Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology

Edited by Mohamed Cherkaoui and Peter Hamilton

5th October 2009, hardback, 4 volumes in slipcase, 1624pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-18-4, £525.00

This 4-volume Festschrift has been prepared to celebrate the life and work of Raymond Boudon (b. 1934). It provides 83 articles by a cross-section of the world's leading sociologists, social scientists and philosophers who offer analytical essays that explore and evaluate aspects of his many contributions to the understanding of contemporary society.

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The Economic Consequences of Mr. Brown
How a Strong Government was Defeated by a Weak System of Governance
By Stein Ringen

14 September 2009, Paperback, £5.95, ISBN 978-1-905622-24-5

In The Economic Consequences of Mr. Brown, Professor Ringen, Oxford's Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, analyses the economic policies of New Labour from fiscal management to outcomes in child poverty, health, crime, education, and inequality.

From 1997 to 2007, Britain had a government of exceptional strength. Its failures have nothing to do with the credit crunch that followed.

By any ordinary political logic, this government should have succeeded in putting its mark on British life and society. In fact, its story is a tragic one. It tells how a government that had everything going for it, and that should have represented a break with the past, came to rule in a continuation of the discredited regime it had ousted.

Family and Housing
Recent Trends in France and Southern Europe
Edited by Catherine Bonvalet, Valérie Laflamme, Denise Arbonville
Foreword by Yves Grafmeyer     Translated by Zoé Andreyev

16 March 2009, 344pp, 234 x 156mm
Hardback, £70.00, ISBN 978-1-905622-19-1

This important new comparative research study of housing and family is distinctive because it takes France and southern Europe as its focus.

France is conventionally compared with northern European societies because of similarities in economic and industrial development, the role of the state, and demographic characteristics. This ignores cultural and social similarities between France and the societies of southern Europe, united by shared Latin heritage, recent urbanisation, attachment to the rural world and values of family solidarity.

The authors of this groundbreaking study of family and housing patterns in France compared with Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Romania offer novel insights into key social and population changes of the last century.

Solsbury Hill
Chronicle of a Road Protest
by Adrian Arbib : Foreword by George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth

February 2009, 84pp, 217 x 210mm
Hardback, £19.95, ISBN 978-1-905622-20-7

In 1994 Adrian Arbib had privileged access to photograph the events on the Solsbury hill road protest, from the often violent actions taken by the private security guards to the quieter moments of life in the trees. His work is a unique record of an important moment in British political history when a peaceable ­political movement changed government transport policy.

DOWN THE DEEP LANES
Text by Peter Beacham : Photographs by James Ravilious

June 2008, 148pp, 300mm x 225mm, 93 Photographs
Paperback, £19.95, ISBN 978-1-905622-16-0
Hardback, £39.95, ISBN 978-1-905622-15-3

James Ravilious’s stunning photography and Peter Beacham’s wonderfully perceptive text take the reader on a journey down Devon’s deep lanes into the heart of a countryside not usually acknowledged by guidebooks. What is described, illustrated and celebrated here is the stuff of everyday existence in the rural south west – the lane, field and farmstead, the orchard and the vegetable garden, cob and corrugated iron, and the all pervading weather.

The Web of Science
Social Dynamics of Biomedical Research
By Michel Dubois

July 2009, 224pp. £60.00, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-21-4

Paul F. Lazarsfeld
An Empirical Theory of Social Action
Edited by Christian Fleck and Nico Stehr
Translated by Hella Beister

October 2009
Hardback, 560pp, ISBN 978-1-905622-22-1
£125.00