Social Science - Demography

In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book--written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian)--Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER What if the challenge for humanity's future is not too many people on a crowded planet, but too few people to sustain the progress that the world needs? Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are...

This "stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet" (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now. Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from...

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening--and frequently myth-busting--facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Taylor, former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine There's no defeating white supremacist myths without real data. Hailed as...

An eye-opening story of the people who make the census, the United States' largest and most consequential dataset, and the growing threats to their crucial work. By many measures, the US census is the government's largest non-wartime operation, and one of the world's oldest...

How sharing a home with extended family or friends serves as a crucial, but imperfect, private safety net for families with children More than fifteen percent of US children--over eleven million--live in doubled-up households, sharing space with extended family or friends. These households are...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this "gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change" (New Statesman), an award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher argue that the global population's inevitable decline will dramatically reshape our social, political, and economic landscape. "An ambitious...

From elementary to graduate school, classrooms are now filled with Generation Z students, born 1995-2010. And, much like those in the generations who came before, these students are eager to learn. But, their characteristics, interests, styles, and preferred learning environments are in many ways...

A groundbreaking, "lavishly informative" (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. Upending the conventional theory that generational...

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and...

The Islamization of Europe has been in steady progress for decades and this fact is finally becoming undeniable both for native Europeans and the rest of the world. Hugh Fitzgerald has been patiently, yet forcefully, sounding the alarm on these developments for over twenty...

The Statistical Abstract of the United States has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, demographic, and economic conditions of America since 1878. This 2023 edition continues the heritage begun so long ago by the U.S. government, with the U.S. Census Bureau being the...

Author: Leila GuerrieroPublisher: Editorial AnagramaPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsISBN: 9788433948892Language: Spanish

Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards, Best History & Biography 2020 Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and...

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this "riveting and revelatory" (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives...

The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this "riveting and revelatory" (Tony Robbins) prophecy for how our present era of unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives...