Books Received January 1998


Abetman, Marina, and Jacek Kugler, eds., Political Capacity and Economic
Behavior. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 338 pp., $70.00 [US] cloth,
$25.00 [US] paper

Agre, Philip E., Computation and Human Experience. New York: Cambridge
University Press,1997, 371 pp., $49.50 [US] cloth, $21.95 [US] paper

Ankum, Katharina von, ed., Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity
in Weimar Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997,
238 pp., paper

Armstrong, Gary, and Richard Guillianotti, Entering the Field: New 
Perspectives on World Football. Oxford: Berg Publishers Limited, 1997,
256 pp., $46.00 [US] cloth, $19.50 [US] paper

Austin-Broos, Diane J., Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of
Moral Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 328 pp.,
$50.00 [US] cloth, $19.95 [US] paper

Axelrod, Paul, The Promise of Schooling: Education in Canada, 1800-1914.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996, 155 pp., $45.00 cloth,
$12.95 paper

Ayling, Ronald, The Downsizing of America. Commack, New York: Nova
Science Publishers, Inc., 1997, 205 pp., $43.00 [US] cloth 

Bakan, Joel, Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper

Bakewell, Peter, A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels 1450-1930.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 520 pp., $24.95 [US] paper

Ballard, Chet, Jon Gubbay, and Chris Middleton, ed., The Student's 
Companion to Sociology. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997,
391 pp., $21.95 [US] paper

Bardmann, Theodor M., ed., Zirkulare Positionen: Konstruktuvismus
als praktische Theorie. Wiesbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag,
1997, 267 pp., paper

Barker, Chris, Global Television: An Introduction. 
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 260 pp., $32.95 [US] paper

Beck, Ulrich, and Peter Sopp, eds., Individualisierung und Integration:
Neue Konfliktlinien und neuer Integrationsmodus?. Leverkusen,
Germany: Leske + Budrich, 1997, 201 pp., 29.80 DM paper

Benko, Georges, and Ulf Strohmayer, eds., Space & Social Theory:
Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1997, 400 pp., $24.95 [US] paper

Bewes, Timothy, Cynicism and Postmodernity. New York: Verso, 1997,
248 pp., $19.00 [US] paper

Bortner, M.A. & Linda M. Williams, Youth in Prison: We the People of
Unit Four. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1997, 245 pp.,
$17.95 [US] paper

Bozdogan, Sibel, and Resat Kasaba, Rethinking Modernity and National
Identity in Turkey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997,
282 pp., $22.50 paper

Butler, Judith, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997, 218 pp.,
$39.50 [US] cloth, $14.95 [US] paper

Castells, Manuel, The Power of Identity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1997, 461 pp., $25.95 [US] paper

Chatwin, Mary Ellen, Socio-Cultural Transformation and Foodways in
the Republic of Georgia. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
1997, 247 pp., $59.00 [US] cloth

Chevalier, Jacques M., A Postmodern Revelation: Signs of Astrology and
the Apocalypse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 435 pp.,
$60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper

Collin, Finn, Social Reality: Problems of Philosophy. New York: Routledge,
Chapman and Hall, 1997,  252 pp., $65.00 [US] cloth, $19.95 [US] paper

Corse, Sarah M., Nationalsim and Literature: The Politics of Culture
in Canada and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1997, 213 pp., $54.95 [US] cloth, $17.95 [US] paper

Cox, Kevin R., ed., Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power
of the Local. New York: Guilford Publications, 1997, 280 pp.,
$44.95 [US] cloth, $22.95 [US] paper

Curtis, David Ames, ed., The Castoriadis Reader. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1997, 470 pp., $24.95 [US] paper

Diekmann, Andreas, and Carlo C. Jaeger, eds., Umweltsoziologie.
Wiesbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1996, 584 pp., paper

Dizard, Wilson, Meganet: How the Global Communications Network Will
Connect Everyone on Earth. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 262 pp.,
$29.00 [US] cloth

Donnelly, Peter, ed., Taking Sport Seriously: Social Issues in Canadian
Sport. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1997, 320 pp.,
$24.95 paper

Dowd, Douglas, Against the Conventional Wisdom: A Primer for Current
Economic Controversies and Proposals. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1997, 198 pp., $50.00 [US] cloth, $17.00 [US] paper

