Economic Theory, Demography
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Religion in America: Volume 6Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity,...
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Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity: Proceedings of a WorkshopStructural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and...
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Eight Billion Reasons Population Matters: The Defining Issue of the 21st CenturyHave you been wondering why our environmental progress has been so disappointing?The world is about to hit a staggering population level of EIGHT BILLION people living on one small planet. In this provocative and critically acclaimed must-read, Valorie M. Allen dares to connect those...
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County and City Extra 2021: Annual Metro, City, and County Data BookWhen you want only one source of information about your city or county, turn to County and City Extra. This trusted reference compiles information from many sources to provide all the key demographic and economic data for every state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district,...
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The Who, What, and Where of America: Understanding the American Community SurveyThe Who, What, and Where of America is designed to provide a sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more. Who: Age, Race...
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Places, Towns and Townships 2021, Seventh EditionPlaces, Towns and Townships is an excellent resource for anyone in need of data for all of the nation's cities, towns, townships, villages, and census-designated places in one convenient source. It compiles essential information about places in the United States and the people who...
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Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World ReligionsDemography drives religious change. High-fertility societies, like most of contemporary Africa, tend to be fervent and devout. The lower a population's fertility rates, the greater the tendency for people to detach from organized or institutional religion. Thus, fertility rates supply an effective gauge of...
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Why Race Still Matters'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it's...
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Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from MillennialsIn Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley "visionaries," and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of...
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LGBTQ STATS: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People by the NumbersWinner of the 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book Award An essential handbook of myth-busting facts and figures about the real lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people Twenty years ago it was impossible to imagine the president of the United...
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Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First CenturyAn essential handbook of eye-opening--and frequently myth-busting--facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today There's no defeating white supremacist myths without data--real data. Black Stats is a compact and useful guide that offers up-to-date figures on Black life in the United...
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--And More Miserable Than Ever BeforeIn this provocative and newly revised book, headline-making psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also disengaged, narcissistic, distrustful, and anxious. Born in the '80s, and '90s and called "The Entitlement...
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Population Geography: Tools and Issues, Third EditionThis compact and accessible text provides a comprehensive, issue-oriented introduction to population geography. First grounding students in the fundamentals, Bruce Newbold then explains the tools and techniques commonly used to describe and understand population concepts using real-world issues and events. Drawing on both U.S....
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Demographics and the Demand for Higher EducationThe decisions we make in the next five years are critical in determining whether colleges thrive or flounder.2017 National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Award for Outstanding AACRAO SEM Research PresentationHigher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently...
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Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts AheadDemographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.What will happen when retiring Boomers free up jobs? How will Generation Y alter housing and transportation? Which states will...
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Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in PrehistoryThis book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.The transformative effect of the spread and adoption of agriculture in prehistory cannot be overstated. Consequently, archaeologists have often focused their research on...
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Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life CoursePraise for the first edition: "This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from around the world... The content of the book is rich with current information seldom accumulated into one sourceI recommend this volume to gerontologists, aging studies undergraduate and...
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The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The Extermination of the Cape San PeoplesIn 1998 David Kruiper, the leader of the +Khomani San who today live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, lamented, "We have been made into nothing." His comment applies equally to the fate of all the hunter-gatherer societies of the Cape Colony who...
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The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic StormAs each generation ages, what they buy and how much they buy will change. In The Age Curve, marketing guru Kenneth Gronbach shows executives and entrepreneurs how to anticipate the changing needs of their "best customer," and how to ride that profit wave of...
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Guide to Cuban Genealogical Research: Records and SourcesThis guide touches on virtually every facet of its subject. The author has prepared informative chapters on "getting started," Spanish surnames, and a history of Cuba, to set the stage for his discussion of Cuban genealogical records. The meat of the book consists of...
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