Alan Gordon
Author
Language
English
Description
"Chronic pain is an epidemic. 50 million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain. Psychotherapist Alan Gordon was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated...
Author
Series
(Alan R.)Fools' Guild mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A 13th century mystery set in Italy whose protagonist is a professor in a school for fools, which trains jesters and magicians. He investigates the murder of a count. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
UBC Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been created, passed on through the generations, and used to present particular ideas about the world in English- and French-speaking Canada. He reveals that the cult of celebrity surrounding Cartier by the mid-nineteenth century reflected...