Carter: 2562 books
by Grace May Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Here, from New York Times bestselling biographer Grace May Carter, are the extraordinary lives of Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Ingrid Bergman emerges as a devoted artist whose refusal to be a caricature caused her endless trouble - but also produced brilliant...
Life Isn't Everything
Mike Nichols as Remembered by 148 of His Closest Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts—from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels.
The work of Mike Nichols pervades...
by JW Carter, Jared William Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Churchill's story is largely tales of war, the strategist of triumph was Hitler's Folly, and the RAF was Churchill's Angel. In this work learn about Churchill as the British military history is extraordiary in its circumstances and scholarship.
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
As explicit in his prose as he was in his private life, the Marquis de Sade remains one of the most controversial writers of all time. This new biography, by the acclaimed translator and author David Carter, promises to shock as much as it informs. Arrested many times for sexual misdemeanors, the...
Contractor Combatants
Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
The enemy is everywhere in war-torn Iraq, and suppliers and construction workers run the same risks as uniformed combatants: guerrilla attacks, suicide bombings, rocket bombardments, and road mines. This is the compelling story of Carter Andress and the unique methods his multinational team used to...
The American Idea
The Literary Response to American Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The American idea," a blend of the Idea of Progress and a belief in the essential goodness of man, has determined the form of much of our significant literature. Carter treats the response to this idea in most of the major and many of the minor writers of the nineteenth century, including Longfellow,...
by Majora Carter, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, Marjora Carter points to environmental justice as the civil-rights issue of the twenty-first...
Still a Kid at Heart
My Life in Baseball and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In his new book, Still a Kid at Heart, written with longtime New York baseball writer Phil Pepe, Carter writes of his love for the game, the personalities on and off the field who have enriched his life, and the years since his retirement. His experiences serve as a primer for all professional athletes...
Employees Must Wash Hands
A Bathroom Reader in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Finally, photographic proof of what’s behind the public bathroom door.
Must Wash Hands, a collection of 120 artistic photographs, offers readers a peek into the private space of the public bathroom-that unspoken and indecent yet communal and necessary space that we enter and exit every day...
by Tim Carter
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. The recent discovery of a large number of private account books belonging to him and his family allows...
Telling God's Story
The Biblical Narrative from Beginning to End
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
How well do you know His story?
By the time a Christian reaches young adulthood, he is likely to be quite familiar with every major story in the Bible, but not from having studied them in any particular order.
Ask an average Bible student to arrange certain characters and events chronologically,...
Tell Me the Truth About Love
Memories: 1953-1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Praise for Sundays Child Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat. --John Tebbel, author and Journalist Deeply moving...the book is a delight and of course you write like a dream...Congratulations on what I believe...
Illusions of Victory
The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 "Surge" of American troops in Iraq, the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province was widely hailed as one of America's signature victories. US Marines and soldiers fought for years there, in grinding battles such as Fallujah and Ramadi that...
Nobody yet Knows Who I Am
A Personal History: 1943-1953
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Nobody Yet Knows Who I Am: A Personal History: 1943 - 1953 is the second volume in Robert Ayres Carters memoir. The first volume, Sundays Child, was published in 2005 by Xlibris. This volume opens with the authors military service as an enlisted man in the United States Army in World War II, highlighted...