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  • Diversity in Family Formation

    The 2nd Demographic Transition in Belgium and The Netherlands

    Edited by Joop de Beer, F. Deven ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The aim of Diversity in Family Formation is to examine changes in the start of the family formation process. Rather than giving a rough overview of demographic changes in many countries, a comparison of differences in changes in family formation and fertility behaviour between Belgium and The Netherlands is interesting for various reasons.First, even though the economic and cultural differences ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • This Chair Rocks

    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    by Ashton Applewhite ...
    Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Age Rage

    How the Boomers and Seniors Are Solving the War of the Generations

    by David Cravit ...
    The headlines are getting more frequent -- the language, more inflammatory. A war between the generations. The greedy boomers refusing to get out of the way. The hapless millennials struggling to find a footing. A crisis in pensions. A crisis in jobs. A crisis in health care ... But is that the true story? In this provocative new book, David Cravit, author of The New Old, dissects the apparent war ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Essential Demographic Methods

    by Kenneth W. Wachter ...
    Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demographer Kenneth Wachter draws on themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to bring out the wider appeal of demography. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Biographies in the Global South

    Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses

    by Gabriele Rosenthal, Artur Bogner, Eva Bahl, Johannes Becker, Hendrik Hinrichsen, Josephine Schmiereck, Nicole Witte, Arne Worm ...
    Lange hat sich die soziologische Biografieforschung ganz überwiegend auf Menschen konzentriert, die im "globalen Norden" leben. Dieser Band ist ein Beitrag zu den jüngeren Bemühungen, diese viel zu enge Perspektive aufzuheben. Er zielt auf die Lebensgeschichten und Lebensverläufe von Menschen aus Afrika und dem Nahen Osten. Dabei stehen die biografischen und sozio-geschichtlichen Verflechtungen ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Lexis in Demography

    by Olga Kurtinová, Klára Hulíková Tesárková ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram. It describes this vital tool, which helps demographers visualize data, and examines its various forms through a specially designed example. As a result, readers get to see the Lexis diagram in practice and gain first-hand insight into its different ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life

    Edited by Richard P. Shefferson, Owen R. Jones, Roberto Salguero-Gómez ...
    The existing theories on the evolution of senescence assume that senescence is inevitable in all organisms. However, recent studies have shown that this is not necessarily true. A better understanding of senescence and its underlying mechanisms could have far-reaching consequences for conservation and eco-evolutionary research. This book is the first to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Demographic Change and Housing Wealth:

    Home-owners, Pensions and Asset-based Welfare in Europe

    by John Doling, Marja Elsinga, Kees Dol, József Hegedüs, Nick Horsewood, Richard Ronald, Hanna Szemzo, Nóra Teller, Janneke Toussaint ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Economic Lifecycle, Gender and Intergenerational Support

    National Transfer Accounts for Italy

    by Marina Zannella ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers important insights into an often invisible side of the economy, namely the contribution of women who because of the gender contract ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • CEMAF as a Census Method

    A Proposal for a Re-Designed Census and An Independent U.S. Census Bureau

    by David A. Swanson, Paula J. Walashek ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 updated Master Address File ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Family, the Market or the State?

    Intergenerational Support Under Pressure in Ageing Societies

    Edited by Gustavo De Santis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Executive Power and Soviet Politics

    by Eugene Huskey ...
    Ever since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD