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  • A Global Security System
    David Swanson / Kent Shifferd / Patrick Hiller
    Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World Beyond War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time. Warfare arose about 6,000 years ago (less than 5% of our existenc...
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    17,31 €

  • Plundered
    David W. Swanson
    Two of the world’s greatest crises, systemic racism and environmental destruction, share the same origin story. The two are rooted in economic forces that exploit and oppress both people and land.Pastor David Swanson shows how we have failed our God-given duty as caretakers of creation and how that failure has resulted in the exploitation of people and the extraction of natural...
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    19,95 €

  • Air-Conditioned Bus Tours
    David G. Swanson
    Who doesn’t like vacations with ultimate relaxation preferences? The type of vacation a person takes depends upon individual desires. Most folks like to be wined-n-dined and pampered as if they’ve snuck into the 1/10 of 1% demographic. A few eccentrics prefer different vacations. Developing the ability to ignore inconveniences that’s like a gym rat who refuses to believe their ...
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    15,67 €

  • The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With
    David Swanson
    The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up in novel language. Additional doctrines have been built on its foundations. This book looks at the creation, evolution, and use of the Monroe Doctrine over the years since 1823, and...
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    20,18 €

  • Snippers Saves the World
    David Swanson
    This is a short illustrated chapter book for animal and adventure lovers of all ages. Snippers is a small dog with other dog and cat friends in his neighborhood, but when the bad times come and the humans declare it unsafe to go outdoors, it’s Snipper’s friendship with a ground hog that brings him into an enormous secret and makes him part of a worldwide effort to save all life...
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    13,60 €

  • Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education
    David Swanson / Pat Drake / Rita Borromeo Ferri
    This open access book is the first major publication on the topic of 'Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education' and arose from the work of the first International Topic Study Group of the same name at the ICME-13 conference in Hamburg in 2016. It offers extensive theoretical insights, empirical research, and practitioner accounts of interdisciplinary mathematics work in STEM and...
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    68,19 €

  • Leaving World War II Behind
    David Swanson
    This book documents the case that World War II happened in such a different world that it has little relevance to today’s foreign policy, as well as the case that U.S. participation in WWII was not justifiable. Specifically, WWII was not fought to rescue anyone from persecution, was not necessary for defense, was the most damaging and destructive event yet to occur, and would n...
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    21,46 €

  • Rediscipling the White Church
    David W Swanson / David W. Swanson
    'Many white Christians across America are waking up to the fact that something is seriously wrong-but often this is where we get stuck.'Confronted by the deep-rooted racial injustice in our society, many white Christians instinctively scramble to add diversity to their churches and ministries. But is diversity really the answer to the widespread racial dysfunction we see in the...
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    22,26 €

  • 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
    David C.N. Swanson / David C.NSwanson / TBD
    The U.S. government has a habit of supporting brutal (and comically outrageous) dictators. This book offers 20 current examples, together with some background on historical patterns, some explanation for why this happens, and a proposal to put an end to it.As documented here, the U.S. government arms, trains, and funds all variety of oppressive governments, not just dictatorshi...
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    17,44 €

  • Global Population in Transition
    David A. Swanson / Fei Guo / Jo. M. Martins
    This book deals with macro and micro aspects of population change and their inter-face with socio-economic factors and impact. It examines theoretical notions and pursues their empirical manifestations and uses multidisciplinary approaches to population change and diversity. It investigates the organic nature of the relationships between socio-economic factors and population ch...
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    121,15 €

  • A Global Security System
    David Swanson / Kent Shifferd / Patrick Hiller
    Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World BEYOND War asserts that war itself can be ended.  We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time.  Warfare arose about 10,000 years ago (only 5% of our existence ...
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    21,35 €

  • Cohort Change Ratios and their Applications
    David A. Swanson / Jack Baker / Jeff Tayman
    This textbook focuses on the cohort change ratio (CCR) method. It presents powerful, yet relatively simple ways to generate accurate demographic estimates and forecasts that are cost efficient and require fewer resources than other techniques. The concepts, analytical frameworks, and methodological tools presented do not require extensive knowledge of demographics, mathematics,...
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    66,37 €

  • Curing Exceptionalism
    David C.N. Swanson / David C.NSwanson
    U.S. exceptionalism, the idea that the United States of America is superior to other nations, is no more fact-based and no less harmful than racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry.The purpose of this book is to persuade you of that statement.This book examines how the United States actually compares with other countries, how people think about the comparison, what damage th...
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    19,97 €

  • A Practitioner’s Guide to State and Local Population Projections
    David A. Swanson / Jeff Tayman / Stanley K. Smith
    This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and microsimulation. It covers the components of population growth, sources of data, the formation of assumptions, ...
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    157,86 €

