Subjects:  1. Asians In The U.S.    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. Hmong Americans    4. Social Science    5. Social life and customs    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. United States - State & Local - General    9. Wausau    10. Wausau (Wis.)    11. Wisconsin    12. Ethnic studies    13. Ethnography    14. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    15. Population & demography    16. Social Science / Sociology / General    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Human Population    3. Population forecasting    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Social Forecasting    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. 1185-1600    2. Asia - Japan    3. Demography    4. General    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Japan    9. Medieval    10. Population    11. Social History    12. Social conditions    13. To 1600    14. Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900    15. Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500    16. c 1000 CE to c 1500    17. c 1500 to c 1600   

Reviews (4)

Well written....kind of slow
Black mojority is a momagram written to examinne the life of an african american in carolina during the colonial era.While it is very thourough in ts analysis of the slaves role and growth durning this time, it moves very slowly.I was assigned to read this book for a history course i was taking in college, so this wasn't a book i would noramlly pick up and read.I did find that i learned may things i did not know about this time and slaves.I found it all very facinating.this is a great book to read if you plan to major in history.It is thorough and well put together, all in all a great book to learn and grow from.

Good Study of Africans in 18th Century South Carolina
Peter Wood presents a very thorough account of Africans in South Carolina in the 1700s.From the first Africans to arrive on a Spanish expedition in 1526 and the African migrants arriving from Barbados in 1670 to the social tensions of the 1700s, Wood covers such topics as cattle raising, rice cultivation, disease, family life, religion, Black English, growing anxieties between whites and blacks, and the Stono Rebellion in 1739.Blacks became the majority population in South Carolina by the early 1700s.They were brought in as laborers and were immune to many lowland diseases that led to the higher mortality and morbidity rate among European settlers.Interestingly, the sickle cell trait heightened Africans' resistance to malaria.What I gathered from this work is that, while Africans were enslaved by the whites, Africans shaped South Carolina more than any other group through such things as their knowledge of cattle grazing, rice planting and cleaning, etc.Interesting book but, due to the narrowness of the study, I would only recommend it to those interested in black history or South Carolina.

Excellent Overview
This study of slavery in early SC is well researched and well written, a social history told in narrative style with a clearly defined chronological structure.Makes a great companion to Philip Morgan's Slave Counterpoint. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Blacks In The U.S.    2. Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    4. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    5. General    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: American    9. Slavery    10. Social Science    11. Sociology - General    12. South Carolina    13. U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775)    14. Black studies    15. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    16. Population & demography    17. World history: c 1500 to c 1750   

Reviews (2)

An Important Account
This factual account from the mouths of the women and men who lived (and still live) with racism is an important record.This book should serve as an eye-opener for smug northern individuals who feel that segregation and racism are artefacts of "the South" alone.

Important Issue/Good Use of Primary Sources
This book takes you into the homes and hearts of African Americans growing up in post-WWII Madison, Indiana."All We Had Was Each Other" details the pain, the hard work, the persistence, and most of all the faiththese people displayed in God, themselves, and their community.Thefirsthand accounts this author has collected will tear at your heart.Thisbook is a must-have; the author has made wonderful use of primary sources,and the issues he raises are as real today as they were before the CivilRights Movement. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. African Americans    2. Blacks In The U.S.    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    4. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History - U.S.    8. History: American    9. Indiana    10. Indiana - Local History    11. Interviews    12. Madison    13. Social Science    14. Social life and customs    15. United States - State & Local - General    16. Black studies    17. Population & demography    18. Social history    19. USA   

Editorial Review

In the 19th century, when the idea of eugenics (selective breeding to generate superior members of a species) was invited off the farm and into the parlor, it was a far-fetched notion with little possibility of success driven by clearly racist motivations. But at the end of the 20th century, biotechnological techniques and other agendas are making forms of human eugenics plausible.Rich in anecdote, narrative, and fact. An important book. ... Read more

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Interested in U.S. eugenics movement, must have this book!
...This was one of the most widely recommended and referenced books by those who disagree or agree with the eugenics movement in the United States. Those who lambasted the scientific idiots running the eugenics movement as being prejudiced and biased in their science, lauded this book as one of the most complete of all recent books written on this topic. Those who support the motives behind eugenics, fixed upon this particular book and author as the one they needed to tear apart. That gives readers an idea of how accurately Kelves pushed the buttons of those who would practice eugenics, euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide, and other such controversial practices. Kelves research job is outstanding, and even though the reader can tell the opinion of Kevles from the way he writes, he certainly more than backed up his writing with pertinent references and cross-references. Excellent history of Eugenics
Kevles is a very clear and thorough writer.I have read other articles by him as well as this book, and he presents the history of eugenics and its modern possiblities with a readablility that will be clear to anyone, even w/o a sciene background.The book does cover a lot of information, but is enjoyable.If you have an interest in the possibilities regarding the use of genetic knowledge, this book is worth your time.

