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  • Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries
    The mobile technology field is expanding with innovative research and discoveries that expand to all walks of life. Mobile technology may have its greatest impact in the developing world, because it brings telecommunication to districts that had never been reached before. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications re...
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    236,22 €

  • Confident Identities, Connected Communities
    This book aims to promote greater understanding of social cohesion amidst existing complexities of faith and identity, and what it portends for our future.Social cohesion defies easy definition; yet, every pursuit of social cohesiveness requires nurture, patience and a consensus that it is germane to the success of any community. Indeed, challenges abound, developments such as ...
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    132,66 €

  • Matrícula del Curato de Ancasti 1806
    Gerardo Luciano Flores Ivaldi
    Matricula del curato de Ancasti - 1806 Reproducción Facsimilar En este trabajo, pongo a disposición de historiadores y genealogistas una reproducción facsímil de una matrícula o padrón registrado en el curato de Ancasti en 1806. El documento de referencia fue encontrado entre los expedientes de informaciones matrimoniales del curato de Ancasti, sin lugar a dudas, tras haber est...
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    7,17 €

  • Youth Development in South Africa
    Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future. ...
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    149,74 €

  • The Age of Decay
    Shamil Ismail
    Drawing on seemingly unrelated instances of essential worker shortages around the world, investment analyst Shamil Ismail connects the dots to build a compelling and well-researched narrative explaining why aging populations and declining birth rates are leading to a shrinking workforce of essential workers in developed countries, which could massively disrupt their societies a...
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    12,45 €

  • Dynamics of Population; Social and Biological Significance of Changing Birth Rates in the United States
    Frank 1894- Lorimer / Frederick Henry 1889- joint ... Osborn
    This insightful book examines the social and biological effects of changing birth rates in the United States. Written in 1894, this groundbreaking work remains relevant to this day.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of Ameri...
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    42,46 €

  • Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey [Volumes I & II in One Volume]
    Marcus Garvey
    Wisdom and Inspiration from the Great Pan-African Leader and ThinkerIn the long road African-Americans have tread-and are still walking-from emancipation toward the complete realization of true racial equality, Marcus Garvey stands out in his early and unequivocal declaration of black rights and pride. In the early 1900s he offered a novel approach: full separation and independ...
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    27,20 €

  • Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey [Volumes I & II in One Volume]
    Marcus Garvey
    Wisdom and Inspiration from the Great Pan-African Leader and ThinkerIn the long road African-Americans have tread-and are still walking-from emancipation toward the complete realization of true racial equality, Marcus Garvey stands out in his early and unequivocal declaration of black rights and pride. In the early 1900s he offered a novel approach: full separation and independ...
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    36,22 €

  • Abhandlungen Zur Theorie Der Bevölkerungs- Und Moralstatistik
    Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis
    Dieses Buch enthält eine Reihe von Abhandlungen zur Theorie der Bevölkerungs- und Moralstatistik. Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis geht dabei auf verschiedene Aspekte der Bevölkerungs- und Moralforschung ein, einschließlich der Beziehung zwischen Bevölkerungswachstum und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung, der Bedeutung von Statistiken in der Moralforschung und der Relevanz von ...
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    36,57 €

  • British Offices Life Tables, 1893
    Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland
    This book contains important information on mortality rates and life expectancy for the British population in 1893. It is a valuable resource for actuaries, demographers, and historians studying patterns of mortality and population health in the nineteenth century.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civiliz...
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    35,62 €

  • Reproductive Racism
    Susanne Schultz
    The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies of reproductive bodies and behaviours. ...
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    158,40 €

  • SEX, DRUGS, ROCK and WAR
    Daniel Muller
    We have all heard the nicknames for the current generations in the news. Besides the ’Silent Generation’ (a.k.a. The Greatest Generation) born before 1946, there are Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (also known as the Millennials), and Generation Z.In the past few years, there has been an increasing amount of coverage and discussion about the growing frustration between...
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    38,17 €

  • The Return of Malthus
    Björn-Ola Linnér
    The Return of Malthus is the first comprehensive analysis of the post-war fear of scarcity. Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled ’neo-Malthusians’ for their emphasis on an impending clash between population growth and resource limits, after the...
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    50,53 €

  • Truth of a Hopi
    Edmund R. Nequatewa
    In the Truth of a Hopi, Edmund Nequatewa relates the Hopis’ myths, legends, belief systems, and oral history. Nequatewa’s writings give us a glimpse into the psyche of the Hopi in the way that only a Hopi could. Here you will find not only the traditional oral histories, but stories of how the Hopi resisted sending their children away to enforced boarding schools. A fascinating...
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    8,77 €

