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The Canadian Journal of Sociology 31.4 (2006) 553-557

Books Received/Livres reçus

Afary, Janet and Kevin B. Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 346 pp., $24.00 US paper
Alexander, Jeffrey C., Bernhard Giesen, and Jason L. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 374 pp., $80.00 US cloth, $34.99 US paper
Allen, Davina and Alison Pilnick, eds., The Social Organisation of Healthcare Work. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006, 192 pp., paper
Alvarez, José Luis and Silviya Svejenova, Sharing Executive Power: Roles and Relationships at the Top. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 290 pp., $80.00 US cloth, $34.99 US paper
Angel, Ronald J., Laura Lein, and Jane Henrici, Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 254 pp., $70.00 US cloth, $27.99 US paper
Appadurai, Arjun, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, 176 pp., $18.95 US paper
Baber, Walter F. and Robert V. Bartlett, Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, 288 pp., $24.00 US cloth
Bainbridge, William Sims and Mihail C. Ropco, eds., Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society. Newark, NJ: Springer, 2006, 390 pp., $129.00 US cloth
Bayer, Peter, Religions in Global Society. London: Routledge, 2006, 323 pp., paper
Bebchuk, Lucian and Jesse Fried, Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation. Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2006, 278 pp., $18.95 US paper
Beck, Ulrich, Power in the Global Age. Cambridge: Polity, 2005, 365 pp., $26.95 US paper
Beck, Ulrich, Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge: Polity, 2006, 201 pp., $24.95 US paper
Behan, Pamela, Solving the Health Care Problem: How Other Nations Succeeded and Why the United States Has Not. Albany, NY: SUNY, 2006, 171 pp., $60.00 US cloth
Bernhard, William and David Leblang, Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 257 pp., $70.00 US cloth, $24.99 US paper
Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thévenot, On Justification: Economics of Worth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 389 pp., $39.50 US paper
Carroll, Patrick, Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006, 275 pp., $45.00 US cloth
Cerulo, Karen A., Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 336 pp., $73.00 US cloth, $29.00 US paper [End Page 553]
Cheng, Shu-Ju Ada, Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 288 pp., $75.00 US cloth
della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca, and Herbert Reiter, Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, 300 pp., $25.00 US paper
Duchastel, Jules and Raphaël Canet, eds., Crise de l'État, revanche des sociétés. Outrement, QC: Athéna Éditions, 2006, 402 pp., paper
Duina, Francesco, The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and MERCOSUR. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 249 pp., $35.00 US cloth
Dutton, Donald G., Rethinking Domestic Violence. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006, 432 pp., $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper
Ericsson, K. Anders, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, and Robert R. Hoffman, The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 901 pp., $130.00 US cloth, $65.00 US paper
Ferree, Myra Marx and Ali Mari Tripp, eds., Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press. 2006, 325 pp., $23.00 US paper
Festenstein, Matthew, Negotiating Diversity. Cambridge: Polity, 2005, 197 pp., $26.95 US paper
Fournier, Marcel, Marcel Mauss: A Biography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, 442 pp., $35.00 US cloth
Gibson-Graham, J.K., A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press...

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