selected Topics in Sample Design and Estimation Methodology. 15. Telephone Survey Sampling (Michael W. Link and Mansour Fahimi). 16. Constructing the Survey Weights (Paul P. Biemer and Sharon L. Christ). 17. Strategies for Design-Based Analysis of Sample Survey Data. Appendix. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

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Book SynopsisA unique, accessible and enlightening analysis of the massive effects of the global demographic rollercoaster and what it will mean for the world economy, ageing societies, baby-boomers and their families and jobs, investments and business, and the economic power map of the world.Trade Review“A very readable analysis of the broad-ranging consequences of demographic trends, supplemented by quickly grasped charts and tables.” (Choice, April 2009) Recent developments in global population trends characterized by low birth rates and rising life expectancy are leading to a graying population worldwide. Aging is bound to have pervasive effects on economic growth, inflation, house and equity prices, public spending and taxation, education and healthcare provision, and wealth distribution. (BCC Orient, Sep 08) Macbeth tells Seyton of many things that should accompany old age, such as ‘honour, love, obedience, troops of friends’ but, on a practical note, he concedes that he would look to have, in their stead, ‘curses, not loud but deep.’ Perhaps, the ‘curse’ for today’s old threatens to come in the form of financial anguish they’d leave behind for the middle-aged ‘baby boomers’ marching in legions towards retirement, and their descendents, as a new book on ‘how demographics are changing the global economy and our world’ highlights. (The Hindu, 29/9/2008) Now according to George Magnus, the senior economic adviser to Swiss bank UBS and the author of a newly published book called The Age of Aging, something similar may be about to happen in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US. (South China Morning Post, 23/10/2008) OLDER job seekers, rejoice. An urban economy like Singapore will find it easier than rural societies to rehire older workers, says economist George Magnus. It is different in China, where 60 per cent of the people live in the countryside. Rural labour is physical lnd tough, so he says it is very hard to raise the participation of older workers aged 55 to 65. Typically, ageing countries turn to older workers, women and immigrants to replenish their shrinking labour pools. (The Straits Times, 25/10/2008) Mr George Magnus easily discerns the "perverse' pluses" of the financial upheaval of the world, having scanned economic horizons for 30 years. The economist thinks the crisis is good for the ageing world. He is pleased the crisis will compel the West to move away from its culture of debt, and start to save more instead. "For ageing societies, that's a good thing because too many people have too few savings and too little preparation for retirement," he tells Insight. (The Straits Times, 25/10/2008) Author's Article Contribution: The financial crisis has already been tagged the worst since the banking collapse of the 1930s. Eventually, the sense of crisis will end, as governments and regulators become interventionist and try to contain the worst effects of the "de-leveraging; which will plunge the global economy into a recession over the next few quarters. That, too, will end. (Personal Money, Nov '08) Rising life expectancy and low birth rates continue to be an issue for countries like Singapore and Japan. As the trend in graying population foreshadows huge impact in economic growth and healthcare provision, author George Magnus explores the economic issues, consequences and possible solutions to this phenomenon. (Smart Investor, Nov '08) In his spare time, George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS (prior to moving to a part-time role he was the bank's chief economist), has written arguably the most comprehensive book to date on aging. The timing is perfect - 2008 is the beginning of the baby boomer retirement era, which is going to markedly change the face of global workforces. (Finance Asia, Nov '08) Rising life expectancy and low birth rates continue to be an issue for countries like Singapore and Japan. As the trend in graying population foreshadows huge impact in economic growth and healthcare provision, author George Magnus explores the economic issues, consequences and possible solutions to this phenomenon. A senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank since 2005, Magnus banks on his extensive research background on the economic consequences of demographic changes. (Smart Investor, 1/11/2008) Last week, we asked readers if they agreed with economist George Magnus' views on ageing. We also wanted to know how Singapore could do better in valuing and rehiring older workers. Here are some views: "It is never a level playing field in the open job market for older workers. Taking a cue from the handicapping system of golf, the Government's intervention is crucial in setting up an equitable framework, or even enacting statutes to maintain social order, in this creeping serious problem. (The Straits Times, 1/11/2008) Low birth rates and rising life expectancy are leading to rapid aging and a decline in working age population in the West. Japan has already been in that position for over two decades and will be joined soon by other Western countries. This book examines the economic effects of aging, how aging societies will affect family and social structures, and the implications of what the author calls ‘long families’ rather than the erstwhile ‘wide families’. (Money Life, 6/11/2008) I suggest two recent books not on the bestseller shelves: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, by William J. Bernstein (Atlantic Monthly Press) and The Age of Aging, by George Magnus (Wiley). Trade routes and the people and goods traveling them have steered civilization. Birth rates and life expectancies, nation to nation, similarly alter global affairs: determining who and what will support whom in the future. The authors, a financial historian and a business economist, bring enlightenment in a dizzying age. (Forbes Asia, 10/11/2008) Populations the world over are aging, with some countries aging more slowly than others. As countries enter the third stage of aging, rising longevity and low or declining fertility rates combine to make societies older. This is one of the many conclusions made by George Magnus, the author of 'The Age of Aging', who looks at how this situation will result in shrinking numbers of working-age people on a stable or declining workforce. (Business Today, Dec 2008) Demography is the senior social science: churchgoers this week will be reminded that Jesus Christ was born in the midst of a census two millennia ago. George Magnus's The Age of Aging is an account of the great population transitions currently under way around the world. Magnus is a renowned City of London economist, now at UBS, and his new book is a guide for the general reader on how the greying of the world will change everything, everywhere. (Financial Times, 22/12/08) Every age has its big demographic scares. In 1798, when the world’s population was about 1 billion, Thomas Malthus published his “Essay on the Principle of Population”, predicting that, thanks to mankind’s enthusiastic procreation habits, by the middle of the 19th century there would no longer be enough food to go round. In the event, people happily continued both to multiply and to eat. (The Economist, 30/12/08) George Magnus' name has recently gained high recognition in the global economy. As senior economic advisor at UBS, he gave forewarning of the impending financial crisis to the US in an essay published March of last year. Since then, he has become one of the most sought after economic analysts of our age. (Grandeur (Chinese magazine), January 09) It wasn't long ago that all of us were Malthusians, worrying about the human population eating through the planet's resources like locusts. George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank, warns us in a new book that opposite scenario is the truly frightening one: the human race is getting too old, especially in countries as Japan and China. (POWER, February 09) The financial equivalent of the Malthus thesis is that the aging of the global population creates massive financial challenges for governments and societies in providing for this non-working group. The effect of growing longevity and falling birth rates means that the average age of populations increases. This will result, based on current predictions, that in 2050 the world will have about 2 billion people aged over 60, three times as many as today - around 30-40% of the total population in the developed world and 25-30% in the developing world. (Wilmott.com - Satyajit Das' Blog, 03/02/09) We are facing an age crisis, not just because we are living longer but also because our children will have to bear the burden, yet are singularly ill-equipped to do so. A two-year study commissioned by the Children's Society, for which 35,000 youngsters were interviewed, has concluded that they are less capable than any previous generation. It blames poor education, broken homes and the "excessively individualistic ethos" of contemporary Britain. The lives of children, it says somewhat dubiously, are more difficult now than they were in the past. (Daily Telegraph, 03/02/09) An in-depth analysis of the economic impact of aging has recently been published by George Magnus, the senior economic advisor at the Swiss UBS investment bank. In "The Age of Aging: How Demographics Are Changing the Global Economy and Our World" (John Wiley and Sons), Magnus starts by commenting that we have no precedents to guide us in this situation of a rapidly aging population. (Zenit News Agency, 01/03/09) George Magnus, senior economic advisor at UBS and author, has opinions on a wide range of subjects. In recent months, he generated spirited debate with his book about the economic impact of aging populations. (Financial Times, Alphaville, 03/03/09) Last November 3, Josephine Moulds wrote an article in the UK Daily Telegraph about George Magnus, senior economic adviser to Swiss bank UBS, who is widely acknowledged to have predicted that the US sub-prime mortgage crisis would trigger a global recession. (The Manila Times, 04/03/09) For the 17 million people who are 50 or over, the ability of employers under the law to enforce retirement at 65 is a serious problem, especially given the impact of the economic crisis on the value of retirement savings. Add to this the fact that unemployment figures due this week are expected to confirm job losses rising fastest among older workers, and we see how vulnerable this group has become. (Guardian.co.uk, 17/03/09) “…interesting and far-reaching book”. (Spectator Business & www.spectator.co.uk/business, Nov '08) “Magnus’s account avoids the hysteria that often affects this genre…It is well-researched and thorough.” (Financial Times , 22/12/2008) “…provides a clear, sober and well-written analysis of the problem, both in developed and developing countries…” (The Economist , 3/1/2009) “Magnus's book is a welcome attempt to address the problems of ageing societies... is informative and well written." (New Statesman , 22/1/2009) “…intensely readable, utterly disturbing and optimistically redemptive book…his style is authoritative but amenable.” (On Target , Jan '09) “George Magnus has methodically set out an economist’s view of how societies may adapt…suggests ways in which societies can adjust”. (Financial World , Feb '09) “…well received book…explores a phenomenon with which the world has never had to deal and whose implications are not fully understood.” (Daily Telegraph & Telegraph.co.uk, 2/2/2009) We are facing an age crisis, not just because we are living longer but also because our children will have to bear the burden, yet are singularly ill-equipped to do so. A two-year study commissioned by the Children's Society, for which 35,000 youngsters were interviewed, has concluded that they are less capable than any previous generation. It blames poor education, broken homes and the "excessively individualistic ethos" of contemporary Britain. The lives of children, it says somewhat dubiously, are more difficult now than they were in the past. (Daily Telegraph , 3/2/2009)Table of ContentsDedication. Acknowledgments. Preface. Chapter 1: Introducing a new age. Everyone is affected everywhere. The demographic debate laid bare. Differing prospects for richer and poorer nations. Demographics and other global trends. Endnotes. Chapter 2: Population issues from Jesus Christ to aging and climate change. Population take-off, Malthus, and Marx. Fertility debate gathers significance. Falling fertility, family structures, and modern times. Climate change, food, oil, and water join the fray. Food and oil supplies. Water shortages too? What happened to the dominant species? Endnotes. Chapter 3:The age of aging. Global population changes. Your world party guestlist. Three stages of ages. Aging and dependency. What about the workers? Dependency ratios for the old and the young are not comparable. The demographic dividend for poorer countries. Conclusions. Endnotes. Chapter 4: The economics of aging—what is tobe done? How the rich world isaging. Will labor shortage scrimp growth? Is it possible to boost the supply of workers? Raising participation and immigration. Women to work. Can we strengthen brain as well as brawn? Working longer to retirement. Youth trends sap economic strength. How much immigration? Productivity is the holy economic grail. Will we be able to finance retirement? Saving less with age, saving less anyway. Changing pension schemes. Retirement and savings in the United States. Endnotes. Chapter 5: Coming of age: United States, Japan,and Europe. Aging in advanced economies. Accounting for growth in Japan, western Europe, and America. Removing the sex and age barriers to work Barriers to female employment. Barriers to older workers in employment. Later retirement is more than just a matter of law. A Singaporean model for all? Who’s for change? Endnotes. Chapter 6: Will aging damage your wealth? Will there been enough in the personal savings pot? Savings patterns and trends in Japan. Savings in the United States. Savings in Europe. Less generous pensions. More self-reliance for retirement savings. Government spending and more public debt. Age-related spending: pensions. Age-related spending: healthcare. Age-related spending in OECD countries. America’s healthcare and public spending explosion. Paying for aging. Fiscal versus fallen angels. Will aging societies inflate or deflate? Will aging damage your wealth? Less buoyant returns but new opportunities. Safe as houses? Prime-age house buyers in decline:who will buy? Wealthy and healthy? Endnotes. Chapter 7: Waiting in the wings: aging in emerging and developing nations. Aging faster than rich countries. Demographic dividend and dependency. Asian strengths and weaknesses. Gender discrimination. China—Middle Kingdom, middle age. One-child policy. Running out of cheap labor. Economic consequences. Growing social policy agenda. India and its human capital. An Asian America? Jobs and skills are what India needs. Russia—a failing petrostate? Demographic decay. Fading fertility. Mounting mortality. Manpower, military, and immigration. Africa and the Middle East, banking on the dividend. Africa: a distorted dividend? Reasons to be optimistic regardless? Stronger institutions, too much HIV/AIDS. Middle East and NorthAfrica—rage, religion, and reform. Basic population characteristics. Angry young men in an unstable region. The need for reform. Believing, not belonging. Don’t hold your breath. Endnotes. Chapter 8: Where globalization and demographics meet. Globalization is the death of distance. Solving the globalization problem via institutions. The globalization “trilemma”. Negative sentiment. Globalization and well-being: the case of HIV/AIDS. For richer, for poorer: marriage by globalization. Conclusions. Endnotes. Chapter 9: Will immigration solve aging society problems? Rising hostility toward immigration. How many immigrants and where are they? How sustainable is higher immigrant fertility? Economic arguments are awkward or weak. Short-run effects positive but may not last. Unskilled or semiskilled immigration issues. For some, a brain drain into retirement. Financial aspects of immigration are balanced. Competition for migrants may be rising. Conclusions. Endnotes. Chapter 10: Demographic issues in religion and international security. The secular-religious pendulum swings back. The Pyrrhic victory of secular capitalism. Will religion get us from here to maternity? Religious belief in the ascendant? Secular balance can be sustained. International security. Demographic change and new forms of conflict. Manpower shortages. Endnotes. Epilogue: The Boomerangst generation. The kiss of debt and other sources of angst. Insecurity, inequality, and changing family structures. Conclusion. Endnotes. Postscript: Population forecasting. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume highlights advances made in palaeopathology and demography through the analyses of historic cemeteries. These advances include associating documentary evidence with skeletal evaluations, and the application of new evaluative techniques.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS. Politics, Law, Pragmatics, and Human Burial Excavations: An Examplefrom Northern California (L. Goldstein). Historic Cemetery Analysis: Practical Considerations (D.Ubelaker). THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS. A Piece of Chicago's Past: Exploring Subadult Mortality in theDunning Poorhouse Cemetery (A. Grauer & E. McNamara). Bones in the Basement: Bioarchaeology of Historic Remains inNonmortuary Contexts (J. Harrington & R. Blakely). RECONSTRUCTING PATTERNS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. Cross Homestead: Life and Death on the Midwestern Frontier (C.Larsen, et al.). Dental Pathologies Among Inmates of the Monroe County Poorhouse (R.Sutter). Nitrogen Isotope Evidence for Weaning Age in a Nineteenth CenturyCanadian Skeletal Sample (M. Katzenberg & S. Pfeiffer). Index.

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Book SynopsisWith the decline in rural population from forty percent at the turn of the century, to about 4 percent now, many small towns have been virtually depopulated. However, some communities are planning and taking action to assure their development in sustainable ways.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: RURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: FRAMEWORKS AND UNDERPINNINGS. Rural Sustainable Development: A Postmodern Alternative (I.Audirac). Sustainable Community Development: A Systems Approach (D. Chiras& J. Herman). RURAL DIVERSITY AND DIVERSITY OF APPROACHES TO COMMUNITYSUSTAINABILITY. Still Life on the Plains: Strategies for Sustainable Communities(J. Luther). Community-Based Workshops: Building a Partnership for CommunityVitality (J. Segedy). ASSESSING THE ALTERNATIVES. Greenways, Trails, and Rural Sustainability (E. Starnes, etal.). Economic Analysis of Leaf Management Alternatives for LocalGovernment (D. Derr & P. Dhillon). About the Authors. Index.

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Book SynopsisPart of the World Cities series, Montreal provides a guide to the birth, growth and contemporary life of this unique North American metropolis. The authors address some of the fundamental paradoxes at the core of the city''s dilemma: How does the city reconcile its identity as a French window on North America and a bilingual, increasingly multicultural metropolis? How can its economy, currently undergoing a successful transformation into a high-tech hotbed, still suffer from high unemployment? How can a city that is seemingly allergic to urban planning, that has such a long and cold winter and that remains divided between two cultural and linguistic majorities be so frequently ranked one of the world''s most livable cities? The portrait that the authors strive to paint of this intriguing city, caught in the maelstrom of political debate that permeates most of its urban issues, is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. At the heart of this debate lies the National Question, addressing Trade Review"a thorough book written in very clear language" (Urban Geography, 2001) "..an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn about a major city (Urban Studies, Vol.38, No.13, 2001) "...informative and thought-provoking book (Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol.10 No.1, 2001) "..I strongly recommend this volume to scholars, planners, politicians and concerned citizens interested in the future of the great city.." (Quebec Studies, No.24.)Table of ContentsA Metropolis in Transition. Montréal's Built Form: French Heritage, Victorian Legacy and Modernist Ambitions. The Shifting Boundaries of the Metropolis: The Struggle to Govern a Moving Target. Montréal's Economy: Decline, Conversion - Polarization? Repopulating the Inner City. Language, Ethnic Groups and the Shaping of Social Space. Epilogue. Bibliography. List of Figures. List of Tables. Index.

