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In analyzing the social and economic factors underlying the decline of fertility in nineteenth-century France. Etienne van de Walle found that official statistics for the period were incomplete and inaccurate. He thus undertook a full reconstruction. In this volume, he presents a detailed discussion of the methodology used to correct and to supplem

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A conflict resolution specialist explores the nature of disputes that become intractable quagmires, and offers cutting edge methods for solving them

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Offers a searing indictment of the many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities. The author best known for his critique of rational choice theory, argues that scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from - and perpetuates - a flight from reality. He also answers many critics of his views.

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Examines earlier and future phases of society.

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This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.

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This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.

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Subsequent chapters examine particular societies and geographic regions to see what common traits exist among the uses and forms of newspapers and those artifacts that carry the name newspaper but do not meet the commonly accepted definition.

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Bring together new interviews with the world's leading social theorists on what society means today: Zygmunt Bauman, John Urry, Saska Sassen, Bruno Latour, Scott Lash, Nikolas Rose, Judith Butler, Francoise Verges and Donna Haraway.

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In this study, labor economist Henry Schechter concludes that there is a need for greater international prohibitions and for keeping open channels for collective bargaining for higher wages.

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"A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society"--

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One of America's most influential historians and interpreters of the black experience reinvents racial politics for the twenty-first century

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the varying
responses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as a
sport and as a global industry, drawing on literatures
pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional
change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

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This is the second volume of a projected three-volume set that will document the definitions, concepts, trends, and contents of population censuses throughout the entire world.

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Changes over time in content and format, lack of uniformity in census taking, differing concepts and terminology, and changes in boundaries and place names make research using census data difficult. This volume on Europe completes the coverage.

The work opens with an introductory discussion providing background on census taking.

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This work seeks to provide an understanding of how populations expand through changes in births, deaths, and migrations and how they interact with their economic, social and physical environments.

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Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. This book presents the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. It explores issues such as the sharing of household output, the control of domestic misconduct, and the ownership of dwelling units.