The Children of Eve
：Population and Well-being in History
Publication subTitle ：Population and Well-being in History
Author： Louis P. Cain
Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9781118169629
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781444336900
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781444336894
Subject： C924.1 world population
Language： ENG
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Description
The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.
- The first book to put together material about population and well-being in a single volume
- Emphasizes the formative population history of Europe and North America over the years since the Middle Ages, and includes discussions of Asia and the southern hemisphere
- The authors successfully maintain the difficult balance of addressing complex issues in a style that doesn't over-simplify the subject, whilst upholding an approach that is accessible to general readers and students
- Designed to work as both a stand alone text or a supplement to textbooks in any number of courses
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