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Book SynopsisPresents the cultural history of eugenics in America that emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. This book shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Concise and provocative.... Kline demonstrates how eugenicists refurbished Victorian morality, transforming it into a selfconsciously modern notion of 'reproductive morality.'... Kline also establishes the continuity between early, racist eugenic ideas and the pronatalist rhetoric that survives today - further debunking the myth that American eugenics died after the revelations of the Nazi Holocaust.... This is an important book for historians of science, medicine, race, gender, and public policy." - Journal of American History"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Motherhood, Morality, and the "Moron": The Emergence of Eugenics in America 2. From Segregation to Sterilization: Changing Approaches to the Problem of Female Sexuality 3. "Sterilization without Unsexing": Eugenics and the Politics of Reproduction 4. A New Deal for the Child: Ann Cooper Hewitt and Sterilization in the 1930s 5. "Marriage Is Not Complete without Children": Positive Eugenics, 1930-1960 Epilogue: Building a Better Family Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplains how the leaders China decided to limit all couples to one child. This book focuses on the historic period 1978-80 and documents the manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles.Trade Review"Compelling... Masterfully crafted... Just One Child is a bold, brilliant book." -- Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University Historical Stds In The Natural Sciences "Greenhalgh is our most surefooted guide to China's adventure in mass birth planning ... As a study of scientific policy-making in China, Just One Child is without peer." Science (AAAS) "The first step in questioning the one-child policy will be an open and truthful exploration of its origins and history. This book is an admirable leap towards that goal." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "Fascinating." The Lancet "Highly engaging." -- Siumi Maria Tam Chinese Cross Currents "Greenhalgh finds the missing pieces of the puzzle." Signs "Penetrating analysis." NatureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix 1. Introduction: An Anthropology of Science Making and Policymaking 1 2. History: The "Ideology" Before the "Science" 45 making population science 79 3. A Chinese Marxian Statistics of Population 81 4. A Sinified Cybernetics of Population 125 5. A Chinese Marxian Humanism of Population 169 making population policy 191 6. The Scientific Revolution in Chengdu 193 7. Ally Recruitment in Beijing 232 8. Scientific Policymaking in Zhongnanhai 271 9. Conclusion: Why an Epistemic Approach Matters 307 Notes 345 List of Interviews 361 References 371 Index 395

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Book SynopsisCaptures the language that explains culinary practices. To prove its case, this book draws on a range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films.Trade Review"Ferguson provides interesting insights on a range of people, topics, and social trends." -- C. Hendrickson CHOICETable of ContentsPrologue: Talking About Food Part I: From Talk to Text 1. Thinking About Food 2. The Perils and Pleasures of Consumption 3. Texts Take Over Part II: New Cooks, New Chefs 4. Iconic Cooks 5. Chefs and Chefing Part III: The Culinary Landscape in the Twenty-First Century 6. Dining on the Edge 7. Haute Food Epilogue: Last Words-Ratatouille Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform.Trade Review"Dangerous Digestion is provocative and frequently fascinating, and its expansive consideration of dietary reform contributes in important ways to recent scholarship on food advice." The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to women's health and well-being today - abuse at the hands of their partners. The author provides a description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce.Trade Review"Abusive Endings is written by self-proclaimed feminist scholars and practitioners who indeed challenge our beliefs and fuel our appetite for knowledge. It is a powerful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and all humans, inspiring us to challenge and alter our culture’s response to men’s violence against women." * Criminal Justice Studies *“A well-written and well- organized review of extant studies on violence against women. ... Everyone should read this book and reflect on the devastation that violence against women continues to cause to our societies.” * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Conceptualizing Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 2. The Extent and Distribution of Separation/Divorce Assault 3. New Technologies and Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 4. Explaining Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 5. Children as Collateral Victims of Separation/Divorce Woman Abuse 6. What Is to Be Done about Separation/Divorce Violence against Women? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this book probes momentous shifts in the definition of family, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and policy debates on welfare reform and work-family issues. Brown also explores the rise in nonmarital childbearing and single-mother families and the decline of traditional marriage by delving into the historical roots of family change, current trends of family formation and dissolution, and the implications of family change for the well-being of adults and children. With a lens toward socioeconomic inequality and racial-ethnic variation in family patterns, Families in America illustrates how family diversity is now the norm. The Sociology in the Twenty-First Century series introduces students to a range of sociological issues of broad interest in the United States today, with each volume addressing topics such as family, race, immigration, gender, education, and social inequality. These books-intended for classroom use-will highlight findings from current, rigorous research and demographic data while including stories about people's experiences to illustrate major themes in an accessible manner. Learn more at www.ucpress.edu/go/sociologyinthe21stcentury.Trade Review“Thorough first introduction to family sociology or a refresher on current trends in the U.S., as well as specific sections of courses on gender, race and ethnicity, or stratification.” * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Families 2. Pathways to Family Formation 3. Union Dissolution and Repartnering 4. Adult and Child Well-being in Families 5. Family Policy Issues: Domestic and International Perspectives Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCalling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, the author uncovers the seminal theoretical work of Du Bois in developing a scientific sociology through a variety of methodologies and examines how the leading scholars of the day disparaged and ignored Du Bois' work.Trade Review"A fascinating study." Publishers Weekly "The story of The Scholar Denied is much bigger than a professional insider's debate about founders; bigger than something that only the History of Sociology Section of the ASA should bother with. It is also bigger than questions about who to include on our syllabi, or what stories we tell of the University of Chicago. It is a wake up call about our own professional doxa. It is a call to be just a little more skeptical about those sociological standpoints that purport universality when are not-and can never be. And it is a call to be just a little more open to those standpoints that get occluded: standpoints which would otherwise lead us to real and valuable insights into the social world, just as did the work of Du Bois... The Scholar Denied is a powerful and persuasive plea to pay attention to those voices that might still be unwittingly relegated to the margins on the grounds of their ostensible particularism or subjectivism. And it is a reminder that the cost of such marginalization is not simply an ethical one, it is an epistemic one. And it is one that sociology cannot afford." -- Julian Go Berkeley Journal of Sociology "Aldon Morris takes a huge step forward in The Scholar Denied by placing Du Bois at the center of the sociological canon... Morris should be congratulated for providing us a mandate to both think differently about and conduct more work on the legacy of this brilliant scholar." -- Alford A. Young, Jr. Contexts "The Scholar Denied should be required reading for students of sociological theory and intellectual history. The book should spur new histories that do more than tack on Du Bois and other marginalized scholars as 'a kind of affirmative action,' but instead give their work its rightful, meaningful place in the canon... While Du Bois's relationship with academic sociology evolved over his nearly seven-decade career, at the end, his commitment to Truth remained. Morris deserves recognition for reminding us of this aspect of Du Bois's legacy, insisting that the discipline of sociology come to terms with its own truths." -- Monica Bell Los Angeles Review of Books "Morris's book The Scholar Denied affords us insight into a historical moment when white audiences-especially within academia-often ignored, rather than sought out, the experiential expertise of black intellectuals. In particular, Morris details how white sociological and public audiences marginalized the scientific contributions of the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois and other black social scientists working at the historically black Atlanta University in the early 1900s." -- Matthew Clair Public Books "Dr. Morris' The Scholar Denied is a raucous and, at times, sobering and maddening romp through a segment of intellectual life of the early 20th century that, even to the modern ears of The Diaspora, frequently sounds all too familiar." -- Black Kos Daily Kos "This well-crafted, meticulously researched, and theoretically serious work will command engagement from the disci- pline writ large... The Scholar Denied takes an enormous and sure-footed stride toward righting a great historic wrong." -- Lawrence D. Bobo The Du Bois Review "Groundbreaking ... A must-read ... the book promises to engender debate and discussion." -- Marshal Zeringue HEPPAS Books "Groundbreaking." -- Hilary Hurd Anyaso Northwestern "Helps rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the discipline." -- Diane Patrick Publishers Weekly "This book thus contributes to the sociology of knowledge, including baleful insight into the racist origins of the very discipline itself... Essential." CHOICE connect "An excellent addition to your library ... Morris has done outstanding work... I like to think that if DuBois were here, he would be proud to see it." -- Donna Davis Seattle Book Mama "Provides a fascinating and challenging introduction to one of the towering intellects of the twentieth century, himself a potent proof against the inherent inferiority of African Americans, an assumption he devoted his life to disproving." -- Christopher N. Breiseth WhoWhatWhy "Magisterial study of WEB Du Bois' impact on sociology" SageTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and the Birth of American Sociology 1. The Rise of Scientific Sociology in America 2. Du Bois, Scientific Sociology, and Race 3. The Du Bois--Atlanta School of Sociology 4. The Conservative Alliance of Washington and Park 5. The Sociology of Black America: Park versus Du Bois 6. Max Weber Meets Du Bois 7. Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School 8. Legacies and Conclusions Notes References Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisSouth Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight".

