my book reviews
- ... and "the spoken word"
- A Bridging of Faiths: Religion and Politics in a New England City
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- A Friend Indeed: Warm thoughts on the meaning of friendship
- A Light to Come Home by: A Novel
- A Primer on the Construction and Testing of Theories in Sociology
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- A true and descriptive account of the assassination of Joseph & Hiram Smith,: The Mormon prophet and patriarch
- Acts of Faith
- Adventures of a Church Historian
- All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
- All God's Children: Racial and Ethnic Voices in the LDS Church
- Amazing Conversions: Why Some Turn to Faith & Others Abandon Religion
- American Exorcism
- American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future
- An Easy Guide to Factor Analysis
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
- Angels and Demons
- Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- Apples of Gold
- Asylums
- Atheism: The Case Against God
- Atheists
- Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit
- Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory
- Birthmarks
- Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
- Blood And Smoke
- Blue Gold: A Novel from the NUMA Files
- Book of Life: Ascension and the Divine World Order
- Book of Mormon authorship: A closer look
- Breaking The Spell
- By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion
- Christ and the inner life
- Christmas in Story for LDS Readers
- Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- Conservative Christian Identity & Same-Sex Orientation: The Case Of Gay Mormons
- Converts, Dropouts, Returnees: A Study of Religious Change Among Catholics
- Crime & Immorality in the Catholic Church
- Cultural Sociology
- Cultures and Societies in a Changing World
- Dave Barry's Money Secrets
- Dianetics: the modern science of mental health
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
- Dude, Where's My Country?
- Emphyrio
- Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Volume 1: Historical Evidences for the Christian Faith
- Executive Orders
- ExMormon
- Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy
- First Fruits: From Promise to Provision
- For They Shall Be Comforted
- Freakonomics
- Freeculture: How Big Media Uses Technology and The Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
- From a Buick 8
- Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
- God is Dead: Secularization in the West
- God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy
- Gods in the Global Village: The World's Religions in Sociological Perspective
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Holidays on Ice: Stories
- How to Be Your Own Best Friend
- I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
- If Talent Were Pizza, You'd Be a Supreme: Talks to Youth
- In a Sunburned Country
- Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home
- Introducing Lisrel: A Guide for the Uninitiated
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
- Latter-Day Political Views
- Leaving Cults: The Dynamics of Defection
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- Letters to a Mormon Elder
- Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
- Links of Forever : Inspirational Stories of Lineage and Love
- Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
- Love is the gift
- Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' Rights
- Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving and Lasting Relationship
- Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History
- Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Midnight Diaries
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- Naked
- New Peoplemaking
- No Man Knows My Pastries: The Secret Not Sacred Recipes of Sister Enid Christensen
- No Man's Land
- Not by bread alone
- One in Thine Hand: A Novel Set in Modern Israel
- Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations
- Plain Talk: A Potpourri of Plain and Precious Things
- Plan of Attack
- Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication
- Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
- Pope Fiction: Answers to 30 Myths and Misconceptions About the Papacy
- Prey
- Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity
- Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood-Atonement Killings
- Public Religion in the Modern World
- Quidditch Through the Ages
- Red Rabbit
- Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Focus
- Religion and Politics in the United States
- Religion and the Individual: A Social-Psychological Perspective
- Religion in a Free Market: Religious and Non-Religious Americans
- Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families
- Rethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction
- Return from Tomorrow
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
- Runes in Ten Minutes
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
- Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide
- Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
- Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
- Secularization: An Analysis at Three Levels (Gods, Humans, and Religions)
- Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia
- Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture
- Shadow Warriors: Inside The Special Forces
- Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
- Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
- Skinny Bitch
- Soccer Dreams: My True Adventure Following the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, as a Fan and 12-Year Old Junior Reporter for the St. Petersburg Times ... History-Making 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup!
- Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
- Sociology
- Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
- Speaking in Tongues
- Starfish
- State of Fear
- Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
- Stolen Innocence
- Straight Talk About Gospel Principles: What They Are, What They Are Not
- Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community
- Studies of the Book of Mormon
- Stupid White Men: ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process
- Take heed that ye be not deceived
- Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
- That ye might have joy
- The Academic Job Search Handbook
- The Age of Reason
- The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam's War Against America
- The Amber Spyglass
- The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle With Assimilation
- The Audacity of Hope
- The Bad Beginning
- The Beach House
- The Bear and the Dragon
- The Blind Watchmaker
- The Cassandra Compact: A Covert-One Novel
- The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
- The Celestial Connection: Faith-Promoting Stories on Family Research
- The Changing World of Mormonism
- The changing world of Mormonism: "a condensation and revision of Mormonism, shadow or reality"
- The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
- The Church of the Old Testament
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy
- The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
- The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
- The Diminishing Divide: Religion's Changing Role in American Politics
- The Divine Center
- The Emergence of Liberation Theology
- The Enchanted Costume Shop
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- The Functions of Social Conflict
- The Golden Compass
- The Great and Abominable Church of The Devil
- The Great Divorce
- The Greatest Success in the World
- The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
- The Last Castle
- The Life Beyond
- The Life of Nephi
- The Light of Hope
- The Lord's question: A call to come unto him
- The Lost Symbol
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
- The Making of a Moonie
- The Mark of the Assassin
- The Meaning of Sociology: A Reader. 9th ed
- The Mismeasure of Man
- The Mormons
- The Mountain Meadows massacre
- The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship
- The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
- The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 1: The Outstretched Shadow
- The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 2: To Light a Candle
- The Obsidian Trilogy, Book 3: When Darkness Falls
- The Origin Of Humankind
- The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism
- The Power of Myth
- The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach
- The Purpose of Life
- The Religious Drop-Outs: Apostasy Among College Graduates
- The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
- The Salmon of Doubt
- The Search for Harmony: Essays on Science and Mormonism
- The Selfish Gene
- The Simeon Solution: One Woman's Spiritual Odyssey
- The Social Reality of Religion
- The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People's Spirituality in a Changing Australia
- The Statistical Imagination: Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences
- The Stork and the Plow: The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma
- The Subtle Knife
- The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
- The Trial of the Stick of Joseph And: Ancient Ruins of America
- The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
- The Truth (with Jokes)
- The Vampire Armand
- The Way We Never Were
- The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spirit
- The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
- The Zero Game
- They lie in wait to deceive: "a study of anti-Mormon deception"
- This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
- Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine
- Uncle Sam
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- Usable Knowledge: Social Science and Social Problem Solving
- Violence Against Wives
- What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
- What we've learned having a child - v1
- What's God Got to Do With the American Experiment?
- Why People Believe Weird Things
