Alan: 6649 books
Historical Truth and Lies About the Past
Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Historians have long struggled with the questions of historical relativism, objectivity, and standards of proof and evidence. Intellectual historian Alan Spitzer focuses on the contradiction between theory and practice by presenting case studies of four politically charged debates about the past:...
How to Unbreak Your Health
Your Map to the World of Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Find better health with your map to the world of complementary and alternative therapies in this comprehensive health and wellness guide for mind, body, and spirit.
Are you sinking into the Quicksand of Pain? Are you stranded in the Mountains of Misery or simply lost in a Forest of Symptoms? Find...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
by Ian Hamilton, Alan Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A professional man of letters - critic, editor, biographer - though never a professional poet, Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) referred to his poems as 'miraculous lyrical arrivals', and he bided their time with exemplary patience and humility. His widely praised first collection, The Visit, published by...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just because I occasionally contribute to it) the liveliest, most serious and also the most radical literary periodical we have'.
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
Burdens by Water
An Unintended Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In a series of strangely resilient personal adventures—often beginning with breakups, and fueled by a sense of "invincible longing"—essayist Alan Rifkin flings himself at the last vestiges of the Southern California Dream. He chases summer with a pool man, lives with monks in a Santa Barbara monastery,...
Anti-libertarianism
Markets, philosophy and myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject...
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
An expression of the essential ideas one may integrate to bring romance into one's life and to keep it alive. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic...
The Book
On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected...
Adam Smith
History & Biography & Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Smith is best known for two classic works: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. Smith is cited...
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and...
Sigmund Freud
History & Biography & Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the...
Fashionable Nonsense
Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written...