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Moving subject matter, beautiful photographs
Norfolk is a brilliant photographer who has taken very difficult subject matter and made beautiful images. He photographed in places which have seenterrible events, past and present: Vietnam, Auschwitz, Cambodia, Rawanda,to name only the most recognizable. The photographs are true, just. Noheartstring pulling here. Only clear vision and humane expression.Theessay by Ignatieff matches the level of the photograhps. I thank andapplaud the authors. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions    3. Documentary Photo Collections    4. Documentary photography    5. Genocide    6. History    7. Photo Essays    8. Photoessays & Documentaries    9. Photography    10. Photojournalism    11. Pictorial works    12. Photography & Photographs    13. Photography / General    14. Population & demography   

Editorial Review

Here's the bottom line according to Bill McKibben: the earth will not be able to sustain its ever increasing population indefinitely. But the population problem is not just a phenomenon of developing nations--the United States is a major environmental threat, gobbling up a huge piece of the resources pie as our numbers grow larger every year. To avoid worldwide catastrophe, McKibben believes that the United States must reduce its birthrate. Read more

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Only children turn out normal
I am grateful to Bill McKibben for making it clear that I don't have to worry about my son being harmed by being an only child.McKibben makes a good case for smaller families. I am frequently puzzled by the peculiar blindness to this issue in the media.When a family with five or ten children complains that they can't afford the necessities of American life, you don't have to look far for a reason, yet this gets constantly overlooked. I have known far too many people who want to leave the number of their children in God's hands.In my opinion, God helps those who help themselves.
Argument Based on Fallacy
Why did I have to even give it one star? The problem that someone should point out is that McKibben's book has as its core basis a fallacious argument. The United States, like every other developed nation is not growing because of the rate of reproduction of its population but because of immigration. If he had chosen to focus on a way to slow population growth and improve economies in the developing nations and thereby probably reduce the rate of immigration his argument would be stronger but since he didn't it doesn't matter what he says because once the core reason for his book is proven wrong, why should we believe any other argument he wishes to make?

Do the math....
The idea presented in this book has to be the worst proposal ever to come out of the over-population myth.First of all if every family had only one child, the human race would eventually die out.(Example: 500 people make 250 couples, if each one had only 1 child, then the next generation would have only 250 children, making it possible to have only 125 couples.)Read more

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Economics Of Population    3. Effect of human beings on    4. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    5. Environmental aspects    6. Human Geography    7. Nature    8. Overpopulation    9. Population    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - Marriage & Family    13. Family & Relationships / Parenting   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Demography    3. Genocide    4. History & Theory - General    5. Political Freedom & Security - General    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Sociology    9. Political Science / General    10. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. Population & demography    5. Social Science / Demography   

Subjects:  1. Census    2. Census, 2000    3. Demography    4. History    5. Population    6. Research    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. United States   

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A thoughtful analysis of sprawl issues
I found this book to be a thorough and thoughtful analysis of suburban sprawl issues in America. Daniels is a fluid writer, and his work is very accessible. He is careful to identify terms that are relevent to a comprehensive understanding of sprawl, and does not promote ridiculous, hard-core left dramatic changes as the only solution. However, I would appreciate more perspective on what the actual housing needs of Americans are; he leaps to the conclusion (like so many) that sprawl is caused by the wealthiest citizens. Where, then, do the (dwindling) working and middle classes live? Do they not require homes and services?

Quackademia Ugliness at its Worst-- Skip It
This load of tripe reflects 20th century Socialist Marxist doctrinewith such banal comments as "...suburbs have an elitist origin, which exclude the poor..." and "...expensive roads, cars, and the consumption of enormous quantities of gasoline have made possible America's sprawling settlement..."
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Subjects:  1. Development - Business Development    2. Environmental Conservation & Protection - General    3. Land use    4. Megalopolitan Planning    5. Metropolitan areas    6. Planning    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.    10. Public Policy - Regional Planning    11. Regional Planning In Developing Countries    12. Regional planning    13. Sociology    14. United States    15. Management of land & natural resources    16. Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection    17. Population & demography    18. Urban & municipal planning   

Subjects:  1. 1960-    2. Community    3. Community Psychology    4. Community life    5. General    6. Group Psychology    7. Psychology    8. Religion    9. Religious aspects    10. Small groups    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. United States    14. Current Events / General    15. Population & demography    16. Social, group or collective psychology   

