Carter: 2562 books

In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. Its symptoms were first described in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, the British scholar and writer, although it wasn’t until 1871 that Carl Otto Westphal coined the term to describe...

The Foundation of Heaven is a historical fictional work about the fall of the Aztec empire (old Mexico). Using his familiar style of mixing historical narrative with literary fiction, author D.H.C. Carter takes us into the world of the early 16th century and shows the collision of cultures that takes...

John F Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 required that all records that were previously authorized for withholding by the Assassination Records Review Board were to be released no later than 25 years after the signing of the Act, unless the President authorizes further withholding. That...

Journalist Laurie Carter caught a tiger by the tail when she set out to retrace the epic journeys of Emily Carr, delving into the life, landscapes and First Nations traditions that shaped an icon. She too has trekked more than 20,000 kilometres, though in greater comfort and probably raising fewer...

Many people do not know that General George S. Patton Jr. suffered from schizophrenia.  In his work accalimed writer Jared William Carter sheds light on the mind of George S. Patton Jr.

Winston Churchill wrote history with an eye to his place in it.  His ideas of writing history as a historian also inspired his making of it.  Was his pen as a historain just as mighty as his leadership in the Second World War during Britian's "finest hour."  Accalimed writer Jared William Carter writes that both his talents of writing and leadership were inseparable.  

Hazel Carter's home-help tidies the house, does the washing and helps with the cooking, and the only payment she requires is a nice big bowl of dog food at dinner time ... When Hazel was debilitated with crippling back problems, she found herself unable to look after the house so she used her...

Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality.

Lifeindividuals from across the globe have referred to it in countless ways, expressing the vast expanse of lifes little indiscretions through different idioms. Yet, through the eyes of this old soldier, life has beenand still continues to bea journey molded by past experiences and guided by ghosts,...

È il 23 aprile – data di nascita di Shakespeare – e le gemelle Dora e Nora, attrici e ballerine di seconda categoria, si apprestano a festeggiare i loro settantacinque anni. Suonano alla porta: su un cartoncino bianco arriva l’invito alla festa del padre, il celebre attore Melchior Hazard,...

The rise of modernity, especially the European Enlightenment and its aftermath, has negatively impacted the way we understand the nature and interpretation of Christian Scripture. In this introduction to biblical interpretation, Craig Carter evaluates the problems of post-Enlightenment hermeneutics...

In this groundbreaking study, Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the “normal” American. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing...

*Each One a Minister**, a revised and enlarged edition of Carter's previous book by the same title, begins with a six-session study of Ephesians. Carter engages the reader in discovering the meaning of church, ministry and gifts from the early church up to the present. As a follow-up to the Bible...

We know facts, but we also know how to do things. To know a fact is to know that a proposition is true. But does knowing how to ride a bike amount to knowledge of propositions? This is a challenging question and one that deeply divides the contemporary landscape. A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-How...