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Reviews the book " Social Interaction and Personal Relationships," edited by D. Miell and R. Dallos.

The article reviews the book "Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction," edited by N. J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson.

The article reviews the book "The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology," by Jeffrey E. Nash and James M. Calonico.

Reviews the book "The Social Life of Information," by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.

The article reviews the book "Trust in Business Relations: Economic Logic or Social Interaction?," by Lars Huemer.

The article presents author's comments on Bennett M. Berger's edited collection of intellectual autobiographies in the book "Authors of Their Own Lives. Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists." History conferences concerning the English 18th century tend to be places where the bland lead the bland. Maybe one should invite E.P. Thompson to the American Sociological Association some time. At least when asked to discuss themselves, sociologists try not to stand out, but to bland in. On the face of it, the blandness of sociological self-presentation sets a paradox: Sociology has rightly gained its reputation as an unmasking discipline, devoted to detecting the real causes, motives, and structures behind official explanations, public justifications, and commonsense accounts of social life. Much of sociological method, and even more of sociological rhetoric, consists of supplanting everyday self-description with presumably deeper explanations. Yet autobiography baffles most sociologists. Forced to confront their own live, sociology's practitioners accordingly tidy them up, mute their passions, avoid vivisection of their motives, portray themselves as bemused players in a game they do not run, treat their own careers as a series of breaks.

Reviews the book "Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling As Social Interaction," by David Silverman.

Reviews the book 'The Self and Autism,' by Michael Fordham.

The article reviews the book "Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the Study of Human Lived Experience," by Robert Prus.

Reviews the book "Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication," by Owen Hargie, Christine Saunders and David Dickson.

Reviews the book 'Interpersonal Behaviour: The Psychology of Social Interaction,' by J.P. Forgas.

Reviews the book 'Game Theory and Experimental Games: The Study of Strategic Interaction,' by A. Colman.

Reviews the book 'Small Groups and Social Interaction,' edited by H.H. Blumberg, A.P. Hare, V. Kent and M.F. Davies.

Reviews the book 'Face-to-Face Interaction: Research, Methods and Theory,' by Starkey Duncan Jr. and Donald W. Fiske.

Reviews the book 'Social Communication and Movement,' edited by M. von Cranach and I. Vine.

Reviews the book 'The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour,' by Michael Argyle.

Reviews the book 'Handbook of Social Intervention,' edited by Edward Seidman.