Best Selling Books by L. Harris

On June 9, 1978, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church''s 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, including Spencer W. Kimball, Matthew L. Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.

One of the most important yet difficult skills for children with autism to learn is effective social interaction. This book introduces social skills programs to parents of preschool- and kindergarten-aged children diagnosed with one of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), including Autistic Disorder, Asperger''s Disorder, and PDD: Not Otherwise Specified. The book is based on the authors'' decades of clinical experience using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), a proven educational method, to teach social skills at home and school. This book focuses on four broad topics: play skills; the language of social skills; understanding another person''s perspective; functioning in an inclusive classroom. This book helps parents to work with their child''s strengths to improve social skills. Following the suggestions and exercises in this book, parents can teach children to: pretend-play, use toys appropriately, know when to use conventional responses like -- excuse me -- tell jokes, recognise that others'' feelings and thoughts are different from their own, and initiate social interaction with peers. Included are tips for using games, modelling, rewards, role play, videos, activity schedules, and social stories to teach social skills and make the learning experience fun for parents and children. A case study of one family''s efforts and successes provides a real-life example that''s informative and reassuring. Appendices listing resources such as books, games, and activities give parents additional material to explore.

This book is a complete update of an earlier volume that Harris wrote in 1993. The entire concept of The Marketer''s Guide to Public Relations runs counter to the traditional concept of ''events-driven'' public relations. This book challenges the reader to use public relations as a strategic tool, to achieve measurable and actionable marketing objectives. Not dissimilar to the concept of ''Integrated Marketing Communications'', MPR seeks to read one''s market, determine need, and build a marketing program (both communciation and marketing strategy) from the outside in: determine the way customers want to learn about your product and develop a strategy to create awareness, communcate the benefits, and instill a motivation to purchase.

The lone witness to her sister''s brutal kidnapping,Jillian Sorenson was consumed with guilt--and in over herhead. Now it seemed the only way to be safely reunitedwith her sister was to join forces with ex-cop Rick Brady,the lead investigator on a similar cold case, with an oldscore to settle. But tracking the treacherous kidnappers'' imperceptible cluesonly intensified Jillian and Rick''s supercharged connection. And as their partnership became increasingly personal,coming face-to-face with the dangerous men who hadabducted her sister seemed like less of a risk than puttingher faith in an all-too-handsome stranger....

Drawing from her own experiences and important works including The Leyden Papyrus and The Papyrus Ani, Harris explores the how''s and whys of magical tools, amulets, words of power, divination, and magic of the Ancient Egyptian tradition. She also explains how the ancient temples and priesthoods functioned, and how students today can create their own working environment.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of numerical computing techniques with an emphasis on practical applications in the fields of civil, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering. It features two software libraries that implement the algorithms developed in the text - a MATLAB® toolbox, and an ANSI C library. This book is intended for undergraduate students. Each chapter includes detailed case study examples from the four engineering fields with complete solutions provided in MATLAB® and C, detailed objectives, numerous worked-out examples and illustrations, and summaries comparing the numerical techniques. Chapter problems are divided into separate analysis and computation sections. Documentation for the software is provided in text appendixes that also include a helpful review of vectors and matrices. The Instructor''s Manual includes a disk with software documentation and complete solutions to both problems and examples in the book.

On ne se baigne jamais deux fois dans le même fleuve. Eddy le sait. Pourtant il décide, trente ans après une première descente du Mississippi en canoë, de réitérer l’exploit. Mais cette fois ce n’est pas l’exploit qui l’intéresse. Il n’a rien à se prouver. Il veut juste prendre la mesure du temps écoulé. Eddy a changé, le fleuve a changé, le pays a changé. Quelque chose flotte dans l’air, prémices d’un changement radical. Descendre le cours mythique du Mississippi, c’est traverser les lieux emblématiques d’un passé plus violent que glorieux, et le regarder en face. S’interroger sur les peuples qui vivaient sur ces terres avant l’arrivée des Européens. Évoquer, au gré des rencontres, les actions humaines, bonnes ou mauvaises, sur le milieu naturel. Mais aussi se laisser porter par le hasard, les flots tantôt calmes, tantôt impétueux, et par le fil de pensées vagabondes.

With every step a very special professor takes, a flower sprouts from the ground. When a student sees the flowers and tries to tell her about them, the professor cannot see them and struggles to accept they are real. After the student tells her, "Try to believe in your beauty a little bit more," the professor finally begins to see the flowers. This spiritual and uplifting allegory is followed by Kaylea L. Harris''s moving afterword, detailing stories of the real-life professors who inspired the book. An easy-to-read story that will speak to children and adults alike.

A biography of the American inventor and engineer who became a pioneer in the automobile industry and founded the Ford Motor Company.