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EXCELLENT
Good book on the topics of abortion, adoption, and pregnancy.How women deal with the choices involved; book is interviews with women making these decisions and who have made these decisions in their lifetime...telling their own story. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abortion    2. Abortion & Birth Control    3. Adoption    4. Demography    5. Pregnancy    6. Pregnancy, Unwanted    7. Sociology    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Europe, Western    5. General    6. Government - Comparative    7. Government policy    8. Political aspects    9. Social Science    10. Social aspects    11. Sociology    12. Europe    13. European studies    14. Immigration & emigration    15. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    16. Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology (Specific Aspects)    2. Childbirth    3. Demography    4. Fertility, Human    5. Human Fertility    6. Social Science    7. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural    8. Social Science / Ethnology    9. Social aspects    10. Sociology    11. Sociology - Marriage & Family    12. Traditional medicine    13. Anthropology - Cultural    14. Ethnology   

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Fascinating and thorough study of a fascinating subject.
This book does a marvellous job of detailing the effects of the Civil War on almost all classes of women: Northern, Southern, rich, poor, those who actively took part as nurses, spies, and actual combatants, and those who were "only" effected as the battles caused major disruptions in their lives, those whose lives were relatively unaffected, those who were forced to work in factories, those who turned to prostitution, and others. Well-written, well-researched, well-organized. Highly recommended.

Charming if Dated, Marred by Introduction
Massey's book was a pioneering effort in its time, and we should all be thankful for that.At least it is a welcome point of departure.But the introduction by Jean Berlin is lacking much in the way of insight or understanding.A more experienced scholar might have presented a richer analysis. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. Civil War, 1861-1865    3. History    4. History - Military / War    5. History: American    6. Military - General    7. U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877)    8. United States    9. United States - Civil War    10. Women    11. Women In The U.S.    12. Population & demography    13. Social history    14. USA    15. Women's studies    16. World history: c 1750 to c 1900    17. c 1800 to c 1900   

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Great book
This book is a great resource for journalists who cover health issues and report on research studies and statistics. It is also a useful tool for classroom instruction. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biostatistics    2. Counseling - Vocational Guidance    3. Demography    4. Environmental Health    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health Care Issues    7. Journalism    8. Language    9. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    10. Public Health    11. Statistics    12. Vital Statistics   

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Scholarly and Enlightening
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese has produced a very scholarly and enlightening examination of women of the old South. In vivid detailed with painstaking research, she presents the daily lives of women, black and white, within the plantation household. Though written from an academic perspective, the author has succeeded in presenting her research in an entertaining and even captivating narrative style. For those looking for the behind the scenes lifestyle of unknown women of the South, this is the one book of choice.
An interesting and very good attempt
This is an impressive and large-scale achievement. I would have appreciated more acknowledgment of the role that white male eurocentric paradigms played (and continue to play) in the south and oppresion of Womenof Color. Overall, a good starting place. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. African American women    2. Americas (North Central South West Indies)    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Plantation life    8. Southern States    9. Women In The U.S.    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Women, White    12. Population & demography    13. Social Science / Women's Studies    14. Social history    15. The Americas    16. USA    17. Women's studies    18. class relations; women; slaveholders; slave; gender; class relations; southern women; northern women; American South; African American; American Studies   

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Explore deeper into labor migration than just "outsourcing"
Before reading this book I hadn't given much thought to labor migration other than what I knew about "outsourcing."Virtual Migration gave me a brand new perspective of labor flows in the 21rst century.Author Aneesh explores how technology is affecting the current labor regime throughout the world.His research of software programmers in India, who collaborate with multinational firms, sheds insight into how technology is breaking the barriers of time and geographical location. Through economic, social, and cultural analysis he disects the winners and losers of these new international labor practices that link the US and India.I recommend this book to anyone who wants to look deeper into the topic they know as "outsourcing."Too often, the discourse of globalization and labor is limited by angry talking heads, and mistaken politicians.This book presents the finer points of how and why we are being impacted by technology in a highly globalized world, and what the future might hold for us.This book is a quick read with a fresh perspective that must be heard! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Contracting out    3. Demography    4. Effect of technological innovations on    5. Globalization    6. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    7. Labor mobility    8. Labor supply    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Anthropology/Ethnography    14. Asian studies    15. Ethnography    16. GEOGRAPHY    17. India    18. Work & labour   

