Praeger, Date: 2001-07-30. Hardcover. Good. 2001. Praeger ISBN 0275971317 9780275971311 [US]

Westport, Conn: Praeger, Date: 2001. Hardcover. Fine. xxiii, [1], 439, [1] p.: tables, charts; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-on-black spine and cover titles. Includes bibliography and index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. 2001. Praeger ISBN 0275971317 9780275971311 [US]

Praeger 2001 Hard cover Good Hardcover, ex-libary copy, no dustjacket, cover has mild wear, binding solid, text unmarked. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

ISBN10: 0275971317, ISBN13: 9780275971311, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Hardcover, ex-libary copy, no dustjacket, cover has mild wear, binding solid, text unmarked. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
[Wantage, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

Greenwood, Date: 2001. 1st. Hardcover. UsedLikeNew/UsedLikeNew. 2001. Greenwood ISBN 0275971317 9780275971311 [IN]

Westport, CT Praeger 2001 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Contains: Unspecified.

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[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of Human Populations: Volume I, Forms of Growth and Decline. ISBN 0275971317 9780275971311 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275971317, ISBN13: 9780275971311, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - From classic demographic theory to the best contemporary thinking, this book will fruitfully replace previous ways of looking at population expansion and contraction. The 50 years of scholarship that covers 2 1/2 millennia, peoples in all parts of the world, and aggregates from hamlets to the global level, this volume shows that populations grow or decline according to six related patterns. Looking at the path taken by unrestricted population growth, the effects of limited resources, demographic disaster, population explosion, and the implications of stable population theory and demographic transition for numerical trends, Harris reinterprets and insightfully interconnects all of these via six related growth curves, opening the way for a better understanding of how populations expand through changes in births, deaths, and migrations and how they interact with their economic, social, and physical environments.All six trend types, the book shows, are shaped by forces internal to the dynamics of populations themselves. Most frequently, they increase in a constantly proportionally slowing curve as a specific stimulus is spent through expansion. With shocks like war or epidemics, they contract according to an upside down version of this curve. The only two curves until recent times, these are still the most common in local ...
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