I had to read it for school.
I had to read it for school... I am a college freshman...in my Sociology class we had to choose a book off of a reading list to report on.Read more

Subjects:  1. Eugenics    2. Genetic engineering    3. Heredity, Human    4. History    5. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    6. Race discrimination    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Sociology - General    10. Eugenics & breeding    11. Population & demography    12. Science / General   

Editorial Review

Julian L. Simon is the world's greatest contrarian. Read more

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Simon research is revealing and a joy too study!
The engineering process for forecasting scarcity is as follows: 1. Estimate the presently known physical quantity of the 2. Extrapolate the future rate of use from the current use rate; and 3. Subtract the successive estimates of use in from inventory.
Stick to the arguments
One reviewer below, apparently without any pause to shift gears manages to write:
What would Simon say now?
Julian Simon won a famous ten-year-long bet with Paul Erlich regarding the prices of certain resources in the 1980's, which Simon predicted would decline in real terms. If Simon hadn't died a few years ago and he had made a similar set of bets with someone starting in 1995 for resources like Atlantic cod, copper, nickel, natural gas in North America and petroleum, by 2005 he would have lost, and spectacularly so. Apparently Simon's model for "unlimited" resources has begun to break down. The increasingly strained world oil supply shows that throwing more ingenuity and money at a resource problem can't always solve it. For example, despite having access to petroleum and natural gas from the North Sea, with the double-digit decline in North Sea output the British government has plans for _rationing_ fossil fuels this winter (2005-06) in the event of prolonged frigid weather.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Economics - General    5. Economics - Theory    6. Natural Resources    7. Business & Economics / Economics / General    8. Economic theory & philosophy    9. Economics    10. Political Science and International Relations    11. Political economy    12. Population & demography    13. Sociology   

Subjects:  1. 1886-1954    2. African Americans    3. American Philosophy    4. Biography    5. Blacks In The U.S.    6. Education    7. General    8. History & Surveys - Modern    9. Locke, Alain LeRoy,    10. Philosophy    11. Politics and government    12. Black studies    13. Locke, Alain LeRoy    14. Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present    15. Philosophy / General    16. Population & demography    17. Social history    18. USA   

Subjects:  1. Environmental Science    2. Life Sciences - Biology - Developmental Biology    3. Life Sciences - Ecology    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Ecological science, the Biosphere    7. Population & demography    8. Science / Developmental Biology   

Reviews (10)

Fascinating book
Check it out, very interesting. It'll give you a brief glimpse into demographics and also focus mostly on the practical aspects such as how large demographic trends will influence our futures.

poor.
Wattenberg introduces an idea of enormous interest and scope and it was an interesting book to read in sense of topic and debate. However, Wattenberg also dilutes the debate into a one sided ethnocentric account of what is a global problem. He considered himself a liberal but i found his ideas and unneccessary views rather conservative and politically charged. I thought that although linked to politics he presented an extremely bias account, with a pointless degree of patriotism. I was extremely interested in the topic at hand and if written by a well founded neutral writer i trust that this review would be somewhat different unfortunatly it was not the case. I found myself a times, reading things twice out of emense interest but more often than not cringing and at times shocked at how he turned a book focused on world demography into platform to voice his overly oppionated views on almost everything. a low two i'm afraid.

