Polity Press

The Enigma of the Gift

By Maurice Godelier

The Nation-State and Violence

By Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)

What is a Social Movement?

By Hank Johnston (San Diego State University)

The Polity Reader in Social Theory

By Polity

Political Argument in a Polarized Age: Reason and Democratic Life

By Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse

The Sexual Exploitation of Children

By Judith Ennew

The Sexual Exploitation of Children

By Judith Ennew

Child Sexual Abuse

By J. S. La Fontaine

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

By Megan Vaughan

In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology

By Pierre Bourdieu (College de France)

Citizenship and National Identity

By David l. Miller

The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy

By PETER BURKE

Fundamentalism

By Steve Bruce

New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era

By Mary Kaldor

Engendering Democracy

By Anne Phillips

Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time

By Barbara Adam

The Third Way and its Critics

By Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Political Scandal: Power and Visability in the Media Age

By John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge)

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

By Gosta Esping-Andersen (European University Institute, Florence)

Introduction to British Politics

By John Dearlove, Peter Saunders (Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne)

States and Power

By Richard Lachmann

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power

By Alex De Waal

Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture

By Paul Hirst (Birkbeck College, University if London)

The Art of Life

By Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)

Understanding Organizations

By Howard Lune (Associate Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY)

The Postcolonial Novel

By Richard Lane (Malaspina University-College, Canada)

Have Bacteria Won?

By Hugh Pennington

Studies in the Theory of Ideology

By John B. Thompson (University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge)

Bioinformation

By Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough

Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics

By Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht/Birkbeck College University of London)