"The Records of Early English Drama (REED) series aims to establish the context for the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by examining the historical manuscripts that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until Puritan legislation closed the London theatres in 1642. Oxford (University and City), the series' latest volume, brings together, for ..."
Play Practice(1st Edition) the Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports by Alan G. Launder, Jerry R. Thomas, Jack K. Nelson Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2001 by Human Kinetics ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-3005-2, ISBN: 0-7360-3005-0
"In his foreword to Nelson's “Professor Ptaff's Last Recital,” legendry editor and
critic August Derleth called the story “...a ... in an August 27, 1985 letter that “Man
in A Hurry” was one of his all-time favorites, which he re-read about once a year."
Plentiful (Paperback) by AlanNelson Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2015 by Andrew Benzie Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941713-03-7, ISBN: 1-941713-03-3
"Told from the viewpoint of seven women, Plentiful focuses on a young teenager, Christina, who has joined a Christian movement led by the charismatic leader, C.W. After causing social unrest in the city of Falmouth, C.W. organizes a separatist community in the nearby mountains. Poor and needy, Christina falls under the leader's spell, devoting herself to the movement, and becomes the special keeper of his poetry and music. She falls deep ..."
Yearnings and Turnings Travel Memoirs (Paperback) by AlanNelson Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2015 by Andrew Benzie Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941713-13-6, ISBN: 1-941713-13-0
"The travel memoir, Yearnings and Turnings, covers one man's recollections of four noteworthy trips abroad: from California to Europe and the Middle East as a college student in the 1970s; to Nicaragua with a humanitarian organization during the 1980's Contra War; to Latvia and the Baltic to visit and old friend after the fall of the Soviet Union; and, most recently, in 2012, to post-civil war Sri Lanka."
Pieces of Honey by AlanNelson Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2015 by Andrew Benzie Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941713-15-0, ISBN: 1-941713-15-7
"After time in prison, Merle Honeycutt disappeared for years. He emerges from the Black Rock Desert, busted, broken, and carrying illegal Indian artifacts he intends to sell on the black market. Raised near the nuclear testing sites in Southern Nevada, he has been on the run from his past . . . his friends, his mother and father, and especially his beautiful and talented sister, Roe, who has pursued a career in ballet. An unexpected vi ..."
Man in a Hurry by Gary Lovisi, AlanNelson Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2014 by Wildside Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4794-0237-3, ISBN: 1-4794-0237-0
"Alan Nelson was not a prolific writer, and as far as I know he wrote (or at least had published) only short stories. No novels. However, these stories are true gems. They originally appeared in some of the most prestigious venues for short fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. Many of Nelson’s fantasy tales first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where they were very popular, but his stories also appeared in Bluebook, Wei ..."
"Alan Nelson. mature writings on the role of the imagination in mathematics. But
he does leave one important clue. Descartes closes the Fifth Meditation and
begins the Sixth with a refrain that is often ignored but provides the key to his
philosophy of mathematics. He asserts that the object or subject matter of pure
mathematics is corporeal nature or the material universe as a whole (AT 7: 71;
CSM 2: 50). This means that whenever w ..."
"How does a restaurant or hotel earn a five-star rating? Is it the people? The location? The service? The amenities? In most cases, it is all of this and more: an overall sense that the customer is to be valued, honored and treated well. Jesus' life was like that: a sacrificial offering of love for those He loved and cared about. In "The Five-Star Church", pastor/ how to transform your church based on Jesus' model of servant hood. ..."