Books received between 30/08/2002 and 30/11/2002


Alcock, Pete; Angus Erskine,; Margaret May
Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631218475 (pb), xiv + 290 pp.


Allan, Stuart
Media, Risk and Science
Open University Press: Buckingham, (2002), 033520662X (pb), 0335206638 (hb), £15.99 (pb), £50.00 (hb), ix + 235 pp.


Alvesson, Mats
Postmodernism and Social Research
Open University Press: Buckingham, (2002), 033520631X (pb), 0335206328 (hb), £16.99 (pb), £50.00 (hb), vii + 200 pp.


Antonio, Robert J. (Editor)
Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631225501 (pb), 063122193X (hb), £14.99; $26.95 (pb), £50.00; $61.95 (hb), xix + 399 pp.


Arblaster, Anthony and Frank Parkin
Democracy: 3rd Edition
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 0335209696 (pb), 033520970X (hb), £12.99; (pb), £45.00 (hb), ix + 122 pp.


Banakar, Reza and Max Travers
An Introduction to Law and Social Theory
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 1841132098 (pb), viii + 367 pp.


Benner, Chris
Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon Valley
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631232508 (pb), 0631232494 (hb), £16.99; $27.95 (pb), £55.00; $62.95 (hb), xviii + 293 pp.


Bennett, Tony and Diane Watson (Editors)
Understanding Everyday Life
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631233083 (pb), xxiv + 372 pp.


Braham, Peter and Linda Janes (Editors)
Social Differences and Divisions
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631233105 (pb), £15.99; $39.95 (pb), £55.00; $74.95 (hb), xxii + 397 pp.


Calhoun, Craig J; Gerteis, Joseph; Moody, James; Pfaff, Steven and Indermohan Virk (Editors)
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631213503 (pb), 063121349X (hb), £17.99; $34.95 (pb), £65.00; $69.00 (hb), xii + 468 pp.


Clough, Peter and Cathy Nutbrown
Student's Guide to Methodology: A Justifying Enquiry
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 0761974229 (pb), xii + 212 pp.


Couto, Richard with Stephanie C. Eken
To Give their Gifts: Health, Community and Democracy
Vanderbilt University Press: Nashville, (2003), 0826514111 (pb), 0826514103 (hb), $24.95 (pb), $49.95 (hb), xvii + 238 pp.


Dresner, Simon and Nigel Gilbert
The Dynamics of European Science and Technology Policies
Ashgate: Aldershot, (2001), 0754613577 (hb), £39.95 (hb), ix + 213 pp.


Dunn, Jennifer L.
Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (2002), 0202306623 (pb), ix + 204 pp.


Elliott, Anthony and Larry Ray (Editors)
Key Contemporary Social Theorists
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631219722 (pb), 0631219722 (hb), £14.99; $26.95 (pb), £55.00; $59.95 (hb), xviii + 286 pp.


Frankfort-Nachmias, Chava and Anna Leon-Guerrero
Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
Pine Forge Press: Thousand Oaks, CA, (2002), 0761987436 (hb), xxxi + 569 pp.


Garfinkel, Harold
Ethnomethodology's Program: Working Out Durkheim's Aphorism
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 0742516423 (pb), £20.95 (pb), xiii + 297 pp.


Gauntlett, David
Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction
Routledge: London, (2002), 0415189608 (pb), x + 278 pp.


Hamilton, Peter and Kenneth Thompson
The Uses of Sociology
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631233148 (pb), xviii + 356 pp.


Herod, Andrew and Melissa W.Wright (Editor)
Geographies of Power: Placing Scale
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2003), 0631225587 (pb), 0631225579 (hb), £16.99; $29.95 (pb), £50.00; $64.95 (hb), xi + 315 pp.


Huff, C.Ronald (Editor)
Gangs in America
Sage Publications: London, (2002), 0761924248 (pb), xxvii + 332 pp.


Jamieson, Anne and Christina R. Victor
Researching Ageing and Later Life
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 0335208207 (pb), xi + 275 pp.


