Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Includes eBooks
  
  Includes audiobooks
  
  Includes 30 hours of listening time
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Includes eBooks

Includes audiobooks

Includes 30 hours of listening time

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

The Great Leveler

Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

by Walter Scheidel ...

Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

PHP840.49

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality
... Read more
The Super Age

Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

by Bradley Schurman ...

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near future, much of the developed world will have at ... Read more

PHP1,137.49

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near future, much of the developed world will have at
... Read more
Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward Glaeser ...

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, ... Read more

PHP753.99

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy,
... Read more
The City

A Global History

by Joel Kotkin ...

Series Book 21 - Modern Library Chronicles
If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old ... Read more

PHP470.69

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old
... Read more
Seeing the Bigger Picture

Global Infographics

by Claire Cock-Starkey ...

Ever wondered whether more people own a car in England than in France, or which country gives the most to charity? Have an interest in word affairs, with no time to trawl through periodicals, immerse yourself in the written facts, or disentangle complex data?Information needn't be boring. Seeing the Bigger Picture is jam-packed with fascinating global statistics in a visually-arresting and easily ... Read more

PHP184.18

Ever wondered whether more people own a car in England than in France, or which country gives the most to charity? Have an interest in word affairs, with no time to trawl through periodicals, immerse yourself in the written facts, or disentangle complex data?Information needn't be boring. Seeing the Bigger Picture is jam-packed with fascinating global statistics in a visually-arresting and easily
... Read more
Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region

Keeping the Promise

Edited by Poonam Khetrapal Singh ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected ... Read more

PHP3,228.89

This book discusses the historical context, country experience, and best practices that led to eliminating infectious diseases from the WHO’s South-East Asia Region, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, yaws, trachoma, and mother-to-child HIV in the mid-twentieth and twenty-first century. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (3.3) targets to end AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected
... Read more
Есть ли будущее у человечества, или Апокалипсис эпохи D.R.Ai.

by Игорь Липсиц ...

Что, если исчезнет не отдельная цивилизация, а всё человечество? К концу XXIII века, всего через 200–250 лет, на Земле могут остаться лишь живущие в джунглях немногочисленные дикие племена. На наших глазах начинается новая эпоха — D.R.Ai: депопуляции, роботизации и искусственного интеллекта. Удастся ли остановить начавшееся вымирание? Ответ на этот вопрос ищет автор книги, профессор Игорь Липсиц. ... Read more

PHP679.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

Что, если исчезнет не отдельная цивилизация, а всё человечество? К концу XXIII века, всего через 200–250 лет, на Земле могут остаться лишь живущие в джунглях немногочисленные дикие племена. На наших глазах начинается новая эпоха — D.R.Ai: депопуляции, роботизации и искусственного интеллекта. Удастся ли остановить начавшееся вымирание? Ответ на этот вопрос ищет автор книги, профессор Игорь Липсиц.
... Read more
New Models for Managing Longevity Risk

Public-Private Partnerships

Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell ...

Series series Pension Research Council Series
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Notwithstanding the terrible price the world has paid in the coronavirus pandemic, the fact remains that longevity at older ages is likely to continue to rise in the medium ... Read more

PHP5,598.79

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Notwithstanding the terrible price the world has paid in the coronavirus pandemic, the fact remains that longevity at older ages is likely to continue to rise in the medium
... Read more
Gender Before Birth in India

Role of Indigenous and Traditional Medicines

by Sutapa Bandyopadhyay Neogi ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this book. It analyses the social and cultural practices and establishes linkages with modern methods of scientific investigations. It ... Read more

PHP7,104.19

This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this book. It analyses the social and cultural practices and establishes linkages with modern methods of scientific investigations. It
... Read more
Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

by Patrick Brode ...

This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history. ... Read more

PHP1,106.59

This is the first comprehensive history of the Border Cities area during its formative period in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of Windsor’s emergence during this period is largely one of confrontation and conflict: a multicultural population, industrial expansion, radical politics, and military production all played their part in the city's early history.
... Read more
Racisms

An Introduction

by Steve Garner ...

Combining key theoretical perspectives with contemporary case studies, this text will be invaluable in helping you to fully understand the complex issue of racism. With clear definitions and practical examples this is a solid resource when seeking to examine the way in which racisms have become part of social practices and institutions.Providing a clear and readable introduction to all of the key ... Read more

PHP4,356.99

Combining key theoretical perspectives with contemporary case studies, this text will be invaluable in helping you to fully understand the complex issue of racism. With clear definitions and practical examples this is a solid resource when seeking to examine the way in which racisms have become part of social practices and institutions.Providing a clear and readable introduction to all of the key
... Read more
Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia

Edited by Ming-Chang Tsai, Wan-chi Chen ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships, gender roles, cultural norms and employment. The book presents both qualitative and quantitative research works, adopting a ... Read more

PHP5,812.49

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships, gender roles, cultural norms and employment. The book presents both qualitative and quantitative research works, adopting a
... Read more
Aging Social Policies

An International Perspective

by Robbyn R. Wacker, Karen A. Roberto ...

