Books Received CJS 24, 2 (1999)
Baert, Patrick, Social Theory in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998, 240 pp., $12.95 paper
Baltes, Paul B. and Karl Ulrich Mayer, eds., The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 552 pp., $69.95 US cloth
Banton, Michael, Racial Theories. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 253 pp., $59.95 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Bauman, Zygmunt, Globalization: The Human Consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998, 136 pp., $10.95 paper
Baumgartner, M. P., ed., The Social Organization of Law. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998, 433 pp., $49.95 US paper
Binswanger, Hans Christoph, Die Glaubensgemeinschaft der Ökonomen: Essays zur Kultur der Wirtschaft. Munich: Gerling Akademie Verlag, 1998, 130 pp., DM 32,- cloth
Bourdieu, Pierre, Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998, 108 pp., $9.95 paper
Carrier, James, G. and Daniel Miller, eds., Virtualism: A New Political Economy. New York: New York University Press, 1999, 256 pp., $19.50 US paper, $55.00 US cloth
Carroll, Barbara Wake, & David Siegal, Service in the Field: The World of Front-Line Public Servants. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, 252 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper
Clark, William A. V., The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities. New York: Guilford Publications, 1998, 224 pp., $27.95 US cloth
Dennis, Wendy, The Divorce from Hell: How the Justice System Failed a Family. Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter and Ross, 1998, 371 pp., $34.95 cloth
Dicken, Peter, Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 1998, 496 pp., $31.50 US paper
Dirks, Nicholas B., ed., In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 308 pp., paper
Edensor, Tim, Tourists at the Taj: Performance Meaning at a Symbolic Site. New York: Routledge, 1998, 223 pp., $128.00 cloth, $38.99 paper
Engeström, Yrjö, Reijo Miettinen, and Raija-Leena Punamäki, Perspectives on Activity Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 462pp., $80.00 US cloth, $32.95 US paper
Ferree, Myra Marx, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess, Revisioning Gender. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, 500 pp., $34.95 US paper
Gerling, Rolf and Otto-Peter Obermeier, eds., Risiko-Störfall-Kommunikation 2. Munich: Gerling Akademie Verlag, 1995, 136 pp., DM 36,- paper
Gerling, Rolf and Otto-peter Obermeier, eds., Risiko-Störfall-Kommunikation. Munich: Gerling Akademie Verlag, 1994, 142 pp., DM 36,- paper
Giddens, Anthony, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy Oxford: Polity Press, 1998, 166 pp., £6.95 paper.
Glasner, Peter and Harry Rothman, Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 1998, 140 pp., $55.95 US cloth
Halseth, Greg, Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural- Recreational Countryside. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, 283 pp., $60.00 cloth
Hanigan, Michael P., Leslie Page Moch, and Wayne Te Brake, eds., Challenging Authority: The Historical Study of Contentious Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 320 pp., $54.95 US cloth, $21.95 US paper
Hannigan, John, Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis. New York: Routledge, 1998, 239 pp., $31.99 paper
Heckhausen, Jutta, Developmental Regulation in Adulthood: Age-Normative and Sociostructural Constraints as Adaptive Challenges. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 250 pp., $49.95 US cloth
Hendry, Joy, ed., Interpreting Japanese Society: Anthropological Approaches. New York: Routledge, 1998, 291 pp., $128.00 cloth, $27.99 paper
Hutchison, David, Media Policy: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 248 pp., $32.95 US paper
Iacovetta, Franca and Wendy Mitchinson, eds., On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, 369 pp., $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper
Ikeda, Keiko, A Room Full of Mirrors: High School Reunions in Middle America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, 205 pp., $35.00 US cloth
Ilcan, Suzan, and Lynne Phillips, eds., Transgressing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Household, and Culture. London: Bergin and Garvey, 1998, 288 pp., $22.95 US paper
Isaac, Barry L., Research in Economic Anthropology Volume 19. Stamford, CT: Jai Press Inc., 1998, 392 pp., $78.50 US cloth
Jahr, Ernst Håkon, ed., Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, 308 pp., DM 198,- cloth
Jervis, John, Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998, 360 pp., $29.95 US paper
