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College of the Liberal Arts

Faculty Books

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Alan Booth and Ann C. Crouter (Eds). 2008. Disparities in School Readiness. Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Amato, Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers. 2007. Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Schoen, Dynamic Population Models. 2007. Springer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duane F. Alwin. 2007. Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement. John Wiley & Sons.

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica (Eds). 2006. Comparative Methods in the Social Sciences. 4 volumes. London: Sage Publications.

 

 

 

 

Ann Crouter and Alan Booth (Eds). 2006. Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities. Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica and Stephen Turner (Eds). 2005. The Disobedient Generatioin: Social Theorists in the Sixties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darrell Steffensmeier and Jeffery T. Ulmer. 2005. Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction-Aldine. 

Winner of the 2006 Michael Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wayne D. Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth (Eds.). 2005. On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica (Eds). 2004. Social Thought: From the Enlightment to the Present. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. London: Pearson Education, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Crouter and Alan Booth (Eds). 2004. Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and Their Children. Lawrence Erlbaum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica. 2004. Max Weber and the New Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica. 2004. Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glenn Firebaugh. 2003. The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Crouter and Alan Booth (Eds). 2003. Children’s Influence on Family Dynamics. Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roger Finke and Rodney Stark. 1992. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Paperback, 1993; Second Printing, 1994; Third Printing, 1997; Fourth Printing, 2000, Fifth Printing, 2002)


Received the 1993 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard B. Felson. 2002. Violence & Gender Reexamined. American Psychological Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Booth and Ann Crouter (Eds). 2002. Just Living Together: Implications of Cohabitation on Families, Children, and Social Policy.  Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monahan, J., Steadman, H. J., Eric Silver,, Appelbaum, P. S., Robbins, P. C., Mulvey, E. P., Roth, L. H., Grisso, T., & Banks, Steven. 2001. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence. Oxford University Press.

Winner of the 2002 Manfred Guttmacher Award, American Psychiatric Association.

 

 

 

 

 

Benedetto Croce with introduction by Alan Sica. 2002. The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Booth, Ann Crouter, and Mari Clements (Eds). 2001. Couples in Conflict. Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rodney Stark and Roger Finke. 2000. Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side ofReligion.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 


Chinese translation published by the People's University Press of China, 2004.  Translated by Fenggang Yang.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica (Eds). 2000. The Unknown Weber: Essays of Paul Honigsheim. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Paperback edition, 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ross Thompson and Paul R. Amato (Eds). 1999. The Postdivorce Family: Children, Parenting, and Society. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica (Eds). 1998. What is Social Theory?: The Philosophical Debates. Malden, MA/Oxord, England: Blackwell Publishers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Amato and Alan Booth. 1997. Generation at Risk: Growing Up in an Era of Family Upheaval. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica (Eds). 1997. Ideologies and the Corruption of Thought: Selected Essays of Joseph Gabel. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Booth and Judy Dunn. 1994. Stepfamilies: Who Benefits? Who does Not? Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duane Alwin, Ronald L. Cohen, and Theodore M. Newcomb. 1991. Political Attitudes Over the Life Span - The Bennington Women after Fifty Years. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Sica. 1988. Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Revised paperback edition published in 1990.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Shapiro and Alan Sica (Eds). 1984. Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Paperback edition published in 1988.