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The book attempts to bridge a long gap in the research and pedagogy of Mathematical Demography and other related topics in Survival Analysis by focusing intensively on a wide range of traditional as well as new inputs using a modern Stochastic Process and Renewal Theory oriented approach. A specialty of the text lies in the inclusion of Coale's Quasi-stable Analysis, which, so far, has not been included in any text on Mathematical Demography.

Everyone has heard of Attila and his Huns, who fought their way on pony back from the northern borders of China to the lands today called France, where they were defeated in 453 CE. Theirs was only the first of a series of migrations from central Asia that repeatedly reshaped the Christian and Islamic world over the next thousand years, and the conquests of their successors, though less famous, were more enduring. Akatzirs and Avars; Bulgars, Khazars, and Kök Türks; Ogurs, Onogurs (with their allies the Hungarians), Quturgurs, and Uturgurs; Polovtsy, Pechenegs, Qumans, and Sabirs; and of course, the Mongols: these and many other of the diverse peoples whomscholars today assign to the semi-geographic, semi-ethnic, and semi-linguistic category of Altaic or Turkic, all left Central Asia for destinations that eventually encompassed vast expanses of Europe, Asia, Asia Minor, and even Africa (the Mamluks of Egypt).