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This book introduces statistical techniques for the particular needs of historians. A special feature of the book is a discussion of the historical evolution of statistical techniques as a means of understanding their current applications and interpretations.

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This book introduces statistical techniques for the particular needs of historians. A special feature of the book is a discussion of the historical evolution of statistical techniques as a means of understanding their current applications and interpretations.

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Profound changes have occurred in the demography and sociology of Italian fertility since Napoleonic times. Using the statistical system instituted in 1861 with national unification, Massimo Livi-Bacci provides a systematic and detailed analysis of fertility trends in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He brings to light the main feat

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Readers seeking a historical and cross-cultural treatment of marriage and the family will not be disappointed by this book. After going back to the earliest generations of human life to seek the roots of why and how human beings came to marry, it explores the various points in family life at which marriages are made, dissolved, and remade.

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This narrative history of one of the most far-reaching social movements in the 20th century shows how it defied the law and made the use of contraception an acceptable social practice-and a necessary component of modern healthcare.

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Presents the history of the Gomez, an elite family of Mexico that includes several hundred individuals, and their spouses and the families of their spouses. This book shows how the Gomez have evolved a distinctive subculture and an ability to advance their economic interests under changing political and economic conditions.

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This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.

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Provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data This work begins with a qualitative overview, readable even by those without a statistical background.

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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience.

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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The 20th century saw a dramatic shift of the hub of science and social science systems to the USA. This dynamic began to unfold at precisely the same time as the power structure of Central Europe shifted towards dictatorship. This book explores the invention of empirical social research and the contribution of German emigres to its establishment.

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This book outlines, for the first time in its history, the program of phenomenological sociology as a science of the natural attitude of groups. The claim is that phenomenological sociology exists as a matter of fact in the long-held, pre-reflective practices of classical and contemporary social thinkers.

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The authors analyze the rhetorical discourse characteristic of the Chicano protest movement of the sixties and seventies, focusing on four prominent activists, Cesar Chavez, Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Reies Lopez Tijerina.

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