Books by Professor Frank (Professor of Sociology Furedi

Explains the useful contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again.

Contains ideas on how to stop disabling youth and instead bring out their full potential. This book shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. Based on sociological research, this book can bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children.

Argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised. Starting with the question of 'Why do they hate us?', this title helps to find ourselves unsure of who 'they' are. It engages with some of the most fundamental questions confronting society.

Argues that the greater danger in our culture is the tendency to fear achievements representing a more constructive side of humanity. This work relates the author's thinking on the sociology of fear to the thought of earlier thinkers such as Darwin and Fred and to the sociological tradition of Durkheim, C Wright Mills, Anthony Giddens and others.