Alan: 6649 books
Modest Mouse
A Pretty Good Read
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
THE BEST WAY TO BECOME A ROCK STAR IS SOMETIMES THE WORST WAY TO BECOME A ROCK STAR
Unruly and antagonistic, the Washington State rock trio Modest Mouse would seem like one of the least likely candidates for mainstream stardom: Their often brilliant live performances sometimes collapsed into...
Play it again
Ein Jahr zwischen Noten und Nachrichten
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Für Journalisten ist er ein Star: Alan Rusbridger, seit 20 Jahren Chefredakteur des britischen Guardian, hat seine Zeitung zum führenden kritischen englischsprachigen Blatt gemacht, auf beiden Seiten des Atlantik. Und er hat wie kein zweiter in der Branche die revolutionären Herausforderungen des...
The Gladiator
The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the story of Rome's most notable gladiators. They were condemned and feared by emperors, slaughtered and adored by the masses and worshipped by their female fans, yet their lives were invariably...
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private...
Play It Again
An Amateur Against the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
As editor of the Guardian, one of the world's foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger abides by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitational pull of music—especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: to fluently learn
Chopin's...
The Narnian
The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the classic volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Over the past half century, children everywhere have escaped into this world and...
by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.
As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
Life Without Armour
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England’s most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers.
Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe’s childhood was marked by his father’s unpredictable and...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd,...
Father Lincoln
The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Boys--Robert, Eddy, Willie, and Tad
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
President Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew him. Presidential historian Alan Manning invites readers to see not the thoughtful, burdened president delivering the Gettysburg...
When Good Men Do Nothing
The Assassination Of Albert Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."
On June 18, 1954, former state senator Albert Patterson, the Democratic Party's nominee for state attorney general, was shot to death as he left his law office in Phenix City, Alabama, infamous for its prostitution, gambling, bootlegging,...
Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal
The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman's Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding...
by Alan King
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Alan King -- the beloved comic, actor, producer, author, philanthropist, and storyteller extraordinaire -- has compiled a wonderfully readable book about growing up Jewish, with totally original contributions by famous people. Combining warmhearted humor with a prideful nostalgia, these essays discuss...
John F. Kennedy
The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's chief executive. He was forty-three when...