Alan Levy: 10 books
Vladimir Nabokov
The Velvet Butterfly
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The Velvet Butterfly is the third in a series of introductions to some of our major literary figures by the noted cultural journalist and foreign correspondent Alan Levy.
by Alan Levy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A vivid description of the Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by Alan Levy, an American journalist who lived there from 1967 to 1971.
W. H. Auden
In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
W. H. Auden takes you to Auden’s home in Austria to ask him questions; the conversation on the lawn that one dreams of. A fine tribute.” —Bestseller
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976
Political Passions, Women's Rights, and Congressional Battles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976: Political Passions, Women’s Rights, and Congressional Battles, by Alan H. Levy, marks the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Abzug was one of woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. Levy traces the New York City world of Russian-Jewish...
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998
Electoral Failures and the Vagaries of Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976–1998 is the second part of the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Alan H. Levy explores the political life of one of the most important women in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. This second part takes up Abzug’s life from the point...
The Surge
2014's Big GOP Win and What It Means for the Next Presidential Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The 2014 midterm election was one of the most significant in recent memory, with a decisive turning of the tables in favor of Republicans. With a now-Republican-controlled Senate and House at odds with a Democratic president with only two years left in office, the fault lines within and between both...
Reorganizing Our Universities
An Inside Look at What Continually Goes Wrong in Higher Education and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Many books have been written outlining problems with higher education in America. Many have been written in broad strokes. Where specific, many others have tended to focus on some of the nation's most famous schools.The average American family sends their children not to the Ivy League but to less...
Words Over War
Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2000
The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention...
Rube Waddell
The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2000
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that...
by Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1994
This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.;...