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1	Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues more books like this by John Robert Weeks add to wishlist A well known and well respected author provides this comprehensive yet accessible book that introduces population issues, concepts and theories. While keeping larger population issues in perspective, it closely examines key factors in population processes, from fertility and mortality rates to agricultural production and urbanization. The text ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.14! \| first editions \| SVS
2	An essay on the principle of population more books like this by Thomas Robert Malthus add to wishlist As the world's population continues to grow at a rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains ever more importance. "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (1798) examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources: better economic conditions lead inevitably to lower mortality rates; poor relief encourages ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $3.81! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City more books like this by Mike Davis add to wishlist A well-known scholar in urban studies projects the changes in cities and in the economy as whole as Latinos become the largest minority in the United States. Mike Davis is the author of the acclaimed CITY OF QUARTZ. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Population Bomb more books like this by Professor Paul R Ehrlich add to wishlist In this book, the author warns that the Earth's rapidly expanding human population will lead to food shortages and famine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.86! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	Too Many People: The Case for Reducing Growth more books like this by Lindsey Grant add to wishlist Since its first edition in 1991, Organizing for Social Change has earned the reputation as the best book in print for grassroots organizers. Now, ten years later and in its third edition, this indispensable manual for activists continues to provide guidelines for bringing together likeminded people. The 100 new pages in this updated edition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
6	Boom Bust & Echo 2000: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium more books like this by David K Foot, Daniel Stoffman add to wishlist This new fully updated and expanded version offers the latest information and forecasts on such topics as real estate and housing, demographic-based investing, the new rules of retail, health care trends, and Canada's "gray interlude". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.95!
7	Demography: The Study of Human Population more books like this by David Yaukey add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.77! \| first editions
8	A concise history of world population more books like this by Massimo Livi Bacci add to wishlist Since its original publication in 1992, this book has become the standard history of world population. Its underlying purpose is to explain the links between nature, culture, and population and thereby to look at ways of preventing future environmental collapse and human catastrophe. Coverage of the changing patterns of population growth, and the ... see all copies from $2.27! new only from $35.43! \| SVS
9	Boom Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century more books like this by David K. Foot, Brian Gable (Illustrator), Daniel Stoffman add to wishlist see all copies from $7.36! new only from $177.52!
10	Wide My World, Narrow My Bed more books like this by Luci Swindoll add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History more books like this by James Riley add to wishlist Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.48! \| signed copies
12 view cover	Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America-And the World more books like this by Peter G Peterson add to wishlist The major economies of the world are steaming together toward a huge, yet-unseen iceberg: global aging. Now in paperback, this book by a respected statesman of Washington and Wall Street sounds the warning bell on this looming demographic challenge and prescribes a set of detailed solutions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective more books like this by Robert Gellately (Editor), Professor Ben Kiernan (Editor) add to wishlist Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide; the victims of Stalinist terror; the Holocaust; and Imperial Japan. Contributors explore ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.06! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Methods and Materials of Demography more books like this by Mr. David L Swanson (Editor), Jacob S Siegel (Editor) add to wishlist This book is a thorough update of the original "Methods and Materials of Demography" (1976). Every chapter is new, written exclusively for this edition. Like the original, "Red Book", the second edition presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. It is ... see all copies from $90.00! new only from $90.00! \| SVS
15 view cover	Handbook of Population more books like this by Dudley L Poston (Editor), Michael Micklin (Editor) add to wishlist This comprehensive handbook provides an overview and update of the issues, theories, processes, and applications of the social science of population studies. The volume's 30 chapters cover the full range of conceptual, empirical, disciplinary, and applied approaches to the study of demographic phenomena. This book is the first effort to assess the ... see all copies from $69.99! new only from $75.25! \| first editions
16 view cover	Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos / more books like this by Garrett Hardin add to wishlist Designed for the general reader, this study presents the author's views on the problems of human population growth and its impact on the quality of life. He suggests what might be done to control human population within the limits of the sustainable capacity of the Earth. see all copies from $3.18! new only from $86.90! \| first editions
17 view cover	Hitting the Sweet Spot: How Consumer Insights Can Inspire Better Marketing and Adv. more books like this by Lisa Fortini-Capmbell, Bruce B Bendinger, Joseph Plummer (Designer) add to wishlist This book will help you and your business move from information to insight to inspiration. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50!
18 view cover	Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America: A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South America more books like this by Dwight B Heath add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Victim, the Other Side of Murder more books like this by Gary Kinder add to wishlist A compelling and tragic look at how lives are changed forever by a random act of violence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies more books like this by Ronald Inglehart add to wishlist This work argues that economic development, cultural change and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others, and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, ... see all copies from $8.18! new only from $43.15! \| first editions
21	Ripley's Believe It or Not more books like this by Mike Ripley, Pournelle, Kelly (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Women, Population and Global Crisis: A Political-Economic Analysis more books like this by Asoka Bandarage add to wishlist This is a critique of the assumption that over-population is one of the root causes of global crisis. It gives a historical overview of the population question and places the population-poverty-environment-security debate within a broad theoretical perspective. The first part of the book looks at conventional ideologies of population control. In ... see all copies from $4.66! new only from $17.93! \| SVS
23 view cover	Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity more books like this by Cynthia A Brewer, Trudy A Suchan add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $14.67! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies more books like this by Frank Chalk, Professor Kurt Jonassohn add to wishlist Genocide is not an invention of the twentieth century, say Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn in this absorbing book, but has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. This study--the first comprehensive survey of the history and sociology of genocide--presents over two dozen examples of the one-sided mass slaughter of peoples, spanning ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $31.69! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Population Explosion more books like this by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich add to wishlist In 1968, Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" warned against the consequences of unchecked population growth. Based on the view that the predicted crisis has now arrived, and that famine and the effects of pollution indicate imminent environmental collapse, this book expresses a belief that disaster can be avoided and suggests how mankind might ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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