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The best book I’ve read on the criminal justice system since Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. . . . 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 *“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 *"[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." * The Economist *"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 *“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 *“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 *"Blind Injustice is worth the read. Give a copy to your favorite prosecutor. And maybe to your neighbor." * GAMSO - for the Defense *"An excellent resource for psychology and law courses. . . . Highly recommended" * CHOICE *"Blind Injustice, 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 Amazing Grace has it— 'was blind but now I see.' . . . An attention-grabbing book that powerfully instructs." * Social Science Research Network *"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 *“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 *"Mark Godsey offers a fresh viewpoint" * National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers *"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 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About This Book 1. EYE OPENER 2. BLIND DENIAL 3. BLIND AMBITION 4. BLIND BIAS 5. BLIND MEMORY 6. BLIND INTUITION 7. BLIND TUNNEL VISION 8. SEEING AND ACCEPTING HUMAN LIMITATIONS Notes Index

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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 SynopsisInStick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional authorities structure a carceral social order that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations.These affiliations come to shape one's exposure to both violence and criminal labeling, and as they spill over the institutional walls they establish how these unfold in high-incarceration neighborhoods as well, revealing the insidious set of consequences that mass incarceration holds for poor communities of color.Trade Review“An in-depth, detailed example of the ways in which the criminal justice system replicates the racist inclinations of the larger society.” * CHOICE *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a compassionate look at criminalized youth and adults. . . . This book is likely to be of interest to students and scholars of juvenile justice, incarceration, race, and gangs. It should also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners . . . who may be individually well-intentioned but embedded in larger and destructive systems." * Social Forces *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a valuable contribution to the field for its examination of the interplay between state and street violence on both cultural and structural levels. ... In shifting the focus from gang conflict itself to a deconstruction of how institutions systematically organize youth around gang conflict, Lopez-Aguado illuminates how law enforcement simultaneously structures and deploys intergroup violence as evidence of the need for criminal justice targeting." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Carceral Social Order PART I. INSIDE THE FACILITY 1. Constructing and Institutionalizing the Carceral Social Order 2. Carceral Affiliation and Identity Construction 3. Negotiating and Resisting the Carceral Social Order PART II. COMING BACK HOME 4. “The Home Team” at the Intersection of Prison and Neighborhood 5. Carceral Violence Inside and On the Outs 6. The Carceral Social Order and the Structuring of Neighborhood Criminalization Conclusion: “How You Just Gonna Make Up Your Mind About Where We’re Gonna Be, When Our Minds Should Be Going Higher?” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPaik Nak-chung is one of Korea's most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume deals with his life and work.

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Book SynopsisThe world is saturated with data. We are regularly presented with data in words, tables, and graphics. Students from many academic fields are now expected to be educated about data in one form or another. Yet the typical sequence of courses-introductory statistics and research methods-does not provide sufficient information about how to focus in on a research question, how to access data and work with datasets, or how to present data to various audiences. Principles of Data Management and Presentation addresses this gap. Assuming only that students have some familiarity with basic statistics and research methods, it provides a comprehensive set of principles for understanding and using data as part of a research project, including: * how to narrow a research topic to a specific research question * how to access and organize data that are useful for answering a research question * how to use software such as Stata, SPSS, and SAS to manage data * how to present data so that they convey a clear and effective message A companion website includes material to enhance the learning experience-specifically statistical software code and the datasets used in the examples, in text format as well as Stata, SPSS, and SAS formats. Visit www.ucpress.edu/go/datamanagement, Downloads tab.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Why Research? Why Research What Is Research? Classifying Research Impediments to Conducting Sound Research How Can We Make Research Interesting and Persuasive? The Research Process Final Words 2 Developing Research Questions Selecting a Topic From Topic to Research Question Refining Research Questions An Example Final Words 3 Data What Are Data? Sources of Data From Concepts to Variables Forms of Data Final Words 4 Principles of Data Management Codebooks Documentation Coding Data Cleaning and Screening Naming Conventions Principles of File Management Final Words 5 Finding and Using Secondary Data Types of Secondary Data Why Use Secondary Data? Sources of Secondary Data Examples of Searching for, Downloading, and Importing Data A Simple Test of the Conceptual Model The Pew Research Center Data Final Words 6 Primary and Administrative Data Principles for Primary Data Administrative Data and Linking Datasets Final Words 7 Working with Missing Data Why Are Missing Data a Problem? Reasons for Missing Data Types of Missing Data Forms and Patterns of Missing Data Addressing Missing Data in the Analysis Stage Finals Words 8 Principles of Data Presentation Presenting Data Visual Images First Principles: Clarity, Precision, and Efficiency Why Words Are Not Enough Types of Tables and Graphics Principles of Data Presentation Final Words 9 Designing Tables for Data Presentations Table or Graphic? Tables Examples of Tables Final Words 10 Designing Graphics for Data Presentations Graphics Examples of Graphics Where to Next? Final Words Appendix: Introduction to Statistical Software Stata SPSS SAS R Final Words References Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Why Research? Why Research What Is Research? Classifying Research Impediments to Conducting Sound Research How Can We Make Research Interesting and Persuasive? The Research Process Final Words 2 Developing Research Questions Selecting a Topic From Topic to Research Question Refining Research Questions An Example Final Words 3 Data What Are Data? Sources of Data From Concepts to Variables Forms of Data Final Words 4 Principles of Data Management Codebooks Documentation Coding Data Cleaning and Screening Naming Conventions Principles of File Management Final Words 5 Finding and Using Secondary Data Types of Secondary Data Why Use Secondary Data? Sources of Secondary Data Examples of Searching for, Downloading, and Importing Data A Simple Test of the Conceptual Model The Pew Research Center Data Final Words 6 Primary and Administrative Data Principles for Primary Data Administrative Data