Befolkning & demografi

Den här boken handlar om hopp och hoppfullhet i samhällen som präglas av en långvarig befolkningsminskning. I ett krympande samhälle väcks en rad omedelbara, politiska och praktiska frågor. Här är det emellertid de existentiella frågorna som står ...

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The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years-and wha...

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Hur lika eller olika är egentligen Europas länder politiskt, demografiskt, ekonomiskt, socialt och kulturellt? Vilka länder är mest lika varandra, och vad består de största skillnaderna i? Detta analyserar Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist med hjälp ...

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The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.

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Jordens befolkning har de senaste 50 åren ökat med över fyra miljarder människor. Hur har det gått till? Är det för att vi lever längre eller för att vi skaffar fler barn? Är befolkningsökning positivt eller negativt? Varför domineras vissa befolk...

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Polls show that over 50% of us don't believe racism exists. In a world made for White people, The Science of Racism uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it. 'Illuminat...

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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limit...

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After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustainability, climate scientist Dr. Nicholas realized that concerned people were getting the wrong message about the climate crisis. Yes, companies and governments are h...

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Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged. Tenth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigious and authoritative Times Atlas range. This world atlas contains the breadth, scale and detail to make it an ...

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Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika ...

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Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities and challenges that will come with the changes in our populations ove...

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How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the ans...

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WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020 A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether t...

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För Sverige inom nuvarande gränser saknas folkmängdsuppgifter eller är svårtillgängliga för äldre tid. I olika handböcker cirkulerar totalsiffror på folkmängden 1571 och cirka 1630, men bara för de områden som vid den tiden tillhörde Sverige. Tätb...

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Charles C. Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet pitches two influential yet little-known scientists against each other in a race against time. As Earth braces for a population surge to ten billion in the next forty years, mankind faces daunting chall...

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'Highly readable ... Everything we need to know on this subject' Financial Times 'Fascinating' Geographical Magazine 'A must read for anyone wanting to understand the forces shaping our world' Eliza Filby 'A compelling argument for having more chi...

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Capitalism appears to be endlessly in crisis but without ever loosening its hold on our lives. New modes of racism and exclusion emerge, but the old ones never go away. We continue to struggle to live and survive in its wake but are unable, still ...

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The spaces we inhabit- from homes and workspaces to city streets-mediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us shows how the built and natural worlds...

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Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise P...

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Building on the success of Edinburgh University Press's highly acclaimed Atlas of Global Christianity, this volume is the ninth in a series of reference works that takes the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail. It focuse...

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In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens...

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Thomas Robert Malthus räknas som en av de mest inflytelserika klassiska ekonomerna. I sin berömda "En avhandling om befolkningslagen" (1798) - som hjälpte Charles Darwin att formulera teorin om det naturliga urvalet - tecknar han en dyster bild av...

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Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, bu...

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Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023 This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban. Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French in...

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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and ...

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How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. 'This wonderful book shows ...

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Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is ...

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