This text provides a comprehensive introduction to population geography, grounding students in the tools and techniques that are commonly used to describe and understand population concepts. Arguing that an understanding of population is essential to prepare for the future, Newbold provides undergraduates with a thorough grasp of the field.
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late 1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the struggle for the ......
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an
This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth's resources more, not less, abundant.
Discusses black humanists' many and varied reasons for leaving the religious fold and embracing a humanist life stance. This work also demonstrates that the decision to adopt the humanist viewpoint is based on intellectual honesty and the best information provided by science, history, comparative religion, and other scholarly disciplines.
What can black leaders offer African Americans who lack worthy values and are often willfully illiterate? This book places an emphasis on empowerment rather than despair.
A Case Study In Demographics, Development, And U.s. Foreign Policy
The Haitian political and economic crisis since the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 has been a story of societal decline. This case study examines the conflict between longer-term development objectives and the shorter-term US foreign-policy objectives that almost always override them.
The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society critically examines the early measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues that official statistics are dubious at best, ......
This timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon facing the United States and poses the stark question: Will the United States be prepared by 2050, when its older population doubles and we become a majority-minority society? In the authors' response, scholars, policy leaders and the public are provided with the background and information ......
America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.