Larry Morris: 18 books
Among Us
Stories of Worship and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In short, one and two page stories, Among Us by Larry P Morris, takes us into the lives and routines of regular people.
Some of his stories take us into the familiar actions of worship but show...
by Larry Morris
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
At 11:37 p.m. on August 17, 1959, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked Montana's Yellowstone country. In an instant, an entire mountainside fractured and thundered down onto the sites of unsuspecting campers. The mammoth avalanche generated hurricane-force winds ahead of it that ripped clothing from backs...
In the Wake of Lewis and Clark
The Expedition and the Making of Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In this book, Larry E. Morris complements the compelling story he began with The Fate of Corps, named a History Book Club selection and a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Illustrating how Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a sea-to-sea empire gave rise to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Morris...
Stories of Life in the Workplace
An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, Stories of Life in the Workplace explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. Authors Larry Browning and George H. Morris explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday lives,...
Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper in Idaho
An Enduring Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
In the autumn of 1940, two icons of American culture met in Sun Valley, Idaho--writer Ernest Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper. Although "Hem" was known as brash, larger-than-life and hard-drinking and "Coop" as courteous, non-confrontational and taciturn, the two became good friends....
Words to Live By
Life Strategies of the Latter-day Prophets
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
In this exciting book, author Larry A. Morris explores a defining principle from the life of each Church President and illustrates how the leader lived that principle. For example, President Ezra Taft Benson once proclaimed, 'Do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may.' This personal motto...
by Larry E. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
What did David O. McKay say about the theory of evolution, or George Albert Smith about Saints thinking for themselves? Why did Relief Society president Eliza R. Snow and others write a heartfelt letter of appreciation to the governor of the Utah territory? With fifteen new letters, this revised edition...
Jobs with Justice
25 Years, 25 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Through a series of interviews and essays, this compendium gives voice to the community, labor, immigrant, student, and faith activists that have built Jobs with Justice (JwJ). The book speaks on both the core principles of the organization for workers’ rights and the experiences since its founding...
The Perilous West
Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark’s safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting...
by Larry E. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps...
Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires
The Mystery of John Colter and Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of “Colter’s Run,” to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana’s annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails—even across the waist-deep Gallatin River—interest in Colter, the alleged discoverer of...
Chinese Engagement in Africa
Drivers, Reactions, and Implications for U.S. Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Examines Chinese engagement with African nations, focusing on (1) Chinese and African objectives in the political and economic spheres and how they work to achieve them, (2) African perceptions of Chinese engagement, (3) how China has adjusted its policies to accommodate African views, and (4) whether...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Communicator-in-Chief
How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House examines the fascinating and precedent-setting role new media technologies and the Internet played in the 2008 presidential campaign that allowed for the historic election of the nation's first African American...
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