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The Canadian Journal of Sociology 31.3 (2006) 399-402


Books Received/Livres reçus
Alaggia, Ramona and Cathy Vine, eds., Cruel but Not Unusual: Violence in Canadian Families. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006, 640 pp., $38.95 paper
Alatas, Syed Farid, Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism. London: Sage Publications, 2006, 227 pp., $60.00 US cloth
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 374 pp., $40.95 US paper
Antonelli, Cristiano, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller, eds., New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006, 485 pp., $160.00 cloth
Badinter, Elisabeth, Dead End Feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006, 126 pp., paper
Bauman, Zygmunt, Work, Consumerism and the New Poor, 2nd ed. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2005, 131 pp., paper
Becker, Howard S., Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 248 pp., $62.00 US cloth, $24.00 US paper
Behling, Katja, Martha Freud: A Biography. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005, 206 pp., $29.95 US cloth
Bills, Barry K. and William R. Thompson, eds., Globalization and Global History. Abdingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006, 302 pp., paper
Blake, Raymond B. and Jeffrey A. Keshen, eds., Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt: The Development of Social Policy in Canada. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2006, 538 pp., $34.95 paper
Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thévenot, On Justification: Economies of Worth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 400 pp., $85.00 US cloth, $39.50 US paper
Braidotti, Rosi, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006, 307 pp., $69.96 US cloth
Bugh, Glenn, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 371 pp., $80.00 US cloth, $29.99 US paper
Burke, Peter, History and Social Theory, 2nd edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006, 224 pp., $55.00 US cloth, $21.95 US paper
Chancer, Lynn S., and Beverly Xaviera Watkins, Gender, Race, and Class: An Overview. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 159 pp., $27.95 US paper
Cohen, Sande and R. L. Rusky, eds., Consumption in an Age of Information. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2005, 184 pp., paper
Cranford, Cynthia J., Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko, Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 266 pp., $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper [End Page 399]
Crompton, Rosemary, Employment and the Family: The Reconfiguration of Work and Family Life in Contemporaty Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 244 pp., $34.95 US paper
Cuthbert, Alexander R., The Form of Cities: Political Economy and Urban Design. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 304 pp., $34.95 US paper
Dauvergne, Peter, ed., Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, 538 pp., $215.00 US cloth
de la Pradelle, Michèle, Market Day in Provence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 286 pp., $35.00 US cloth
Easterlin, Richard A., The Reluctant Economist Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 284 pp., $75.00 US cloth, $29.00 US paper
Emerson, Michael O., People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 264 pp., $24.95 US cloth
Farah, Iffat and Barbara Jaworski, eds., Partnerships in Educational Development. Oxford: Symosium Books, 2006, 272 pp., £24.00 paper
Feenstra, Robert C. and Gary G. Hamilton, Emergent Economies, Divergent Paths: Economic Organization and International Trade in South Korea and Taiwan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 462 pp., $85.00 US cloth
Firebaugh, Glenn, The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2006, 272 pp., $17.95 US paper
Fong, Eric, ed., Inside the Mosaic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 260 pp., $55.00 cloth
Gauvreau, Michael, The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's...

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