books by subject

Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

Unequal Europe: Social Divisions and Social Cohesion in an Old Continent

By James Wickham (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Handbook of Quality of Life in the Enlarged European Union

By Jens Alber (Free University, Berlin, Germany), Tony Fahey (The Economic & Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland), Chiara Saraceno

The European Union and the Social Dimension of Globalization: How the EU Influences the World

By Jan Orbie, Lisa Tortell

The Health of People: How the social sciences can improve population health

By Campaign for Social Science

Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation

By Wiebke Keim, Ercument Celik, Veronika Woehrer

A City's Architecture: Aberdeen as 'Designed City'

By William Alvis Brogden

Welfare States in the 21st Century: The New Five Giants Confronting Societal Progress

By Ian Greener

Poverty in Transition Economies

By Sandra Hutton, Gerry Redmond

Health and Health Care in the New Russia

By Nataliya Tikhonova, Nick Manning

Comparative Anomie Research: Hidden Barriers - Hidden Potential for Social Development

By Peter Atteslander, Bettina Gransow, John Western (all of the Swiss Institute for Development, Biel, Switzerland)

Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity

By Gerard Delanty (University of Liverpool)

Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism

By Douglas Kellner

Social work: Voices from the inside

By Cree, Viviene E.

Thinking Sociologically

By Zygmunt Bauman, Tim May

Theories of Power and Domination: The Politics of Empowerment in Late Modernity

By Angus Stewart

The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice

By Franklin, Bob

In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

By Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market

By Sheila Kamerman, Peter Moss

Why We Need a New Welfare State

By Gosta Esping-Andersen (, Professor of Sociology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

What Children Need

By Jane Waldfogel

Children's Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy

By Nancy E. Walker, Catherine M. Brooks, Lawrence S. Wrightsman

Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture

By Naomi Cahn (Research Professor of Law, Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC), June Carbone (Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society, Chair of Law, University of Missouri-Kan...

Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

By June Carbone (Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology, Robina Chair of Law, University of Minnesota), Naomi Cahn (Harold H. Greene Professor, Harold H. Greene Professor, George Washington University Law School)