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Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are often thought of...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2026-02-06
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Colorism – discrimination based on skin darkness within a racial group – has plagued black Americans since their first arrival in the United States. Although colorism has taken different forms over time, lighter-skinned black people have always received advantages at...
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Polity
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2026-02-04
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The volume canvases women’s health and rights by highlighting impacts of migration, intersectionality, structural barriers, and emerging digital world.The book offers data-driven insights, policy recommendations, and innovative strategies to achieve sustainable...
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Springer
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2026-01-14
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The book offers a comprehensive view to understanding the complex and multifaceted world of women's health in South Asia, aligning closely with Sustainable Development Goals-3 (SDGs-3) on “good health and well-being”. It examines the critical aspects, such...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision. By examining the intricate...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book explores India's socio-economic landscape, highlighting the critical role of inclusive policies in driving growth and well-being. It underscores the significant connection between SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10 by integrating chapters from diverse...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book offers a compelling generational approach for understanding the intricate patterns of social change in China. While the concept of generation has been widely explored in global scholarship, Waves of Time offers a fresh contribution by introducing an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Explores the forces that have shaped global population growth over millennia Understanding 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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-11-12
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"Being mobile is more than just traveling." Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances. However, as research on daily mobility...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2025-11-06
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This book offers multidisciplinary perspective on the dynamic process of aging proposing strategies for developing more functional ageing societies. Gathering revised and expanded papers presented at the 3rd Congress of the Interdisciplinary Research Unit “On...
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Springer
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2025-10-23
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s evolving demographic landscape, the complex interplay between population trends and social development, and the strategic interventions needed to harness demographic shifts for sustainable development. The book...
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Springer
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2025-09-30
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An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.'Stunning … essential reading' DANIEL H. PINK, author of DriveIf we continue as we are, the world’s population will peak in the next few...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-07-10
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The European continent has given rise to the greatest number of spatial divisions. Its limits have provoked numerous debates, both within and outside of the continent.The European Union, for its part, has become a laboratory for the production of divisions. Each of...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2025-07-04
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A decade after the publication of the first International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality, there have been fundamental shifts in how we measure sexual and gender identities and the breadth of available population-level sexuality data. The chapters in this second...
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Springer
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2025-06-18
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This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-Japanese. In 2018, the National Institute of Population and Social...
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Springer
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2025-05-26
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The reader may be amazed when they are faced with the sheer number of territorial divisions associated with public action, and full of questions. What justifies this diversity? What are the problems that arise from these divisions? Why don't the limits of public action...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2025-04-23
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What has data ever done for us?Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad Data, explores the rich history of the times the UK has counted itself - from the revolutionary first census of 1801 to modern worries over...
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The Bridge Street Press
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2025-04-10
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The 20th century was one of voracity, the 21st century will be one of hunger. Elsewhere, of course, in Africa, but also in the West, right here.
Depletion of fossil fuels and minerals, climate change, loss of arable land, soil degradation, freshwater scarcity, ocean...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2024-12-29
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This book employs Markov models and propensity score matching methods to analyze the demand for elderly care labor, utilizing data from the China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and World Population Prospects 2022 (United Nations, 2022). The model predicts...
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Springer
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2024-10-02
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This book provides the first comprehensive demographic overview of remarriage in Japan. Despite the fact that nearly one in five marriages in Japan now involves at least one formerly married spouse, very little is known about the nature of remarriages and how they...
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Springer
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2024-07-31
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