Polity Press

Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crises of the Liberal World

By Alex Callinicos (King s College, London)

Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

By Adam Swift

The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity

By Martin Albrow (State University of New York - Stony Brook)

Disorganized Capitalism

By Claus Offe

Democracy and Human Rights

By David Beetham (University of Leeds)

Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492-1800

By Urs Bitterli, R. Robertson

Children of Social Worlds

By Martin Richards, Paul Light

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

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

The Art of Life

By Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)

Social Theory and the Environment

By David Goldblatt (Open University)

Sociology

By Anthony Giddens

The Sociology of Work: An Introduction

By Keith Grint

Global Social Problems

By Vic George (University of Kent at Canterbury), Robert M. Page (University of Birmingham)

Comparative Politics in a Globalizing World

By Jeffrey Haynes (London Metropolitan University)

The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age

By Hans-Georg Gadamer (University of Heidelberg)

Have Bacteria Won?

By Hugh Pennington

Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture

By Paul Hirst (Birkbeck College, University if London)

Studies in the Theory of Ideology

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

Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies

By Russell J. Dalton, Manfred Kuecheler, Manfred Kuechler (Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, New York City, USA)