Numbers matter, but values matter more
Wattenberg's central thesis is that fertility rates are rapidly declining everywhere, not just in rich, western countries, but also in poor, less-developed countries. The primary conclusion he wants us to draw is that we need more people, period, and that the United States does best to welcome them all, not to fear immigration. These recent fertility rate declines are surprising but, as he notes, they can at best produce predictions, not actual population numbers years out. Demographer Paul Demeny (p. 161) predicts that for each 1,000 Europeans in 2000, there will be 232 in 2100. And he seems unwilling to accept that rapidly declining birth rates can be reversed and he certainly seems unwilling to accept that we might soon produce rapid increases. But what came down unexpectedly and fast can go back up just as unexpectedly fast. Or, what goes down can go up.
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Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. Current Events / General   

Editorial Review

Hispanics are quickly transforming the United States both through sheer numbers and their culture, according to Mike Davis. "Salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic flavor--and rhythm--in major metropolitan areas," he writes, and Spanish surnames are growing at five times the rate of the general population (José is now the most popular name for baby boys in California and Texas). Davis, the author of Read more

Reviews (6)

Not that interesting
I am a Puerto Rican who read the book as a requirement of my English course. I think that that it was interesting at the beginning but after he starts giving examples of what happened to different latinos, it get bored. The theme it's interesting because it reflex the changes that are actually happening in different big cities but all his words distract me.

Davis Does It Again
Mike Davis's political writings focus on Latinos in Los Angeles in this book.Of course, this book NEEDED to be written given how Latinos were largely absent in his CITY OF QUARTZ.I agree with the reviewer who says there is nothing really new here; Davis repeats a lot of what Latino scholars have already said (check out his footnotes).On the whole, a decent introduction to Latinos in urban contexts.

....and mystical gang bangers rejuvenate small town USA
Davis is sympathetic, but like a typical lefty, places his faith in the labor movement to unite the diverse groups of latinos migrating to US cities. Yeah right. Another pipe-dream that the left can smoke. Hey Mike, how do like Hawaii? Come check out the ****holes like Modesto, Fresno, Salinas and other enclaves in CA that Mexicans are 'reinventing' and then blow back to the islands for your next book on how racist whites are for failing to accept this ridiculous fate for their home states and regions. The heck with the racist angle, how about the population question. How wonderful the world will be when CA has 60 million people, many of them poor, plenty in gangs, and ignorant. Or is that world already here? Aloha.Read more

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Minority Studies - Ethnic American    3. Minority Studies - General    4. Politics/International Relations    5. Sociology    6. Sociology - Urban    7. City & town planning - architectural aspects    8. Ethnic studies    9. Latin America    10. USA    11. Urban communities   

Subjects:  1. AIDS & HIV    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Congresses    5. Data Modeling & Design    6. Epidemiology    7. Medical / Nursing    8. Network analysis    9. Networking - General    10. Research    11. Social sciences    12. Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)    13. Economics | Demography    14. Epidemiology & medical statistics    15. HIV / AIDS    16. Social Science / Demography    17. Social groups & communities    18. Social research & statistics   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Demography    3. Education    4. General    5. Genocide    6. Sociology    7. Study and teaching    8. Teaching of a specific subject   

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Biostatistics    3. Data processing    4. Demography    5. Mathematical models    6. Mathematics    7. Matrices    8. Medical    9. Population biology    10. Probability & Statistics - General    11. Animal ecology    12. Medical / Biostatistics    13. Plant ecology    14. Population & demography    15. Stochastics   

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Good in spite
There are not many up-to-date histories which treat Oz together with NZ and the Pacific Islands.The chief author of this one is--as all writers of history are nowadays--a raving, dribbling, ultra-PC lefty who is convinced that "history" is nothing but a white man's construct to keep the rest of the world down, and who confesses at the book's beginning that he accepted the commission to write it more or less as a feat of subversion.However, the Pacific area has little to offer in the way of nation-state narratives, and must be studied in terms of ethnology, anthropology, and social research to bring out its history, and this is the sort of work at which these people excel.At least the authors don't insist on calling New Zealand "Aotearoa" all the time.Recommended for the generous-hearted reader who knows how to peer around the slant into all the data.

A History of Australia, NZ and the (South) Pacific
Readers may be interested in the favourable reviews in: Australian Historical Studies, 117, 2001, pp.373-4; Journal of Pacific History, 36:2, 2001, pp.2635-6; Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 March 2001; Pacific Affairs, 74:4, Winter 2001/2002, pp.629-30; English Historical Review, 116, Sep 2001, p.981; Australian Economic History Review, 41:2, pp.215-16; NZ Journal of History, pp.217-18.

