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Inevitable Aging? : Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory
Annette Baudisch
Hardcover - $195.95
Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of lif ...
Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults : Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses
Jere R. Behrman
Hardcover - $288.95
Why are there differences in life expectancies among various demographic groups? Why have these changes in life expectancies occurred? Many reasons are given in the popular and more scholarly literatures. Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death ...
Population and Economy : From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth
Bengtsson
Hardcover - $569.95
This book of collected essays--an outcome of an A-session held at the 12th International Congress of Economic History in Madrid, 1998--sets a new standard in an active and influential field of research. The contributors go beyond the conventional Eur ...
Life Under Pressure : Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Tommy Bengtsson
Hardcover - $90.95
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors ex ...
Agent-Based Computational Demography : Using Simulation to Improve Our Understanding of Demographic Behaviour
Francesco C. Billari
Paperback - $128.95
Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour. The book takes a micro-demographic (agent-based) perspective and illustrates the ...
Fertility and the Male Life-Cycle in the Era of Fertility Decline
Caroline Bledsoe
Hardcover - $474.95
Traditionally, women have been the sole focus of fertility studies. Ranging broadly over ethnographies, national surveys, and historical texts, this volume breaks imaginative new ground in grappling with the immense variation in male reproduction acr ...
The New Population Problem : Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means
Alan Booth
Paperback - $75.95
This volume focuses on the phenomenon of lower fertility rates occurring in the developed world. It explores the factors that influence couples' decisions on the number of children they will have and what are the long-term consequences of declining f ...
Mapping Census 2000 : The Geography of U.S. Diversity
Cynthia A. Brewer
Paperback - $32.95
Combining the power of professional, GIS-based cartography with the most up-to-date data, this book presents a new perspective on America's demographic landscape.
Beyond Malthus : Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
Lester Russell Brown
Paperback - $24.95
On the bicentennial of Malthus's legendary essay on the tendency for population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, the question facing the world is not whether population growth will slow, but how.