San Antonio College Library

"The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. This eye-opening book looks at demographic trends in Europe, North America, and Asia--areas that now have low fertility rates--and argues that there is an essential yet often neglected political dimension...

"Population Politics is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world population and of the often counterproductive role taken by the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel."--Jacket....

"This newly titled edition of the classic Fertility Awareness Handbook has been completely revised and updated by the authors, experts in fertility awareness and infertility. Using 20 illustrations and over 40 charts, they explain how to recognize primary and secondary fertility signs and how to chart these signs, interpret them and adjust for special circumstances."--Back cover.

For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation. However, since the 1970s we have been facing exactly the opposite problem: people having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The author explains why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the economy, and politics both at home and around the globe.--Provided by publisher.

"Remember the population bomb? Longman, with the New America Foundation, says that in fact human population is likely to decline, not from catastrophe but because people stop having babies. Women would be forced to bear children, he says, workers would be forced to work, and Fundamentalists of every stripe would draw new strength. His solution is not a return to old ways, but to restore the economic rewards of family life so that those who nurture...

How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? In this book, economist Phillip Levine compares abortion to a form of insurance, contending that abortion provides protection from downside risk. A pregnant woman who would otherwise give birth to an unwanted child has the option to abort. On the other hand, the availability of this option may increase the likelihood of a pregnancy in the first place. In a very restrictive abortion...

"A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts"--Publisher's website.

Between 1965 and 1985, the Western world and the United States in particular experienced a staggering amount of social and economic change. In Birth Quake, Diane J. Macunovich argues that the common thread underlying all these changes was the post-World War II baby boom--in particular, the passage of the baby boomers into young adulthood. Macunovich focuses on the pervasive effects of changes in "relative cohort size," the ratio of young to middle-aged...