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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)

Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

By Michael Burawoy, Katherine Verdery, Sarah Ashwin, Gerald Creed, The CUNY Graduate Center

Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity

By Gerard Delanty (University of Liverpool)

Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State

By Danny Dorling

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)

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

By Anu Partanen

The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect

By Noreena Hertz

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By Stella Dadzie

Colonising Egypt

By Timothy Mitchell

The Non-Jewish Jew: And Other Essays

By Isaac Deutscher

Understanding Race

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

The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe

By Michelle P. Brown

Victorian Fiction: Contexts

By Gail Marshall

Working The American Way: How to Communicate Successfully with Americans At Work

By Robert Day

Welcome To Everytown: A Journey Into The English Mind

By Julian Baggini

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

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Understanding Globalization

By Tony Schirato, Jenn Webb

Happiness: Understandings, Narratives and Discourses

By L. Hyman

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

By Theodore Dalrymple

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

By Melanie Joy

Understanding Community: Politics, Policy and Practice

By Peter Somerville

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By Robert Putnam

Popular Culture: Past and Present

By Tony Bennett, Graham Martin, Bernard Waites

British Cultural Identities

By Mike Storry (formerly at John Moores University, UK), Peter Childs (Newman University College

Consumer Culture

By Celia Lury (Goldsmith's College, University of London)

Waste

By Dr. Brian Thill (Golden West College, USA)

Making America Complete

By Keith J. Laidler and John H. Meiser, Berkin

Modern British History: The Essential A-Z Guide

By Dr Mark Garnett, Richard Weight

The Pleasures of the Past

By Mr David Cannadine

All Dressed Up:The Sixties and the Counterculture

By Green, Jonathan