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Haralambos and Holborn’s Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, published by HarperCollins, is a comprehensive AS and A2 student handbook. It comprises of detailed notes on planning and structuring essays, along with tables that help with revision. It contains summaries of all topics covered by several exam boards, introduces the key writers, and helps you in building and testing your knowledge and understanding. Some of the topics covered in this book are Social Stratification, Families and Households, Education, Religion and Beliefs, Culture and Identity, Wealth, Welfare and Poverty, Power and Politics, Health, Medicine and the Body, Communication and the Media, Crime and Deviance, Methodology, and Sociological Theory. About HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers India Ltd. is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Worldwide. It has shown phenomenal growth in the past years and publishes fiction, non-fiction and poetry by various writers like Nayantara Sehgal, Kiran Nagarkar, Meghnad Desai, Mukul Deva, and Anita Nair. They have also been successful in building a list of talented first-time writers. HarperCollins was the publisher of The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008. The company has taken its place as a marketing leader in the publishing industry. They have won the Excellence Award at the Asian Multimedia Publishing Award 2009 and 2011.