Jack M : 135 books
A Journey to Remember
A Story of Challenges, Decisions, Adaptations and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
With the encouragement of his family and friends, Jack M. Van Hooser shares a humorous personal account of growing up on the road with his father and older brother on the heels of the Great Depression. Unimaginable in modern times, the two young brothers spent their formative years occupying themselves...
Jack M. Campbell
The Autobiography of New Mexico's First Modern Governor
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Jack M. Campbell (1916–1999) was elected governor of New Mexico in 1962 and reelected in 1964, the first New Mexico governor in twelve years to win a second term. In this engaging autobiography, Campbell traces his life story across major historical events in the country and New Mexico. From humble...
UNSTABLE TIMES-UNLIKELY OUTCOMES
THE SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE OF TWO WAYFARING BROTHERS
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This is a factual account of a man and two young sons who hitchhiked throughout the Southeastern United States from 1939 to 1944. They lived in rooming houses and relocated every few weeks because of the father's work. The boys rarely attended school but learned priceless lessons on the streets...
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism
Visual Theology and Artistic Invention
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure. At the same time, the story of God constructing...
by Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on a downward slope. The top twenty words used to...
Otherworldly John Dryden
Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Jack M. Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Rather, it manifests throughout...
by Lyon, Jack M.
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Would you like to gain more from your temple attendance? More knowledge and power? More help for your daily life? Understanding Temple Symbols helps us think about the temple in new and different ways—discovering unexplored avenues of learning, opening doors we hadn't noticed before, and deepening...
The Laws of Change
I Ching and the Philosophy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
As important to Chinese civilization as the Bible is to Western culture, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the oldest treasures of world literature. In this masterful new interpretation, Jack Balkin returns the I Ching to its rightful place as a book of wisdom that teaches how to live one's life...
David Porter, 'Philadelphia' & The Barbary Pirates
The Porter Saga
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803.
He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them...
Midshipman Porter - In Harms Way
The Porter Saga, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Tea and taxes are quickly cited as the reason colonial America broke away from England. It was the cause of 'Free Trade and Sailors Rights' which sustained an infant force of iron men, who gladly served aboard the few wooden ships, of the Continental Navy. Davy Porter, in a lifetime of fights and...
by Jack M. Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
‘How marvelous a thing is a good book!’' said President Gordon B. Hinckley. ‘How stimulating to read and share with a great writer thoughts that build and strengthen and broaden one’s horizon!’Inspirational Classics for Latter-day Saints is such a book. Featuring 12 masterpieces published...
The Guru Investor
How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Today's investor is faced with a myriad of investment options and strategies. Whether you are seeking someone to manage your money or are a self-directed investor deciding to tackle the market on your own, the options can be overwhelming.
In an easy-to-read and simple format, this book will...
by Lyon, Jack M.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
When FBI agent David Hunter is assigned to decipher the mysterious code on a letter from Joseph Smith, everything goes wrong. The code is much harder to break than he'd imagined, complicated by the fact that someone has been stealing documents from the Church's Historical Department. And always in the...