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88 pp.
| Twenty-First Century
| May, 2014
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LibraryISBN 978-0-7613-6715-4$33.26
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EbookISBN 978-1-4677-1056-5
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YA
This book is chock-full of sobering statistics on human population growth. Andregg explains demographic basics, then how numbers are affected by the interplay of politics, religion, depletion of natural resources, poverty, education, and access to health care such as birth control. Photos and graphs extend the rich, thought-provoking text. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind.