Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Demographers
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Dictionary of Demography: M-Z
Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Demographers
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN:
Category : Demographers
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Dictionary of Demography
Author: Roland Pressat
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631155799
Category : Demography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631155799
Category : Demography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Dictionary of Demography
Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Encyclopaedia, demography - lists international organizations and national associations. Bibliography.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Encyclopaedia, demography - lists international organizations and national associations. Bibliography.
Dictionary of Demography
Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Demography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
With the collaboration of an international panel of fifty-seven experts, authors William Petersen and Renee Petersen have compiled a glossary of more than 400 key demographic terms. The glossary begins with a translation from English into each of the world's principal research languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. The translations from each of these languages into English follow the same order. When a word in any language can be ambiguous, it is marked with adj. for adjective, f. for female or feminine, m. for male or masculine, n. for noun, pl. for plural, and v. for verb.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Demography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
With the collaboration of an international panel of fifty-seven experts, authors William Petersen and Renee Petersen have compiled a glossary of more than 400 key demographic terms. The glossary begins with a translation from English into each of the world's principal research languages: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. The translations from each of these languages into English follow the same order. When a word in any language can be ambiguous, it is marked with adj. for adjective, f. for female or feminine, m. for male or masculine, n. for noun, pl. for plural, and v. for verb.
Dictionary of Demography: A-L
Author: William Petersen
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Mathematical Demography
Author: David P. Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642358586
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by Kenneth Wachter and Hervé Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642358586
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by Kenneth Wachter and Hervé Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
Historical Dictionary of Mozambique
Author: Colin Darch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538111357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the semi-Africanized prazos along the Zambezi Valley; “pacification” campaigns; and the period of Portuguese weakness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vast tracts of land were rented to concessionary companies. In the late colonial period the Salazar dictatorship tried to reassert Portuguese power, but after ten years of armed struggle for national liberation, Mozambique gained its independence in 1975. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538111357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the semi-Africanized prazos along the Zambezi Valley; “pacification” campaigns; and the period of Portuguese weakness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vast tracts of land were rented to concessionary companies. In the late colonial period the Salazar dictatorship tried to reassert Portuguese power, but after ten years of armed struggle for national liberation, Mozambique gained its independence in 1975. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique.
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language: Cou-Irr
Schizophrenia Bulletin
A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe
Author: John D. Nichols
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901996
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Presented in Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe sections, this dictionary spells words to reflect their actual pronunciation with a direct match between the letters used and the speech sounds of Ojibwe. Containing more than 7,000 of the most frequently used Ojibwe words."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452901996
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Presented in Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe sections, this dictionary spells words to reflect their actual pronunciation with a direct match between the letters used and the speech sounds of Ojibwe. Containing more than 7,000 of the most frequently used Ojibwe words."--P. [4] of cover.