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“massimo livi bacci”

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  • Geodemography

    How Population Shapes the Relations Between States

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    Translated by David Broder ...
    The last hundred years have witnessed the ongoing decline of Europe’s population and the explosion of Africa’s, major changes in migratory flows, significant variations in fertility levels across different countries and ethnic groups and the dizzying growth of large metropolises. These changes alter and sometimes disrupt relations between societies, states and regions of the world and influence ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of World Population

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    Explores the forces that have shaped global population growth over millenniaUnderstanding the mechanisms that govern the size and trajectory of the human population is essential to navigating today's most pressing global challenges. A Concise History of World Population, offers a sweeping overview of the key demographic patterns that have defined human history and influenced the world's population ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The population of Iberian Colonial America Ten Essays

    by Massimo Livi Bacci ...
    The Author interviews Alexander von Humboldt on the slopes of the Teide, the volcano ascended by the young scientist on June 21, 1797 during his stopover in Tenerife on his way to America [photo by Pietro Melucci, October 8, 2024] ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Migration

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    Translated by Carl Ipsen.This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures of migratory groups. Separate chapters deal with the migration flows between Europe and the rest of the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Over Land and Sea

    Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    Translated by David Broder ...
    Human history has always been marked by the mobility of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced, in different ways and to varying degrees.In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of World Population

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic. Reworked sections analyze the impact of environmental and climate change, discuss declining fertility in developing nations, and track the continuing impact of HIV-AIDS.Central themes updated and revised to take account of new scholarshipIncludes new sections on ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of World Population

    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout.A new edition of this classic history of demography text, which has been updated to strengthen the major ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Our Shrinking Planet

    Translated by David Broder ...
    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, having a much higher percentage of young people.Against this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Global Politics in the 21st Century

    by Robert J. Jackson ...
    Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give students a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with globalization and research on such topics as terrorism, new economic superpowers, and global ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

    by James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu, Random House - New York ...
    Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012.Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD