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An English Eye:The Photographs of James Ravilious

Photographs by James Ravilious; Text by Peter Hamilton; Foreword by Alan Bennett

2nd edition, paperback, 120 pp, 113 duotones, ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-14-6, £22.95.

An English Eye will be available again from mid-August. Order now and receive FREE UK delivery on all orders placed before 24th August.

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New Publication

New Europe: Growth to Limits?

Edited by Sven Eliaeson & Nadezhda Georgieva

Foreword by Christopher G.A. Bryant

July 2010, hardback, 468pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-27-6, £125.00
Gemas Studies in Social Analysis Series

How far can the European Union be extended geographically? How far, too, can the four freedoms and the single market be developed? What are the limits to multi-level governance? What, beyond liberal democracy and a market economy, does the union stand for? On these and other questions this book's twenty plus contributions, based on a symposium at the Centre for Social Studies at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, offer readers rich food for thought.

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New Publication

Modelling Educational Choice
An Explanation of Change in French Secondary Education

By Nathalie Bulle

Foreword by Raymond Boudon

July 2010, hardback, 154pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-36-8, £50.00
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series

In this rigorous study of French secondary education during the 20th century, Nathalie Bulle provides a simulation of how pupils and their families chose amongst the streams of study available to them. Her research supports the thesis of the relative autonomy of the educational system in relation to other sub-systems of society, and is a major contribution to the sociology of education.

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Recent Publication

Three Classicists

By Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry

Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Introduction by Ruth Guilding; Afterword by Hank Dittmar

3rd May 2010, paperback, 96pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-905622-37-5, £20.00

This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition being held during May 2010 at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London of drawings and work by Ben Pentreath, George Saumarez Smith and Francis Terry. Each of the Three Classicists has contributed three essays conveying their personal observations on architecture along with beautiful illustrations of their work in sketches, presentation drawings and photographs. The catalogue also includes a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, an introduction by the architectural historian Ruth Guilding, and an afterword by Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment.

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Recent Publication

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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Forthcoming Publication

The Web of Science
Social Dynamics of Biomedical Research

By Michel Dubois


October 2010, 224pp. £60.00, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-21-4

In this new book on the sociology of stem cell and prion disease research, Michel Dubois explores the dynamics of biomedical science through a study of the networks through which scientific collaboration in this domain has developed. One of his aims is to offer an alternative to the overly simplistic view of scientific transformation popularly associated with the idea of 'technoscience'. His study develops an innovative theory directed towards the renewal of the sociology of science, that defines the main principles of a sociological approach based on scientific action and its often unintended consequences.

Forthcoming Publication

Paul F. Lazarsfeld
An Empirical Theory of Social Action

Edited by Christian Fleck and Nico Stehr
Translated by Hella Beister


September 2010
Hardback, 560pp, ISBN 978-1-905622-22-1
£150.00

The articles collected together in Paul F. Lazarsfeld, An Empirical Theory of Social Action demonstrate that many of Paul Lazarsfeld's influential intellectual and methodological concerns that were to so shape the direction of sociology as a discipline in the United States were already evident in his early writings, many of which are published here for the first time in English.
Accompanied by a detailed and illuminating biographical introduction by the editors, this collection is an important contribution to the history of sociology in the 20th century.

Other Forthcoming Publications

Ancient Korea-Japan Relations and the Nihonshoki
By Choi Jae-sok

August 2010, £45.00, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-10-8


Talcott Parsons and Modern Sociology
By Peter Hamilton & François Chazel
Revised and updated 2010 edition, incorporating an essay by François Chazel,
"The Vicissitudes of Parsons's Reception in Continental Europe"

GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series
August 2010, £TBC, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-09-2

A Defence of Common Sense: Towards a General Theory of Rationality
By Raymond Boudon
GEMAS Studies in Social Analysis Series
Autumn 2010, £TBC, hardback
ISBN 978-1-905622-07-8

Alexis de Tocqueville: Scholarly and Critical Assessments
Edited by Raymond Boudon, Françoise Melonio, Mohamed Cherkaoui
4 volumes, 1664pp approx., £TBC, hardback in slipcased box set

Alexis de Tocqueville: The Collected Work in English
Edited by Raymond Boudon, Françoise Melonio, Mohamed Cherkaoui
4-8 volumes, 1664-3328pp approx., £TBC, hardback in slipcased box set

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