Key to the Science of Theology
9 best books like Key to the Science of Theology (Parley P. Pratt): Oryx and Crake, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert, Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice, Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385721676 |
Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive...
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
| Author | Anne Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0374525641 |
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as...
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
| Author | Peter C. Brown |
| ISBN | 0674729013 |
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head....
Mormon Scientist: The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring
| Author | Henry J. Eyring |
| ISBN | 1590388542 |
Twice in the final years of his life, Elder Neal A. Maxwell told a grandson of Henry Eyring's, You need to write your grandfather's story. This is that story of Henry Eyring, perhaps the most acclaimed scientist ever to come from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a book about science...
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 0609805797 |
John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over many years. Here is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting...
Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice
| Author | Willie Parker |
| ISBN | 1501151126 |
In Life’s Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal...
Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti
| Author | Bill Farrel |
| ISBN | 0736904867 |
Bill and Pam Farrel explain why a man is like a waffle (each element of his life is in a separate box), why a woman is life spaghetti (everything in her life touches everything else), and what these differences mean. Then they show readers how to achieve more satisfying relationships. Biblical insights,...
