Larry Powell: 16 books
Iridescent Passages
One Family’S Story of Death and Despair and the Miracle of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Larry and Gayle Powell began their fifty-five-year journey together when they were sixteen years old and attended the same church. After their marriage in 1965; the birth of their daughter, Charmaine, in 1966; and the adoption of their son, Craig, a few years later, the Powells felt like the ideal...
by Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Life’s Little Book of Survival Quotes by Larry Powell. Approx. 38,000 words. Language: English. Published on November 16, 2013. Category: Nonfiction.
Life’s Little Book of Survival Quotes was created for people like you who are going through struggles in their lives right now. Let it be...
The Four Pillars of Politics
Why Some Candidates Don't Win and Others Can't Lead
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The Four Pillars of Politics provides a uniform foundation for evaluating political campaign strategies. The four pillars identified in this book—fear, national narcissism, consumerism, and religion—serve as attitudinal anchors that American voters use in making their voting decisions. The dominant...
The Films of John G. Avildsen
Rocky, The Karate Kid and Other Underdogs
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The life and work of American director John G. Avildsen is thoroughly examined in this detailed filmography and critical study. Each of the most significant films made by the Oscar-winning Avildsen is given a separate chapter, including such critical successes as Joe and Save the Tiger, and box-office...
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...
by Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Poetry, according to William Wordsworth, is the spontaneous overflow of feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. There is, as sometimes declared, more truth than poetry in this and similarly perceptive observations. However, let us also allow that not all poetry is spontaneous,...
by Mark Hickson III, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
They Started It! looks at the forces that have developed over the past 50-plus years and created a dysfunctional political system in the United States. It argues that the current level of partisan polarization is actually the culmination of a number of forces at work during the past few decades. These...
Political Campaign Communication
Inside and Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Now in its third edition, Political Campaign Communication: Inside and Out examines the intricacies of political campaigning through the eyes of both an academic and a political consultant. Unlike others in its field, this text takes a broad view of political campaigning, discussing both theories...
Interviewing in a Changing World
Situations and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Interviewing in a Changing World offers students the broadest coverage of interviewing available today by including several unique interview situations. Students begin to develop a better understanding of how to utilize strong interviewing skills in several different settings, as this text demonstrates...
Campaign Finance Reform
The Political Shell Game
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
For decades, campaign finance reform has been an on-going topic of discussion. In particular, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was heralded as a major breakthrough in controlling the flow of money into campaigns. Almost immediately, political players found other ways to financially...
by Melissa M. Smith, Larry Powell
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
More than two billion dollars. That’s how much money was spent in the 2012 presidential campaign—the most expensive campaign in history. Each party raised and spent more than one billion dollars as the traditional boundaries of campaign financing were ignored. Both parties could do so because...
Becoming John Wayne
The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Exploring the early westerns of John Wayne—from his first starring role in the The Big Trail (1930) to his breakthrough as the Ringo Kid in John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939)—the authors trace his transformation from Marion Mitchell Morrison, movie studio prop man, into John Wayne, a carefully crafted...
by Larry D. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Stones is a chronologically composed collection of mostly humorous, often self-deprecating, bite-sized anecdotes selected from a broad spectrum of experiences extending across the authors 45 years in pastoral ministry. The reader will be pleased to discover that these brief, self-contained narratives...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
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