The article presents information about various books. Essays in the book "Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives," edited by Deborah Lupton, are seen by its editor as a remedy for the proclivity of various risk theories to function as grand theories, with little use of empirical work into the ways in which people experience and conceptualize risk in everyday life. They address gender, ethnicity, age, class, and social context as structuring factors of conceptualization of risk, and the role of interested agents in making risk claims as a way of furthering normative claims. "Reflexive Sociology: Working Papers in Self-Critical Analysis," is a collection of articles written and published between 1966 and 1998 by Larry Reynolds, who has been referred to as a Founding Father of the sociology of sociology. The collection of essays focuses on Reynolds' sociological critique of sociology and sociologists. In his introduction, Reynolds gives the reader a sociological tour of the development of his sociological thinking, the intersection of his intellectual biography with a history of sociology.