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Peace Processes
Wiley 2013; US$ 28.95Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can identify those factors that help to stabilize them. The book draws a distinction between the political and social dimensions of peace processes, arguing that each is dependent on the other. Consideration... more...
The Sinews of Power
Taylor and Francis 1989; US$ 143.00`The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review more...
The American Leonardo
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99In 1919 a returning World War I veteran named Harry Hahn and his French bride attempted to sell what they thought was a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in New York. Renowned art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen declared the picture-La Belle Ferronniere-a fake without ever seeing the canvas. The Hahns sued Duveen for slander, setting off a legal battle that would... more...
Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 46.00This book is a reappraisal of English politics in the first decade of George III's reign. more...
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 60.00'If you want to understand how British culture reinvented itself in the eighteenth century, read The Pleasures of the Imagination ... Like all really original achievements it makes us sharply rethink things we supposed we knew well, but it does so with humour and humanity, and through the text runs Brewer's remarkable intellect: forceful, lucid... more...
The Public Value of the Social Sciences
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 30.99What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of... more...
C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 145.00This book has two aims: to clarify the meaning of C. Wright Mills's depiction of the sociological imagination; and to use this to develop a sociological framework that assists in understanding the process by which communal violence has ended in Northern Ireland and South Africa. The contrast between these two societies is a familiar one, but the book... more...
The A-Z of Social Research
SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 64.00This refreshing book on social research methods understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and supplies an authoritative study guide to the field. It will fulfil a long-standing need in undergraduate research methods courses for an unpatronising, reliable aid to making sense of research methods. more...
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 64.00Anti-Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a sociology process as a theological dispute. It was given a Scriptural underpinning in the history of Protestant-Catholic relations in Ireland, and wider British-Irish... more...
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this book explores religious influences upon violence and peace, and develops a model for evaluating the role of religion in transitional justice. more...









