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  • Population and Development

    The Demographic Transition

    by Tim Dyson ...
    The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic.Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010

    Edited by Freeman Dyson, Tim Folger ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Twenty-eight of the best pieces of science and nature writing in America in a collection edited by the renowned physicist and public intellectual.The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Population and Food

    Global Trends and Future Prospects

    by Tim Dyson ...
    Population and Food examines recent trends in food production and assesses the prospects for feeding humanity in the twenty-first century. With case studies from throughout the developed and developing world, the book suggests that food production in most world regions has kept ahead of population growth, that future food production prospects are encouraging, and that in all probability the people ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A Population History of India

    From the First Modern People to the Present Day

    by Tim Dyson ...
    A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during which the population grew from just a handful of people to reach almost 1.4 billion, and a time when the fact of death had a huge ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • India's Historical Demography

    Studies in Famine, Disease and Society

    by Tim Dyson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
    When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic historians of India; and lastly the Indian context provides an excellent laboratory in which to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by Deborah Blum ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "A stimulating compendium" on topics from antibiotics to animals, featuring Rebecca Solnit, E.O. Wilson, Nicholas Carr, Elizabeth Kolbert, and many more ( Kirkus Reviews)."A consistently strong series . . . Making connections between seemingly unrelated topics can help expand thinking, as seen in the effects of automated navigation on both airplane pilot error and Inuit hunting accidents that ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

    by Dan Ariely ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "Top-notch science writing covering everything from the 1,000 species in the human gut to efforts to reverse-evolve a chicken into a dinosaur." — Kirkus ReviewsWith contributions from bestselling and award-winning writers including Jerome Groopman and Elizabeth Kolbert, this volume delves into such topics as the 2008 "Black Friday" stampede at a Long Island Walmart; an annual humans-vs.-AI ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022

    by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jaime Green ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green.Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the year. ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020

    by Michio Kaku, Jaime Green ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    An outstanding collection guest-edited by the groundbreaking physicist and New York Times–bestselling author of Quantum Supremacy."Scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exciting and relevant to the average person, so that they care," writes renowned American physicist Michio Kaku. "If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face dire consequences."From the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2018

    Edited by Sam Kean ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best science and nature writings, selected by New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean."This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

    Edited by Amy Stewart ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    This anthology collects some of the year's best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more.As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, "science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of the day, we're all writers. We're just like novelists, ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017

    Edited by Hope Jahren ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Twenty-four "outstanding" pieces of American science & nature writing, edited by a renowned scientist and bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly)."Science is both essential and frivolous, jubilant and despairing, lovely and brutal, perfect and broken—all at the same time—just like the scientists who fashion it," writes Hope Jahren in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing ... Read more

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