Book Reviews: A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England,the Sight of Sound: Music,Representation,and the History of the Body,the Authority of the Consumer,Space,Place and Gender,Ecological Feminism,Gendered Work: Sexuality,Family and the Labour Market,the Social and Political Economy of the Household,Skill and Occupational Change,Privatization and Popular Capitalism,Educational Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach,Gendered Education: Sociological Reflections on Women,Teaching and Feminism,the Importance of Disappointment,Sport and Leisure in Social Thought,the Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,Raymond Williams: Making Connections,Postmodernism and Social Inquiry,the Poverty of Postmodernism,Insight and Solidarity. The Discourse Ethics of Jürgen Habermas

Bauman Zygmunt , (1988), Freedom, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Belk Russell W. , (1988), ‘Third World Consumer Culture’, in Research in Marketing, Supplement 4: Marketing and Development: Toward Broader Dimensions, New York: JAI Press, pp. 103–127.

Belk Russell W. , (1992), ‘Attachment to Possessions' Chapter 3 in Altman Irwin Low Setha M. , (eds), Place Attachment, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 37–62.

Blundell V. Shepherd J. Taylor I. , (1993), Relocating Cultural Studies, London: Routledge.

Campbell Colin , (1987), The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Falk Pasi , (1993), ‘Selling Good(s): Desire in the City’, paper presented at the Fourth International Symposium on the Sociology of Consumption, Helsinki, Finland, 14–19 June, 1993.

O'Brien M. , (1991), ‘Is this your Lifestyle? Sociology and the Synthetic Consumer’, paper presented at the BSA Annual Conference, University of Manchester, March, 1990.

Otnes Per , (ed.), (1988), The Sociology of Consumption: An Anthology, Oslo and New Jersey: Solum Forlag A.S./Humanities Press.

Rassuli Kathleen Hollander Stanley , (1986), ‘Desire - Induced, innate, insatiable?’ in Journal of Macromarketing 6: 2, pp. 4–24.

Reekie Gail , (1992), ‘The Adamless Eden: McWhirters’ in Shields R. (ed.), Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption, London: Routledge.

Veblen Thorstein , (1953), [1899], The Theory of the Leisure Class, New York: Mentor.

Veblen Thorstein , (1923), Absentee Ownership, New York: Viking.

Willis Susan , (1991), A Primer on Everyday Life, London: Routledge.