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The light at the end of the tunnel is a train
Reading Dezell, despite the choppy prose style and the staggered pace of the unevenly detailed chapters and the topical arrangement of historical fact, sociological theory, and often less than revealing (given the Irish reticence beneath the bluster as she explains) interviews with I suppose her assorted cronies and whoever they suggested in turn, this is essential reading anyhow. Typically I lavishly denigrate before I grudgingly praise, itself an Irish American trait.
"Now ,don't go getting above buttermilk."

Oh, It's So True!
I'm a Jew from New York, married to someone from South Boston. One of my familys closest friends (now regrettably desceased) came to the US from Belfast at the age of 10. Maureen Dezell has great interviews and made me laugh because I can see all of what she is talking about. I also have friends in Toastmasters from Ireland, and look forward to visiting in 2004. Then I can see the other side of Maureen Dezell's book. The book can be read in a quiet evening. Think of a deep psychological tome, only very readable and funny.Read more

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. History    3. History - U.S.    4. Irish Americans    5. Minority Studies - Ethnic American    6. Social Science    7. Social conditions    8. Social life and customs    9. Sociology    10. United States - General    11. Social Science / Demography   

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. International Relations - Arms Control    4. Modern - 20th Century    5. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur    6. Political Science    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Politics/International Relations    9. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    10. Population & demography   

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The first classic of Demography
In his excellent review on Amazon Joseph D. Widiger lists three incontrovertible principles of Malthus:
An Essay on the Principle of Population by Malthus
The Malthusian theory on population was written in 1798. Taking Account of Malthus
"The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years." --Thomas R. Malthus, Principle of PopulationRead more

Subjects:  1. Demography    2. General    3. History & Theory - General    4. Politics / Current Events    5. Population    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. Elements In The U.S. Population    2. Greek Americans    3. Minority Studies - Ethnic American    4. Sociology    5. Population & demography    6. Social history    7. USA   

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Great topic but missing something
Newman starts with a great topic.Downward mobility is a subject that not only isn't discussed in our society, most people try not to even think about it.Newman gives some very moving accounts of downwardly mobile workers and their families; however, these accounts are very inconsistent.With some of the accounts, I felt like there was almost too much information; however, with other accounts I felt like we barely got a taste of what their personal experience with downward mobility involved. When I was downsized, after 27 yrs..she spoke to my soul
When the diciples asked Jesus why he spoke in parables, Jesus said that it was because they did not perceive from the Spirit. Throughout the ordeal of knowing whether I'd ever get a decent job again, Katherine was the only onewhose words spoke to my soul.She is veryperceptive in her assessment of what income loss and job loss does to theindividual. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1981-    2. Business & Economics    3. Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions    4. Demography    5. Economic Conditions    6. Middle class    7. Social Mobility    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - General    10. United States    11. Anthropology    12. Social Science / Sociology / General    13. Social classes    14. Unemployment   

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Captivating, riveting, spellbinding!!!!
This book is an absolute must-read!!! The story of the pioneers' unwavering impetus to conquer all the elements of the West was very compelling, I thought. When I read of how North American politicians and other citizens were so preoccupied with an easy election victory of William Aberhart and his Social Credit Party, I questioned what all the contention was about. Perhaps they perceived the Social Credit Party as some radical, left-wing party, and sympathizers to the Communist cause. I read this literature when I was twelve, and at that age I felt an odd obligation to study Western history, for some reason...

How informative this book was
I thought this book was very informative, although I did not find the history of the political parties during the Depression years that interesting. This book is very in depth about the Prairies political andeconomic history.I became annoyed at how Prairie residents are so arrogant.Toronto will always be the financial capital of Canada, not Calgary, asquoted in this book.Generally I could summarize this book as a story of theFur Trade, western migration and farming, farmer political parties, andeconomics. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Americas (North Central South West Indies)    2. Canada - General    3. Canada - History    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Pictorial works    8. Prairie Provinces    9. American history    10. Canada    11. Economic history    12. History / Canada    13. History, World | Canadian    14. Population & demography    15. Social history