BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this Issues. Warren C. Robinson and John A. Ross (eds. ) The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Population Policies and Programs Zhongwei Zhao and Fei Guo (eds. ) Transition and Challenge: China's Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century Göran Therborn Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900‐2000 David Blankenhorn The Future of Marriage     

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Books reviewed in this article: J. C. Waterlow, D. G. Armstrong, Leslie Fowden, and Ralph Riley (eds.), Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science Daniel Callahan, False Hopes: Why America's Quest for Perfect Health Is a Recipe for Failure Alain Bideau, Bertrand Desjardins, and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), Infant and Child Mortality in the Past Noël Bonneuil, Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806–1906 J. Clarke and D. Noin (eds.), Population and Environment in Arid Regions Gad G. Gilbar, Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political Demography and Economy James L. Newman, The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation     

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Lester R. Brown Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble Paul A. David and Mark Thomas (eds .) The Economic Future in Historical Perspective Sarah Earle and Gayle Letherby (eds .) Gender, Identity and Reproduction: Social Perspectives Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future Wolfgang Lutz , Warren C. Sanderson, and Sergei Scherbov (eds .) The End of Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development Maura I. Toro -Morn and Marixsa Alicea (eds .) Migration and Immigration: A Global View United Nations , Population Division World Fertility Report: 2003 Adam Wagstaff and Mariam Claeson The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Rising to the Challenges     

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Books reviewed in this article: Chris Beyrer, War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia Caroline H. Bledsoe et al. (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World Donald J. Hernandez and Evan Charney (eds)., From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families Nana Poku and David T. Graham (eds.), Redefining Security: Population Movements and National Security Jyoti Shankar Singh, Creating a New Consensus on Population Jael Silliman and Ynestra King (eds.), Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development; A Project of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay Winter, A Question of Numbers: High Migration, Low Fertility, and the Politics of National Identity United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Monitoring 1997 Anthony Young, Land Resources: Now and for the Future     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon 2006 State of the Future Ian Gold in and Kenneth Reinert Globalization for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration, and Policy Lindsey Grant (ed. ) The Case for Fewer People: The NPG Forum Papers Moni Nag Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Population Division Population, Resources, Environment and Development Database, Version 4.0 World Health Organization Working Together for Health: The World Health Report 2006     

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Books reviewed in this article: Leonore Loeb Abler and Uwe P. Gielen(EDS.) , Migration: Immigration and Emigration in International Perspective Samuel Agyei‐Mensah and John B. Casterline(EDS.) , Reproduction and Social Context in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Collection of Micro‐Demographic Studies Francesco C. Billari And Alexia Prskawetz(EDS.) , Agent‐Based Computational Demography: Using Simulation to Improve Our Understanding of Demographic Behaviour Siew‐Ean Khoo And Peter McDonald(EDS.) , The Transformation of Australia's Population: 1970‐2030 James P. Lynch and Rita J. Simon , Immigration the World Over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey, And Mark W. Rosegrant , Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization Sheldon J. Segal , Under the Banyan Tree: A Population Scientist's Odyssey Lynn M. Thomas , Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya United Nations Economic Commission For Europe , Dynamics of Fertility and Partnership in Europe: Insights and Lessons from Comparative Research     

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Books reviewed in this article: Laurel Bossen, Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan Fabrizio Butera and Gabriel Mugny (EDS.), Social Influence in Social Reality: Promoting Individual and Social Change Harold Coward and Daniel C. Maguire (EDS.), Visions of a New Earth: Religious Perspectives on Population, Consumption, and Ecology Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach Fred C. Pampel, The Institutional Context of Population Change: Patterns of Fertility and Mortality across High‐Income Nations Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Deborah Waller Meyers (EDS.), Caught in the Middle: Border Communities in an Era of Globalization Per Pinstrup‐Andersen and Ebbe Scniøler, Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy over GM Crops Walter Scheidel (ED.), Debating Roman Demography     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Taking Stock of Population Studies: A Review Essay Review of Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, and Guillaume Wunsch (eds.) Demography: Analysis and Synthesis Contesting the Cause and Severity of the Black Death: A Review Essay Review of Ole J. Benedictow, The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History Saul Halfon The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women's Empowerment, and Regime Change in Population Policy Helen Epstein The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS SHORT REVIEWS Andrea Cornwall , Elizabeth Harrison, and Ann Whitehead (eds.) Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung The Foreign‐Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000 Claude Got , Patricia Delhomme, and Sylvain Lassarre More Could Be Done to Prevent Road Deaths in France Devesh Kapur and John Mc Hale Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World Esther Katz (ed.) The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger. Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928–1939 Ça?lar Özden and Maurice Schiff (eds.) International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain United Nations Population Fund State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth     

