PrefaceAcknowledgmentsContentsA Model-Based View of DemographyDemography in a New Key: A Theory of Population TheoryThomas K. BurchData, Models, Theory and Reality: The Structure of Demographic KnowledgeThomas K. BurchComputer Modeling of Theory: Explanation for the Twenty-First CenturyThomas K. BurchComputer Simulation and Statistical Modeling: Rivals or Complements?Thomas K. BurchDoes Demography Need Differential Equations?Thomas K. BurchSome Demographic Models Re-visitedTheory, Computers and the Parameterization of Demographic BehaviorThomas K. BurchEstimating the Goodman, Keyfitz and Pullum Kinship Equations: An Alternative ProcedureThomas K. BurchThe Life Table as a Theoretical ModelThomas K. BurchCohort Component Projection: Algorithm, Technique, Model and TheoryThomas K. BurchThe Cohort-Component Population Projection: A Strange Attractor for DemographersThomas K. BurchTeaching DemographyTeaching Demography: Ten Principles and Two RationalesThomas K. BurchTeaching the Fundamentals of Demography: A Model-Based Approach to FertilityThomas K. BurchOn Teaching Demography: Some Non-traditional GuidelinesThomas K. BurchConclusionConcluding ThoughtsThomas K. BurchIndex