R Bruce Walker: 4 books

In a word, Legacy Ridge is paradise. An exclusive master planned community located at the crossroads of the fictitious town of Hattesboro, North Carolina and the bottom of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it is a gated Eden that is home to an assembly of newly minted millionaires and one the most magnificent...

The Marcellus Shale has been called the energy play of the century – five hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas trapped within sixty million invisible acres from upstate New York to West Virginia. But the only way to get at it is via a controversial recovery technique that involves pumping...

A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream! R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying...

Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...