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Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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At its optimistic best America has embraced its identity as the world's melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, the economy, and politics. Book jacket.
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With almost 7.8 billion people sharing the earth, it can be a little hard to picture what the human race looks like all together. But if we could shrink the world down to just 100 people, what could we learn about the human race? What would we look like? Where and how would we all be living? This book answers all of these questions and more! Reliably sourced and deftly illustrated, If the World Were 100 People is the perfect starting point to understanding...
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English
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An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape
For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm....
For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different alarm....
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English
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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world, When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three...
Publisher
Exapt Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 1972, a book changed the world.
The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?
In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the researchers developed scenarios to map out possible...
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. This change is coming: Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty will become the dominant population. Demographers tend to pose the new longevity as a crisis we are not...
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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
c2023
Language
Español
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¿Por qué las personas migran y se establecen en los lugares donde lo hacen? Ejemplos fascinantes de la historia ayudan a explicar cómo los primeros asentamientos humanos estaban situados cerca de tierras fértiles y ríos para la agricultura y la cría de ganado. Otros factores determinantes han sido las zonas que ofrecían ventajas defensivas, los recursos como los metales, la sal y los combustibles fósiles, y la ubicación de las rutas comerciales....
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English
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Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).
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English
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By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today's 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders. The process of building a culture that supports care is a key component to restoring the American dream, and, as Ai-Jen Poo convincingly argues, will generate millions...
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Author
Publisher
patio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Emphasizes the uniqueness of each individual on Earth.
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Publisher
Wenatchee World
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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What follows is a social narrative of a particular group of emigrants who came from one specific location (Izard County, Arkansas), and migrated to another specific location (North Central Washington) during the 1930's, 40's and 50's. -- Page 4 of introduction.
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To a stranger, he's a guy obsessed with toilets, but to those who know him, he's "Mr. Toilet," a crusader for global sanitation. Born in the Singapore slums, Jack Sim knows firsthand the agonies of not having a proper loo. Now he's dedicating his life to a crisis no one dares talk about: Shit. Not having a place "to go" isn't just an inconvenience; it's a problem that impacts 2.4 billion people worldwide. In India alone, 200,000 children die each...
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