Allan Young

When was the last time you pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone and dared to fail? In Disruptable, Allan Young shows you how embracing your different, getting outside your comfort zone, observing the impossible, daring to fail, and taking purposeful action will set you on a path of intentional personal disruption that will change your world forever. If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth. Join Allan on his journey of intentional disruption that has led him from a five-year-old entrepreneur to founder and owner of an Inc. 500 company and multiple start-ups that have generated over $500 million in sales.

This study is the first modern attempt to track down how many copies of Robert Burns's first book still survive. Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786), has long been recognized as one of the world's great books. The 612 copies that were printed in the summer of 1786 by a local printer, John Wilson, in Kilmarnock, Scotland, sold out almost immediately and launched Burns's worldwide reputation as a poet. In time copies of the Kilmarnock, often splendidly rebound to indicate its importance and its growing monetary value, became prized by book collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. The study describes the present appearance of each of the surviving copies, including any inscriptions, and traces, as far as possible, their previous ownership and its significance. In addition, drawing on print and digital evidence for copies previously reported in exhibitions, auctions, bookseller catalogues, and newspapers, the study documents the larger story of public interest in Burns and Burns collecting from the early nineteenth-century to the present day.The book opens with an introduction, by Allan Young, telling how he became interested in the topic and approached the research, summarizing the findings, and listing the most important unlocated copies, which is followed by Patrick Scott's account of how the Kilmarnock was published and how it became a collector's item.

Poems by Allan Young contains life experiences, life style, outdoors, friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, professions, ideas, plans, vehicles, homes.

THE BLIZZARD'S SECRET, by Allan Young Albia is a typical mid-western county seat town of four thousand people -- minus one. It is located near Iowa's biggest lake, and surrounded by other beautiful lakes and rivers, including the three small fish-filled ponds called Cottonwood Pits. When an early blizzard finally relinquishes what the ponds are hiding, the area will never be the same again. The snow-covered secret not only rewrites the community's history, but determines its future as well -- and all the residents are affected. Zacharias Popek drives in to visit his favorite clergyman, only to find him in the hospital, and stumbles into a series of events which takes all of his deduction capabilities, plus his physical abilities, to solve the mysteries-while staying alive.

My name is Jake Tama. Well, Captain Jacob Ezekiel Tama, if you want to get formal. I'm a riverboat captain, and I have been around rivers all my life. Oh, I did spend some time on the ocean in the Navy. Then sixteen years as a policeman-homicide, mostly. But even then I drove boats. I bought my own excursion boat, and moved it to Branson, where the business was good. And that is where my problem started-crime, murders, mostly. Everywhere I go something happens to get me drawn into resolving a mystery, even worse than when I was a cop. Like what happened in Branson-the murder of the Branson Star. Two of them, in fact. I was even accused of committing one of the murders. Then I was almost a victim. And yes, I've had a few romances along the way. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Just read the book

This is a sequel to THUNDER IN BRANSON.I've been a newspaper and magazine editor, an engineer, police detective and riverboat captain. I don't have a regular job, since my own excursion boat got blown up. My main activity is picking up and delivering boats for a variety of companies all up and down the rivers. And that is what brings up my problem-crime, murders, mostly. Everywhere I go something always happens to get me drawn into resolving a mystery-even worse than when I was a cop. Like the Tennessee country music icon. And his religious counterpart. And the terrorist situation on the Mississippi-a whole other type of criminal. And they always happen under a red moon. If you don't know what that means, ask your grandma. And yes, I've had a few romances along the way, but nothing serious since losing my beloved Lisa, until my childhood sweetheart came back into my life. But I'm getting ahead of myself again. Just read this book, too

The self-styled Old Cantankerous Curmudgeon is a man of much experience, and has no qualms about expressing his opinions-appalling, appealing, amusing, or just plain owly-about almost everything. Here is a random selection of them, as collected by the author-on sports, professions, politics, religion, family life, education, and other subjects. Old CC says that with over eight decades on Earth, he has earned the right to say what he wants. But he did the same thing when he was younger, as well.

THE POWELL RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by Allan Ishmael Young The people depicted in this tome are the ones who no longer exist; not in this world, anyway. These are tales; in what could be their own words, of their lives, loves, desires, triumphs, tragedies, dreams, relationships, and ultimately, their deaths. To the west of the south end of the Gap of the Mountain through which flows the mighty turbulent Powell River, is an acreage lying golden under the setting sun - the Estes and Cecil. Yes, it is a cemetery - as old as the hills. Most of the people who traversed the River through the Gap are resting there - as well as in several smaller such places scattered around Lee County. But, unfortunately, some ventured far away and stayed there - although their spirits still come back to intermingle with the ones they left behind. The centralizing common denominator is the Powell River itself. It's there for good. They never lose it from their memory or their very being. It's permanent.

