Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes, the hotspot helped lift the Yellowstone Plateau to more than 7,000 feet and pushed the northern Rockies to new heights, forming unusually large glaciers to carve the landscap...

This book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth.The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural vices—distraction, hostility, and consumerism—that impact the possibility of formative reading. Informed by James K. A. Smith's work on "the spiritual power of habit," Deep Reading provide...

The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is also the history of the opening and progress of the Dispensation of the fullness of Times; and as that dispensation bears an important relation to all dispensations which have preceded it, let us here ascertain in what that relation consists. By doing so we shall have a better appreciation of the full import of those events which make up the history of the Church.In publishing the History of the Church of Jesus Chris...

The Early Mormon History Collection - 3 Classic LDS Historical Works is a captivating anthology that explores the rich tapestry of Latter-day Saint history through three seminal texts. Within this collection, readers are treated to a diverse array of styles—from the narrative-driven chronicles to the analytical treatises of theology—that collectively highlight the nuanced and intricate development of the early Mormon movement. Each piece unravels the complex interplay of theology, pioneeri...

The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environmental issues with technological expertise in...

Exalting Jesus in Joshua is part of the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series. Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this commentary series takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Each chapter explains and applies key passages, providing helpful outlines for study and teaching.This practical and easy-to-read commentary is designed to help the reader see Christ in Joshua. More devotional than academic, the exp...

You are not in the wrong relationship. You are caught in a question you cannot stop asking.Do I love them enough? Am I still attracted to them? What if they are not the one, what if I am settling? What if the spark is gone and never coming back? If a kind partner and a genuinely good relationship have somehow become the stage for a relentless inner interrogation, the problem is almost certainly not your relationship. It is relationship anxiety, and for a great many people, a specif...

It was not just sadness. It felt like withdrawal - because that is exactly what it was.If a breakup has left you unable to eat, unable to sleep, and unable to stop reaching for a person who is gone, you are not weak and you are not overreacting. Heartbreak is a real injury. When a love ends, the same brain circuits that bind us to the people we need go into genuine withdrawal - which is why you cannot simply reason your way out, and why everyone telling you there are plenty of fish...

There was never anything wrong with you. That is the whole argument, and it is more provable than it feels.Most of us carry a conviction we never agreed to: that underneath the competence and the smile, something about us is fundamentally, permanently wrong. Psychologists call it toxic shame, the low, constant hum beneath a life that keeps you apologizing for taking up room, performing a self you hope is acceptable, and bracing before you walk into the room.It is not guilt....

You have been meaning to go camping for years. This is the book that finally gets you outside.Most camping books are written for people who already camp. This one is written for the person standing in the gear aisle worrying about bears, bathrooms, cold nights, and looking foolish at the campsite. It walks you through your first three trips in order, each one a little farther from home, so that any bad night ends with a short drive back for a hot shower instead of a story you never...

You have a second life that no one knows about. And it is taking the first one.You know the conditions by heart: the song on loop, the path you pace, the hours that disappear. Inside your head is a world more vivid, more populated, and more loved than the room you are standing in - and lately it has begun to cost you years. If you have spent your life slipping into elaborate, immersive fantasies that you cannot seem to stop, this book is the one that finally explains what is happen...

It always comes at the same hour.Three in the morning. The house is quiet, and the thought arrives before you can stop it: one day this stops. The breathing, the noticing, the you of you. Almost everyone alive carries this fear. Almost no one says it out loud. We call it health anxiety and refresh the search results. We call it ambition and work another weekend. We call it nothing at all and pour a second drink. The fear of death is the great unspoken thing, the one we all carry an...