  • Territorialidades Em Análise E Pesquisas Socioambientais
    André Cutrim Carvalho / Christian Adolfo Da Costa Oliveira Neto / João Marcio Palheta Da Silva / Nunes Da Silva
    A presente obra foi organizada em torno de um objetivo basilar: apresentar uma série de conceitos e definições em torno da categoria territorialidade um entendimento oriundo diretamente da noção de território, sob uma perspectiva de concepção interdisciplinar. A obra foi elaborada a partir de um processo colaborativo entre professores(as), estudantes e pesquisadores(as) que se...
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    13,94 €

  • ЗАКОН СОХРАНЕНИЯ ЕВРЕЕВ
    Вадим Малин
    Эта книга предназначена дла евреев и не евреев, для верующих и неверующих. Она изобилует загадочными фактами и событиями, которые, в совокупности, можно назвать чудесным Еврейским Феноменом. Но главный фокус книги направлен на самое большое чудо - почему евреи не исчезли с лица Земли давным давно, как все остальные древние народы? Как евреи сумели выжить, когда они продолжают д...
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    36,41 €

  • Por qué las mujeres prefieren hombres mayores que se mueren antes
    Federico J Casimiro-Soriguer Escofet
    El libro aborda, ya desde los primeros capítulos, la cuestión del sexo y del género, tan de actualidad. Pero no termina ahí sino que, a partir de la pregunta formulada ya desde el título (¿Por qué las mujeres se casan con hombres mayores que se mueren antes?) intenta contextualizar el sexo y el género como resultado de la interacción entre la filogenia (biología) y la cultura. ...
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    24,91 €

  • Mao’s China and Post-Mao China
    Robert Weatherley
    If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China underwent two revolutions, a number of wars, endured a radical and destabilising form of communism and then hurried quickly towards a system of open market economics whilst remaining under the control of a nominally communist party....
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    81,70 €

  • Mao’s China and Post-Mao China
    Robert Weatherley
    If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China underwent two revolutions, a number of wars, endured a radical and destabilising form of communism and then hurried quickly towards a system of open market economics whilst remaining under the control of a nominally communist party....
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    154,13 €

  • LAND TENURE & THE REVOLUTION IN DEMOCRACY & BIRTH-CONTROL IN FRANCE
    SHEILA NEWMAN
    The French Revolution was both democratic and demographic and did not begin and end in 1789. The French were able to sustain it over several generations because they retained a relatively clan-based land-tenure system, able to preserve intergenerational values and projects and to exploit secret printing, secret societies - including Freemasonry - and secret information via a ti...
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    34,55 €

  • Ethnic Relations in China
    Rong Ma / Xiao Xiao
    This book is a collection of Professor Ma Rong’s papers on current and future ethnic relations in China. Some of the studies, presented in the book, are related to basic theories on ethnic relations, while others are specific issues he observed and identified while conducting surveys in different parts of the country. His papers are based on field research and China’s current s...
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    154,50 €

  • Social Context, Policies, and Changes in Singapore
    This book is a collection of essays by thought and advocacy leaders, policymakers, and academics in Singapore who have been and are in positions of influence in shaping social policies, and hence the social context, in the country. These essays are meant to initiate discussion, promote debate and broaden understanding of the social issues at play, the challenges faced, and the ...
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    104,51 €

  • Identity, Gender, and Tracking
    Jenny R. Vermilya
    Using in-depth interviews with veterinary students, Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students explores the experience of enrollment in an educational program that tracks students based on the species of animals that they wish to treat. The identity of a veterinarian is one characterized by care; thus, students have to construct different ...
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    143,85 €

  • Identity, Gender, and Tracking
    Jenny R. Vermilya
    Using in-depth interviews with veterinary students, Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students explores the experience of enrollment in an educational program that tracks students based on the species of animals that they wish to treat. The identity of a veterinarian is one characterized by care; thus, students have to construct different ...
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    72,20 €

  • Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population
    Charles B. A. Musselwhite
    Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe these limitations are framed around Bourdieu’s theory of capitals. ...
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    88,03 €

  • Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science
    Daniela Danna
    The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor. ...
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    180,24 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Maurice Halbwachs
    Robert Leroux
    This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance. ...
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    282,53 €

  • The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth
    Eirliani Abdul Rahman
    The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change. ...
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    180,63 €

  • Social Democracy in the 21st Century
    Social democracy is in a process of change as a number of developments challenge its organizational, ideational and electoral basis. This book elaborates on how social democracy should be understood under these changing circumstances, how social democratic parties have responded and what future trajectories await. ...
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    189,54 €

  • Divorce in Europe
    Dimitri Mortelmans
    This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups influence divorce trends or is there a renewed stability on the partner market? In terms of divorce risks, the book contai...
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    92,35 €


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