Electronic Books

Total Books: 21 - 40 /71

Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk

Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk focuses on reliability theory and, specifically, on the failure rate (the ...

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

This book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic ...

Genders in the Life Course

Treats the topic of gender and demographic behaviour during the life course in a comprehensive fashion. It covers a lot of ...

Global Political Demography The Politics of Population Change

This book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040.

Handbook of Population

The Handbook of Population is organized for classroom as well as reference use. It is divided into four sections – Population ...

Healthy Longevity in China : Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions

China is aging at an extraordinary speed and has the largest quantity of elderly persons in the world. Scholars utilize this ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

How Long Do We Live? : Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects

The book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. In the various chapters, leading experts in demography ...

Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. In this book, these fundamental questions ...

Inevitable Aging?

Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely ...

Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past

This book examines the role of kinship and the family’s influence on the health outcomes of their children, their children’s ...

Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América

This book also addresses important theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of Latinas/os and presents ...

Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling

This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science ...

Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS A Reference Guide

This book for a researcher needs to perform microsimulation for population projections, building its own model with a common ...

Model-Based Demography

This book shows how demography can build a strong theoretical edifice on its broad and deep empirical foundation by adoption ...

Modelli Dinamici Discreti = Discrete Dynamic Models

Discrete mathematical modeling is one of the driving factors in modern mathematics research, and has played a role of synthesis ...

Multilevel Synthesis

This book presents a historical panorama of the evolution of demographic thought from its eighteenth-century origins up to ...

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular ...

New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates

The purpose of this volume is to present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in primate field research, ecology, ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

Total Books: 21 - 40 /71