Copyright Sociological Research Online, 1999


Books Received - Volume 4, Issue 3

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Albrow, Martin
Sociology - The Basics
Taylor & Francis: Basingstoke, (1999), 0415172640 (pb), £9.99 (pb), 210 pp.

Allan, S.
News Culture
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335199569 (pb), 0335199577 (hb), £13.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 235 pp.

Anderson, Elijah
Code of the Street
Select publisher..., (1999), 0393040232 (hb), US429.95 (hb), 351 pp.

Banks, Stephen P.; Banks, Anna
By Ice or Fire
Sage Publications: London, (1998), 0761990356 (pb), 0761990348 (hb), £14.99 (pb), £30.00 (hb), 272 pp.

Boli, John: Thomas, George M.
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations since 1875
Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, (1999), 0804734216 (hb), US$55.00 (hb), 370 pp.

Byrne, David
Social Exclusion
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335199747 (pb), 0335199755 (hb), £14.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 160 pp.

Carol Smart and Bren Neale
Family Fragments
Polity Press: Cambridge, (1998), 0745618944 (pb), 0745618936 (hb), £13.95 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 220 pp.

Chapman, Tony; Hockey, Jenny (editors)
Ideal Homes? Social Change and Domestic Life
Taylor & Francis: Basingstoke, (1999), 0415171229 (pb), £15.99 (pb), 233 pp.

Couto, Richard O.; Guthrie, Catherine S.
Making Democracy Work
University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, (1999), 0807848247 (pb), £15.75 (pb), 325 pp.

Darian-Smith, Eve
Bridging Divides; The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in Europe
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, (1999), 0520216113 (pb), 0520216105 (hb), US$19.95 (pb), US$50.00 (hb), 273 pp.

David Jones, William
The Lost Debate; German Socialist Intellectuals and Totalitarianism
University of Illinois Press: Champaign, IL, (1999), 0252067967 (pb), $21.95 (pb), 365 pp.

Degenne, A.; Forse, M.
Introducing Social Networks
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761956042 (pb), 0761956034 (hb), £16.99 (pb), £49.50 (hb), 256 pp.

Edwards, Anne; Talbot, Robin
The Hard-pressed Researcher
Publisher_and_Place, (1999), 058236972X (pb), £14.99 (pb), 222 pp.

Frey, Lawrence R
The Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761910271 (hb), £61.00 (hb), 592 pp

Goldman, Robert; Papson, Stephen
Nike Culture:The Sign of the Swoosh
Sage Publications: London, (1998), 0761961496 (pb), 0761961488 (hb), £15.99 (pb), £49.50 (hb), 208 pp.

Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin
Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335196721 (pb), 033519673X (hb), £14.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 175 pp.

MacKenzie, Donald; Wajcman Judy (editors)
The Social Shaping of Technology: Second Edition
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1998), 0335199135 (pb), 0335199143 (hb), £16.99 (pb), £50.00 (hb), 470 pp.

Maggie O'Neill (editor)
Adorno, Culture and Feminism
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761952179 (pb), 0761952160 (hb), £15.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 208 pp.

McGuigan, Jim
Modernity and Postmodern Culture
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335199151 (pb), 033519916X (hb), £13.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 182 pp.

McLaughlin, Janice; Rosen, Paul; Skinner, David; Webster, Andrew
Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change
Routledge: London, (1999), 0415192110 (pb), 19.99 (pb), 256 pp.

McMahon, Anthony
Taking Care of Men; Sexual Politics in the Public Mind
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (1999), 0521588200 (pb), 0521582040 (hb), £12.99 (pb), £35.00 (hb), 232 pp.

Mestrovic, Stjepan G.
Postemotional Society
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761951296 (pb), £12.95 (pb), 170 pp.

Nelson, Robert L.;Bridges, William
Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (1999), 0521627508 (pb), 0521621690 (hb), £14.95/US$19.95 (pb), £40.00/US$59.95 (hb), 415 pp.

Phillipson, Chris
Reconstructing Old Age: New Agendas in Social Theory and Practice
Sage Publications: London, (1998), 0803979894 (pb), 0803979886 (hb), £14.99 (pb), £42.50 (hb), 176 pp.

Pilcher, Jane
Women in Contemporary Britian
Taylor & Francis: Basingstoke, (1999), 0415182743 (pb), £12.99 (pb), 190 pp

Radway, Janice A
A Feeling for Books
University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC, (1999), 0807848301 (pb), US$16.95 (pb), 425 pp.

Rogers, Mary F.
Barbie Culture
Sage Publications: London, (1998), 0761958886 (pb), 0761958878 (hb), £12.99 (pb), £40.00 (hb), 192 pp.

Rowe, David
Sport, Culture and the Media
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335202020 (pb), 0335202039 (hb), £13.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 200 pp.

Rowe, Michael
Crossing the Border
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, (1999), 0520218833 (pb), 193 pp.

Seale, Clive
The Quality of Qualitative Research
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761955984 (pb), 0761955976 (hb), £14.99 (pb), £47.50 (hb), 224 pp.

Shanahan, James: Michael Morgan
Television and its Viewers, Cultivation Theory and Research
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (1999), 0521587557 (pb), 0521582962 (hb), £13.95(US$19.95) (pb), £37.50 (US$57.95) (hb), 283 pp

Shaw, Ian
Qualitative Evaluation
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761956905 (pb), 0761956891 (hb), £16.99 (pb), $49.50 (hb), 240 pp.

Shaw, Ian; Lishman, Joyce
Evaluation and Social Work Practice
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761957936 (pb), 0761957928 (hb), £16.99 (pb), £49.50 (hb), 256 pp.

Silva, Elizabeth; Smart, Carol (editors)
The 'New' Family ?
Sage Publications: London, (1998), 0761958568 (pb), 076195855X (hb), £14.99 (pb), £45.00 (hb), 192 pp.

Smart, Barry (editor)
Resisting McDonaldization
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761955186 (pb), 0761955178 (hb), £15.99 (pb), £47.50 (hb), 272 pp.

Smelser, Neil J.
The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, (1999), 0520214897 (hb), £24.00/US$35.00 (hb), 260 pp.

Stephens, Gregory
On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Fredrick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (1999), 0521643937 (pb), 052164352X (hb), £14.99 (pb), £40.00 (hb), 330 pp.

Thomas, Carol
Female Forms; Experiencing and Understanding Disability
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335196934 (pb), 0335196942 (hb), £16.99 (pb), £50.00 (hb), 175 pp.

Travers, Max
The British Immigration Courts
Polity Press: Cambridge, (1999), 1861341725 (hb), £40.00 (hb), 200 pp.

Whitbeck, Les and Hoyt, Dan
Nowhere to Grow
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (1999), 0202305848 (pb), 020230583X (hb), US$23.95 (pb), US$47.95 (hb), pp.

Williamson, John B.; Watts-Roy, Diane M.; Kingson, Eric R. (editors)
The Generational Equity Debate
Columbia University Press: New York, (1999), 0231112858 (pb), 023111284X (hb), £17.50/US$25.00 (pb), £39.95/US$57.00 (hb), 270 pp.

Wolcott, Harry
Ethnography; A Way of Seeing
Sage Publications: London, (1999), 0761990917 (pb), 0761990909 (hb), £14.99 (pb), £32.00 (hb), 336 pp.