Katznelson, Ira, Liberalisms’s Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998, 212 pp., $14.95 US paper
Kilminster, Richard, The Sociological Revolution. New York: Routledge, 1998, 221 pp., $128.00 cloth
Lara, Maria Pia, Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999, 238 pp., $45.00 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Lash, Scott, Andrew Quick and Richard Roberts, eds., Time and Value. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998, 271 pp., $24.95 US paper
Layder, Derek, Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998, 191 pp., $42.00 US paper
Nagel, Stuart S., ed., Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management - Volume 9. Stamford, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1998, 249 pp., $78.50 US cloth
Nerlich, Michael, Abenteuer oder das verlorene Selbstverständnis der Moderne. Munich: Gerling Akademie Verlag, 1998, 400 pp., DM 58, - cloth
Porta, Donatella Della and Mario Diani, Social Movements: An Introduction. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 366 pp., paper
Pryor, Frederic L., Who’s Not Working and Why: Employment, Cognitive Skills, Wages, and the Changing U.S. Labor Market. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 300 pp., $34.95 US cloth
PuruShotam, Nirmala Srirekam, Negotiating Language, Constructing Race: Disciplining Difference in Singapore. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998, 294 pp., DM 170,- cloth
Redhead, Steven, with Derek Wynne and Justin O'Connor, The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998, 230 pp., $21.95, paper
Ritter, Gerhard A., Archiv f_r Sozial geschichte. Bonn: Verlag J. H. W. Dietz, 1997, 795 pp., DM 166,--, paper
Robinson, Gertrude J., Constructing the Quebec Referendum: French and English Media Voices. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, 262 pp., $50.00 cloth, $18.95 paper
Ross, Eric B., The Malthus Factor: A Major Critique of the Way Malthusian Thinking Has Influenced Modern Development Policy. London: Zed Books, 1998, 264 pp., $65.00 US cloth, $25.00 US paper
Rosteck, Thomas, ed., At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Theoretical Studies. New York: Guilford Publications, 1999, 382 pp., $23.95 US paper
Ruf, Gregory A., Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China 1921-1991. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, 249 pp., $49.50 US cloth
Saggers, Sherry and Dennis Gray, Dealing with Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 240 pp., $59,95 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Sarat, Austin, and Patricia Ewick, eds., Studies in Law, Politics, and Society - Volume 18. Samford, CT: JAI Press Inc., 1998, 286 pp., $78.50 US cloth
Smart, Carol, and Bren Neale, Family Fragments? Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999, 222 pp., $14.95 paper
Smith, Mark J., Ecologism: Towards Ecological Citizenship. Minneapolis: University of Minnisota Press, 1998, 107 pp., $14.95 US paper
Smyer, Michael A. and Sara H. Qualls, Aging and Mental Health. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 335 pp., $32.95 US paper
Southall, Aidan, The City in Time and Space: From Birth to Apocalypse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 473 pp., $69.95 US cloth
Sundbo, Jo, The Theory of Innovation: Entrepreneurs, Technology and Strategy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998, 220 pp., $80.00 US cloth
Torfing, Jacob, New Theories of Discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and _i_ek. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, 342 pp., $27.95 US paper
Valverde, Mariana, Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 251 pp., $59.95 US cloth, $19.95 US paper
Vance, Laura L., Seventh-day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an Emerging Religion. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, 261 pp., paper
Wellman, Barry, ed., Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, 377 pp., $75.00 cloth
Werner, Laurence A., ed., MediaSport. New York: Routledge, 1998, 336 pp., $128.00 cloth, $38.99 paper
Westhues, Kenneth, Eliminating Professors: A Guide to the Dismissal Process. Queenstown, ON: Edwin Mellon Press, 1998, 218 pp., cloth
Wilford, Rick and Robert L. Miller, eds., Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition. New York: Routledge, 1998, 212 pp., $113.00 cloth, $37.99 paper
Wolf, Eric R., Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999, 310 pp., $45.00 US cloth, $16.95 US paper
Yates, Miranda and James Youniss, eds., Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives on Community Service and Activism in Youth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 283 pp., $49.95 US cloth
