Books by Barry Barnes

The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs examines the band's remarkable musical legacy, delving into 100 songs (plus a few extras) performed by the Dead throughout their career. It includes a playlist of performance and studio recordings, as well as other song analyses and first-hand narratives of hundreds of Dead concerts.

A systematic account of the importance of sociology for the understanding of scientific knowledge. Applying sociological analysis to specific historical case studies, this book aims to show how this approach is an essential complement to interpretations of scientific knowledge.

Claude Henry Hudson is so simple that he's complex. He wears his heart on his sleeve then puts a jacket on.His funeral features laughter, tears, and people from his life that can truly tell the special stories.Heaven is a virtual who's who of history. The "celebrity" of it all preoccupies his mind. An innocent checker game between General Robert E. Lee and General George Gordon Meade commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg renews sectional differences of opinion between North and South.Claude somehow becomes an integral part of this historic rivalry. A hundred-yard battlefield resolves the issue.A window allows him to observe past history, watch current events, get philosophical, and even eavesdrop on his former fiancé. A burning desire inside of him to make one last contribution to humanity is sparked by noticing the trials and tribulations of daily life by those still living.A double-dealing angel gives him his wish. Claude and the Devil are tied to the Whipping Post.

Offers an account of the genomic revolution and its promise. This book provides a history of the science of genetics and genomics, from Mendel to Watson and Crick up to Craig Venter. It delves into the use of genomics in determining evolutionary paths - and what it can tell us, about how far we really have come from our ape ancestors.

Centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. This book maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and investigate and account for allegedly correct or scientific beliefs just as he would for incorrect or unscientific ones.

A significant contribution to the development of social theory which provides a comprehensive summary of the various traditions. Barnes offers an accessible introduction for undergraduates which presents his own arguments along the way.