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Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations

By Geert Hofstede

Canada Rediscovered

By Robert McGhee, Gilles Archambault, Francis Black

A New Forest Christmas

By Georgina Babey

Questions of Third Cinema

By Jim Pines, Paul Willemen

Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope

By F. R. Leavis

Settling the Score: A Journey Through the Music of the Twentieth Century

By Michael Oliver

The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes

By Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar, Matt Watson

Global Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences: Made in Circulation

By Wiebke Keim, Ercument Celik, Veronika Woehrer

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