This is a collection of stories for sports fans and lovers of historical fiction. The stories feature different sports idols from the twentieth century, like Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Jack Dempsey, and Mickey Mantle. Others showcased in these stories - Smoky Joe Wood, Tony Lazzeri, Pancho Gonzáles, and Larry Doby - are no longer household names, but continue to be esteemed by aficionados of their sports and eras of play. Some of the book's erstwhile stars - John Meyers, Charles Bender, George...

This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context. The authors provide a nuanced picture of a historically American religion in the throes of the same kinds of global change that virtually every conservative faith tradition faces today. They explain where and how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has penetrated national and cultural boundaries in Latin America, Oceania, Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as in North America beyond the borders of Mormon Utah...

This book consists of over 40 memoir vignettes that capture significant learning experiences of identical twin brothers—Gary and Gordon Shepherd—as they grow up in Mormon Salt Lake City during the 1950s and 1960s. Their stories in the first part of the book feature shared adventures with a wide range of friends, family, and adult models who shape the brothers' appreciation for basic American ideals of democracy, equality, diversity, cooperation, and tolerance—especially as taught and model...

Grounded in direct, systematic observation by neutral observers, Talking with the Children of God is a unique study of the radical religious movement now known as The Family International. The book draws on extraordinarily candid interviews with the group's leaders and administrative staff. In revealing new information about the organization's history, beliefs, and use of prophecy, Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd offer a highly detailed case study that is both an antidote to sen...

How did Jo Ann Barnett—a Methodist girl born and raised in Hueytown, Alabama, during the Great Depression and World War II—come to be Jan Shipps, a renowned non-Mormon historian and scholar of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? In Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait, authors Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd tell the story of how Shipps not only became an important and trusted authority in a field that was predominantly made up of Mormon men, but also the ...

There are countless habitable planets in the universe. It is the job of the Ambassadors Guild to seek them out, and then decide what to do with them...

...Orwell on steroids... Imagine a world where clothing is made of recycled paper and considered worth more than the Man in it! Think about a Government that controls its subjects completely. This is a look at such a society.

This ebook contains chapters 1 though 9.The inexorable movement toward gender equality in the modern world has taken root in the consciousness of many Latter-day Saints and has publicly emerged as a major concern for the LDS Church. Spearheaded by a new generation of internet-savvy feminists, equality issues in Mormonism attained high public visibility in 2013 through online profiles posted by the Ordain Women organization and its plea to Church authorities to pray about an expande...

Statistical data and evidence-based claims are increasingly central to our everyday lives. Critically examining ‘Big Data’, this book charts the recent explosion in sources of data, including those precipitated by global developments and technological change. It sets out changes and controversies related to data harvesting and construction, dissemination and data analytics by a range of private, governmental and social organisations in multiple settings.Analysing the power of data ...

A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award–winning novella “A Meeting with Medusa,” this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters.Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident as the first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of Jupiter—and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. But he is no longer himself. Instea...

The Complete Guide to Minecraft: Crafting, Mining, Farming, Enchanting, Redstone, CheatsThis guide will help you turn from Minecraft newbie to an advanced player! Aimed especially at newer players, this guide contains a new player's guide, and sections on crafting, mining, farming, enchanting, a walkthrough/tutorial, a brief section on redstone, and a section on cheats! There is enough here that a more advanced player can still get value from this guide. Many screenshots and charts...

A compulsively readable Star Trek novel starring Spock, Captain James T. Kirk, and more as the history of Vulcan is explored as never before.On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportion has caused the convocation of the planet’s ruling council and summoned the USS Enterprise from halfway across the galaxy, to bring Vulcan’s most famous son home in its hour of need.As Commander Spock, his father Sarek, and Captain James T. Kirk struggl...