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The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election        of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contains an irony: he won a victory as an        African American only by denying that he was the candidate of African Americans.          Obama's very success, writes Fredrick Harris, exacted a heavy cost on...

Scenes from a Jazz LifeBill Crow, journeyman bass player, superb storyteller, and author of the successful Jazz Anecdotes, here narrates many moving and delightful tales of the pioneers of modern jazz whom he played with and was befriended by. This is an enthralling account of four decades of a life in jazz, from Crow's first days in New York City...

Theories of Communication Networks presents solutions to all five problems. The authors develop a multi-theoretical model that relates different social science theories with different network properties. This model is multilevel, providing a network decomposition that applies the various social theories to all network levels: individuals, dyads,...

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