Carl: 2594 books
by Carl Opel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Since first publication, To Move A Mountain - The Series has achieved and maintained a prestigious position in the Amazon Top 100 KDP promotions, triumphing the #1 spot more than once. Its success and refreshing messages continue.
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by Carl Opel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Since first publication, To Move A Mountain - The Series has achieved and maintained a prestigious position in the Amazon Top 100 KDP promotions, triumphing the #1 spot more than once. Its success and refreshing messages continue.
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by Carl Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Thinning of the Veils is a work of spiritual, socially-relevant poetry and memoir. Drawing on personal life experiences, the author weaves a spell of tactile-felt memories that have been instrumental in his growth in awareness. Intermingled with observational looks at patterns of human activity, its...
A World in Chaos
Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions. Through an analysis of films such as American Beauty, Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, and Thelma and Loiuse, Carl Boggs and Thomas Pollard...
Acadiana
Louisiana's Historic Cajun Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
"Acadiana" summons up visions of a legendary and exotic world of moss-draped cypress, cocoa-colored bayous, subtropical wildlife, and spicy indigenous cuisine. The ancestral home of Cajuns and Creoles, this twenty-two-parish area of south Louisiana encompasses a broad range of people, places, and...
French, Cajun, Creole, Houma
A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural,...
Hardy of Wessex
His Life and Literary Career
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
First published in 1940 and revised in 1965, this work by the distinguished Hardy Scholar, Carl J. Weber, traces Hardy’s literary career from High Brockhampton to the grave in Poet’s corner, Westminster Abbey. Using a multitude of letters, it explains why Thomas Hardy wrote, and how his books...
by Carl Trueman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
What is an evangelical . . . and has he lost his mind? Carl Trueman wrestles with those two provocative questions and concludes that modern evangelicals emphasize experience and activism at the expense of theology. Their minds go fuzzy as they downplay doctrine. The result is “a world in which everyone...
by Carl Sesto
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Riding America is a day by day account of my motorcycle pilgrimage from Boston to Berkeley in the summer of 2003. Undertaken while on sabbatical leave from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Riding America recounts my experiences and impressions of the state of Union and the people and...
by Klaus H. Carl, Jane Rogoyska, Frances Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Equally famous for his masterful canvasses and tumultuous mental health, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was, in many ways, the prototypical tortured artist. A lifelong sufferer of painfully degenerative tuberculosis, Modigliani was famous for denying his disease with a frenzied bohemian lifestyle of...
Lords of the Housetops
Thirteen Illustrated Cat Tales
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
As Carl Van Vechten notes in his preface to this collection, “In the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog.” Van Vechten sought to mitigate this disparity by creating this collection of...
Back from the Deep
The Strange Story of the Sister Subs Squalus and Sculpin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This epic World War II saga follows the USS Squalus and Sculpin as they play out their dramatic destinies in the Pacific. The author, a seasoned journalist, re-creates their entire perilous journey. The Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, but thirty-three trapped crewmen were saved thanks to the...
My Career as U.S. Consul and Diplomat
A Conversation with Carl A. Bastiani
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
This volume reviews highlights of the authors twenty-eight-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service while he served in Romania, Italy, Poland, and Washington, as elicited in a multi-session conversation with the founder of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program. Historians and other readers may find...
How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these...