Our population is aging. What will we do about it?Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of the world′s population is aging. By the middle of this century there will be up to 2 billion individuals over the age of 65, a demographic shift never before experienced in our human history. In addition, declining birth rates in ... Read more

PHP6,333.79

Our population is aging. What will we do about it?Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of the world′s population is aging. By the middle of this century there will be up to 2 billion individuals over the age of 65, a demographic shift never before experienced in our human history. In addition, declining birth rates in
... Read more
Demography and Health Issues

Population Aging, Mortality and Data Analysis

Edited by Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book provides new theories, applications and quantitative methods in demography, population studies and statistics. It presents and applies data analysis, statistics and stochastic modeling techniques focusing on demography, population aging, mortality and health sciences. The book describes diverse stochastic processes as well as Markov and semi-Markov models in demography and population ... Read more

PHP9,041.89

This book provides new theories, applications and quantitative methods in demography, population studies and statistics. It presents and applies data analysis, statistics and stochastic modeling techniques focusing on demography, population aging, mortality and health sciences. The book describes diverse stochastic processes as well as Markov and semi-Markov models in demography and population
... Read more
Deutsche und polnische Migrationserfahrungen

Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Edited by Dorota Praszalowicz, Anna Sosna-Schubert ...

Series Book 2 - Migration – Ethnicity – Nation: Studies in Culture, Society and Politics
Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen Migrationserfahrungen. Im ersten Teil widmen sich die Beiträge der Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen Migrationsformen auf dem Alten Kontinent und in Übersee. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Koexistenz der deutschen und polnischen Migranten in den USA, Kanada, Australien und ... Read more

PHP6,037.29

Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen Migrationserfahrungen. Im ersten Teil widmen sich die Beiträge der Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen Migrationsformen auf dem Alten Kontinent und in Übersee. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Koexistenz der deutschen und polnischen Migranten in den USA, Kanada, Australien und
... Read more
Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along the Tokaido

by Fumie Kumagai ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Tokaido, which comprises 15 provinces, and seven prefectures today. The study identifies the principal explanatory factors based on the small area data of e-Stat through GPS ... Read more

PHP3,551.79

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Tokaido, which comprises 15 provinces, and seven prefectures today. The study identifies the principal explanatory factors based on the small area data of e-Stat through GPS
... Read more
Envejecimiento poblacional en Cuba

by Colectivo de autores ...

Constituye un documentado y profundo análisis de los componentes de este fenómeno basado en los resultados del último Censo de Población y Viviendas del año 2012 y en otras fuentes informativas de carácter nacional e internacional. La relación entre natalidad y mortalidad ─pilares determinantes de la dinámica demográfica─ define la dinámica demográfica de un país o región. Cuba, caracterizada por ... Read more

PHP399.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

Constituye un documentado y profundo análisis de los componentes de este fenómeno basado en los resultados del último Censo de Población y Viviendas del año 2012 y en otras fuentes informativas de carácter nacional e internacional. La relación entre natalidad y mortalidad ─pilares determinantes de la dinámica demográfica─ define la dinámica demográfica de un país o región. Cuba, caracterizada por
... Read more
Frihed og tryghed

by Mads Lidegaard ...

"I mere end 400 år har Europa og dets aflæggere ude i de andre verdensdele vedholdende og enøjet udviklet en teknisk-industriel kultur, der allerede har ændret kloden næsten til ukendelighed og i stadig hurtigere tempo er i færd med at forvandle grundvilkårene for alt menneskeligt liv."I hundredvis af år var de fleste enige om, at det tekniske fremskridt og den industrielle udvikling udelukkende ... Read more

PHP620.49

"I mere end 400 år har Europa og dets aflæggere ude i de andre verdensdele vedholdende og enøjet udviklet en teknisk-industriel kultur, der allerede har ændret kloden næsten til ukendelighed og i stadig hurtigere tempo er i færd med at forvandle grundvilkårene for alt menneskeligt liv."I hundredvis af år var de fleste enige om, at det tekniske fremskridt og den industrielle udvikling udelukkende
... Read more
Industrialization and Under-developed Countries

by Alan B Mountjoy ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1966, Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries traces the distribution, causes and problems of under-development and, from the point of view of the economic geographer, goes on to examine the difficulties and possibilities of industrialization as a remedy. Particular emphasis is laid upon the demographic factor both in the world situation and as affecting the way of life ... Read more

PHP2,709.71

First published in 1966, Industrialization and Under-Developed Countries traces the distribution, causes and problems of under-development and, from the point of view of the economic geographer, goes on to examine the difficulties and possibilities of industrialization as a remedy. Particular emphasis is laid upon the demographic factor both in the world situation and as affecting the way of life
... Read more
Class Attitudes in America

Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications

by Spencer Piston ...