and Linking Datasets Final Words 7 Working with Missing Data Why Are Missing Data a Problem? Reasons for Missing Data Types of Missing Data Forms and Patterns of Missing Data Addressing Missing Data in the Analysis Stage Finals Words 8 Principles of Data Presentation Presenting Data Visual Images First Principles: Clarity, Precision, and Efficiency Why Words Are Not Enough Types of Tables and Graphics Principles of Data Presentation Final Words 9 Designing Tables for Data Presentations Table or Graphic? Tables Examples of Tables Final Words 10 Designing Graphics for Data Presentations Graphics Examples of Graphics Where to Next? Final Words Appendix: Introduction to Statistical Software Stata SPSS SAS R Final Words References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV-mostly stigmatized minorities-began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punitive attitudes toward AIDS prompted lawmakers around the country to introduce legislation aimed at criminalizing the behaviors of people living with HIV. Punishing Disease explains how this happened-and its consequences. With the door to criminalizing sickness now open, what other ailments will follow? As lawmakers move to tack on additional diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis to existing law, the question is more than academic.Trade Review"Punishing Disease [is] engagingly written and accessible to non-scientific and non-academic audiences, [and] impressively deploys the tools of sociology, criminology, and epidemiology to help us understand the baleful consequences of reacting to a public health emergency with punishment instead of compassion." * Undark *"This book offers numerous points of consideration that are relevant not only to the epidemic he discusses, but also our current pandemic. Notions of shame, stigma, misinformation (fake news) and punishment can immediately be applied to our experiences of COVID‐19. Though it is likely to find audiences amongst social scientists and public health professionals, I would argue that it has value for anyone interested in the relationship between disease and law, including those in the legal profession, policymakers and students. It is forensic and thorough, but engaging and accessible in terms of structure and language. . . . Hoppe offers a powerful, gently subversive text that is a call to action to build a new selection of tools to rebuild our epidemic responses, and to stop punishing disease." * Sociology of Health & Illness *"A thoroughly researched, detailed account of how the promotion of a model of individual responsibility for a fatal disease such as HIV serves to transform a medical problem into a criminal problem... Recommended." * CHOICE *“Offer[s] up a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of HIV exposure and disclosure law over decades . . . Serves as a call for future work to continue to elucidate the myriad ways 'public health' unfurls in insidious and corrosive ways.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Punishment: AIDS in the Shadow of an American Institution Part One: Punitive Disease Control 1. Controlling Typhoid Mary 2. “HIV Stops with Me” 3. The Public Health Police Part Two: The Criminalization of Sickness 4. Making HIV a Crime 5. HIV on Trial 6. Victim Impact Conclusion. Punishing Disease Appendix 1. Methods: On Analyzing the Anatomy of a Social Problem Appendix 2. State HIV Bills Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCritical Thinking: Tools for Evaluating Research prepares students for interpreting information in a critical and thoughtful way so they can develop sophisticated levels of analyses crucial for understanding our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi's approach helps students improve analytical reasoning, develop insightful skepticism, and interpret and create reliable and valid research methodologies. The book emphasizes the creation of a toolbox of analytic skills enabling them to ask the right questions about the research and stories they hear or read about online, in the mass media, or in scholarly publications. Students are provided with ways to understand common errors in thinking; identify methods required to evaluate information and interpret results; understand social science concepts needed to make sense of both popular and academic claims; and communicate, apply, and integrate the methods learned in both research and daily life.Trade Review“Clear and concise, ... this book is helpful for anyone looking to enhance their critical thinking skills.” * University of Houston Law Center O'Quinn Law Library *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Critical Thinking 1. Numeracy 2. Sampling and Generalizability 3. Probability and Coincidence 4. Visual Thinking 5. Correlation and Causation 6. Scientific Thinking 7. Fact, Opinion, and Logical Reasoning References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ray uses . . . details to reveal how deeply life is colored by poverty and how desperately these young people want to believe they can succeed." * American Journal of Sociology *"Ray provides a refreshing analysis of the challenges facing economically marginalized youth of color. . . . The Making of a Teenage Service Class has significant implications for family scholars, practitioners, and educators. It reminds family scholars and practitioners to pay attention to the intricacy of family dynamics and the importance of not assuming that everyone in a family shares the same experiences, has the same needs or interests, or responds the same way in the face of poverty." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Mobility Puzzle and Irreconcilable Choices 2. Port City Rising from the Ashes 3. Sibling Ties 4. Risky Love 5. Saved by College 6. The Making of a Teenage Service Class 7. Internalizing Uncertainty: Bad Genes, Hunger, and Homelessness 8. Uncertain Success 9. Dismantling the “At Risk” Discourse Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInEnduring Bonds, Philip N. Cohen, renowned sociologist and blogger of the wildly popularand insightfulFamily Inequality,examines the complex landscape of today's diverse families. Through his interpretive lens and lively discussions, Cohen encourages us to alter our point of view on families, sharing new ideas about the future of marriage, the politics of research, and how data can either guide or mislead us. Deftly balancing personal stories and social science research, and accessibly written for students, Cohen shares essays that tie current events to demographic data. Class-tested in Cohen's own lectures and courses,Enduring Bondschallenges students to think critically about the role of families, gender, and inequality in our society today.Trade Review"Enduring Bonds was purposefully assembled to be read in the classroom . . . . but is written in very accessible plain-language prose that makes the work legible to the non-specialist while also not compromising on the rigor of analysis demanded by complex population-level data and assessment of policy success (or failure). Highly recommended to those interested in how socioeconomic inequality is transmuted through and by our families; our political moment, perhaps now more than ever, demands that we interrogate the question of who “gets to” be a family (and what families we do or don’t protect, as a society) from an unapologetic position of social justice advocacy. Cohen offers useful data and arguments for us to draw on in that struggle." * Dosis *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Modernity, Parenting, and Families 1. Why Don’t Parents Name Their Daughters Mary Anymore? 2. “Parenting” through the (Only Very Recent) Ages 3. How Do They Do It? 4. Parenting Survivor Bias 5. Santa’s Magic, Children’s Wisdom, and Inequality Chapter 2. Marriage, Single Mothers, and Poverty 1. What Does It Take to Eliminate Poverty? 