Population and demography Books

The goal of this book is to show you how to document your heritage while placing each generation of your family in its cultural milieu and telling a factual and interesting story about the family. Among other things, this book enables you to evaluate...

Census records and name lists for New York are found mostly at the county level, which is why this work shows precisely which census records or census substitutes exist for each of New York's sixty-two counties and where they can be found. In addition to...

'An excellent basis for thinking about the future of the world's population. Every contributor to the population-environment debate needs to read the demographic sense the book contains and lecturers in population matters around the globe should...

This book considers the most prominent themes and future developments in areas of key importance to political geography, including theory and methodology, minority groups, local government and the geography of elections.

When this title was first published in 1981, growing concern for the future of cities and those who inhabited them, stimulated by trends in global urbanisation, had resulted in much emphasis being placed on a problem-solving approach to the study of the...

Using a number of city-based case studies, including New York, Tokyo and Glasgow, this book presents a thorough analysis of urban problems and planning in relation to varying economic, cultural and political conditions throughout the developed world.

A substantial proportion of the world's population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged as a major focus for research. This edited collection, first published in 1983, is concerned with the effects on the...

This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have...

This book deals with the process of the diffusion of cohabitation in Europe and discusses its impact upon fundamental changes in family formation. It makes use of highly dynamic statistical modelling that takes into account both changes occurring along...

Following up on her 2004 work, "Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina," Kathleen Marler has now assembled an alphabetically arranged collection of abstracts of early inhabitants of Mecklenburg County, the parent county of Cabarrus. The principal...

Whether you conduct your research in person or by mail, this celebrated manual--now in its Fourth Edition--will guide you in finding your ancestors in Britain or Ireland. Noted genealogist Angus Baxter provides detailed instructions for locating records...

Irish genealogist and geographer Brian Mitchell is the author of numerous textbooks on Irish genealogy, including several how-to books, collections of ships' passenger records, and guides to Irish parish and cemetery records. This offering by Mr...

This is a little-known but important work on the land grant surveys made between the years 1761 and 1791 in Augusta and Rockingham counties. The importance of the work arises from the fact that the original records of deeds were damaged in a fire in...

Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to...

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state, citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration,...

Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Housing chronicles the emergence of a low-cost, low-rise housing architecture that conforms to M.K. Gandhi's religious need to establish finite boundaries for everyday actions; finitude in turn defines...

First published in 1979, this is a classic study of the population of the Bushmen of the Kalahari Deselt of Botswana. Using methods that are simple and fully illustrated, the author presents empirical descriptions of the fertility, mortality, and...

While much is known about the lineages of the thousands of Netherlanders who settled in the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries, David Dobson's new book is derived from European records that generally have eluded the grasp of North American...

Mr. Goethals and Fr. Denys have prepared the first English-language guidebook for tracing Flemish ancestors from Belgium.

Mrs. Motes continues her effort to stratify by ethnic group the 1850 population of South Carolina as evidenced in the U.S. Census of that year. Her earlier volume, also available from Clearfield Company, identified the free African-American population of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Oberseminar: Soziologie sozialer Probleme, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: sehr gut, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Für die Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: gut-sehr gut, Universität Zürich (Soziologisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Seminar "Soziale Ungleichheit", Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

En 1959, fraîchement sorti du concours de l'Internat des Hôpitaux de Paris, Jean Bernard Joly découvrait l'Algérie.Médecin dans un poste militaire de la Demi Brigade de Fusiliers Marins, à Tient (actuellement Ghazaouet), il était chargé des soins à la...

Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The psychology of mobility is important because movement is...

This investigation into causal modelling presents the rationale of causality, i.e. the notion that guides causal reasoning in causal modelling. It is argued that causal models are regimented by a rationale of variation, nor of regularity neither...

Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of migration...

This volume examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. With a focus on race and gender, the chapters represent diverse approaches, including social scientific, humanistic,...

This book uses a vast array of historical time lines to help flesh out your family history. The 2016 edition has been completely revised and edited, and it contains two entirely new chapters. Readers of the original 2009 edition will enjoy the new time...

Urban Fears and Global Terrors After 7/7 explores the disruption around that day, taking people back to the events and the sense of loss, fear and mourning that followed. By framing a new landscape of urban fear Victor Seidler shows how new technologies...

Der Autor, Jahrgang 1934, Diplom-Volkswirt mit Versicherungsmathematik, zeigt hier, wie mit dem jedem verfügbaren Kalkulationsprogramm EXEL oder Calc aus den wenigen leicht vom Statistischen Bundesamt zu bekommenden Daten der Sterbewahrscheinlichkeiten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Steuert die Sozialraumorientierung in der Behindertenhilfe zum Erfolg von Inklusion...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften), course: Memory Making and...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn die deutsch(sprachig)e Netzenzyklopädie wikipedia im Beitrag über Karl Marx „marxistische...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Humor, Komik und Lachen sind alltägliche Begleiter des Menschen. Es sind soziale...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,0, Universität Wien (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Forschungspraktikum 1+2: Migrationsforschung in der Soziologie, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Soziale Ungleichheitsforschung, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Fachhochschule Salzburg (Soziale Arbeit), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Das Vaterland dankt seinen Helden!" - Inschriften wie diese finden sich auf unzähligen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Freie Universität Berlin (Sociology), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Auch in der anscheinend so modernen, demokratischen Gesellschaft gibt es Ungerechtigkeiten,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. ProblemstellungArmut, insbesondere in der heutigen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,7, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,7, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diskriminierung und Rassismus sind für die heutige Gesellschaft immer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,7, Hochschule Anhalt - Standort Bernburg (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Trotz wachsenden Reichtums gibt es in Deutschland...

Dr. Alexander Groß Ministerialdirektor im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie Der für Deutschland prognostizierte Bevölkerungsrückgang und die zu erwartenden Veränderungen der Altersstruktur werden ...

Demographic study and the idea of a "population" was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to...