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- Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
- Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory (Theory, Culture & Society) (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
- The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism (Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences)
- Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society, 1830-1914: A Comparative Study of Birmingham and Sheffield