Dowie, Mark, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close
of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996, 317 pp.,
$12.50 [US] paper

Dutta, Sudipt, Family Business in India. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications Inc., 1997, 268 pp., $38.95 [US] cloth

Dyck, Noel, Differing Visions: Administering Indian Residential
Schooling in Prince Albert 1867-1995. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing,
1997, 134 pp., paper

Dyrberg, Torben Bech, The Circular Structure of Power: Politics, Identity,
Community. New York: Verso, 1997, 292 pp., $20.00 [US] cloth

Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony, African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors.
Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, Inc., 1997, 181 pp., paper

Ericson, Richard, and Kevin D. Haggerty, Policing the Risk Society.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 487 pp., $65.00 cloth,
$24.95 paper

Eyler, John M., Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine 1885-1935.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 442 pp., cloth

Freeman, Chris, and Luc Soete, The Economics of Industrial Innovation.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997, 470 pp., $20.00 [US] cloth

Gehring, Thomas, and Sebastian Oberthur, eds., Internationale Umweltregime:
Unweltschutz curch Verandlungen und Vertrage. Leverkusen, Germany: Leske +
Budrich, 1997, 235 pp., 44.00 DM paper

Glassman, Ronald M., The Middle Class and Democracy in Socio-Historical
Perspective. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1995, 434 pp., paper

Goodchild, Philip, Deleuze & Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics
of Desire. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1996, 226 pp.,
$69.95 [US] cloth, $22.95 [US] paper 

Goyder, John, Technology + Society: A Canadian Perspective.
Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1997, 250 pp., paper

Gray, Chris Hables, Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict.
New York: Guilford Publications, 1997, 314 pp., $23.95 [US] cloth

Grint, Keith, and Steve Woolgar, The Machine at Work: Technology,
Work and Organization. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997,
199 pp.,  $21.95 [US] paper

Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson, Anthropological Locations:
Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press, 1997, 275 pp., paper

Haddow, Rodney S., Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978: State and Class
Influences on Policy Making. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press,
1997, 247 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper

Harcourt, Wendy, ed., Power, Reproduction and Gender: The Intergenerational 
Transfer of Knowledge. London: ZED Books, 1997, 205 pp., $35.95 paper

Hepp, Andreas, and Rainer Winter, eds., Kultur - Medien - Macht:
Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse. Opladen, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag,
1997, 298 pp., paper

Himmelstein, Jerome L., Looking Good & Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy
and Corporate Power. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997,
185 pp., paper

Hogan, Robert, John Johnson, and Stephen Briggs, eds., Handbook of
Personality Psychology. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997, 987 pp.,
$75.00 [US] paper, $150.00 [US] cloth

Hollingsworth, J. Rogers, and Robert Boyer, eds., Contemporary Capitalism:
The Embeddedness of Institutions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997,
493 pp., $59.95 [US] cloth

Inglehard, Ronald, Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic,
and Political Change in 43 Societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1997, 440 pp., $60.00 [US] cloth, $18.95 [US] paper

Janka, Franz, Die braune Gesellschaft - Ein volk wird formatiert.
Stuttgart, Germany: Quell Verlag, 1997, 496 pp., cloth

Kapferer, Judith, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian
Cultural Practice. New York: New York University Press, 1996, 300 pp.,
$47.50 [US] cloth, $19.50 [US] paper

Kawash, Samira, Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and
Singularity in African-American Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford 
University Press, 1997, 266 pp., $15.95 [US] paper

Kelly, P.T., ed., Television Violence: A Guide to the Literature. Commack,
New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1996, 237 pp., $69.00 [US] cloth

King, Gary, A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing
Individual Behaviour from Aggregate Data. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1997, 342 pp., $55.00 [US] cloth, $16.95 [US] paper

King, Gary, A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing 
Individual Behaviour from Aggreate Data. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1997, 342 pp., paper

Kjonstad, Asbjorn, and John H. Veit Wilson, eds., Law, Power and Poverty.
Bergen, Norway: Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 1997, 148 pp.,
$15.00 [US] paper

Kobos, Andrzej M., and Jolanta T. Pekacz, eds., Polonia in Alberta 1895-1995:
The Polish Centennial in Alberta. Edmonton: Polish Centennial Society, 1995,
378 pp., cloth

