Interrogosphere:The Power and Plight of Questions in aHighly Questionable WorldAuthor Tom B. Hurley takes the reader on a guided tour of questions - those strange and powerful language devices that voice our curiosity in a highly questionable world. By giving the realm its own name - the Interrogosphere - and bringing it to the forefront, the book offers fresh insight into the many domains where questions play a healthy role. It also tak...

The Old Chisholm Trail charts the evolution of the major Texas cattle trails, explores the rise of the Chisholm Trail in legend and lore, and analyzes the role of cattle trail tourism long after the end of the trail driving era itself. The result of years of original and innovative research—often using documents and sources unavailable to previous generations of historians—Wayne Ludwig’s groundbreaking study offers a new and nuanced look at an important but short-lived era in the ...

In Environmental Justice, leading thinkers of the environmental justice movement take a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a course for future action. Among the topics considered are: the history of the social justice movement the role of the professional in working with community groups methods of dealing w...

First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it s lack of insularity (its wide coverage of diverse types of society and of sociological thought from various cultural traditions), and in its systematic connection of sociology with the broad the...

First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society, and in so doing to to explore the neglected subject of the heritage of American radical thinking.Readers...

First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology and with attempts to develop more radical theories; they extend the author's previous writings on classes, elites and politics; and they analyse some of the problems of socialism in the late twen...

A deep dive into the Book of Genesis offers readers a foundational understanding of the Bible’s grand narrative, beginning with creation, the origins of humanity, and the roots of sin and redemption. It explores pivotal stories such as Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, and the lives of the patriarchs—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph—highlighting themes of covenant, faith, obedience, and God’s sovereignty. Readers can expect to uncover how Genesis sets the theological and moral...