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  • The Mysteries of Godliness

    A History of Mormon Temple Worship

    by David J. Buerger ...
    A veil of secrecy surrounds Mormon temple worship. While officially intended to preserve the sacredness of the experience, the silence leaves many Latter-day Saints mystified. What are the derivation and development of the holy endowment, and if these were known, would the experience be more meaningful? Modern parishioners lack context to interpret the arcane and syncretistic elements of the ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

  • Community Justice

    An Emerging Field

    by Gordon Bazemore, Susan F. Bennett, Barbara Boland, John Braithwaite, Michael E. Buerger, David M. Chavis, Todd R. Clear, Catherine M. Coles, Amitai Etzioni, Randolph M. Grinc, Suzanne Goldsmith-Hirsch, George L. Kelling, Stephen Mugford, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Robert J. Sampson, Wesley G. Skogan, William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Rights & Responsibilities
    Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this ... Read more

    $92.59 CAD

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  • The Secret Lives of Saints

    Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect

    by Daphne Bramham ...
    A riveting, shocking account of the founding and flourishing of the polygamous, fundamentalist Mormon sect in Bountiful, B.C.Here, Daphne Bramham uncovers the surprising truths about Bountiful, the epicentre of fundamentalist Mormonism in Canada, and tells the story of its self-appointed prophet and bishop, Winston Blackmore, who has dozens of wives—several of whom he married when they were as ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • American Crucifixion

    The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

    by Alex Beam ...
    A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago TribuneOn June 27, 1844, in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, Joseph Smith and three of his associates waited anxiously in a jail cell. The dynamic founding prophet of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    by Anthony M. Townsend ...
    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Believing Christ

    by Stephen E. Robinson ...
    Author Stephen Robinson illustrates the power of the Savior as he uses analogies and parables, such as his own bicycle story, and scriptures and personal experiences in this moving, best-selling book. “Mortals have finite liabilities,” he explains, “and Jesus has unlimited assets.” By merging the two, exaltation can come. As long as we progress in some degree, the Lord will be pleased and will ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Children of the Promise, Volume 5: As Long As I Have You

    by Dean Hughes ...
    Series Book 5 - Children of the Promise
    “Bea, I'm excited about the way things are falling together for our family,” President Thomas said to his wife. “It sounds like Wally wants to be part of us now. And Alex already got his feet wet at the plant before he left. Once those boys are working for us, I don't see why we couldn't go after a lot more contracts. I've already talked to. . .”“Al, slow down just a minute. Alex never did like ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • THIS LAND

    Zarahemla and the Nephite Nation

    by Wayne May, Edwin G Goble ...
    Series series THIS LAND
    Having spent a lifetime searching for Book of Mormon lands in some 250 ruins throughout Mexico and Central and South America, I am intrigued to return to Cumorah where it all ended. May and Goble have compiled fascinating arguments for those lands being in North-east America, complete with compelling new evidence in the form of ancient mound-fortresses, fascinating native tales of white men in the ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD

  • Great American City

    Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

    by Robert J. Sampson ...
    This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

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  • Worth the Wrestle

    by Sheri Dew ...
    Why can’t I seem to conquer weaknesses that plague me?” “How do I know if I’m receiving revelation?” “Will the Lord forgive me after what I’ve done?” “Why can’t we seem to get ahead financially even though we faithfully pay our tithing?” “What if the Church’s position on gay marriage bothers me?”Those are just a handful of the countless questions Sheri Dew has heard people ask over the years. “May ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... Read more

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