Books by Paul LeValley        

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909 Still Court Tallahassee, FL 32310 (850) 222-1886 paullevalley@peoplepc.com School web site (including biography) paullevalley.com/school Genealogy web site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~levalley

Art Follows Nature: A Worldwide History of the Nude.  4 volumes.
Internaturally.  Now at the publishers.

Twenty years in the making, these chapters have appeared as a regular column in Naturally magazine.  Some faithful readers have called the author one of the greatest art historians living today.  Containing approximately 500 illustrations in full color, the book is especially remarkable for its coverage of India and other non-Western civilizations.  Click the links below for the contents of each volume, or commentary on the cover illustrations.

4-in-1 library edition
Commentary













Volume I                     Volume II                           Volume III                  Volume IV
The Exotic                  Traditional Roots               Medieval to Enlight.   19th and 20th Centuries
Contents                     Contents                            Contents                    Contents
Commentary               Commentary                      Commentary              Commentary



The Orfalinda Trilogy and Other Early Writings.  PublishAmerica.  2004.  182 p. paperback.  $15 includes postage.  (Also available from http://publishamerica.com at $29.95 plus $ .99 postage.)

Hardcover limited edition for rare book collectors:  The publisher reverted to doing only paperbacks just six weeks after the hardbound edition was published.  Only 25 copies were ever printed.  Numbered and signed by the author, they sell for $30, postage included.  They have a separate ISBN number, and are available nowhere else.

Most of these short stories and poems were written in the 1960s and
'70s--with a section of more recent essays added at the end.  Here are the back cover blurbs:

In the set of title stories, a quiet teacher gets romantically involved with two Mexican-American former students—mother and daughter.  (Oh my!)  The final selection finds the author delivering the keynote address at a nudist convention.  (Oh my, oh my!)  Actually, it's all quite tastefully done.  Sandwiched between are provocative poems, Jehovah's Christmas monologue, Boy Scouts around the campfire, royal genealogy, and America's social classes skewered.  With wise and witty commentary, the mature author looks back on "the very best of my juvenilia."  The writing is concise, thoughtful, powerful.

Paul LeValley (1942-  ) grew up on a farm near Morrice, Michigan.  After teaching several years at Saginaw High School, he now occasionally teaches World Humanities at Florida A & M University, or Art of India at Florida State University.  He has traveled in more than 60 countries, and published over 70 scholarly articles across four continents.

Click here for the full table of contents and some samples of the text.



History of Morrice Michigan.  Tallahassee: by the author.  2001.  34 p.
paperback.  The first edition has sold out.

    This local history is available free at http://www.morrice.mi.us/village_history.htm or
http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/morrice2.html.  Or you can order a paper copy for your bookshelf.  To read just a couple of brief excerpts, click here.  Plans are underway for a new second edition with pictures.







Naturists: Upholders of Strong Family Values.  Tallahassee: Tallahassee
Naturally.  First edition 1997.  Second edition 2001.  Third edition 2007.  12 p. paperback.  $3.00 includes postage.  ($2.25 in quantities of 10 or more).

This booklet does not belong on your bookshelf, but in the files of each
of your county commissioners and state legislators.  Well over a thousand copies have been hand-delivered across the nation.  For brief excerpts, click here.






OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS

Seekers of the Naked Truth: Collected Writings on the Gymnosophists and Related Shramana Religions.

    In 326 BCE, Alexander the Great met in India a group of naked philosophers whom he called Gymnosophists.  Though the group went extinct shortly after that, European (and middle-eastern) thinkers kept writing fabulous tales about these naked ascetics for the next two thousand years.  All of the basic sources are being gathered here--as well as essays on the topic that the author has published over the years in hard-to-find scholarly journals across four continents.  For the table of contents, click here.


Five Thousand Years.  3 volumes.
    This high school World History textbook was begun in 1972, then largely
neglected for thirty years while the author pursued advanced degrees and
college teaching.  Some parts of the manuscript can be found at
http://www.paullevalley.com/school.  For the table of contents, click here.


LeValley family history.
    This has been an ongoing project for more than forty years.  Some of the
information is posted at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~levalley.
The author has long made all information available to family members at cost
($5) on computer disc.  Some day, when he feels his memory beginning to slip,
he will press the print button.  But we're not there yet.
    These files were written in WordPerfect 8.  If your computer cannot
handle that, they can be sent in Rich Text or other formats.


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