Kopfmuller, Jurgen, and Reinhard Coenen, eds., Risiko Klima: Der Treibhauseffekt
als Herausforderung fur Wissenschaft und Politik. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag GmbH,
1997, 324 pp., paper

Korte, Hermann, Uber Norbert Elias: Das Werden eines Menschenwissenschaftlers.
Leverkusen, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 1997, 200 pp., 28.80 DM paper

Koven, Edward L., Smoking: The Story behind the Haze. Commack, New York:
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1996, 277 pp., $34.00 [US] cloth

Kroker, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds., Digital Delirium.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1997, $19.95 paper

Lamm, Barbara, The American Constitution in Context. Commack, New York:
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1996, 227 pp., $39.00 [US] cloth

Langlois, Tish, Fault Lines: Incest Sexuality and Catholic Family Culture.
Toronto: Second Story Press, 1997, 240 pp., $18.95 paper

Lefkowitz, Bernard, Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of 
the Perfect Suburb. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997,
454 pp., $29.95 [US] cloth

Lemert, Charles, and Ann Branaman, eds., The Goffman Reader.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 285 pp., $22.95 [US] paper

Leyshon, Andrew, and Nigel Thrift, Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary
Transformation. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1997, 404 pp.,
$74.95 [US] cloth, $19.95 [US] paper

Lippert, Ekkehard, Andreas Prfert, and Gunther Wachtler, eds.,
Sicherheit in der unsicheren Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher
Verlag, 1997, 234 pp., paper

Livi-Bacci, Massimo, A Concise History of World Population.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 249 pp., $19.95 [US] paper

Loader, Brian D., ed., The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology
and Global Restructuring. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1997,
256 pp., $69.95 [US] cloth, $18.95 [US] paper

Manning, Peter K., Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing.
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., 1997, 372 pp.,
$21.95 [US] paper

Mason, Mike, Development and Disorder: A History of the Third World
Since 1945. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1997, 516 pp., $34.95 paper

McKay, Jim, Managing Gender: Affirmative Action and Organizational Power
in Australia, Canadian, and New Zealand Sport. Albany, NY: State University
of New York Press, 1997, 217 pp., paper

Midgley, Mary, Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems of Philosophical
Plumbing. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1996, 182 pp., $22.95 [US] cloth

Milkman, Ruth, Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late
Twentieth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997,
234 pp., paper

Montigny, Edgar-Andre, Foisted upon the Government? State Responsibilities,
Family Obligations, and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Late
Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 1997,
220 pp., $39.95 cloth

Morgan, Gordon D., Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European
Construct. London: Praeger Publishers, 1997, 216 pp., $57.95 [US] cloth

Mulkay, Michael, The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of
Reproduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 212 pp., $59.95 [US] cloth

Murphy, Raymond, Sociology and Nature: Social Action in Context.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 329 pp., $72.00 [US] cloth

Nancoo, Stephen E., and Robert S. Nancoo. eds., The Mass Media and Canadian
Diversity. Mississauga, ON: Canadian Educators' Press, 1997, 288 pp., paper

Nordhaus, William D., Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate
Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994, 213 pp., $32.50 [US] cloth

Okihiro, Norman R., Mounties, Moose, and Moonshine: The Patterns and
Context of Outport Crime. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997,
188 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper

Oommen, T. K., Citizenship and National Identity: From Colonialism to
Globalism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1997, 324 pp.,
$36.00 [US] cloth

Panitch, Loe, ed., Socialist Register 1997: Ruthless Criticism of All
That Exists. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1997, 381 pp., $24.95 paper

Pontone, S., Gun Control Issues. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers,
Inc., 1997, 182 pp., $69.00 [US] cloth

Prisching, Manfred, Bilder des Wohlfahrtsstaates. Marberg, Germany:
Metropolis Verlag, 1996, 318 pp., paper

Racine, Jean-Luc, ed., Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility 
Rationales in South India. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc.,
1997, 400pp., $49.95 [US] cloth

Redhead, Steve, with Derek Wynn and Justin O'Connor eds.,, The Clubcultures
Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell
Publishers, 1997, 251 pp., $21.95 [US] paper

Reimann, Helga, ed., Weltkultur und Westgesellschaft: Aspekte 
Globalen Wandels. Wiesbaden, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag,
1997,  359 pp., paper

