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The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook examines the sixty-year career
of one of the foremost public intellectuals in the United States.
Sidney Hook's convictions were widely disseminated through books,
academic journals, newspapers articles, lectures, and several
organizations that he founded. Hook's legacies include being a
leading Marxist-Leninist scholar, his long-standing commitment to
secular humanism, his legacy as a legendary polemicist, his
cultural conservatism if not neoconservatism, and his defense of
democracy and John Dewey's pragmatic and Cold War liberalism.
Bullert concludes that Hook's core philosophy is best typified by
his Deweyan pragmatism, vigilant anti-communism, and secular
humanism.
This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding
the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentators
from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the
years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the
eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the
economic, political, legal, social and diplomatic life of the
territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as
Hong Kong enters the new century.
Glory Be follows the quest of a widow and a country doctor to find
love and stability in a world destroyed during the American Civil
War. As the nation recovers from the divisive conflict, the
citizens of fictional Springdale, Kentucky still struggle. Hearts
must heal and families must pull together as life goes on. Clarissa
Chambers crosses paths with Dr. Adam Norcutt who has moved to
America to escape his failed marriage in England. Not only do these
two suffer from traumatic emotional wounds out of their past, but
now they harbor haunting war time memories. The timeless struggle
to heal and move on is depicted in their relationship and God's
intervention. Glory Be , the first novel in The Springdale Series,
is a story you'll like about people you'll love. "Great Story " -
DiAnn Mills, teacher, mentor and author of The Survivor and
Firewall. "What happens when a war's last shot is fired and the ink
dries on the papers of surrender? Glory Be takes us into the lives
of two civilians scarred by the horror of the recent conflict,
impacted by personal injustice, but restored by love and
forgiveness. A must read tale of repercussions and redemption." -
Charlynn Johns, missionary, author of A Good Reason To Go. Martha
B. Hook, MA is a teacher, speaker, and lay counselor. She has three
daughters, twelve grandchildren, and lives in Tyler TX. Author of
six books, Glory Be is her second novel.
From the age of eighteen, he became a drifter. He moved from a life
of drugs, alcohol and crime to homelessness. Along the way, he got
married for a few months, and had a daughter from whom he is
detached but adores. Still drifting, neither his addiction nor his
homelessness could deter him from pursuing what he refers to as the
American Dream. He pursued and earned a Bachelors degree in
Sociology, and a Masters in Criminology sleeping mostly in and out
of homeless shelters, in abandoned buildings and on street corners.
Because of his arrest record, and imprisonment as a petty-thief
some twenty five years ago, he remains unemployed and homeless, a
victim of his past. How he survived it all, he says, it is because
he "had some Guardian Angels" along his Homeless path.
"In preparing this remarkable book, Ernest Hook persuaded an
eminent group of scientists, historians, sociologists and
philosophers to focus on the problem: why are some discoveries
rejected at a particular time but later seen to be valid? The
interaction of these experts did not produce agreement on
'prematurity' in science but something more valuable: a collection
of fascinating papers, many of them based on new research and
analysis, which sometimes forced the author to revise a
previously-held opinion. The book should be enthusiastically
welcomed by all readers who are interested in how science
works."--Stephen G. Brush, co-author of "Physics, The Human
Adventure: From copernicus to Einstein and Beyond
""Prematurity and Scientific Discovery contains interesting and
insightful papers by numerous well-known scientists and scholars.
It will be of wide interest, not only to science studies scholars
but also to working scientists and to science-literate general
readers."--Thomas Nickles, editor of "Scientific Discovery, Logic,
and Rationality
Published in 1933, at a time of widespread unemployment and bank
failures, this book by the young Sidney Hook received great
critical acclaim and established his reputation as a brilliant
expositor of ideas. By "revolutionary interpretation" Hook meant
quite literally that Marx's main objective was to stimulate
revolutionary opposition to class society.
Hook later abandoned the revolutionary views expressed in this
volume, but he never abandoned his warm positive views of Marx as a
thinker and a fighter for freedom. He eventually concluded that
20th century history had proved both him and Marx wrong about the
necessity of revolutionary means to achieve their mutual social
goals. But, says his son Ernest B. Hook in an introduction, this
concession of error "he did not see . . . as an admission of
intellectual weakness, but the natural position of a reasonable
person when, in the light of observation and experience, he
concludes he has erred."
This expanded edition makes readily available for scholars an
influential work long out of print and provides critical insight
into the intellectual development of one of the 20th-century's
great thinkers.
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