{"title":"Paul Morland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Morland\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the multifaceted forces shaping societies, with works that delve into demography, migration, and the deep currents of history. His writing combines rigorous research with accessible narratives, making complex subjects engaging and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a thoughtful blend of \u003cem\u003ehistory and social science\u003c\/em\u003e, illuminating how human populations influence and are influenced by political and economic change. Morland’s books invite reflection on contemporary challenges through the lens of past and present human tides.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-human-tide-by-paul-morland-9781473675162","title":"The Human Tide","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSuperbly explained\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e  \n\u003ci\u003eFascinating\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e  \n\u003cb\u003eEngrossing\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e  \n\nEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolution— from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to China's meteoric economy, to Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump—can be explained better when we appreciate the meaning of demographic change across the world.\n\n\u003ci\u003eThe Human Tide\u003c\/i\u003e is the first popular history book to redress the underestimated influence of population as a crucial factor in almost all of the major global shifts and events of the last two centuries, revealing how such events are connected by the invisible mutually catalysing forces of population.\n\nThis highly original history offers a brilliant and simple unifying theory for our understanding of the last two hundred years: the power of sheer numbers. An ambitious, original, magisterial history of modernity, it taps into prominent preoccupations of our day and will transform our perception of history for many years to come.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850127069420,"sku":"9781473675162","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18889143482712.jpg?v=1759079885"},{"product_id":"no-one-left-by-paul-morland-9781800754102","title":"No One Left","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA population calamity is unfolding before our eyes. It started in parts of the developed world and is spreading to the four corners of the globe. There are just too few babies being born for humanity to replace itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeading demographer Paul Morland argues that the consequences of this promise to be calamitous. Labour shortages, pensions crises, ballooning debt: what is currently happening in South Korea—which faces population decline of more than 85% within just two generations—threatens to engulf us all, and sooner than we think. In the developed world, we may be able temporarily to stave off the worst of its effects with immigration, but many countries, including those the immigrants come from, will get old before they get rich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo One Left\u003c\/em\u003e charts this future, explains its causes and suggests what might be done. Unless we radically change our attitudes towards parenthood and embrace a new progressive pro-natalism, argues Morland, we face disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340979192044,"sku":"9781800754102","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c3b0f785893d033db24f431846937b18.jpg?v=1772190438"},{"product_id":"tomorrows-people-by-paul-morland-9781529046014","title":"Tomorrow's People","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMorland\u003c\/em\u003e predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War. - The Daily Telegraph 'The Best Books for Summer 2022'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths, and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe same forces that have shaped our past and present are shaping our future. Illustrating this through ten illuminating indicators, from the fertility rate in Singapore (one) to the median age in Catalonia (forty-three), Paul Morland shows how demography is both a powerful and an under-appreciated lens through which to view the global transformations that are currently underway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTomorrow's People\u003c\/em\u003e ranges from the countries of West Africa where the tendency towards large families is combining with falling infant mortality to create the greatest population explosion ever witnessed, to the countries of East Asia and Southern Europe where generations of low birth-rate and rising life expectancy are creating the oldest populations in history. Morland explores the geographical movements of peoples that are already under way - portents for still larger migrations ahead - which are radically changing the cultural, ethnic, and religious composition of many societies across the globe, and in their turn creating political reaction that can be observed from Brexit to the rise of Donald Trump. Finally, he looks at the two underlying motors of change - remarkable rises in levels of education and burgeoning food production - which have made all these epochal developments possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTomorrow's People\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fascinating, illuminating, and thought-provoking tour of an emerging new world. Nobody who wants to understand that world should be without it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244790427884,"sku":"9781529046014","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529046014-tomorrow-s-people-1.jpg?v=1788014372"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/paul-morland.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}