Awful - PC Garbage
If you love history viewed through the lens of political correctness, this book is for you.If you want to see how racist and oppressive the English were, this history is for you.If you want your history served up with a lets-not-exclude-any-cultural-perceptions obsession, then this history is for you.This book is a extremely unhelpful analysis of the various cultural perceptions, gender oppressions, white colonial misdeeds and other predictable PC discussion.Perhaps this sort of thing is in vouge on college campuses today but if you want a fact based discussion of history in these regions buy Belichs excellent book.Denoon's is gobledegook. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Australia & New Zealand - General    3. History    4. History - General History    5. History: World    6. New Zealand    7. Oceania    8. AUSTRALIA_HISTORY    9. Australasian & Pacific history    10. History / Australia & Oceania    11. History of other lands    12. NEW ZEALAND_HISTORY    13. OCEANIA_HISTORY    14. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. Age distribution (Demography)    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Demographic transition    6. Demography    7. Economic development    8. Economics - General    9. Fertility, Human    10. General    11. Population    12. Development economics    13. Industrialized / developed countries    14. Political Science / Reference    15. Population & demography   

Reviews (4)

Demostat vs. Thermostat and Other Numerate, and Ecology Insights
Though the main emphasis is on the population sustaining aspects of our environment and planet, one would miss other economical, numerate, and ecological insights that the sharp mind of Garrett Hardin provides with all of his writing.As a follow-up (in my mind) to Filters of Folly, Hardin again demonstrates his sharp insights on a multitude of endeavors that just don't relate to population.Some anecdotes include economic discussions on scale factors, human nature of foxes and hedgehogs, compound interests as the eighth wonder, Islamic thoughts on usury, law of diminishing returns, one can never merly do one thing, and etc..
Garrett Hardin and the Freedom of Limits
This book is essential reading. As someone lucky enough to have called Garrett Hardin my friend, I was once with him at one of his book signings in Santa Barbara, California.As two rather prosperous looking young women rushed by his display table, one said to the other: "`Limits'--I don't like it!"After which Hardin turned to me with a twinkle in his eye and said, "You see, she just summarized my whole problem."But one of the things that Professor Hardin is still teaching us, through his books and his students, is that once we accept the fact that the world has real ecological limits--for example, we stop assuming that we can cram a quarter-billion people into America, or that affordable substitutes for finite resources like oil and topsoil will be generated magically by the marketplace--the quality of our lives will actually improve.It is something like the little boy who has many scattered ambitions, from cowboy to Superman, upon reaching maturity being able to focus in on the adventure of passionately pursuing life's real possibilities.In his own life Hardin was anything but grim.Garrett Hardin just wanted to help our society grow up and, as said in Corinthians, put away childish things.
Inarguable logic and laser sharp thinking
Reading this book was a revelation.In clear and precise prose, Hardin articulated all the feelings I'd had after years of observing people and their behavior.In the same way overly zealous Christians force the bible upon non-believers, I press this book and its ideas upon others.If everyone were to read this one single book and adhere to its simple and logical tenets, the world would be a reasonable and content place.What is even scarier than the future word we are going to inherit due to the people who impose misguided policies upon others solely to feel good about themselves is the fact that NO ONE outside of universities knows of this man or his books.I occasionally discuss his most famous essay The Tragedy of the Commons with some of the students in my college classes, and even though they all freely admit that his arguments and reasoning are irrefutable, they still think he's wrong because they "don't like" what he's saying.They offer no response or logical counter offer, they just "don't like it."Sadly, these people vote and shape our world, and the majority of my community unfortunately feels the same.If you have any interest in learning better and more productive ways of making choices and viewing the world regardless of the attractiveness of those guidelines, I cannot recommend this book enough. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business/Economics    2. Demography    3. Economics - General    4. Environmental Economics    5. Europe - France    6. History    7. History: World    8. Human Population    9. Life Sciences - Ecology    10. Sociology    11. Business & Economics / Economics / General    12. France    13. Life Sciences | Ecology    14. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. Abortion & Birth Control    2. Cohort analysis    3. Demographic transition    4. Demography    5. Economics - General    6. Fertility, Human    7. General    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Business & Economics / Economics / General    11. Business & Economics-Economics - General    12. Political Science-General    13. Population & demography    14. Social Science / Demography   

Subjects:  1. Epidemiology    2. Gynecology & Obstetrics    3. Health Policy    4. Medical    5. Medical / Nursing    6. Public Health    7. Population & demography    8. Sub-Saharan Africa   

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Galveston    5. Galveston (Tex.)    6. Genealogy    7. General    8. Jews    9. Jews In The U.S.    10. Kempner family    11. Texas    12. Jewish studies    13. Population & demography    14. Social history    15. USA