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There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "e;Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing."e; In this book Burt builds on his celebrated work to examine the cases of analysts, bankers, and managers, and find that rewards, in fact, do go to people with well-connected...

Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association edit this book, on        the ways in which social injustice underlies public health problems. Their previous        books, War and Public Health, and errorism and Public Health, both dealt with        specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The...

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Jacksonian America, 1815-1846The Market Revolution offers a sweeping, comprehensive overview of the Jacksonian period in a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural history. This book examines the tensions between democracy and capitalism that arose during this period after the war of 1812 and the massive transformation of American...

Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem ServicesThe editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of        conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive        and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date....

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....