Ronald D : 168 books

Ronald D. Lankford has written the definitive history of this iconic and much-loved Christmas character. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was the creation of Robert May, a staff copywriter who wrote the original poem as a Montgomery Ward Christmas giveaway in 1939. More than 2.4 million copies were...

This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core...

An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William...

When twenty-three-year-old John S. Davis received baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 19 April 1846, he was employed as a typesetter by the Reverend John Jones in the village of Rhydybont, Carmarthenshire. Five months earlier, the reverend's younger brother Dan began using...

The femtosecond laser has emerged as a groundbreaking game-changer in ophthalmic surgery. It was first introduced for corneal refractive surgery in flap creation during LASIK, and subsequently for cataract surgery in 2008. The femtosecond laser cuts deeply on a single plane without collateral damage....

Without question, statistics is one of the most challenging courses for students in the social and behavioral sciences. Enrolling in their first statistics course, students are often apprehensive or extremely anxious toward the subject matter. And while SPSS is one of the more easy-to-use statistical...

2218 Earth is not the place it was - it is an alien battlefield. Beings beyond our control contest the prize - Earth! One man, Robert Stave, is determined to alter the past, to save our future. An alien time machine offers him the opportunity, even if it means murder. The odds are against...

When Clay Myerson finds a woman stranded on the highway he finds purpose in his life he has never know. His best friends brother is killed and he is asked to take over the investigation to find the man involved. His business find greater success with the aid of Pam Durbin and her bevy of single friends,...

Emilee Carver was 29 years old in In 1946, women were thought to be the weaker sex. Divorce was unheard of—a woman’s place was in the home, obeying her spouse and raising their children. After a chance meeting with Sarah Barnes gave Emilee a means to find relief from her abusive, perverted husband....

Joshua crammer was forced to move his family from Indian Territory to land he owned through Spanish land grants in Texas before the Texas revolution. Joshua, his wife, two young sons and forty-six slaves face disreputable men and harsh traveling conditions. The life in Texas becomes productive with...

After leaving Arizona, Buzzard joins his nephew, prospecting for gold in Alaska and stays in Alaska during the worst years of the Great Depression. Mining millions of dollars of gold with a group of men, Buzzard takes a Grizzly Bear cub to protect. He builds a house in the wilderness of eastern Alaska...

Wilson Crammer was saved from being beaten in an alley in Denver and complains of amnesia. His identity is established using fingerprint analysis. He makes Craig Greyson President of his companies and attempts to reclaim his former life and find the people responsible for his abduction and attempted...

Morticius Alajandro Shields was known as Buzzard during much of his life, in honor of a man he greatly respected. Capable beyond his years, he leads men into the service of the Army doing construction in Texas and survey work in the southwestern region of America. Compelled to visit his sister and...

Following Clay Myerson solving a mystery of a friends death, a mutilated body is discovered in a remote area of Orange County South Carolina. Investigation leads Chief Myerson to believe a power struggle for control of the distribution of illegal drugs in the city of Palm Grove. He fashions a plot...