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Books reviewed in this article: Majid Ezzati , Alan D. Lopez , Anthony Rodgers, and Christopher J. L. Murray (eds. ) Comparative Quantification of Health Risks: Global and Regional Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risk Factors Terence H. Hull (ed. ) People, Population, and Policy in Indonesia Gavin W. Jones and Mehtab S. Karim (eds .) Islam, the State and Population Policy Sarah Michael Undermining Development: The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa Lisa Smyth Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and United Nations Population Fund The New Demographic Regime: Population Challenges and Policy Responses Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed .) European Migration: What Do We Know?     

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Books reviewed in this article: Lourdes Benería with Savitri Blsnath (eds.), Gender and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (eds.), Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific John Loxley, Interdependence, Disequilibrium and Growth: Reflections on the Political Economy of North‐South Relations at the Turn of the Century William Petersen, From Birth to Death: A Consumer's Guide to Population Studies Zeba Ayesha Sathar and James F. Phillips (eds.), Fertility Transition in South Asia M. A. B. Siddique (ed.), International Migration into the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard Ewa Tabeau, Anneke van den Berg Jeths, and Christopher Heathcote (eds.), Forecasting Mortality in Developed Countries: Insights from a Statistical, Demographic and Epidemiological Perspective Arne Tostensen, Inge Tvedten, and Mariken Vaa (eds.), Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis United Nations Population Fund, The State of World Population 2001. Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change     

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Books reviewed in this article: Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar , Renu Dube , and Reena Dube Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History Charles Blackorby , Walter Bossert , and David Donaldson Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics Josef Gugler (ed .) World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality Panel on Urban Population Dynamics , National Research Council , M. R. Montgomery , R. Stren , B. Cohen , and H. E. Reed (eds .) Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World UNAIDS/WHO AIDS, Epidemic Update: December 2005 The World Bank Improving Health, Nutrition, and Population Outcomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Role of the World Bank     

In Defense of Death and the Shorter,Sweeter Life: A Review Essay*

Books reviewed in this issue. Nancy Folbre
Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas Joel Mokyr
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700–1850 Robert M. Milardo
The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and Uncles Nathan Keyfitz and Hal Caswell
Applied Mathematical Demography (Third Edition) SHORT REVIEWS Paul Collier
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must—and How We Can—Manage Nature for Global Prosperity Marcia C. Inhorn , Tine Tjornhoj‐ Thomsen , Helene Goldberg , and Maruska la Cour Mosegaard (eds. )
Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction Elizabeth L. Krause
Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern Fred Pearce
The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future Vaclav Smil
Why America Is Not a New Rome Joel P. Trachtman
The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom US Department of Agriculture , Economic Research Service Food Security Assessment, 2010–20 Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2009 (David Coleman and Dalkhat Ediev , Guest editors )
Special Issue on “Impact of Migration on Demographic Change and Composition in Europe”     

Population fluctuation and persistence of one-host–two-parasitoid systems depending on resource distribution: from parasitizing behavior to population dynamics

Population dynamics and variability were examined in one-host–two-parasitoid experimental systems with different resource distributions: resource-clumped and resource-sparse conditions. The system consists of a seed beetle host, Callosobruchus chinensis, and two parasitoid wasps, Anisopteromalus calandrae (Pteromalidae) and Heterospilus prosopidis (Braconidae). In the resource-clumped condition, suitable hosts for parasitism (the late fourth-instar larvae and pupae) were clumped in 1 large resource patch, but they were scattered evenly among 16 small patches in the resource-sparse condition. Population censuses were conducted at 10-day intervals in long-term cultures, renewing 10 g of azuki beans (Vigna angularis). In both resource conditions, the first period was a single-species system of C. chinensis only, and A. calandrae was added in the second period. The one-host–one-parasitoid system with C. chinensis and A. calandrae showed stable population dynamics with small fluctuations. After addition of H. prosopidis in the third period, two of three replicates persisted to day 800 in each resource condition, although one replicate in each went to extinction at an immediate outbreak of the H. prosopidis population after the introduction. Population variabilities of C. chinensis and H. prosopidis were significantly higher and the mean population size of A. calandrae was significantly smaller in the resource-sparse condition than that in the resource-clumped one. A short-term experiment on parasitism efficiencies revealed that H. prosopidis parasitized significantly more at a low host density in the resource-sparse condition than in the resource-clumped one. Mutual interference of H. prosopidis was weak enough at low parasitoid densities but became abruptly stronger with high densities. Providing fresh hosts in a mixture of already parasitized ones, host-searching behaviors of a parasitoid were recorded by video for 3 h and were compared between the two wasp species. H. prosopidis could parasitize fresh hosts more efficiently than A. calandrae through frequent long-distance walks (walking to distant beans at one bout or outside a clump of beans with hosts and back soon on a distant bean of the clump) after reencounters with parasitized hosts. Considering all the experimental results, populations were judged to be more fragile and more likely to go to extinction in the resource-sparse condition than in the resource-clumped one. A higher attacking efficiency of H. prosopidis destabilized population dynamics more in the resource-sparse condition. Received: December 23, 1998 / Accepted: January 20, 1999     

