Alan: 6649 books

Book cover of Amelia
by Alan Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

The ghost of a dead nurse haunts a modern hotel in this story of spiritual relase.
Book cover of The Crafty Art of Playmaking
by Alan Ayckbourn
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwright's trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness,...
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Deckhand

Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes

by Nelson Haydamacker, Alan D Millar
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010

Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats. With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand...
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The Fatal Strain

On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic

by Alan Sipress
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009

In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian flu broke out in Asia in 2003 and raced westward, Sipress, as a reporter for The Washington Post, tracked the virus...
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Carthage & Hannibal

History & Hannibal tactics (carthage Before BC until these days) Punic war I and II

by Alan MOUHLI
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016

Founded by the Phoenicians on the shores of what is now Tunisia and more precisely in the Gulf of Tunis in 814 BC. BC, according to the most commonly accepted tradition, Carthage gradually took ascendancy over the Phoenician cities of the western Mediterranean, before spreading to turn and develop...
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Exiles from a Future Time

The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left

by Alan M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt...
Book cover of The Pretender's Lady
by Alan Gold
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015

The acclaimed historical novelist brings to life “a heroine for all ages”—Flora MacDonald, who saved Bonnie Prince Charlie and became his secret love (Bryce Courtenay).   The Pretender’s Lady, Alan Gold’s meticulously researched novel, vibrantly portrays the life of Flora MacDonald, the...
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Counter-revolution of the Word

The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

by Alan Filreis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist...
Book cover of A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln
by Alan Boye
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

This expanded, updated, and revised edition of A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln takes you on a tour of the known and the obscure sites in Lincoln, Nebraska, where on a dark and silent evening you might feel a slight chill in the air, hear the faint calling of a lost soul, or see the ghostly shape...
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The Velvet Rage

Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

by Alan Downs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately...
Book cover of Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty)
by Spider Robinson, James Alan Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological. The stories contained within the pages of Compostela...
Book cover of Tao of Philosophy
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1999

The Tao of Philosophy is a literary adaptation of talks selected to introduce the new "Love of Wisdom" series by Alan Watts to today's audiences. The following chapters provide rich examples of the way in which the philosophy of the Tao is as contemporary today as it was when it flourished...
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At Home in Exile

Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews

by Alan Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

An eloquent, controversial argument that says, for the first time in their long history, Jews are free to live in a Jewish state—or lead secure and productive lives outside it   Since the beginnings of Zionism in the twentieth century, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to...
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The Vanishing American Jew

In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century

by Alan M. Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2000

In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism....
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