Looking in for Number One: Adventures in Uncommon Sense

Alan Cohen shares this thoughts, dreams, humor, and compassion in fifty-two engaging essays. The book, Cohen says, is about "taking our power back from external authorities and living the life we would choose, the life that calls us by virtue of the voice of joy within us."

Alan Cohen is the author of sixteen popular inspirational books including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore and the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life. Alan is a contributing writer for the New York Times #1 best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul. His books have been translated into twelve foreign languages.

Each month Alan's column, From the Heart, is published in sixty magazines internationally. His interviews and articles have been celebrated in Unity Magazine, Science of Mind, New Woman, First for Women, Personal Transformation, New Realities, Human Potential, and Visions magazines.

A frequent guest on radio and television, Alan has appeared on CNBC's America's Talking as well as many other shows throughout the nation. His presentations are regularly broadcast via satellite on the Wisdom Channel, and he is a faculty member at Omega Institute in New York. Alan has served as a consultant to organizations throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, the former Soviet Union, Scandinavia, and Greece. He also guides groups on excursions to sacred sites such as Machu Picchu, Bali, and Egypt.