Best Selling Books by Jonathan Morris

The New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Serenity and Fox News analyst lays out the enduring wisdom and practicality of Jesus’ invitation to treat others as we would like to be treated. "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." As children, we are taught the Golden Rule, a simple yet timeless moral lesson that reminds us of our responsibility to others and to ourselves. Yet too many of us have forgotten its message. Harried, tired, stressed, we lash out at perceived grievances, injustices, and slights, forgetting to treat others with the consideration and respect we seek ourselves. In this thoughtful, positive, and loving book that speaks to our times, Father Jonathan Morris offers meditations that encourage us to make the Golden Rule central to our daily lives. As he did for the Serenity Prayer in The Way of Serenity, Father Morris now does for this ethical rubric, revealing the power this simple wisdom holds to transform our lives and our world. Morris examines the Golden Rule through a contemporary lens to provide a modern re-reading of this classic ethical lesson and its relevance today. One of the most trusted Catholic voices, he encourages readers to incorporate the substantial contributions Jesus made to the maxim to help them center their lives and spiritual practice around kindness, compassion, and patience—virtues that can make us happier and ultimately more productive in our lives. Nurturing and uplifting, The Golden Rule reminds us that we are each but one of all God’s children in the world—unique beings intrinsically connected to each other, and the entirety of humanity.

A new adventure for the Fourth Doctor, as read by his companion Romana. The Vita Novus Health Spa offers a sanctuary from the stresses and strains of 32nd century life. In fact, you will leave Vita Novus feeling like an entirely new person. And that''s guaranteed.

On their mission to explore the Mariana Trench at the very bottom of the ocean, the deepest and most inhospitable place on Earth, the crew of the deep sea vehicle Erebus make an unusual and startling discovery. A battered blue police box. As the Doctor, Romana and K9 join them on their journey, the submariners soon discover that the TARDIS is not the only unusual find lurking on the sea floor. Super-intelligent squid, long-lost submarines and their miraculous occupants are only the start of their troubles. The Goblins are coming. And they won''t let anyone out alive.

"November 1963, and the Soviet space programme reigns supreme. Having sent the first animals, then the first men beyond Earth''s atmosphere, now they''re sending a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon. Just as Vostok Seven passes over into the dark side, however, its life support system fails. Only the intervention of the Sixth Doctor and Peri, adopting the identities of scientists from Moscow University, means that contact with the capsule is regained. But something has happened to the cosmonaut on board. She appears to have lost her memory, and developed extreme claustrophobia. Maybe she''s not quite as human as she used to be."--Container.

"The TARDIS is empty. The Doctor has gone. Jo Grant steps outside into the darkness and finds the frozen body of her friend, and the ship''s log recorder. On it is attached a simple message-- ''Use Me''. As she explores this place, recording her every move, Jo discovers the horror that lies in the shadows. But by then it is too late."--Container.

Immortal wanderer Quentin Collins has done his best to stay on the sidelines of the Second World War, but now he''s been recruited by the British Secret Service. His mission: to infiltrate the castle of Professor Moloch in the heart of the Black Forest. For the Third Reich is hiding a dark secret, Moloch has been dabbling in the occult, and he''s reached out to some very dark forces indeed. Will Quentin be able to stop him? And does dashing agent Sally Green have a score of her own to settle?

Deimos, moon of Mars, where Lord Slaade''s plans to revive the ancient Ice Warrior civilisation, hangs by a thread. Only the Doctor can stop him, but an old enemy, hiding in the catacombs, has an alternative plan, a plan that will test the Doctor''s heroism to its limits. Just how far will the Doctor go to prevent the destruction and resurrection of Mars--on a day when his friends become enemies, and his enemies have right on their side?

Every hero needs a villain. But not every villain comes with a cool costume, sinister pseudonym, or functioning death ray. Some super-crooks are incompetent, some are comical, and some are just weird. In this follow-up to The league of regrettable superheroes, author Jon Morris presents dozens of the strangest, most stupefying supervillains ever to see print in comics.

"If an attack with nuclear weapons is expected, you will hear the air attack warning. If you are not at home, but can get there within two minutes, do so. If you are in the open, take cover in the nearest building. If you cannot reach a building, lie flat on the ground and cover your head and your hands. Arriving in the North of England in the late 1980s, Ace and Hex seek refuge at the home of Albert and Peggy Marsden, in the last few hours before the outbreak of World War III. Meanwhile, the Doctor is missing. Will there be anyone left for him to rescue, when the bombs begin to fall?"--Container.

Christmas Eve in the year 3060, and the planet Puxatornee is home to a prosperous human colony. A space craft has arrived in orbit carrying the Slithergees, a race of obsequious alien slugs. Their home world has been destroyed and they are humbly requesting permission to settle on the first moon. And if they don''t get permission, then they are humbly threatening to declare all-out war. The future hangs in the balance. The decision rests with Bailey, the colony'' s president - but she has other things on her mind. Christmas Eve in the year 3090, and the planet Puxatornee has changed beyond all recognition. The Doctor and Mel arrive, on a completely unrelated mission to defeat a race of terrible monsters, and soon discover that something rather confusing has been happening to history.