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Books reviewed in this article: American Economic Association , Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, New York, January 3–5 1999 Katherine Betts , The Great Divide: Immigration Politics in Australia C. Y. Cyrus Chu , Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson , The Age of Mass Migration: Causes and Economic Impact International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , World Disasters Report 1998 Augustine J. Kposowa , The Impact of Immigration on the United States Economy B. Lindsay Lowell (ed.) , Foreign Temporary Workers in America: Policies That Benefit the U.S. Economy Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (eds.) , Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction: The Global Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV, Maternal Conditions, Perinatal Disorders, and Congenital Abnormalities Jack Parsons , Human Population Competition: A Study of the Pursuit of Power Through Julian L. Simon , Economics Against the Grain World Bank , Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1998     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Christopher Wills, Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution Helen Fisher, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World Lionel Tiger, The Decline of Males Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order Tom Kirkwood, Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging Margo J. Anderson And Stephen E. Fienberg, Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America Alain Desrosières, The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. Translation by Camille Naish of La politique des grands nombres: histoire de la raison statistique. Henk A. de Gans, Population Forecasting 1895–1945: The Transition to Modernity Massimo Livi-Bacci and Gustavo De Santis (eds.), Population and Poverty in the Developing World William A. Jackson, The Political Economy of Population Ageing Dorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Córmac Ó Gráda
Famine: A Short History Brian P. Cooper
Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859 Richard Alba
Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America Onn Winckler
Arab Political Demography: Population Growth, Labor Migration and Natalist Policies
Revised and expanded second edition SHORT REVIEWS
by John Bongaarts, Eric P. Green, Susan Greenhalgh, Geoffrey McNicoll Cai Fang and Du Yang (eds .)
The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1: The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy Implications Jessica Cohen and William Easterly (eds .)
What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small Bjørn Lomborg (ed .)
Global Crises, Global Solutions. Second edition. Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development
Pensions at a Glance 2009: Retirement‐income Systems in OECD Countries United Nations Population Division
Completing the Fertility Transition, Population Bulletin of the United Nations, Special Issue Nos. 48/49 2002 World Bank
World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change Tiantian Zheng
Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Samuel H. Preston, Patrick Heuveline, And Michel Guillot, Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes Bobbi S. Low, Why Sex. Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior Linda Mealey, Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen (Eds.), Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance John Bongaarts and Rodolfo A. Bulatao (Eds.), Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population John D. Early and John F. Peters, The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Robert Neuwirth , Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World John Landers , The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Preindustrial West Jochen Fleischhacker , Henk A. de Gans, and Thomas K. Burch (eds.), Populations, Projections, and Politics: Critical and Historical Essays on Early Twentieth Century Population Forecasting Jean ‐Claude Chasteland , Michel Loriaux, and Louis Roussel (eds .), Démographie 2000: Une enquête internationale par Internet auprès des démographes     

We've run the test

Dr. Ehrlich introduced and moderated the symposium onPopulation and Scarcity: The Forgotten Dimensions. 1. References for the statements made in this article can be found in P. Ehrlich and A. Ehrlich,The Population Explosion (Simon and Schuster, 1990).     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties Human Security Centre Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century Jennifer Johnson ‐Hanks Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis Landis Mac Kellar , Tatiana Ermolieva , David Horlacher , and Leslie Mayhew The Economic Impacts of Population Ageing in Japan Patrick Manning Migration in World History Dudley L. Poston , Jr ., Che ‐Fu Lee , Chiung ‐Fang Chang , Sherry L. Mc Kibben , and Carol S. Walther (eds ). Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China Warren C. Robinson and Fatma H. El ‐Zanaty The Demographic Revolution in Modern Egypt Tukufu Zuberi , Amson Sibanda , and Eric O. Udjo (eds .) The Demography of South Africa