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For courses in Introductory Sociology.Teach students to use evidence and insights to understand sociological phenomenaSociology: Evidence and Insights guides students to analyze society through a combination of data and classic and contemporary sociological perspectives.In today's era of "alternative facts" and "fake news, " authors Timothy Curry, Robert Jiobu and Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak give students the tools to distinguish between sociologic...

Preaching is a demand of the Bible that is fitted with a specific purpose and a strong theological base. It is the proclamation of the word of God and is done in churches throughout the world. Preaching plays a role in the spiritual formation of its hearers, helping to form a community of faith whose members are sharing in and supporting one another in a spiritual journey. The topics of preaching can be found in both the Old and New Testaments...

Preaching is a demand of the Bible that is fitted with a specific purpose and a strong theological base. It is the proclamation of the word of God and is done in churches throughout the world. Preaching plays a role in the spiritual formation of its hearers, helping to form a community of faith whose members are sharing in and supporting one another in a spiritual journey. The topics of preaching can be found in both the Old and New Testaments...

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Restoring common sense properly understood is what this volume is all about. This project of restoration includes an examination of the absurdity of the attacks on common sense. It also turns to well-known stories drawn from the Western literary tradition to help readers again find their footing in the world of common sense.

Excerpt from The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as an Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being: Being a Baccalaureate Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class at Peru, Nebraska, Sunday, June 10, 1877Pressed with a belief in the existence of a God who animates and perpetuates the whole, the withdrawal of whose presence would cause all life to cease and leave na ture as a corpse to a speedy dissolution,...

Excerpt from The Earth as a Cosmical System Used as an Unit of Measure in Estimating Man's Relative Importance in the Scale of Being: Being a Baccalaureate Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class at Peru, Nebraska, Sunday, June 10, 1877Pressed with a belief in the existence of a God who animates and perpetuates the whole, the withdrawal of whose presence would cause all life to cease and leave na ture as a corpse to a speedy dissolution,...

Whispering Death . . . is a shattering account of an eighteen-year old aviator from the streets of America to Vietnam, into the Macomb world of a Secret War run by the CIA, fought with clandestine forces, the Hmong hill people, and a vast and varied air armada. "This is a book that must be read . . . I highly recommend this book for knowledge of how the Secret War in Laos was fought and why we owe the Hmong so much." Harry C. Aderholt - Brigad...

Whispering Death . . . is a shattering account of an eighteen-year old aviator from the streets of America to Vietnam, into the Macomb world of a Secret War run by the CIA, fought with clandestine forces, the Hmong hill people, and a vast and varied air armada. "This is a book that must be read . . . I highly recommend this book for knowledge of how the Secret War in Laos was fought and why we owe the Hmong so much." Harry C. Aderholt - Brigad...

The study of leadership includes a wide variety of social, communicative, motivational, persuasive, and educational concerns. In a consideration of congregational, spiritual leadership, there are those concerns, as well as questions of scripturality, spiritualiy, theology, ethics, and morality. Since these components of leadership and its dynamics are known, why is congregational leadership such a problem? In the same way, why is followership ...

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We have heard and read this sentence all our lives. It is perfectly familiar. But if we pause long enough to ask ourselves why Jefferson wrote it in exactly this way, questions quickly arise. Jefferson chose to use rather special an...

The library controls access to information by the very act of selecting materials, and must, therefore, deal with censorship on a basic level. The author has surveyed a response group of practicing librarians with questions that target some of the toughest questions librarians ever face. Curry's analysis focuses on the factors--personal beliefs, professional ethics, political pressures--that influence responses.

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Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen.