Copyright Sociological Research Online, 1996

 

Books Received - Volume 1, Issue 4

Inclusion in this list does not pre-empt a review appearing in Sociological Research Online.

Bergvall, Victoria L., Bing, Janet M. & Freed, Alice, F.
Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice. Addison Wesley Longman: Harlow, 1996, ISBN 0 582 26573 8, xii + 304 pp.

Care, Norman S.
Living with ones Past: Personal Fates and Moral Pain. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, 1996, ISBN 0 8476 8237 4 (pb); 0 8476 8236 6 (hb), $22.95 (pb); $57.50 (hb), 248 pp.

Duke, Vic & Crolley, Liz
Football, Nationality and the State. Addison Wesley Longman: Harlow, 1996, ISBN 0 582 29306 5, £10.99, xii + 164 pp.

Duncan, Nancy
BodySpace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. Routledge: London, 1996, ISBN 0 415 14442 6 (pb), £14.99, x + 278 pp.

Gambetta, Diego
Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, ISBN 0 8133 3154 4, £16.95, x + 235 pp.

Harrison, Taylor, Projansky, Sara, Ono, Kent & Helford, Elyce Rae (editors)
Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, ISBN 0 8133 2899 3 (pb); 0 8133 2898 5 (hb), £11.00/US$ 16.50/CA$ 23.00 (pb); £51.50 (hb), x + 303 pp.

Hunt, Alan
Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law. Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1996, ISBN 0 333 63332 6, £45.00, xx + 466 pp.

Johnson, Eric A. & Monkkonen, Eric H.
The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town & Country since the Middle Ages. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1996, ISBN 0 252 06546 8 (pb), $45.95 (hb); $17.95 (pb), 290 pp.

Lewis, Suzan & Lewis, Jeremy (editors)
The Work-Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment. London: Sage, 1996, ISBN 0 8039 7469 8 (pb); 0 8039 7468 X (hb), £12.95 (pb), xiv + 175 pp.

Lynch, Michael & Bogen, David
The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings. Duke University Press: Durham, CA, 1996, ISBN 0 8223 1738 9 (pb); 0 8223 1729 X (hb), £17.95(pb); £47.50 (hb), xi + 350 pp.

Marris, Robin
How to Save the Undercalass. Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1996, ISBN 0 333 66950 9, £12.99, viii + 230 pp.

Mason, Jennifer
Qualitative Researching. Sage Publications: London, 1996, ISBN 0 8039 8986 5, 11.95, 180 pp.

McDaniel, Tim
The Agony of the Russian Idea. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1996, ISBN 0 691 02786 2, x + 205 pp.

Morawski, Stefan
The Troubles with Postmodernism. Routledge: London, 1996, ISBN 0 415 09386 4 (hb), £40.00, xv + 138 pp.

Philo, Greg (editor)
Media and Mental Distress. Addison Wesley Longman: Harlow, 1996, ISBN 0 582 29219 0, £10.99, xv + 135 pp.

Pilkington, Hilary (editor)
Gender, Generation and Identity in Contemporary Russia. Routledge: London, 1996, ISBN 0 415 13544 3 (pb), £14.99, xiii + 306 pp.

Porter, Roy
London: A Social History. Penguin: London, 1994, ISBN 0 14 024238 4, £15.00; AUS$25.00, xvi + 432 pp.

Sapsford, Roger & Jupp, Victor (editors)
Data Collection and Analysis. Sage Publications: London, 1996, ISBN 0 7619 5046 X (pb); 0 7619 5054 1 (hb), £14.95 (pb); £42.40 (hb), xxii + 360 pp.

Sollors, Werner (editor)
Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader. Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1996, ISBN 0 333 64296 1 (pb); 0 333 65616 4 (hb), £16.99 (pb); £45.00 (hb), liii + 502 pp.

Spain, Daphne & Bianchi, Suzanne
Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment Among American Women. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996, ISBN 0 87154 815 1 (pb), $16.95 (pb); $39.95 (hb), xv + 240 pp.

Taylor, Ian, Evans, Karen & Fraser, Penny
A Tale of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everyday Life in the North of England. A Study in Manchester and Sheffield. Routledge: London, 1996, ISBN 0 415 13829 9, £17.99, xxii + 392 pp.

Tiles, Mary & Oberdiek, Hans
Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values. Routledge: London, 1995, ISBN 0 415 07100 3 (hb), £37.50, xi + 212 pp.

Towner, John
An Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism in the Western World 1540 - 1940. Wiley: Chichester, 1996, ISBN 0 471 94990 6, £34.95, viii + 312 pp.

Um, Shin Ja
Korean Immigrant Women in the Dallas-Area Apparel Industry: Looking for Feminist Threads in Patriarchal Cloth. University Press of America: Lanham, Maryland, 1996, ISBN 0 7618 0463 3, $29.50 (hb), 166 pp.

Wooden, Wayne S.
Return to Paradise: Continuity and Change in Hawaii. University Press of America: Lanham, Maryland, 1995, ISBN 0 8191 9919 2 (hb); 0 8191 9920 6 (pb), $49.50 (hb); $24.50 (pb), 176 pp.