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9780865990135 | Private Enterprise Research, June 1, 1983, cover price $2.00

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Product Description: New York: Paragon House Publishers/an ICUS Book, 1985 First Edition. 6" x 9.25" tall; i-xvi + 263 pages with Conclusions, Contributiors, Sources, and Index.

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9780892260287 | Pwpa Books, June 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: New York: Paragon House Publishers/an ICUS Book, 1985 First Edition.

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Confirms the authors' predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny

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9780671689841 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author of the 1968 best-seller, 'The Population Bomb,' returns with a work that confirms his earlier predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny

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9780671732943 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Confirms the authors' predictions--chronic famine, the yearly loss of tons of topsoil, global warming--and calls for a last-minute effort to take control of our destiny

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Presents the findings of modern population experts that probe into the causes and effects of population growth on world poverty and hunger, in hopes of preventing the quality of life from being threatened by overcrowding.

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9780791015810 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the results of demographic changes and illustrates the threat of overpopulation to man and his environment.

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Argues that we are currently at war with the environment, manipulating it for political and economic reasons (view table of contents)

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9781879181182 | Bear & Co, July 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Argues that we are currently at war with the environment, manipulating it for political and economic reasons

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9780826410856 | 2 sub edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, June 1, 1998), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: This latest Worldwatch Environmental Alert series book addresses the critical questions: How many people can the earth feed? And at what consumption levels? Lester and Kane assert the world's farmers can no longer be counted on to feed the growing world population--and that balancing between people and food now depends on family planners...read more

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9780393037135 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: After decades of steady growth, the world's food supply is no longer keeping up with population increases.

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9780393312201 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This latest Worldwatch Environmental Alert series book addresses the critical questions: How many people can the earth feed?

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Product Description: Every day, the human family grows by a quarter of a million people, many of them born into the very countries that can least afford to provide them with jobs, housing, and nutrition, and that are least able to prevent the environmental degradation that rapid population growth can produce...read more

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9780670852352 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A study of the human side of the population crisis--including conversations with families and individuals all over the globe--traces its history and outlines the critical decisions of the nineties that will determine the fate of the earth

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9780140232264 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1995), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Every day, the human family grows by a quarter of a million people, many of them born into the very countries that can least afford to provide them with jobs, housing, and nutrition, and that are least able to prevent the environmental degradation that rapid population growth can produce.

Examines the historical patterns and demographics of population growth, and discusses how improved sanitation and medical care have influenced population trends

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9781564740991 | Fithian Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Examines the historical patterns and demographics of population growth, and discusses how improved sanitation and medical care have influenced population trends

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America's most respected experts on population and the authors of the best-seller, The Population Bomb, outline a plan for combatting the coming increase in population with changes in the treatment of women and farmers.

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9780399140747 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: America's most respected experts on population and the authors of the best-seller, The Population Bomb, outline a plan for combatting the coming increase in population with changes in the treatment of women and farmers.

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9780615006352 | Putnam Pub Group, December 1, 1995, cover price $25.01

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Product Description: Anyone who cares about the future of humankind will appreciate Ending The Explosion. This book concentrates upon the world population crisis not because resolving that crisis is somehow humanity's only needed step toward a future of sustainable well-being...read more

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9780929765440 | Seven Locks Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Anyone who cares about the future of humankind will appreciate Ending The Explosion.

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9780929765426 | Seven Locks Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Anyone who cares about the future of humankind will appreciate Ending The Explosion.

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Product Description: Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them. The book is a unique synopsis of the interactions among population, food production, the energy transition, air pollution and climate change, technology, trade polices, productivity and unemployment...read more

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9780929765495 | Seven Locks Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them.

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9780929765518 | Seven Locks Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth's ability to support them.

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The author of The End of Nature presents a compelling argument for voluntary population control, demonstrating the necessity for couples to restrict themselves to having one child and its beneficial effects on the environment and family life. 60,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780684852812 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Argues in favor of couples restricting themselves to having one child, demonstrating the beneficial effects on the environment and family life

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Product Description: At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the twenty-first century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be addressed? Written to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Malthus' seminal Essay on the Principle of Population, this fascinating book looks at the intimate links between population growth and agricultural innovation over the past 10,000 years, illustrating how the evolution of agriculture has both shaped and been shaped by the course of world population growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521640817 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: At the current rate of increase, the world's population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the twenty-first century.

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9780521646857 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: Current population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment. This book attempts to explain trends in the growth of the global population and the ecological consequences by blending the insights of analytical economics and behavioral ecology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781858984636 | Edward Elgar Pub, December 1, 1998, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: Current population growth is leading to a depletion in natural resources and could eventually cause irreversible damage to the environment.

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Examines the potential effect of adding an additional 3.3 billion people to the Earth's population over the next fifty years and proposes an immediate expansion of international family planning assistance to Third World nations.

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9780393319064 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the potential effect of adding an additional 3.

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Product Description: Book by Bouvier, Leon F., Bertrand, Jane T.

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9780929765662 | Seven Locks Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Bouvier, Leon F.

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Product Description: Malthusian Worlds examines how US leadership in governing the population crisis pivots around the ability to link international and domestic objectives. The ability of the US to lead, however, is often made possible by the ability of the population crisis to enlist the US as a participant in the desire to regulate the quantity and quality of demographic variables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780813390734 | Westview Pr, July 15, 1999, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Malthusian Worlds examines how US leadership in governing the population crisis pivots around the ability to link international and domestic objectives.

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The author of The End of Nature presents a compelling argument for voluntary population control, demonstrating the necessity for couples to restrict themselves to having one child and its beneficial effects on the environment and family life. Reprint. PW.

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9780452280922 | Plume, June 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Argues in favor of couples restricting themselves to having one child, demonstrating the beneficial effects on the environment and family life

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Product Description: Despite substantial advances in family health and family planning over the past 30 years, global population has continued to grow by about 80 million people each year, with the total surpassing 6 billion people in 1999. Six Billion and Counting examines the consequences of continuing population growth for the world's resource systems and for national and global food security...read more

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9780896297104 | Intl Food Policy Research Inst, October 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Despite substantial advances in family health and family planning over the past 30 years, global population has continued to grow by about 80 million people each year, with the total surpassing 6 billion people in 1999.
9780896297050 | Intl Food Policy Research Inst, January 2, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Despite substantial advances in family health and family planning over the past 30 years, global population has continued to grow by about 80 million people each year, with the total surpassing 6 billion people in 1999.

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