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Vol. 4 Farms Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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The Significance Of The Private Letter In Immigration History, Niels Peter Stilling

The Bridge

The title of this paper is two-sided. The private letter is an important source for understanding the psychological and human aspects of immigration. It is also important to note that until recently historians have shown much too little interest in the documents from the immigrants themselves. My hypothesis, which I intend to discuss here, is that the private letter was the most important stimulating pull-factor in immigration history. In certain periods a call for USA was put forward in most letter series. Praising various aspects of American life, private letters were written to draw relatives or friends across the Atlantic. …

Offenders For A Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games To Attack The Latter-Day Saints, Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen D. Ricks

Maxwell Institute Publications

This book reveals the tactics many anti-Mormons employ in attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In clear, straightforward terms, the authors explain the true beliefs of the church and how to see through the word games that critics use to attack it.

Offenders for a Word answers critics’ objections to Latter-day Saint beliefs regarding the Godhead, polygamy, salvation by grace and works, eternal progression, the premortal existence, the role of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the nature of the Holy Ghost, and much more.

Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith

Quidditas

Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology, University of South Florida Press, 1990, xviii, 376 pp., ill., biblio., index, $36.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paperback).

Creating Informal Play Opportunities: Are Parents' And Preschoolers' Initiations Related To Children's Competence With Peers?, Gary W. Ladd, Craig H. Hart

Faculty Publications

Preschoolers' social competence may depend on the frequency with which informal play activities are initiated by parents', children, and playmates. In this study, measures ofchildren's peer relations in informal and school contexts and the frequency of parents', children's, and peers' play initiations were obtained with 83 preschool children and their families on 2 occasions. Frequent parent initiations were associated with higher levels of prosocial behavior, lower levels of nonsocial behavior and, among boys, greater peer acceptance in preschool. Children who were more initiating of informal peer contacts displayed less anxious behavior in school and were better liked by their classmates. …

A Study Of African American Women And Their Perceptions Of Life In Utah, Jennifer Caye Demayo

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine, through the use of the ethnographic interview (Spradley, 1979), residential preferences, as well as the stated reasons for relocation of African American women who live in a predominantly White, Utah Mormon culture. The "push and pull" factors that impacted the women's decisions to come to and/or remain in Utah were qualitatively analyzed in some detail. The end goal of the research was to determine whether Utah was perceived as a desirable residence by and for African American women.

Residential preference is a complex issue which requires an in depth explanation. The prominent …

Review Essay: Timothy Verdon And John Henderson, Eds., Christianity And Renaissance: Image And Religious Imagination In The Quattrocento, Edward J. Olszewski

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Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, eds., Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento, Syracuse University Press, 1990, xix, 611 pp., ill., $55.00 (cloth), $18.95 (paperback).

Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore

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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Front Matter

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Mormon Polygamy: A History Richard S. Van Wagoner, Thomas G. Alexander

BYU Studies

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Learn Audit Selection Rules From Data: A Genetic Algorithms Approach, David P. Greene, Rayman D. Meservy, Stephen F. Smith

Faculty Publications

The construction of expert systems typically require the availability of expertise that can be modeled. However, there are many important problems where no expertise exists, yet there is a wealth of data indicating results in different situations. Machine learning algorithms attempt to discover rules which capture the regularities that exists in such data.

Jerald Tanner And Sandra Tanner, Mormonism: Shado Or Reality?, Matthew Roper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? (1987), by Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner.

"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain

Quidditas

Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …

Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke

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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.

Full Issue

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Review Essay: Juan Luis Vives, The Passions Of The Soul: The Third Book Of De Anima Et Vita, Anthony J. Cárdenas

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Juan Luis Vives, The Passions of the Soul: The Third Book of De Anima et Vita, trans. and intro. by Carlos G. Noreña, Studies in Renaissance Literature 4, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, xv, 121 pp., $49.95

The Ute Mode Of War In The Conflict Of 1865-1868, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

The Ute Indians of Utah rebelled in 1865 which led to war for the next three years. Throughout the conflict, small numbers of Utah warriors showed great skill in raiding white settlements of central Utah and in keeping their enemies at bay.

Publications, Edward Martinique, Richard T. Wang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Gary Ernest Smith: Invitation To The Viewer, Doris R. Dant

BYU Studies

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Category Index Table Of Contents, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Title Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Category Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Byu Studies: Into The 1990s, John W. Welch

BYU Studies

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Book Review Index By Author Of The Book Reviewed, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Book Review Index By Title Of The Book Reviewed, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Subject Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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A Dialectical Evolutionary Theory Of Civilizations, Empires, And Wars, William Eckhardt

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Author Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Pillar Of Light: A Historical Novel Gerald N. Lund, Richard H. Cracroft

BYU Studies

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Development And , Application Of Expert Systems In Audit Services, Eric L. Denna, James V. Hansen, Rayman D. Meservy

Faculty Publications

Professional auditing has become much more complex over the past decade. This development has engendered a need for leveraging auditor expertise. In an attempt to meet this need, public accounting firms have been actively involved in supporting the development and application of artificial intelligence methods in audit services, which forms the foundation of their business. Much of the development and application of artificial intelligence in auditing has taken the form of expert systems. This paper examines the current state of the art and provides a framework for analysis of present work, as well as a guide to future efforts.