2. Reducing Poverty through Marriage 3. Single Mothers and Crime Chapter 3. Marriage Promotion 1. We Can’t Build Our Social System around Marriage Anymore 2. Marriage (Not) Promoted 3. Turns Out Marriage and Income Inequality Go Pretty Well Together 4. Marriage Promotion and the Myth of Teen Pregnancy 5. The Marriage Movement Has Failed (Long Live the Marriage Movement) 6. Getting Serious about Promoting Marriage to End Poverty Chapter 4. Marriage Equality in Social Science and the Courts Chapter 5. Doing Dimorphism 1. Gender Wars and the Defense of Difference 2. Pink and Blue 3. Braced for Beauty Chapter 6. Gender Inequality 1. Gender Segregation at the New York Times 2. The Gender Gap Gets It from All Sides 3. Gender Shifts in Families 4. That Feminist Viral Statistic Meme Chapter 7. Race, Gender, and Families 1. Black Is Not a Color 2. Black Women’s Educational Success 3. Detroit’s Grueling Demographic Decline 4. What They Say about Race When They Don’t Say Anything about Race 5. Race, Racism, and Missing Marriages Chapter 8. Feminism and Sexuality 1. Not Your Feminist Grandmother’s Patriarchy 2. Does Sleeping with a Guy on the First Date Make Him Less Likely to Call Back? 3. Is the Price of Sex Too Damn Low? 4. Getting beyond How The Factual Feminist Is Wrong about the Prevalence of Rape 5. Why I Don’t Defend the Sex-versus-Gender Distinction 6. Does Doing Difference Deny Dominance? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSince 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.Table of ContentsLists 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

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Book SynopsisWhen you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the U.S.-a Black Map that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays alongside traditional resources like census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience-all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that they create and defend. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the U.S. moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape.Trade Review"A very smart new book by two culturally agile sociologists. . . . While Chocolate Cities is a story of inventive adaption, fierce survival and Black joy, it is also a history of trauma and communities under siege. This book stands as a witness to the investment of struggle, skill and resources it has taken to build and sustain chocolate cities. It is also a testament to the criminal failure of America to see and honor these essential points on the map." * Kalamazoo College/Praxus Center *“If Chocolate Cities were itself made of chocolate, it would come in a variety of forms: the central theses of the book like unsweetened cacao nibs, true and deep-flavored, long-lasting, challenging, surprising. Census data as chocolate bar, scored into bite-size forms. Musical references like the aroma of chocolate, wafting through the room. And the personal stories Robinson and Hunter delve into are multi-layered, well-baked undertakings.” * Memphis: The City Magazine *"Hunter and Robinson have set out a marker for thinking differently about black people in urban America." * PopMatters *"Hunter and Robinson offer an insight into the ways black folks have eked out a social world regardless of the racism, segregation, and brutality often concomitant in cities across the North American experience. ... For undergraduates, graduates, and any lay reader interested in black life in the US." * CHOICE *"A tour de force. Hunter and Robinson work assiduously and effectively to help readers to think about how seemingly disconnected ideas, themes, and practices should be understood together. The book paints a portrait of the complexity of black life, culture, politics, and interests." * American Journal of Sociology *"Chocolate Cities offers a critical contribution to urban sociology through its refreshing approach to the cultural geography of Black life. . . . Chocolate Cities makes compelling theoretical arguments that encourage scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationship between race, racism, culture, and space." * City & Community *"Hunter and Robinson’s Chocolate Cities gives sociology a needed shaking up and will influence the discipline for years to come. By putting Black agency at the center of their epistemology, Hunter and Robinson’s Chocolate Cities cuts across and shapes multiple sociological microcosms." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Good books enlighten and educate. Great books mess up your mind. Good books deepen many a field of study. Great books blow holes in many fields of study. Good books deliver a line of argument. Great books reframe and problematize a line of argument. Good books help you settle down and furnish your intellectual home. Great books set you wandering and teach you that you are homeless. Good books bring insight. Great books bring the funk. I could go on with this list of contrasts between good and great. Yes, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson’ s Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life is a great book, yes it messed up my mind, and yes it does all those things great books do." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Everywhere below Canada PART I THE MAP 2. Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map 3. Multiplying the South 4. Super Lou’s Chitlin’ Circuit PART II THE VILLAGE 5. The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice 6. The Two Ms. Johnsons 7. Making Negrotown PART III THE SOUL 8. When and Where the Spirit Moves You 9. How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love 10. Bounce to the Chocolate City Future PART IV THE POWER 11. The House That Jane Built 12. Mary, Dionne, and Alma 13. Leaving on a Jet Plane 14. Seeing like a Chocolate City Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one's work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for students and scholars across all areas of the social sciences and humanities who wish to embark on global-studies research projects. The authors demonstrate how the global can be studied from a local perspective and vice versa. They show how global processes manifest at multiple levels-transnational, regional, national, and local-all of which are interconnected and mutually constitutive. This book takes readers through the steps of thinking like a global scholar in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms, and it explains the implications of global perspectives for research design.Trade Review"The book's seven chapters respond to the problem that no single discipline has all the tools and theories to grapple adequately with today's globalised issues. Thus, how is an individual researcher 'to develop appropriate research questions and design a viable research project?'. And how does a researcher 'begin the formidable task of doing global research?'. The Global Turn provides a reader with a methodical, considered, and accessible response to these questions." * Anthropological Forum *"The Global Turn can be read as a manifesto of global studies; why it is important, and why one should study it, and why universities and academic establishments must embrace it. The authors provide forceful arguments on behalf of global studies, a transdisciplinary program that overcomes the limitations of traditional discipline based academic subjects." * International Sociology Reviews *"A must read for researchers because it presents foundational arguments and presents a step by step guide to global research." * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword 1. Global Studies as a New Field of Inquiry 2. Why Is Global Studies Important? 3. A Global Theoretical Framework 4. Global Research Design 5. Global Methods and Methodologies 6. A Global Case Study Method 7. Examples of Global Studies Research Conclusion Appendix A. A Global Case Study Outline Appendix B. List of Global Studies Journals References Index

