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Demographic Methods & Concepts presents the methods most commonly needed to work with statistical materials on population at national regional & local levels. Unlike other textbooks in the field clear non-technical language is used throughout to make demographic techniques accessible to a broad readership irrespective of background in mathematics. All the demographic techniques most relevant to the work of demographers geographers sociologists & planners are covered. Demographic concepts & practical strategies important in the interpretation of population statistics are also discussed. The book takes a unique & innovative computer-based approach to the visualisation of demographic concepts & data. The fully integrated accompanying CD-ROM contains spreadsheet modules with on-screen controls & menus run in Microsoft Excel. The modules can be used without any knowledge of computing. Further Spreadsheet Exercises in the text enable the acquisition of computing techniques that enhance the breadth & depth of investigations as well as enjoyment & proficiency in working with population statistics. ...

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Three years ago Heather Kennedy left the Metropolitan police under a shadow that has followed her ever since. Now she has been called in to advise on a supposed burglary in the now-defunct British Museum reading room. Kennedy soon establishes that rather than steal anything someone has broken into the stacks in order to photograph pages from books about Johann Toller a crazed prophet of 17th century Europe. Toller believed that the end of days was at hand and he made a number of prophecies relating to the Apocalypse and the events that would precede it. None of them came true. Until now. One after another the grotesque signs and wonders Toller predicted come to pass no matter how unlikely they seem. The river Rhine runs bright red the towers of London bow to kiss the ground and an angel
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Three years ago Heather Kennedy left the Metropolitan police under a shadow that has followed her ever since. Now she has been called in to advise on a supposed burglary in the now-defunct British Museum reading room. Kennedy soon establishes that rather than steal anything someone has broken into the stacks in order to photograph pages from books about Johann Toller a crazed prophet of 17th century Europe. Toller believed that the end of days was at hand & he made a number of prophecies relating to the Apocalypse & the events that would precede it. None of them came true. Until now. One after another the grotesque signs & wonders Toller predicted come to pass no matter how unlikely they seem. The river Rhine runs bright red the towers of London bow to kiss the ground & an angel with a fiery sword is seen over Jerusalem. With the help of a nineteen-year-old girl from a secretive tribe & ex-mercenary Leo Tillman Kennedy must work to stop the next prophecy coming true
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