This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard conceptions of the American public as anti-government, individualistic, and racially prejudiced. Bringing class attitudes into the analysis, Spencer Piston demonstrates through rigorous empirical ... Read more

PHP1,515.39

This book explains a long-standing puzzle in American politics: why so many Americans support downwardly redistributive social welfare programs, when such support seems to fly in the face of standard conceptions of the American public as anti-government, individualistic, and racially prejudiced. Bringing class attitudes into the analysis, Spencer Piston demonstrates through rigorous empirical
... Read more
Wohnen in Gesundheit

Die Corona-Pandemie und Teilhabe in besonderen Wohnformen für Menschen mit Behinderung

by Elisabeth Wacker ...

Series series Gesundheitsförderung - Rehabilitation - Teilhabe
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitativen ... Read more

Free

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitativen
... Read more
Der Bruch des Vertrauens Warum immer mehr Bürger der politischen Linken den Rücken kehren

by Luis Tejada ...

Jede politische Epoche hinterlässt eine Generation, die an ihre Versprechen glaubte – und eine andere, die mit ihren Folgen leben muss. In Lateinamerika war die politische Linke über Jahrzehnte hinweg weit mehr als eine ideologische Strömung. Sie war Hoffnung, Widerstand, Identität und für Millionen Menschen die Vorstellung einer gerechteren Zukunft. Ihre Sprache sprach von Gleichheit, sozialer ... Read more

PHP430.57 or Free with Kobo Plus

Jede politische Epoche hinterlässt eine Generation, die an ihre Versprechen glaubte – und eine andere, die mit ihren Folgen leben muss. In Lateinamerika war die politische Linke über Jahrzehnte hinweg weit mehr als eine ideologische Strömung. Sie war Hoffnung, Widerstand, Identität und für Millionen Menschen die Vorstellung einer gerechteren Zukunft. Ihre Sprache sprach von Gleichheit, sozialer
... Read more
Europe Growing Old

How Aging Populations, Public Debt, and Slow Growth Are Rewriting the Continent

by Nathaniel Crowe ...

Europe Growing Old explains how the continent's aging population, rising public debt, and sluggish growth are reshaping politics, budgets, and long-term economic prospects. Drawing on a journalistic lens, Nathaniel Crowe shows why Europe's demographic shift is more than a statistical trend: it is a structural change that is altering the balance between workers and retirees, tightening fiscal ... Read more

PHP184.18 or Free with Kobo Plus

Europe Growing Old explains how the continent's aging population, rising public debt, and sluggish growth are reshaping politics, budgets, and long-term economic prospects. Drawing on a journalistic lens, Nathaniel Crowe shows why Europe's demographic shift is more than a statistical trend: it is a structural change that is altering the balance between workers and retirees, tightening fiscal
... Read more
Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns

Changing the Rules of Development

by Pengfei Ni, Banji Oyeyinka, Fei Chen ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries and regions. The issue of slums is a huge challenge in the process of global urbanization. The ... Read more

PHP5,812.49

By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries and regions. The issue of slums is a huge challenge in the process of global urbanization. The
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Demography eBooks

The Great Leveler

The Super Age

Triumph of the City

The City

Seeing the Bigger Picture

Elimination of Infectious Diseases from the South-East Asia Region

Есть ли будущее у человечества, или Апокалипсис эпохи D.R.Ai.

New Models for Managing Longevity Risk

Gender Before Birth in India

Border Cities Powerhouse: 1901-1945

Racisms

Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia

Aging Social Policies

Demography and Health Issues

Deutsche und polnische Migrationserfahrungen

Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along the Tokaido

Envejecimiento poblacional en Cuba

Frihed og tryghed

Industrialization and Under-developed Countries

Class Attitudes in America

Wohnen in Gesundheit

Der Bruch des Vertrauens Warum immer mehr Bürger der politischen Linken den Rücken kehren

Europe Growing Old

Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns