Books Received CJS 25, 2 (2000)
Albrow, Martin, Sociology: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 1999, 203 pp., $90.00 cloth, $25.99 paper
Aldridge, Alan, Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 232 pp., $24.95 US paper
Anderson, Kevin, and Richard Quinney, eds., Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000, 176 pp., $34.95 US cloth, $15.95 US paper
Baker, Maureen and David Tippin, Poverty, Social Assistance, and the Employability of Mothers: Restructuring Welfare States. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 316 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper
Beaujot, Rod, Earning & Caring in Canadian Families. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1999, 416 pp., $29.95 US paper
Benoit, Cecilia M., Women, Work and Social Rights: Canada in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall Allyn and Bacon Canada, 2000, 184 pp., paper
Blaikie, Norman, Designing Social Research. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, 338 pp., $29.95 US paper
Body-Gendrot, Sophie, The Social Control of Cities? A Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, 286 pp., $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper
Boggs, Carl, The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere. New York: Guilford Press, 2000, 309 pp., $24.95 US cloth
Boisot, Max H., Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 284 pp., £14.99 paper
Bourdieu, Pierre, Pascalian Meditations. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 256 pp., $49.50 US cloth, $18.95 US paper
Bunge, Mario, The Sociology-Philosophy Connection. Somerset, NJ: Transaction Books, 1999, 244 pp., $29.95 US cloth
Bunting, Trudi, and Pierre Filion, eds., Canadian Cities in Transition: The Twenty-first Century. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2000, 576 pp., paper
Burton-Jones, Alan, Knowledge Capitalism: Business, work, and Learning in the New Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 248 pp., £19.99 cloth
Caldwell, John Thornton, ed., Electronic Media and Technoculture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000, 331 pp., $52.00 US cloth, $21.00 US paper
Carruthers, Bruce G., City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, 303 pp., $18.95 US paper
Chapman, Tony and Jenny Hockey, eds., Ideal homes? Social Change and Domestic Life. New York: Routledge, 1999, 233 pp., $113.00 cloth, $37.99 paper
Coates, David, Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era. Oxford: Polity, 2000, 320 pp., $29.95 paper
Collins, Randall, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998, 1098 pp., $24.95 US paper
Collins, Randall, Macro History: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 312 pp., $65.00 US cloth, $18.95 US paper
Cotterrell, Roger, Émile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, 276 pp., cloth
Dear, Michael J., The Postmodern Urban Condition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 337 pp., $64.95 US cloth
Dyer-Whitheford, Nick, Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999, 344 pp., $49.95 US cloth, $21.95 US paper
Eisenstadt, S. N., Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 280 pp., $69.95 US cloth, $24.95 US paper
Epstein, Debbie, and James T. Sears, eds., A Dangerous Knowing: Sexuality, Pedagogy and Popular Culture. New York: Cassess, 2000, 308 pp., $65.00 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Fink, Amir Sumaka’i and Jacob Press, Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 373 pp., $55.00 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Fogarty, Brian E., War, Peace, and the Social Order. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000, 236 pp., $65.00 US cloth, $23.00 US paper
Forrest, John, The History of Morris Dancing 1458-1750. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 439 pp., $65.00 cloth
Gergen, Kenneth J., An Invitation to Social Construction. London: Sage Publications, 1999, 248 pp., $25.95 US paper
Giles, Judy, and Tim Middleton, Studying Culture: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 280 pp., $69.99 US cloth, $29.95 US paper
Gottdiener, M., Claudia C. Collins, and David R. Dickens, Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All- American City. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 290 pp., $22.95 US cloth
Granstrand, Ove, The Economics and Management of Intellectual Property: Towards Intellectual Capitalism. Cheltenhan, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1999, 464 pp., $120.00 US cloth
Hallam, Elizabeth, Jenny Hockey, and Glennys Howarth, Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999, 232 pp., $128.00 cloth, $38.99 paper
Hayne, David M., ed., Human Survivability in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 156 pp., $15.00 paper
Heater, Derek, What Is Citizenship? Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999, 197 pp., paper
Hoerder, Dirk, Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, 416 pp., $39.95 US cloth
Huff, Tovy E., and Wolfgang Schluchter, eds., Max Weber & Islam. London: Transaction Books, 1999, 332 pp., $34.95 US cloth
Jervis, John, Transgressing the Modern. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 232 pp., $27.95 US paper
Jonash, Ronald S. and Tom Sommerlatte, The Innovation Premium: How Next-Generation Companies Are Achieving Peak Performance and Profitability. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1999, 159 pp., $26.00 US cloth
Kalbach, Madeline A, and Warren E. Kalbach, Perspectives on Ethnicity in Canada: A Reader. Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 2000, 352 pp., $32.95 paper
Krishnan, Sankaran, Postcolonial Insecurities: India, Sri Lanka, and the Question of Nationhood. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 296 pp., $22.95 US paper
Kuper, Adam, and Jessica Kuper, eds., The Social Science Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 1999, 923 pp., $59.99 paper
Lazreg, Marnia, ed., Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2000, 113 pp., $22.00 US paper
Lechner, Frank J. and John Boli, eds., The Globalization Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 411 pp., $29.95 US paper
Lee, Martyn J., ed., The Consumer Society Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 325 pp., $29.95 US paper
Levitt, Cyril, Scott Davies, and Neil McLaughlin, Mistaken Identities: The Second Wave of Controversy over Political Correctness. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999, $29.95 US cloth
Light, Ivan, and Steven J. Gold, Ethnic Economies. London: Academic Press, 2000, 302 pp., paper
Lupton, Deborah, ed., Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 191 pp., $57.95 US cloth, $21.95 US paper
Marchak, Patricia, God’s Assassins: State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s. Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 1999, 391 pp., $39.95 cloth
Marks, Deborah, Disability: Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1999, 217 pp., $128.00 cloth, $38.99 paper
Martel, Frédéric, The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France since 1968. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, 442 pp., cloth
Martin, Michael, Verstehen: The Uses of Understanding in Social Science. London: Transaction Publishers, 2000, 264 pp., $34.95 US cloth
Mattelart, Armand, Networking the World, 1794-2000. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 160 pp., $42.95 US cloth, $16.95 US paper
McMahon, Sean H., Social Control and Public Intellect: The Legacy of Edward A. Ross. London: Transaction Publishers, 1999, 199 pp., $34.95 US cloth
Mead, Margaret, Continuities in Cultural Evolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999, 471 pp., paper
Memmi, Albert, Racism. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 176 pp., $39.95 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin, ed., Children on the Streets of the Americas. New York: Routledge, 2000, 300 pp., $120.00 cloth, $34.99 paper
Miller, R. and S. Browning, eds., With This Ring: Divorce, Intimacy and Cohabitation from a Multicultural Perspective. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999, 348 pp., $83.50 US cloth
Mishra, Ramesh, Globalization and the Welfare State. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 1999, 152 pp., $80.00 US cloth
Moessinger, Pierre, The Paradox of Social Order: Linking Psychology and Sociology. Hawthrone, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 2000, 152 pp., $49.95 US cloth, $24.95 US paper
Nash, Kate, Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 309 pp., $27.95 cloth
Nash, Kate, ed., Contemporary Political Sociology: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 361 pp., £55.00 cloth, £16.99 paper
Nibert, David, Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: Government and the Taxing of Dreams. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000, 122 pp., $48.00 US cloth, $16.00 US paper
Papastergiadis, Nikos, The Turbulence of Migration. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 256 pp., £50.00 cloth, £14.99 paper
Pearl, Judea, Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 384 pp., $39.95 US cloth
Petersen, Klaus and Allan C. Hutchinson, eds., Interpreting Censorship in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 438 pp., $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper
Pierson, Christopher, and Francis G. Castles, eds., The Welfare State Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, 384 pp., £55.00 cloth, £15.99 paper
Rice, James J., and Michael J. Prince, Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, 309 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper
Roberts, Timmons, and Amy Hite, eds., From Modernization to Globalization: Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 388 pp., $64.95 US cloth, $32.95 US paper
Robins, Kevin, and Frank Webster, Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life. New York: Routledge, 1999, 318 pp., $113.00 cloth, $34.99 paper
Scarce, Rik, Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology and the Social Construction of Nature. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, 2000, 236 pp., $59.50 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Schwartz, Peter, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt, The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1999, $26.00 US cloth
Skinner, David, Janice McLaughlin, Paul Ross, and Andrew Webster, Valuing Technology: Organisations, Culture and Change. New York: Routledge, 1999, 257 pp., $150.00 cloth, $49.99 paper
Smith, Dennis, Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 224 pp., £50.00 cloth, £14.99 paper
Steinberg, Stephen, Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, 342 pp., $29.95 US paper
Stephens, Lester D., Science, Race, and Religion in the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, 338 pp., cloth
Strong, Tracy B., Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000, 392 pp., $21.95 paper
Turner, Bryan S., ed., The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, 570 pp., $34.95 US paper
Turner, Bryan S., Classical Sociology. London: Sage Publications, 1999, 291 pp., $34.95 US cloth, $27.95 US paper
Williams, Malcolm, Science and Social Science: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2000, 173 pp., $113.00 cloth, $37.99 paper
Wong, James, and David Checkland, eds., Teen Pregnancy and Parenting: Social And Ethical Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 184 pp., $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper
World Bank, Costa Rica: A Pension Reform Strategy. Hemdon, VA: World Bank Publications, 2000, 63 pp., $22.00 US paper
World Bank,, Violence in Colombia: Building Sustainable Peace and Social Capital. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2000, 44 pp., $22.00 US paper
Wright, William, Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality. New York: Routledge, 1999, 303 pp., $24.95 paper
Yamamoto, Yoshinobu, Globalism, Regionalism and Nationalism: Asia in Search of Its Role in the 21st Century. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, 260 pp., $34.95 US paper
