Product Description: During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income countries, such as Japan and Australia. This difference is particularly notable given that the United States spends more on health care than any other nation...read more

Product Description: Virtually all of the growth in the world’s population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The last 35 years or so have witnessed a dramatic shift in the demography of many developing countries. Before 1960, there were substantial improvements in life expectancy, but fertility declines were very rare. Few people used modern contraceptives, and couples had large families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.

Gives a behind-the-scenes portrait of the private life and professional career of the dynamic lead singer of the popular band, Police

Trying to solve the first lunar mass murder, Asher Bockhorn and Pekkar Foskollio discover clues leading to a heretical runaway from the Lunar Mormon society, a leftwing conspiracy, a bizzare sex cult, blackmail, and the ultimate computer crime

Bockhorn, a fleet agent, travels to an aging space station to investigate the disappearance of a local newspaper editor