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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Population Science in the Service of Mankind
Author: Population science in the service of mankind
Author: International Research Document
Author: Science and the Future of Mankind
Author: Hugo BoykoPublisher: Den Haag : W. Junk
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Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 400
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[1.] The need: Die Internationale der Wissenschaft / A. Einstein -- The need of a world academy of art and science / H. Boyko -- Thoughts on art and science: Science and our times ; Prospects in the arts and sciences / R. Oppenheimer -- Science and our future / W.F.G. Swann -- [2.] The means (a few examples by a few scientists): The prospects of genetic progress / H.J. Muller -- Science, scientists and world policy / H.D. Lasswell -- The significance of border sciences for the future of mankind / S.W. Tromp -- The human significance of natural resources (with special reference to man's cultural resources) / R.M. Field -- Resource planning: a problem in communication / P. Dansereau -- Food supply and increase of population / M.J. Sirks -- Quelques voies probables de dévelopement des nouvelles techniques en agronomie / P. Chouard -- Science in the service of man in Africa south of the Sahara / J. Phillips -- La Science et l'homme au seuil du désert / Th. Monod -- Human needs and the need for ultimate orientation / H.F. Infield -- Practical notes on politics and poesy / L.K. Bush -- [3.] The goal: Science and engineering and the future of man / W. Taylor Thom, Jr. -- War or peace -a biological problem / Europaeus -- Science and modern civilization / I. Berenblum -- New ways with science as leader / W.C. de Leeuw -- Per aspera ad astra / B. Russell.
International Trends and Perspectives
Author: Jacob S. SiegelPublisher:
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Category : Age distribution (Demography)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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An Aging World
Author: Barbara Boyle TorreyPublisher:
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Category : Age distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Who Will Care for Us?
Author: Ronald AngelPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814706831
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"An important contribution to the on-going national dialogue concerning the need for planning for an increasingly aged population and its impact on our social, political, medical, economic institutions." --Wisconsin Bookwatch "Based on their assessments of the levels of need for the long-term care among African-American, Latino, and non-Latino white older persons, the authors offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly." --Nurse Practitioner "A major contribution. Should be a part of every course on social gerontology, long-term care, the demography of aging, or formal/informal support networks of the elderly." --Robert Joseph Taylor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan America is getting older. By the year 2010, almost one in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older.The combined forces of low fertility and longer life spans among all racial and ethnic groups have resulted in a disproportionate increase in the number of individuals over 65 and an even faster increase in the proportion of those individuals over eighty-five. As a result, the nation faces an unprecedented challenge in addressing the economic, medical, and long-term care needs of this older population at the same time that it assures the welfare of the young. The growth of the cost of the long-term care of the elderly is one of the major forces behind recent increases in Medicaid expenditures, and any reformed health care financing system will have to find ways of providing high quality long-term care to older Americans at a reasonable cost. In a racially and culturally diverse nation like the United States, official policy regarding the care of the elderly simply cannot be based on the assumption that the elderly are a culturally and socially monolithic population. The cultural, social, and economic situations of the elderly simply differ too greatly and the family's role in their care is affected by important cultural and social factors. In Who Will Care for Us? Ronald J. and Jacqueline L. Angel argue that policies based on the assumption of a homogenous population will fail to take advantage of the opportunities that ethnic and cultural diversity offer for the long-term care of the elderly. The authors examine the great racial and ethnic diversity among the elderly in the contemporary U.S. in terms of living arrangements, economic well-being, and reliance on formal and family-based sources of support. Based on their assessments of the levels of need for long-term care among black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white older persons, they offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly.
As If Silent and Absent
Author: Ehud R. ToledanoPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300126182
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud R. Toledano examines how bonded persons experienced enslavement in Ottoman societies. He draws on court records and a variety of other unexamined primary sources to uncover important new information about the Africans and Circassians who were forcibly removed from their own societies and transplanted to Middle East cultures that were alien to them. Toledano also considers the experiences of these enslaved people within the context of the global history of slavery. The book looks at the bonds of slavery from an original perspective, moving away from the traditional master/slave domination paradigm toward the point of view of the enslaved and their responses to their plight. With keen and original insights, Toledano suggests new ways of thinking about enslavement.
Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set
Author: Graziella CaselliPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 012765660X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2857
Book Description
This four-volume collection of over 140 original chapters covers virtually everything of interest to demographers, sociologists, and others. Over 100 authors present population subjects in ways that provoke thinking and lead to the creation of new perspectives, not just facts and equations to be memorized. The articles follow a theory-methods-applications approach and so offer a kind of "one-stop shop" that is well suited for students and professors who need non-technical summaries, such as political scientists, public affairs specialists, and others. Unlike shorter handbooks, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis offers a long overdue, thorough treatment of the field. Choosing the analytical method that fits the data and the situation requires insights that the authors and editors of Demography: Analysis and Synthesis have explored and developed. This extended examination of demographic tools not only seeks to explain the analytical tools themselves, but also the relationships between general population dynamics and their natural, economic, social, political, and cultural environments. Limiting themselves to human populations only, the authors and editors cover subjects that range from the core building blocks of population change--fertility, mortality, and migration--to the consequences of demographic changes in the biological and health fields, population theories and doctrines, observation systems, and the teaching of demography. The international perspectives brought to these subjects is vital for those who want an unbiased, rounded overview of these complex, multifaceted subjects. Topics to be covered: * Population Dynamics and the Relationship Between Population Growth and Structure * The Determinants of Fertility * The Determinants of Mortality * The Determinants of Migration * Historical and Geographical Determinants of Population * The Effects of Population on Health, Economics, Culture, and the Environment * Population Policies * Data Collection Methods and Teaching about Population Studies * All chapters share a common format * Each chapter features several cross-references to other chapters * Tables, charts, and other non-text features are widespread * Each chapter contains at least 30 bibliographic citations
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