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  • Life Moves On

    Memoir Reflections of an Arkansas Traveler

    by Gordon Shepherd ...
    In Life Moves On, Gordon Shepherd offers a compelling collection of memoir stories drawn from his adult life in Arkansas as an academic sociologist with a deep affection for the state and its people. The Arkansans he encounters reflect and transcend regional stereotypes, revealing a complex and often surprising cultural landscape. His stories span unscripted religious fervor in a northern Arkansas ... Read more

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  • Lost Conversations with Abraham Lincoln

    by Gordon Shepherd ...
    In 'Lost Conversations with Abraham Lincoln,' Gordon Shepherd transports readers back to the formative years of one of America's most iconic figures. This thought-provoking volume consists of five compelling historical fiction stories that revolve around plausible lost conversations during selected moments in the life of Abraham Lincoln, spanning from 1831 to 1861, just before his ascendancy to ... Read more

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  • Stories of Forgotten Sports Idols and Other Ordinary Mortals

    by Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • America the Beautiful in Dark Times

    by Gordon Shepherd ...
    America the Beautiful in Dark Times begins and ends with reflections on the fundamental ideals of American democracy expressed by the nation's sixteenth president in a dark time of civil war. In between these affirmations, Gordon Shepherd depicts the dangerous threats of present-day Trumpism to democratic norms and the capitulation of the Republican Party in the service of Trump's authoritarian ... Read more

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  • Growing Up in the City of the Saints

    Glimpses of America in Salt Lake City During the 1950s and 60s

    by Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Neuroenology

    How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine

    by Gordon Shepherd ...
    In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine's sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscience, biomechanics, human physiology, and traditional enology. Shepherd shows, just as he did in Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, that creating the taste of wine ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Talking with the Children of God

    Prophecy and Transformation in a Radical Religious Group

    by Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism

    Edited by R. Gordon Shepherd, A. Gary Shepherd, Ryan T. Cragun ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    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, ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • Jan Shipps: A Social and Intellectual Portrait

    How a Methodist Girl from Hueytown, Alabama, Became an Acclaimed Mormon Studies Scholar

    by Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd ...
    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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Binding Earth and Heaven

    Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism

    by Gary Shepherd, Gordon Shepherd ...
    In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition. Initial scorn and contempt for Mormonism—the fledgling creation of the young Joseph Smith—quickly elevated to mob violence ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism

    by Gordon Shepherd, Lavina Fielding Anderson, Gary Shepherd ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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