Alan: 6649 books
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years...
The Divided City
Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them...
Tyburn
London's Fatal Tree
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
"Tyburn" is synonymous with the idea of execution—over 50,000 people died there between the 12th century and 1783. Among those who met their end at Tyburn were William Wallace, the Scottish patriot; Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be one of the Princes in the Tower; and the hated Jonathan...
Big Citizenship
How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the Best in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference throughout his life. As a young graduate from Harvard Law School, he turned down lucrative offers from corporate law firms to found a non-profit called City Year with his friend, Michael Brown.
City Year allowed young people...
by Alan Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
The Beatles ruled the musical world for much of the Sixties thanks to the inspired management of Brian Epstein, who found a rough-and-ready group playing small clubs in and around Liverpool. Within five years he developed them into the group chosen to represent the United Kingdom in the first ever...
Play It Loud
An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies,...
Franz Liszt, Volume 3
The Final Years: 1861-1886
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt.
"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books
"A...
Franz Liszt, Volume 1
The Virtuoso Years: 1811-1847
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has...
by Alan Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
An insufferable pornographer and his close associate have their lives changed forever upon contact with an enigmatic starlet.
by Alan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In a world where fear, crisis, and insufficiency dominate the media and many personal lives, the notion of claiming contentment may seem fantastic or even heretical. Yet finding sufficiency right where you stand may be the answer to a world obsessed with lack. In his warm, down-to-earth, and believable...
by Alan Clayson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
For many years, John Lennon has been seen as the crazed and eccentric Beatle who provided some of the most memorable melodies the music world has ever known. After remaking pop in his own image with The Beatles, the erstwhile would-be artist and Liverpudlian reprobate went on to carve out a significant...
by Alan Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Childhood friends Chris and Imran celebrate the Millenium as inseparable blood brothers, they are both seven years old. But by 2011 their lives have taken very different paths. One has joined the Army and served in Afghanistan, the other is a potential jihad recruit. They are no longer friends, and...
Three Weeks in Bali
A Personal Account of the Bali Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Alan Atkinson has worked for the ABC for more than 20 years and is currently Day Editor in the Adelaide ABC newsroom. He has also worked for newspapers in Australia and overseas, including the Sydney Morning Herald and the Adelaide Advertiser, the London Guardian and the Scotsman in Edinburgh. He...
Parallax
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the...