Alasdair: 165 books
by Alasdair Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss.
When the space station manager is...
by Alasdair Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Harry Robinson lives an idyllic lifestyle. A brilliant computer engineer, he made his fortune pushing the limits of android design. When a neighbouring planet is hit by a global nuclear strike, he feels compelled to help. A chance encounter with a group of offworld soldiers launches him on the trail...
by Alasdair Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Ace fighter pilot Anastasia Seivers is offered a secret assignment: to join a squadron taking the fight to Concorde's true enemies. But this squadron isn't part of the regular Concorde military, it is attached to the Legion Libertus, the independent force responsible for saving thousands of lives...
The European Union
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The world’s greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic superpower with a GDP even larger than th US. It is America’s most important trading partner and a key ally on the world stage, but how much do we really know about the nature and aim of European integration? And, in an...
America's First Great Depression
Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed...
by Alasdair Fotheringham
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Miguel Indurain is Spain’s greatest cyclist of all time and one of the best Tour racers in history. He is the only bike rider to have won five successive Tours de France, as well as holding the title for the youngest ever race leader in the Tour of Spain. This is his story.
As the all-conquering...
The End of the Road
The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs....
by alasdair gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This book is an SRS - a Secification and Requirements document for designing your own free penetration testing and hacking platform.
by Alasdair Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened...
by Alasdair K Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
"AMAZING MEDITATION GUIDE"A "VERY INTERESTING and "DEEPLY PROFOUND BOOK" on learning how to "MEDITATE!""TEACHING you a "STEP BY STEP EASY TO LEARN HOW!" to "MEDITATE" on a daily basis!"YOU" are "GIVEN EASY TO LEARN TECHNIQUES THAT HAVE AN AMAZING EFFECT ON YOU!""THE AMAZING...
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire...
After Virtue
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the...
A Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the...
God, Philosophy, Universities
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
"What does it mean to be a human being?" Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...