Copyright Sociological Research Online, 2000


Books Received - Volume 5, Issue 3

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Adams, Rebecca G; Robert Sardiello (Editors)
Deadhead Social Science: You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want to Know
AltaMira Press: Walnut Creek, CA, (2000), 0742502511 (pb), £17.82 (pb), 299 pp.

Ahmed, Sara
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415201853 (pb), £16.99 (pb), xii + 212 pp.

Cipriani, Roberto
Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction
Aldine de Gruyter: New York, (2000), 0202305929 (pb), ix + 278 pp.

Davies, Martin (Editor)
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work
Blackwell Publishers: Oxford, (2000), 0631214518 (pb), £24.96 (pb), xviii + 412 pp.

Davies, Penelope J.E
Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521632366 (hb), £50.00; $80.00 (hb), 265 pp.

Dodge, Martin
Mapping Cyberspace
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415198844 (pb), £23.56 (pb), x + 260 pp.

Drori, Israel
The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry
Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, (2000), 0804737878 (pb), £13.53 (pb), 278 pp.

Edwards, Tim
Contradictions of Consumption: Concepts, Practices and Politics in Consumer Society
Open University Press: Buckingham, (1999), 0335199178 (pb), 0335199186 (hb), £15.99 (pb), £50.00 (hb), 204 pp.

Gillies, James; Robert Cailliau
How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web
Oxford University Press: Oxford, (2000), 0192862073 (pb), £8.99 (pb), xii + 372 pp.

Goldblatt, David
Knowledge and the Social Sciences Theory, Method and Practice
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415222869 (pb), £11.99 (pb), viii + 165 pp.

Gordon, Bruce and Peter Marshall (Editors)
Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521645182 (pb), £15.95 (pb), xiii + 324 pp.

Held, David
Globalizing World? Culture, Economics, Politics
Routledge: London, (2000), 041522294X (pb), £11.99 (pb), 188 pp.

Hopkins, David
After Modern Art 1945-2000
Oxford University Press: Oxford, (2000), 019284234X (pb), £9.99; $17.95 (pb), 282 pp.

Inglis, Fred
Delicious History of the Holiday
Routledge: London, (2000), 041513305x (pb), £19.99 (pb), xi +206 pp.

Jacobs, Ronald N.
Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society: From Watts to Rodney King
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521625785 (pb), 052162360X (hb), £13.95; $21.95 (pb), £37.50; $59.95 (hb), xii + 189 pp.

Kingston, Paul W.
The Classless Society
Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, (2000), 0804738068 (pb), £13.53 (pb), xviii + 258 pp.

Lamont, Michele and Laurent Thevenot (Editors)
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521787947 (pb), £17.82 (pb), xv + 375 pp.

Lawler, Steph
Mothering the Self: Mothers, Daughters, Subjects
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415170842 (pb), £16.99 (pb), ix + 229 pp.

Lee-Treweek, Geraldine; Stephanie Linkogle (Editors)
Danger in the Field: Risk and Ethics in Social Research
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415193222 (pb), £16.99 (pb), x + 212 pp.

Lembo, Ron
Thinking through Television
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521585775 (pb), 0521584655 (hb), £12.95; $19.95 (pb), £35.00; $54.95 (hb), xiii + 254 pp.

Lenskyj, Helen Jefferson
Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics and Activism
New York University Press: New York, (2000), 0791447561 (pb), xxi + 216 pp.

Lepper, Georgia
Categories in Text and Talk
Sage Publications: London, (2000), 0761956662 (hb), £39.50 (hb), xii + 211 pp.

Luff, Paul; Jon Hindmarsh; Christian Heath (Editors)
Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521598214 (pb), 0521591864 (hb), £17.82 (pb), xvi + 283 pp.

McMullen, Michael
The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity
Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, (2000), 0813528364 (pb), £20.71 (pb), xvi + 246 pp.

Menjivar, Cecilia
Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, (2000), 0520222113 (pb), 0520222105 (hb), £12.50; $19.95 (pb), £30.00; $48.00 (hb), 319 pp.

O'Reilly, Karen
The British on the Costa del Sol: Transnational Identitiesm and Local Communities
Routledge: London, (2000), 1841420476 (pb), £16.99 (pb), 187 pp.

Quah, Stella R and Arnaud Sales
The International Handbook of Sociology
Sage Publications: London, (2001), 0761968881 (hb), £69.00 (hb), 568 pp.

Russell, Diana E.H and Rebecca M. Bolen
The Epidemic of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in the United States
Sage Publications: London, (2000), 076190302X (pb), 0761903011 (hb), xvii + 318 pp.

Stafford, Charles
Separation and Reunion in Modern China
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, (2000), 0521784344 (pb), viii + 202 pp.

Stark, Rodney; Roger Finke
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion
University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, (2000), 0520222024 (pb), 0520222016 (hb), £11.95; $18.95 (pb), £30.00; $48.00 (hb), 343 pp.

Stevenson, Robert J

University of Illinois Press: Champaign, IL, (2000), 025206934X (pb), $14.95 (pb), 429.95 (hb), 265 pp.

Taggart, Paul
Populism: Concepts in the Social Sciences
Open University Press: Buckingham, (2000), 0335200451 (pb), 033520046X (hb), £11.99 (pb), £42.00 (hb), vii + 128 pp.

Zalewski, Marysia
Feminism after Postmodernism: Theorising through Practice
Routledge: London, (2000), 0415234611 (pb), £13.99 (pb), xi + 162 pp.