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  • The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies

    Late Fertility and its Consequences

    Edited by Gijs Beets, Joop Schippers, Egbert R. te Velde ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour market career, housing accommodation, etc.). ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Ten Billion

    by Stephen Emmott ...
    Deforestation. 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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Interaction Ritual Chains

    by Randall Collins ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Unified Growth Theory

    by Oded Galor ...
    For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The ... Read more

    $71.29 USD

  • Secular Cycles

    by Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov ...
    Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability, and territorial loss. Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa

    Coethnic Strangers

    by Claire L. Adida ...
    This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence. It shows, counterintuitively, that cultural similarities between immigrants and their hosts do not help immigrant integration and may, in fact, disrupt it. This book is one of the first to describe and explain in a systematic way immigrant ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Singapore Perspectives 2014: Differences

    by Mathews Mathew, Wai Fong Chiang, Christopher Gee ...
    Series series Singapore Perspectives
    Singapore's demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to navigate the many differences in the country's ancestral, social and cultural affiliations even as they embarked on the urgent task of nation-building. A decade into the new century, many of the country's traditional understandings of differences are being challenged, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Social Integration Of Rural-urban Migrants In China: Current Status, Determinants And Consequences

    by Zhongshan Yue, Shuzhuo Li, Marcus W Feldman ...
    Series Book 13 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    This book focuses on rural-urban migrants in China. They are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the country but are essential to the country's industrialization and urbanization. Integration of these migrants into urban societies is an urgent issue facing Chinese policy makers. The book provides an updated, systematic, empirically rich, and multifaceted analysis of migrant ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective

    Critical and International Approaches

    Edited by Kathrin Komp, Stina Johansson ...
    Series series Ageing and the Lifecourse
    Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing. The lifecourse perspective suggests that individuals’ experiences at an early age can influence ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Diverging Destinies

    The Japanese Case

    by James M. Raymo, Miho Iwasawa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Prestige

    Translated by Patrycja Poniatowska ...
    by Henryk Domański ...
    Series Book 14 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    Prestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies. Prestige distribution patterns have changed and individualized gradations emerged, while agreement in the occupational prestige in Poland is lower than in the West and still declining. ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

    by Patrick Brode ...
    This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD