Alan R Bloom

Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants: Choosing the Best Hardy Plants for Your Garden

Steam Engines at Bressingham: The Story of a Live Steam Museum

Your Book of Traction Engines

Steam Engines at Bressingham: The Story of a Live Steam Museum

250 Years of Steam

Perennials for Your Garden

Mistress of Melthorpe

Alan Bloom's Hardy Perennials: New Plants Raised and Introduced by a Lifelong Plantsman

The Closing of the American Mind the free ...

The Closing of the American Mind is a 1987 book by Allan Bloom, who describes "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of...

Alan Bloom

Alan Herbert Vauser Bloom (19 November 1906 31 March 2005) was a British horticulturist and steam engine enthusiast. During his life he created over 170...

Allan Bloom

Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo...

Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants: Choosing the Best Hardy Plants for Your Garden

This illustrated guide to choosing and caring for garden plants represents the combined knowledge and experience of the father and son team, Alan and Adrian Bloom, creators of the well-known Bressingham Gardens of Norfolk. The book includes over 750 colour photographs of a wide range of plants.

Shakespeare's Politics

Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and politi...

The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition

Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation o...

Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT  In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock the...

Love and Friendship

The author of The Closing of the American Mind argues that basic human connections--love and friendship--are withering away, asserting that humans' impoverished feelings are rooted in an impoverished language of love. 200,000 first printing.