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Malthus : the miserific vision and the moral hope / by Boulding, Kenneth E.(Kenneth Ewart),1910-1993.(CARDINAL)159583; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Nutrition.(CARDINAL)165935;
Includes bibliographical references (page [11]).
Subjects: Malthusianism.; Eugenics.; Population policy.;
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Getting better : why global development is succeeding : and how we can improve the world even more / by Kenny, Charles.(CARDINAL)535817;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.Abandoning hope -- The bad news : diverging incomes -- The worse news : it's hard to raise growth rates -- The good news : the end of the Malthusian trap -- The better news : the great convergence in quality of life -- The great news : the best things in life are cheap -- Drivers of the better life : innovation and ideas -- Policies for the quality of life -- The global agenda -- Conclusion : realistic optimism.
Subjects: Economic development.; Quality of life.;
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Population control : real costs, illusory benefits / by Mosher, Steven W.(CARDINAL)169919;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296) and index.The white pestilence -- The Malthusian delusion and the origins of population control -- The Chinese model -- Out of Africa : the case of Nigeria -- Human rights and reproductive wrongs -- Population control while people die : undermining primary health care -- The illusory benefits to donor countries -- "We're from USAID, and we're here to help" -- From population control to pro-natal programs -- Appendix : USAID contraceptive shipments worldwide.
Subjects: Birth control.; Population policy.;
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The wanting seed / by Burgess, Anthony,1917-1993.(CARDINAL)137744;
"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious."
Subjects: Dystopias.; Science fiction.; Overpopulation;
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Four hundred years of English education / by Armytage, W. H. G.(CARDINAL)121368;
Includes bibliographical references.The politivs of protestantism: 1563-1603 -- Suits for sicence 1603-1660 -- The national religion bs national needs 1660-1732 -- Prelude to take-off 1732-1790 -- The image of the factory 1790-1826 -- Malthusianism and the mechanics 1826-1851 -- Fitness and efficiency 1851-1868 -- The politics of the boards 1868-1889 -- Collectivism and the county councils 1889-1911 -- Change through consultation 1911-1944 -- Long-range plans 1944-1963 -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Education;
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Big history [videorecording] : the Big Bang, life on earth, and the rise of humanity / by Christian, David,1946-(CARDINAL)639966; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. What is big history? ; Moving across multiple scales ; Simplicity and complexity ; Evidence and the nature of science ; Threshold 1--Origins of Big Bang cosmology ; How did everything begin? ; Threshold 2--The first stars and galaxies ; Threshold 3--Making chemical elements ; Threshold 4--The earth and solar system ; The early earth--a short history ; Plate tectonics and the earth's geography ; Threshold 5--Life -- Part 2. Darwin and natural selection ; The evidence for natural selection ; The origins of life ; Life on earth--Single-celled organisms ; Life on earth--Multi-celled organisms ; Hominines ; Evidence on hominine evolution ; Threshold 6--What makes humans different? ; Homo sapiens--The first humans ; Paleolithic lifeways ; Change in the Paleolithic Era ; Threshold 7--Agriculture -- Part 3. The origins of agriculture ; The first agrarian societies ; Power and its origins ; Early power structures ; From villages to cities ; Sumer--The first agrarian civilization ; Agrarian civilizations in other regions ; The world that agrarian civilizations made ; Long trends--Expansion and state power ; Long trends--Rates of innovation ; Long trends--Disease and Malthusian cycles ; Comparing the world zones -- Part 4. The Americas in the later Agrarian Era ; Threshold 8--The modern revolution ; The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350 ; The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700 ; Breakthrough--the Industrial Revolution ; Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900 ; The 20th century ; The world that the modern revolution made ; Human history and the biosphere ; The next 100 years ; The next millennium and the remote future ; Big history--humans in the cosmos.Lecturer: David Christian, San Diego State University.Lectures by Dr. David Christian, Professor of History at San Diego State University. Surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Civilization; Human evolution.; World history.;
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A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world / by Clark, Gregory,1957-(CARDINAL)531902;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-407) and index.Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- The logic of the Malthusian economy -- Material living standards -- Fertility -- Life expectancy -- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest -- Technological advance -- Institutions andgrowth -- The emergence of modern man -- Modern growth : the wealth of nations -- The puzzle of the industrial revolution -- The industrial revolution in England -- Why England? Why not China, Japan or India? -- Social consequences -- World growth since1800 -- The proximate sources of divergence -- Why isn't the whole world developed? -- Conclusion : strange new world.
Subjects: Economic history.;
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Big history [sound recording] : the big bang, life on earth, and the rise of humanity / by Christian, David,1946-(CARDINAL)639966; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Lecturer: David Christian, San Diego State University.Dr. David Christian, professor of history at San Diego State University, surveys the past at all possible scales, from conventional history, to the much larger scales of biology and geology, to the universal scales of cosmology.
Subjects: Lectures.; Audiobooks.; Civilization; Human evolution.; World history.;
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More from less : the surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources--and what happens next / by McAfee, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)496577;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: README -- All the Malthusian millennia -- Power over the earth : the industrial era -- Industrial errors -- Earth Day and its debates -- The dematerialization surprise -- Crib notes -- What causes dematerialization : markets and marvels -- Adam Smith said that : a few words about capitalism -- What else is needed : people and policies -- The global gallop of the four horsemen -- Getting so much better -- Powers of concentration -- Stressed be the tie that binds : disconnection -- Looking ahead : the world cleanses itself this way -- Inventions : "how to be good" -- Conclusion: Our next planet."A surprising analysis of the decline in consumption of natural resources despite the explosion of goods, prosperity, and population"--
Subjects: Capitalism.; Conservation of natural resources.; Consumption (Economics); Environmentalism.; Natural resources; Technology;
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Reproductive rights and wrongs : the global politics of population control / by Hartmann, Betsy.(CARDINAL)156763;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-366) and index.pt. 1. The Real Population Problem. 1. Security and Survival. 2. The Malthusian Orthodoxy. 3. A Womb of One's Own. 4. The Plan Behind Family Planning. 5. The Indonesian "Success" and the Kenyan "Failure" -- pt. 2. Population Control Comes of Age. 6. Birth of an Ideology. 7. The Population Establishment Today. 8. Building a "Consensus" for Cairo and Beyond. 9. China -- "Gold Babies" and Disappearing Girls -- pt. 3. Contraceptive Controversies. 10. Shaping Contraceptive Technology. 11. Hormonal Contraceptives and the IUD. 12. Bangladesh -- Survival of the Richest. 13. Sterilization and Abortion. 14. Barrier Methods, Natural Family Planning, and Future Directions -- pt. 4. The Way Forward. 15. The Light at the End of the Demographic Tunnel. 16. The Population Framework: Inside or Outside? -- Appendix: Call for a New Approach.1560L
Subjects: Reproductive rights.;
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