John Allen: 244 books
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
Conclave
The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
A captivating insider’s guide to the politics and personalities that will have a tremendous impact on one of the world’s most secretive and important events–the election of a pope.
The next time a conclave unfolds in Rome, some 6,000 journalists are expected to descend on the Eternal...
Cairngorm John
A Life in Mountain Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both...
Me and the Biospheres
A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the largest laboratory for global ecology ever built and one of the most luminous minds of our time. Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight...
by John Allen Bigelow
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The whimsical adventures of a young, mischievous boy in the 1920's in Middle America meet with the horrifying realities of war as John Allen Bigelow's story unfolds. Leaving his hometown of Lombard, Illinois at a tender age, he hitches rides on boxcars across the country seeking work during the Great...
Tenkara Fishing in Dorset
Tenkara, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment. Only a rod, tenkara line and fly are necessary for tenkara fishing (no reel...
Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve...
by John Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
What's the first obstacle in changing career? Your own fear of change. This book uses practical exercises to help conquer this fear and get you started.
Hate your job? Too scared to leave? You are not alone. Nearly 90% of us work in a job that we don’t enjoy. Even if the job is...
Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them...
by John Allen Paulos
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle-the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve math at all and demonstrates how...
by John Allen Paulos
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling author John Allen Paulos demonstrates what the tools of mathematics can tell us about the vagaries of the stock market. Employing his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles (and even a film treatment), Paulos addresses every thinking...
Social Media
Usage and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Within the past ten years, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and others have grown at a tremendous rate, enlisting an astronomical number of users. Social media have inevitably become an integral part of the contemporary classroom, of advertising and public relations...
The 2012 Presidential Campaign
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Presidential campaigns are our national conversations – the widespread and complex communication of issues, images, social reality, and personas. Political communication specialists break down the 2012 presidential campaign and go beyond the quantitative facts, electoral counts, and poll results...
Tenkara - Ancient and Modern
Tenkara, #2
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Tenkara fishing can be seen as a streamlined counterpart to western fly-fishing. The equipment is designed to direct focus to the actual fishing and catching of the fish, not to cause a major preoccupation with the equipment. Only a rod, Tenkara line and fly are necessary for Tenkara fishing (no reel...