Population & Demography

Whithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of...

With several empirical evidences, this book advocates on the importance of human capital of persons with disabilities and demands the paradigm shif...

A major emerging demographic issue of the twenty-first century is the ageing of populations as an inevitable consequence of the demographic transit...

Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various aspe...

With findings that challenge conventional wisdom, Fertility Change on the American Frontier will interest demographers, sociologists, and historian...

This book of peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistics and demography is the first of four volumes from the 52nd Scientif...

This book of peer-reviewed short papers on methodological and applied statistics and demography is the second of four volumes from the 52nd Scienti...

Population and Society brings together twenty-six classic and contemporary published works that are considered to be foundational reading for the s...

A new, unexpected generation of Jews made an appearance in Poland following the fall of the communist regime. Once home to the greatest Jewish comm...

Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more P...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequalitya critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this,...

Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized worl...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually sinc...

Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with,...

Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political economies and societi...

Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in the sixteenth-century, Amnon...

This book contains fifteen original papers covering, a broad spectrum of topics in Jewish demography and identity, considering both Diaspora commun...

This book is a roadmap of the exact health disparities that burden the health of South Texas residents, especially Hispanics, compared to the rest ...

This is the third volume of three on demographics. All major fields of demographic change are covered. Population figures are given for each popula...