Reinhold, Gerd, ed., Soziologie-Lexikon. Munich, Germany: R. Oldenbourg
Verlag, 1997, 750 pp., cloth

Rinehart, James, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson, Just Another
Car Factory?: Lean Production and Its Discontents. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1997, 249 pp., $37.50 [US] cloth, $14.95 [US] paper

Robinson, Laura, She Shoots, She Scores: Canadian Perspectives on Women
and Sport. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, 1997, 232 pp.,
$19.94 paper

Rocheleau, Dianne, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Esther Wangari, Feminist
Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. New York: Routledge,
Chapman and Hall, 1996, 327 pp., $65.00 [US] cloth, $19.95 [US] paper

Rochlin, Gene I., Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of
Computerization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, 310 pp.,
$29.95 [US] cloth

Rochlin, Jay M., Race & Class on Campus: Conversations with
Ricardo's Daughter. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1997,
178 pp., $24.95 [US] cloth

Rounds, Richard, ed., Changing Rural Institutions.
Brandon, MN: Rural Development Insitute, 1997, 248 pp., paper

Roy, William G., Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial
Corporation in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1997, 338 pp., cloth

Samedy, Jean Baptiste Mario, Introduction a la sociologie: Interaction
entre l'ideel et le materiel. Ottawa: LEGAS, 1997, 206 pp., paper

Sandler, Todd, Global Challenges: An Approach to Environmental, Political
and Economic Problems. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 234 pp.,
$54.95 [US] cloth

Schissel, Bernard, Blaming Children: Youth Crime, Moral Panics and the
Politics of Hate. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1997, 133 pp., $15.95 paper

Schmidheiny, Stephan, and Federico J. L. Zorraquin, Financing Change:
The Financial Community, Eco-Efficiency, and Sustainable Development.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996, 211 pp., $24.50 [US] cloth

Schmidt, Alvin J., The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America.
London: Praeger Publishers, 1997, 232 pp.,  $39.95 [US] cloth

Shepherd, John, and Peter Wicke, Music and Cultural Theory.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 230 pp., $32.95 [US] paper

Stewart, Abigail J., Anne P. Copeland, Nia Lane Chester, Janet E. Malley,
and Nicole B. Barenbaum, Separating Together: How Divorce Transforms
Families. New York: Guilford Publications, 1997, 293 pp., $36.95 [US] cloth

Strange, Carolyn, and Tina Loo, Making Good: Law and Moral Regulation in
Canada, 1867-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 169 pp.,
$45.00 cloth, $12.95 paper

Sutton, Nina, Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1997, 606 pp., $24.00 [US] paper

Sypher, Beverly Davenport, ed., Case Studies in Oganizational Communication:
Perspectives on Contemporary Work Life. New York: Guilford Publications,
1997, 403 pp., $23.95 [US] paper

Teich, Mikulas, Roy Porter, and Bo Gustafsson, eds., Nature and Society
in Historical Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997,
404 pp., $69.95 [US] cloth

Terry, Jennifer, and Melodie Calvert, eds., Processed Lives: Gender and
Technology in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1997,
248 pp., $65.00 [US] cloth, $18.95 [US] paper

Tobin, Graham A., and Burrell E. Montz, Natural Hazards: Explanation and
Integration. New York: Guilford Publications, 1997, 388 pp., $24.95 [US] paper

Townsend, Alan R., Making a Living in Europe: Human Geographies of Economic
Change. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1997, 266 pp., $69.95 [US] cloth,
$24.95 [US] paper

Turner, Bryan S., The Body & Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc.,
1996, 254 pp., $69.95 [US] paper

Vaughan, Diane, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture,
and Deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996,
590 pp., $24.95 [US] cloth

Venakhi, Shenhar, ed.,, Welfare Reform in America: Robin Hood in Reverse.
Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1997, 247 pp.,
$59.00 [US] cloth

Werking, Kathy, We're Just Good Friends: Women and Men in Nonromantic
Relationships. New York: Guilford Publications, 1997, 175 pp.,
$26.95 [US] cloth

Wobbe, Theresa, Wahlverwandschaften. Die Soziologie und die Frauen auf 
dem Weg zur Wissenschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1997, 287 pp.,
DM 58.00, paper

Wootton, A.J., Interaction and the Development of Mind.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 220 pp., $54.95 [US] cloth

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