Jewkes, Yvonne and Gayle Letherby
Criminology: A Reader
Sage Publications: London, (2002), 0761947116 (pb), ix + 408 pp.


Jonsson, Jan O. and Colin Mills
Cradle to Grave: Life-course Change in Modern Sweden
Medical Sociology Group of the BSA: Durham, (2002), 1903457033 (pb), xxix + 244 pp.


Jordan, Tim and Steve Pile (Editors)
Social Change
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2003), 0631233121 (pb), £11.99 (pb), xxiii + 376 pp.


Kivisto, Peter
Multiculturalism in a Global Society
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631221948 (pb), 063122193X (hb), £14.99; $26.95 (pb), £50.00; $61.95 (hb), x + 228 pp.


Lea, John
Crime and Modernity
Sage Publications: London, (2002), 0803975570 (pb), viii + 213 pp.


Lentin, Ronit and Nahla Abdu
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation
North Holland: Amsterdam, (2002), 1571814590 (pb), 1571814582 (hb), £17.00 (pb), £50.00 (hb), xi + 324 pp.


Lentin, Ronit and Robbie McVeigh (Editors)
Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland
Beyond the Pale Publications: belfast, (2002), 1900960168 (pb), vi +248 pp.


Lin, Ann Chih
Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison
Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, (2002), 069109599X (pb), xiii + 213 pp.


Mohan, John
Planning, Markets and Hospitals
Routledge: London, (2002), 0415196078 (pb), £19.99 (pb), xii + 275 pp.


Nolan, James L. (Editor)
Drug Courts in Theory and in Practice
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (2002), 0202307131 (pb), xvi + 264 pp.


Phelps, Erin; Furstenberg, Frank F. and Anne Colby (Editors)
Looking at Lives: American Longitudinal Studies of the Twentieth Century
Russell Sage Foundation: New York, (2003), 0871546604 (hb), x + 378 pp.


Pilkington, Hilary; Elena Omel'chenko; Moya Flynn; Ul'iana Bliudina; Elena Starkova
Looking West: Cultural Globalization and Russian Youth Cultures
Pennsylvania State University Press: Pennsylvania, (), 0271021861 (pb), xix + 300 pp.


Pink, Sarah
Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and Representation in Research
Sage Publications: London, (2001), 0761960546 (pb), 0761960538 (hb), £19.99 (pb), £60.00 (hb),


Pratt, John
Punishment and Civilization: Penal Tolerance ans Intolerance in Modern Society
Sage Publications: London, (2002), 0761947531 (pb), x + 213 pp.


Rothman, David J.
Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (2003), 020230714X (pb), xiii + 482 pp.


Rothman, David J.
The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (2003), 0202307158 (pb), xlviii + 380 pp.


Schnell, Izhak and Wim Ostendorf
Studies in Segregation and Desegregation
Ashgate: Aldershot, (2001), 0754618080 (pb), £45.00 (hb), vii + 311 pp.


Schroeder, Ralph
The Social Life of Avatars
Springer Verlag: Berlin, (2001), 1852334614 (pb), 216 pp.


Shields, Stephanie A.
Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2002), 0521802970 (hb), xiii + 214 pp.


Shweder, Richard; Minow, Martha and Hazel Rose Markus (Editors)
Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
Russell Sage Foundation: New York, (2003), 0871547910 (hb), xiv + 485 pp.


Stahl, William A; Robert A. Campbell; Yvonne Petry and Gary Diver
Webs of Reality: Social Perspectives on Science and Religion
Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, (2002), 0813531071 (pb), 0813531071 (hb), $22.00 (pb), $59.00 (hb), 192 pp.


Stanley, Liz
Imperialism, Labour and the New Woman: Olive Schreiner's Social Theory
Sociology Press: Durham, (2002), 1903457041 (pb), x + 194 pp.


Trigilia, Carlo
Economic Sociology: State, Market and Society in Modern Capitalism
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2002), 0631225366 (pb), ix + 287 pp.


45 Books received between 30/08/2002 and 30/11/2002