"England in the 1920s. Whilst K9 is off in the TARDIS leading the Black Guardian on a wild goose chase, the Doctor and Romana are enjoying a leisurely lifestyle as the Lord and Lady of a London townhouse. But trouble never stays away from them for long, and before they know it a chance discovery of alien technology leads them deep into the heart of the English countryside where a malign presence lurks. As the Doctor dodges deadly butlers and ferocious gamekeepers, Romana is faced with a malevolent Aunt and an even deadlier peril - marriage."--Container

After years as a companion to the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon was returned to his own world and his own time, and his memories of his travels were erased. Until now. A visitor from beyond the stars needs to explore Jamie''s past, and discover what went wrong. What happened in the year 1688, when the TARDIS landed in London, and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe were welcomed into the court of King James II.

Psychodrome by Jonathan Morris Shortly after surviving the perils of Logopolis, Castrovalva and the machinations of the Master, the new Doctor and his new crew could be forgiven for wanting to take a breather from their tour of the galaxy. But when the TARDIS lands in a strange and unsettling environment, the urge to explore is irresistible... and trouble is only a few steps away. The world they have found themselves in is populated by a wide variety of the strangest people imaginable - a crashed spacecraft here, a monastery there, even a regal court. And not everyone they meet has their best interests at heart. Iterations of I by John Dorney The house on Fleming''s Island had been left to rot. Ever since a strange and unexplained death soon after it was built, and plagued with troubling rumours about what lurked there, it remained empty and ignored for decades until the Cult moved in. As twenty people filled its many rooms, the eerie building seemed to be getting a new lease of life. But now it is empty again. the cult found something in its corridors.. and then vanished. Trapped on the island one dark night, the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric look into the building''s mysteries, its stories of madness and death. Their only chance is to understand what terrible thing has been disturbed here... before it consumes them utterly -- From publisher''s website.

The bloodless soldier: A group of soldiers return from overseas servie, but they have brought back a terrible evil with them. The Bellova devil: Jago and Litefoot investigate the apparent killing of a man who is already dead. The spirit trap: Jago and Litefoot investigate a psychic medium. The similarity engine: The plans of sinister Doctor Tulp come to terrifying fruition.

The Haven hangs in space. A vast star city, devoid of life. Organic life, that is. From their high spire, looking out over silent streets and empty plazas, the Assemblers are waiting for the day when the humans arrive. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. When the TARDIS brings the Doctor and Lucie to the Haven, it seems like Assemblers'' long wait might be over. Living beings! Without batteries! Protocol be praised!

Sent down south to assist the Metropolitan Police in their efforts to investigate the gangland kingpin known only as "the Doctor", Detective-Inspector Patricia Menzies finds herself up to her neck in laser-armed robot mosquitoes, gun-running criminal overlords, vanishing Tube trains and not one, but two Doctors. Meanwhile the real Doctor, and his academic assistant Professor Evelyn Smythe, have become ensnared in the machinations of an old acquaintance--time-travelling Victorian guttersnipe Thomas Brewster. But what''s Brewster''s connection to the rapacious robot Terravores? And can anyone contain the gathering swarm?

"One empire has fallen and another has taken its place. The race known as The Wrath are expanding into new territory. Only the Earth Empire stands in their way. It''s been fifty years since the Doctor last visited this sector of space. And one man in particular has been awaiting his return. As the mistakes of his past come back to haunt him, and with a price on his head and bounty hunters on his tail, the Doctor is heading for a last reckoning. The pieces are finally coming together. Somewhere deep within The Shadow Heart."--Container.

Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Five vast, state-of-the-art biodomes, all steel and glass. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary.

Diverse public opinions, competing management goals and polarized interest groups combine with problems of scale to create a complex management arena for public land managers in the southern Illinois region. Laws, codes and mandates dictate the minimal levels at which the public must be involved in natural resource decision making, especially with regard to federal lands. However, history has demonstrated on the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) that simply meeting standards can result in time consuming and costly litigation. An expanding body of literature exists that demonstrates that stakeholders'' acceptance of a management plan or decision is not based solely on scientific reasoning. Rather, acceptability is directly related to the perceived fairness of the planning/decision-making process and the level of inclusion in the process. This study seeks to develop a photo-evaluation survey technique that will allow managers to effectively elicit stakeholder attitudes about forest management practices. To this end, stakeholder groups that use the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) rated color photographs of forest management treatments. Three management themes, harvesting, prescribed fire, and trails were selected because they represent significant management goals of the 1992 Amended Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) that was mired in litigation and the 2006 LRMP that was finalized early in 2006. Responses to the three targeted management themes were elicited by photographs paired with a semantic differential attitude measurement scale. Each theme was represented by three photographs depicting a stage of a management treatment on an implied temporal scale. Study findings address the usefulness of an attitude measurement tool for avoiding future conflict or litigation as were characteristic of the SNF management plan process in recent decades.

Typewritten essay for Anthropology 115a, given in the fall term of 1961-1962 by Professor Movius.

The Doctor, Romana and K9 have found themselves trapped in a temporal war. On Aoris, the past battles the future and the future fights back! With both sides of the war now capable of time travel, the conflict is about to enter a deadly stage. As the pieces of history lock into place, there is little the Doctor can do. With more Time Tanks moving into combat, the endgame is approaching. The people of Aoris risk extinction at their own hand. Can even the Doctor save the same planet twice in the same day?