The subjects catalogued here represent but some of those about which A. Bernard Ackerman has proposed unconventional ideas, the majority of which are not mentioned even passingly in a textbook that would be the "gold standard" in the field. A text that claims to cut a swath through a discipline should fulfill the pledge by eschewing scrupulously any trace of exclusion of iconoclastic ideas and any hint of parochialism, shoddy scholarship, or intellectual sluggishness.