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A Very Short IntroductionFirst published as part of the best-selling  The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's     Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability....

This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases. Spatial analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can provide insights into the patterns and processes that underlie disease transmission....

The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world        is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of        subtle but powerful features of modernization.Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce,        elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety...

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Family Life in Plymouth ColonyThe year 2000 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of A Little        Commonwealth by John Demos, the highly regarded study of family life in the colony        founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical        artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal...

It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma and they and their fellow settlers prepare for steady business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But when they refuse to sell their land to the railroad company, the boss swears that his trains will never stop in Florence again. How will they ever make a...