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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)

Child Well-Being: Understanding Children's Lives

By Sylda Langford, Peter Pecora, Markell Harrison-Jackson, Asher Ben-Arieh, John Rowlands

Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan

By Alan Booth

Should We Control World Population?

By Diana Coole (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Foucault, Health and Medicine

By Bunton, Robin, Petersen, Alan

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

By Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)

Secular Cycles

By Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

By Anu Partanen

Couples, Sex and Power

By Dallos

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality

By Eyal Press

Understanding Race

By Rob DeSalle (American Museum of Natural History, New York), Ian Tattersall (American Museum of Natural History

Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics

By Michael Barnett, Martha Finnemore

A Crash Course in SPSS for Windows

By Rod Corston, Andrew M. Colman

Sociology Themes and Perspectives

By Michael Haralambos, Martin Holborn

Little Failure: A memoir

By Gary Shteyngart

Planning a Research Project: Guide for Practitioners and Trainees in the Helping Professions

By Martin Herbert

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Youth, The `Underclass' and Social Exclusion

By Robert MacDonald