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Book SynopsisThe ability to deploy interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that speak to interconnected global dimensions is critical if one's work is to be relevant and applicable to the emerging global-scale issues of our time. The Global Turn is a guide for students and scholars across all areas of the social sciences and humanities who wish to embark on global-studies research projects. The authors demonstrate how the global can be studied from a local perspective and vice versa. They show how global processes manifest at multiple levels-transnational, regional, national, and local-all of which are interconnected and mutually constitutive. This book takes readers through the steps of thinking like a global scholar in theoretical, methodological, and practical terms, and it explains the implications of global perspectives for research design.Trade Review"The Global Turn can be read as a manifesto of global studies; why it is important, and why one should study it, and why universities and academic establishments must embrace it. The authors provide forceful arguments on behalf of global studies, a transdisciplinary program that overcomes the limitations of traditional discipline based academic subjects." * International Sociology Reviews *"The book's seven chapters respond to the problem that no single discipline has all the tools and theories to grapple adequately with today's globalised issues. Thus, how is an individual researcher 'to develop appropriate research questions and design a viable research project?'. And how does a researcher 'begin the formidable task of doing global research?'. The Global Turn provides a reader with a methodical, considered, and accessible response to these questions." * Anthropological Forum *"A must read for researchers because it presents foundational arguments and presents a step by step guide to global research." * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword 1. Global Studies as a New Field of Inquiry 2. Why Is Global Studies Important? 3. A Global Theoretical Framework 4. Global Research Design 5. Global Methods and Methodologies 6. A Global Case Study Method 7. Examples of Global Studies Research Conclusion Appendix A. A Global Case Study Outline Appendix B. List of Global Studies Journals References Index

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Book SynopsisBeginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and one of the world's most successful city food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat for Food Security was founded in 1993, malnutrition in Belo Horizonte has declined dramatically, allowing it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil's renowned Zero Hunger programs. The Municipal Secretariat's work with local small family farmers also offers a glimpse of how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of the path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. The author's case study shows the vital importance of holistic approaches to food security, offers ideas on how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for how to make policy change happen. With these tools, we can take the next steps towards achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.Trade Review"It is tempting for socialists to argue simply that the problem is capitalism and that only a socialist, post-capitalist world can feed the world’s population healthily and sustainably. M. Jahi Chappell’s important study shows that this is wrong." * Climate and Capitalism *"M. Jahi Chappell provides a necessary antidote to those who claim hunger cannot be alleviated." * The Journal of Peasant Studies *"This is a very good book that I imagine will (and should) be adopted for use in a number of upper level undergraduate or graduate classes in the social sciences or interdisciplinary fields such as development studies, environmental studies, and food studies. I have just begun to use the text with my own students this semester and more than a few have remarked on how nice it is to have a relatively positive story as compared to the critiques and narratives of failure they often encounter in the social sciences." * American Association of Geographers Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Frances Moore Lappé Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Food and Famine Futures, Past and Present 2. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Beginning to End Hunger 3. Belo Horizonte: All Five A’s on the Horizon 4. Multiple Streams and the Evolution of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security 5. Farm, Farmer, and Forest: SMASAN and the Environment 6. Conclusions: Belo Horizonte and Beyond Abbreviations Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCriminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and the birth of the U.S. racial state. Race and Crime examines how race became a defining feature of the system and why mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy. This book reviews the history of race and criminology and explores the impact of racist colonial legacies on the organization of criminal justice institutions. Using a macrostructural perspective, students will learn to contextualize issues of race, crime, and criminal justice. Topics include:How coloniality explains the practices that reproduce racial hierarchiesThe birth of social science and social programs from the legacies of racial scienceThe defining role of geography and geographical conquest in the continuation of mass incarcerationThe emergence of the logics of crime control, the War on Drugs, the redefinition of federal law enforcement, and the reallocation of state resources toward prison building, policing, and incarcerationHow policing, courts, and punishment perpetuate the colonial order through their institutional structures and policiesRace and Crime will help students understand how everyday practices of punishment and surveillance are employed in and through the police, courts, and community to create and shape the geographies of injustice in the United States today. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1 Race, Crime, and Justice: Definitions and Context 2 Race, Colonialism, and the Emergence of Racial Democracy 3 The History of Racial Science: Social Science and the Birth of Criminology 4 Social Problems and the U.S. Racial State 5 Housing Inequality and the Geography of Residential Racial Segregation 6 The Problem of Urban America: Race and the Emergence of Mass Incarceration 7 Policing the City

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The multifaceted aspect of domestic violence as a criminal justice, economic, public health, community, and human rights problem . . . creates sites of conversations across these axes." * Politics & Gender *"[Goodmark] reminds us that expanding our perspectives of what interventions could look like are 'worth exploring.' . . . Readers will likely take away a great deal from this book, but at the very least, they will close the book with an expanded sense of what may be possible." * Affilila: Journal of Women and Social Work *"Provides a fresh and well-considered perspective on the field for anyone who is interested to learn more." * Contemporary Justice Review *"Decriminalizing Domestic Violence provides a good overview for readers concerned with crime control and advocates who seek to rebuild a broken system." * Journal of Children and Poverty *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Intimate Partner Violence Is... 1. A Criminal Justice Problem? 2. An Economic Problem 3. A Public Health Problem 4. A Community Problem 5. A Human Rights Problem 6. A Balanced Policy Approach Notes Bibliography Index

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