Leon R : 24 books

SHOCKING…JAW DROPPING… Adults called him DIABLO! His addictions started by age 6! Leon wanted to be like other kids; he wanted to be normal, he wasn't! BROKEN…A gripping tale of a lost and damaged kid that will take you on a powerful, emotional, and intense rollercoaster ride. Eye opening, and...

Joe Lopez is the story of an old Mexicano named José Villalobo Alfredo Tomaso Vicente Lopez who loses his three sons to the civil war: Thomaso at the Battle of Bull Run, Alfredo in Vicksburg, and Vicente in Gettysburg. To honor them, Joe carries each of their names. But Joe’s sorrow doesn’t...

Outstanding Stories by General Authorities lives up to its title. Leon R. Hartshorn, a popular teacher and lecturer, has skillfully selected stories that are sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, and always inspirational. Frequently they call to mind the brethren who told them—their personalities...

This is Leon R. Hartshorn's book, Inspiring Stories for Young Latter-day Saints.

Many of the best sermons—and those longest remembered—feature stories from real life and fiction to illustrate proven principles. In this third volume of Outstanding Stories, Leon Hartshorn selects memorable stories from the sermons of beloved Church leaders to illustrate time-honored...

In this second volume of Outstanding Stories, Leon Hartshorn has again made a truly artful selection of stories related by general authorities. Many of the stories bring a chuckle to the reader; others may bring a trace of a tear to the eye. There are stories of miraculous healings and conversions,...

Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated...

This collection of essays aims to explore fundamental questions about God, human nature, and political life through careful readings of the Greek poets, the Hebrew Bible, and Shakespeare. The volume investigates the abiding tension between the Hebraic and the Hellenic dimensions of the Western soul...

From the lives of Latter-day Saint men, spanning nearly a century and a half from pioneer days to the present, come cherished stories of faith, inspiration, courage, testimony, love, and devotion to family, home, and Church. The examples and shown by these great men are eloquently expressed in this book....

Engineers face many challenges in systems design and research. Modeling and Approximation in Heat Transfer describes the approach to engineering solutions through simplified modeling of the most important physical features and approximating their behavior. Systematic discussion of how modeling and...

Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer...

The book offers a detailed guide to temporal ordering, exploring open problems in the field and providing solutions and extensive analysis. It addresses the challenge of automatically ordering events and times in text. Aided by TimeML, it also describes and presents concepts relating to time in easy-to-compute...

The story of Adam and Eveone of the oldest and most widely cherished stories in human historyhas been misused and abused in the battleground of Americas culture war. Dating back to the Scopes Trial of 1925, evolutionists and creationists have been tearing this story apart in their fight over the origin...

Es regnet, es blitzt und donnert, der Herbstwind treibt Blätter durch die nächtlichen Straßen. Und auf einmal liegt ein ganzer Stadtteil im Dunkeln. Ob wir in die Wohnungen schauen, in die Büros oder in die Wäschekeller - die Auswirkungen der plötzlichen, unerwarteten Dunkelheit sind sehr aufregend....