Anthropology & Sociology Biographies

Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967

By Ilana Feldman

Transnational Religion And Fading States

By Susanne H Rudolph, James Piscatori

Modern Afghanistan: The Impact of 40 Years of War

By M. Nazif Shahrani, Sonia Ahsan, Parul Bakhshi, Bashir Ahmed Ansari, Just Boedeker

Space and Mobility in Palestine

By Julie Peteet

Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa

By Stefano Ponte

Rural Households in Emerging Societies: Technology and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Margaret Haswell, Diana Hunt

Corporate Governance: What Can Be Learned From Japan?

By Simon Learmount (, Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge)

World Population at the Turn of the Century

By United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs

White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa

By Randall M. Packard

On Islam: Muslims and the Media

By Hilary E. Kahn, Rosemary Pennington, Arsalan Iftikhar, Peter Gottschalk, Zarqa Nawaz

Social Capital and Associations in European Democracies: A Comparative Analysis

By William A. Maloney (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK), Sigrid Rossteutscher (University of Mannheim, Germany)

The Sociology of the Third World: Disparity and Involvement

By J. E. Goldthorpe

The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity

By Barry Smart

Textual Analysis: A Beginner's Guide

By Alan McKee

Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story

By Gabriele Vom Bruck

AIDS in Africa

By Tony Barnett, Piers M. Blaikie

The Demographic Revolution

By Jane McLoughlin

Shari'a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics

By Robert W. Hefner, Anver Emon, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Zakia Salime, Malika Zeghal

The International Handbook of Sociology

By Stella R. Quah, Arnaud Sales

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

By Attiya Ahmad

Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance

By Shabnam J. Holliday

Youth and Revolution in the Changing Middle East, 1908-2014

By Haggai Erlich

Lessons in Leadership: Meeting the Challenges of Public Service Management

By Eileen Milner, Paul Joyce (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Organizing for Collective Action: The Political Economies of Associations

By David Knoke

NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning

By Alnoor Ebrahim (Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution

By Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Malmoe University, Sweden)

The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

By Nasser Abufarha

Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900

By Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsen, Heather Bursheh, David A. McDonald, Issa Boulos

Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank

By Yael Berda

Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

By Dawn Chatty