Professions, work, organizations

• Amenta, Edwin: Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park • Read an excerpt
• Baker, Tom: Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility
• Bearman, Peter: Doormen • Read an excerpt
• Birkeland, Peter M.: Franchising Dreams: The Lure of Entrepreneurship in America • Read an interview with the author.
• Bosk, Charles L.: Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 2nd Edition
• Collins, Harry: Rethinking Expertise
• Collins, Jane L.: Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
• Desmond, Matthew: On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters
• Epstein, Steven: Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research • Read an excerpt
• Farrell, Michael P.: Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work
• Fine, Gary Alan: Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction
• Frank, Arthur W.: The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, Medicine, and How to Live
• Freidson, Eliot: Professionalism, the Third Logic: On the Practice of Knowledge
• Frumkin, Peter: Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy
• Greeley, Andrew M.: Priests: A Calling in Crisis • Read an excerpt.
• Halpern, Sydney A.: Lesser Harms: The Morality of Risk in Medical Research
• Harper, Douglas: Changing Works: Visions of a Lost AgricultureRead an interview with the author.
• Hart, Stephen: Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics: Styles of Engagement among Grassroots Activists • Read an excerpt.
• Hassel, Anke: Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro: A New Role for the State
• Healy, Kieran: Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs
• Heinz, John P.: Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
• Kessler, Ronald C.: Health and Work Productivity: Making the Business Case for Quality Health Care
• Krinsky, John: Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism
• Levine, Donald N.: Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America
• Lortie, Dan C.: Schoolteacher: A Sociological Study, With a new Preface
• Manning, Peter K.: Policing Contingencies
• Marwell, P. Nicole: Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City
• Marx, Ive: A New Social Question?: On Minimum Income Protection in the Postindustrial Era
• McLaughlin, Milbrey W.: Professional Communities and the Work of High School Teaching
• Miller, Laura J.: Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption • Read an excerpt.
• Ostrower, Francie: Trustees of Culture: Power, Wealth, and Status on Elite Arts Boards
• Polletta, Francesca: Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
• Powell, Walter W.: The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
• Stinchcombe, Arthur L.: When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations
• Strolovitch, Z. Dara: Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics
• Timmermans, Stefan: Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths • Read an excerpt.
• Vaughan, Diane: The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
• Weeks, John R.: Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank
• Wieviorka, Michel: The Making of Terrorism
• Zaloom, Caitlin: Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London • Read an excerpt.
• Zussman, Robert: Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession