The title of Barry Hindess' book suggests yet another text which claims to set out the most useful methods for social science. It is nothing of the kind. Instead it is a brilliantly iconoclastic work which systematically sets about dismantling a great deal of sociology's claim to produce knowledge. For good measure Hindess throws in also major assaults on philosophers of science and social science such as Schutz, Husserl, Popper and Winch.