  • War Is Never Just
    David CN Swanson
    This critique of “Just War” theory finds the criteria it uses to be either unmeasurable, unachievable, or amoral, and the perspective it takes too narrow, arguing that belief in the possibility of a just war does tremendous damage by facilitating enormous investment in war preparations—which strips resources from human and environmental needs while creating momentum for numerou...
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    16,29 €

  • Methods of Demographic Analysis
    David A. Swanson / Farhat Yusuf / Jo. M. Martins
    This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of fertility, mortality, life tables, migr...
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    170,56 €

  • Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education
    David Swanson / Julian Williams / Wolff-Michael Roth
    Main Topics You Can Find in this 'ICME-13 Topical Survey'.- Introduction.- Survey on the State-of-the-art.- Summary and Looking Ahead. ...
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    24,44 €

  • The Washington State Census Board and Its Demographic Legacy
    David A. Swanson / David ASwanson
    This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime in-migration. The narrative also shows the demographic legacy of the Board and, ultimately, provides an unforget...
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    67,13 €

  • A Global Security System
    David Swanson / Kent Shifferd / Patrick Hiller
    Resting on a convincing body of evidence that violence is not a necessary component of conflict among states and between states and non-state actors, World Beyond War asserts that war itself can be ended. We humans have lived without war for most of our existence and most people live without war most of the time. Warfare arose about 6,000 years ago (less than 5% of our existenc...
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    23,67 €

  • Killing Is Not a Way of Life
    David C.N. Swanson
    A collection of new essays from David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie, covering topics including war, peace, the earth, justice, and activism. ...
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    16,49 €

  • Consumer Demographics and Behaviour
    David A. Swanson / Farhat Yusuf / Jo M. Martins
    This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products. It is also a book for teachers and students of consumer behaviour to grasp the importance of the life cycle as a framework that shapes the demand for goods and serv...
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    195,66 €

  • A Practitioner’s Guide to State and Local Population Projections
    David A. Swanson / Jeff Tayman / Stanley K. Smith
    This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and microsimulation. It covers the components of population growth, sources of data, the formation of assumptions, ...
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    47,21 €

  • War No More
    David C. N. Swanson
    This book presents what numerous reviewers have called the best existing argument for the abolition of war, demonstating that war can be ended, war should be ended, war is not ending on its own, and that we must end war. 3 ...
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    17,56 €

  • Tube World
    David C.N. Swanson / David C.NSwanson
    For ages 6-10. Did you know the center of the Earth was hollow? Do you know the words that can take you there, if you’re under the covers in your swimming suit and prepared for the trip? Can you imagine traveling anywhere in the world where there’s a swimming pool -- and being home again in time for breakfast? If you haven’t been to Tube World yet, this book will tell you th...
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    13,97 €

  • Tube World
    David Swanson
    Ages 6-10. Did you know the center of the Earth was hollow? Do you know the words that can take you there, if you’re under the covers in your swimming suit and prepared for the trip? Can you imagine traveling anywhere in the world where there’s a swimming pool -- and being home again in time for breakfast? If you haven’t been to Tube World yet, this book will tell you the se...
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    17,87 €

  • Subnational Population Estimates
    David A. Swanson / Jeff Tayman
    Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the demographic and sample-survey traditions and is a self-contained primer that com...
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    47,21 €

  • The Military Industrial Complex at 50
    David Christopher Naylor Swanson
    This book is the most comprehensive collection available explaining what the military industrial complex (MIC) is, where it comes from, what damage it does, what further destruction it threatens, and what can be done and is being done to chart a different course. ...
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    21,34 €

  • Learning Statistics
    David Swanson
    Learning Statistics: A Manual for Sociology Students helps students learn and retain important statistical concepts. New graduates face numerous challenges when applying statistics in the workplace. This text presents a unique and class-tested set of pedagogical tools that increase learning and retention, and prepare students for real-world application.In the real world decisio...
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    77,26 €

  • When the World Outlawed War
    David Christopher Naylor Swanson
    This is a masterful account of how people in the United States and around the world worked to abolish war as a legitimate act of state policy and won in 1928, outlawing war with a treaty that is still on the books. Swanson’s account of the successful work of those who came before us to insist that war be outlawed points us toward new ways of thinking about both war and politica...
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    22,29 €

  • CEMAF as a Census Method
    David A. Swanson / David ASwanson / Paula J. Walashek / Paula JWalashek
    In provocative terms that push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek propose a re-vamped US census based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing. Instead, they propose that it be built on a combination of four elements: (1) administrative records; (2) the continuously up...
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    60,14 €


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