Demography category: 971 books
The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner
Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
These essays on Post-Keynesian economics were written expressly for a volume to honour the life and work of Alfred Eichner. The original countributions - that critically examine and extend ideas in Eichner's "The Macrodynamics of Advanced Market Economies" are organized in seven sections...
GOP GPS
How to Find the Millennials and Urban Voters the Republican Party Needs to Survive
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
**“**A Democrat’s worst nightmare . . . Siegfried makes a compelling case for how the GOP can transform itself into a modern day party with broad appeal” (Jessica Tarlov, political strategist and Fox News commentator).
With the decline of Republican stalwart supporters—Baby Boomers and...
CEMAF as a Census Method
A Proposal for a Re-Designed Census and An Independent U.S. Census Bureau
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
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...
Dusk of Dawn!
An Essay Toward an Autobiography of Race Concept
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In her perceptive introduction to this edition, Irene Diggs sets this classic autobiography against its broad historical context and critically analyzes its theoretical and methodological significance.
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift.This book will tell you about economy troubles by selling children as food for rich guys.
The Curry Coast
Travels in Malabar 500 Years After Vasco Da Gama
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Retracing the footsteps of explorer Vasco da Gama 500 years after his arrival on the shores of Calicut, Binoo K. John finds himself in a land of graceful rivers, serene beaches and lush, tropical greenery. At the Kochi and St Angelo forts, where battles were fought between local kings and Portuguese,...
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a work by by John Locke concerning the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. It first appeared in 1689 with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience....
“I Don’t See Color”
Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak...
Working with the American Community Survey in R
A Guide to Using the acs Package
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical...
Access to Inequality
Reconsidering Class, Knowledge, and Capital in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Set against the backdrop of democratization, increased opportunity, and access, income-based gaps in college entry, persistence, and graduation continue to grow, underlining a deep contradiction within American higher education. In other words, despite the well-intended, now mature process of democratization,...
Images and Identities
Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their networks,...
by Kaiwan Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as...
Nigerian Immigrants in the United States
Race, Identity, and Acculturation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues...