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Reviews three books on informational revolution. 'The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture,' vol. 1: The Rise of the Network Society, vol. 2: The Power of Identity, vol. 3: End of Millennium, by Manuel Castells.

Reviews the book "Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences," by Immanuel Wallerstein et al.

There is no doubt that Global Transformations can be read with profit by anyone who wants to know what globalization is all about but is not willing to spend months or even years wading through the rapidly growing pile of books that deal with the topic. This is also why this book is likely to appear on the reading lists of many courses in the forthcoming years either alone or with its companion work, The Global Transformations Reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Social Theory in the Twentieth Century," by Patrick Baert.