My name is Jake Tama, and as the long-time captain of the Cajun Queen I invited a special group of river aficionados to share their river stories with me on the boat's final voyage. And here they are, young and old-and from all walks of life. These are people with a river history of their own, and they have been on many trips of the Cajun Queen. As they cruise, they each tell their favorite river tale-something that happened to them, personally. Something that affected their life-or their thinking. I'm a riverboat captain with many years experience piloting large craft up and down the rivers of the mid-west and south. Here I draw on the experience of other people who also are infatuated with the rivers as a way of life and an important part of the world's commerce

THESE BARREN HILLS, by Allan Young Beth Bell, rancher's daughter, is extricated from dangerous situations by the taciturn son of a neighboring rancher. Home from school in St. Louis, she expect to be bored, lonely and at loose ends, in the vast, scarcely populated country in which she finds herself. Her unsettled state takes a very different turn, as she makes new friends-but learns that she might have a few enemies as well. Her acquaintance with a local storekeeper's daughter generates a new attitude on her part, as does her friendship with the young man who plays hero to her troubles. An excellent rifleman, with a dog and horse to match his ability, he is still considered a saddle bum by her father. "One thing is for sure," said Beth, "I definitely won't be leaving the ranch and going back to St. Louis this fall "

MARIA McCALL, by Allan Young In this sequel to MARIA MALIETTE, the death of Maria's husband forces her to make many new choices-some of them are advantageous, some not. Discovering that she now owns a farm and a century-old mansion gives her the incentive that she needs to start a new business. Resolving the accompanying problems along the way, with the help of newfound friends-while combating both personal and business nemeses-leads to success as well as romance in her newly defined life.

WRITE RIGHT AND GET PUBLISHED By Allan Young This book will show you how to WRITE RIGHT and will help you become a SUCCESSFUL PUBLISHED writer in all genres; by showing you how to, where to, do's and don'ts. ANYBODY CAN WRITE-long, short, humorous, serious, good, mediocre or bad material. But EVERYBODY can't expect to get PUBLISHED. Some good material falls by the wayside, while being passed by worse material, simply because the writer doesn't know the necessary procedures of HOW or WHERE to get it published. This book was written to REMEDY THAT, giving you pointers on word and phrase usage, WHAT to write, HOW to write, and, even more important, for WHOM to write it. It then tells you the importance of HOW you PRESENT it to publishers, and gives you advice on doing it correctly. It even tells you how to get it published, by knowing where and how to SUBMIT IT. It will make you a better, more informed, and, most important, a PUBLISHED WRITER.

ME AND JAKE, by Allan Young. These are hunting and fishing stories that I shouldn't tell anybody, because they are all true There's a song that goes: "I won't go huntin' with you, Jake, but I'll go chasin' women." Well, me and Jake are both too old and fat to go chasing women-besides we wouldn't know what to do with one if we caught it-but we have spent over two-thirds of our lives hunting and fishing together. And we haven't shot each other yet, or pushed each other into a lake or trout stream, although we both admit we have thought about it from time to time. Jake "Moose" Vavra is a six-foot-five, 265 pound Engineer, Farmer, Business Man and Publisher. (He used to just weigh 250 pounds, until I found out his scale only went that far ) And what hasn't happened to us in many years of hunting and fishing together just isn't worth mentioning.

As far back as we know, there have been individuals incapacitated by memories that have filled them with sadness and remorse, fright and horror, or a sense of irreparable loss. Only recently, however, have people tormented with such recollections been diagnosed as suffering from "post-traumatic stress disorder." Here Allan Young traces this malady, particularly as it is suffered by Vietnam veterans, to its beginnings in the emergence of ideas about the unconscious mind and to earlier manifestations of traumatic memory like shell shock or traumatic hysteria. In Young's view, PTSD is not a timeless or universal phenomenon newly discovered. Rather, it is a "harmony of illusions," a cultural product gradually put together by the practices, technologies, and narratives with which it is diagnosed, studied, and treated and by the various interests, institutions, and moral arguments mobilizing these efforts. This book is part history and part ethnography, and it includes a detailed account of everyday life in the treatment of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. To illustrate his points, Young presents a number of fascinating transcripts of the group therapy and diagnostic sessions that he observed firsthand over a period of two years. Through his comments and the transcripts themselves, the reader becomes familiar with the individual hospital personnel and clients and their struggle to make sense of life after a tragic war. One observes that everyone on the unit is heavily invested in the PTSD diagnosis: boundaries between therapist and patient are as unclear as were the distinctions between victim and victimizer in the jungles of Southeast Asia.