Carey: 889 books

As a young girl Alice Carey came to realise that ‘home’ can mean different things. The only child of Irish immigrants to New York in search of a better life, her isolated and sometimes violent childhood was transformed when her mother started working as maid to legendary Broadway producer Jean...

This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of transportation and considers why they...

It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and finally legislatures as institutions. The studies in Term Limits in State Legislatures demonstrate that...

This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland. Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust starts by...

While health care at the end of life is changing, the language for talking about treatment options and patient preferences around the end of life is taking longer to change. This book carefully details the way language shapes decisions around end-of-life care. Using ethnographic research from two...

“We need to strive for a world where people control what is important to themselves while minimizing the controlling of others.” We are all controlling people. In fact our feelings of wellbeing depend on staying in control. Just as when we drive a car, we must stay in control in everyday life...

Robert Amuigh’s brother is dead. Robert Amuigh’s brother is dead and it has no meaning.The Burden follows Amuigh’s experience of his brother’s funeral and his innate refusal to perform in the social game. From the bedroom of the apartment he shares with his girlfriend to the small cell that...

A very short tract from George W. Cary on the Anti-Christ. "Primitive Christians, the Essenes, fully realized and taught the great truth that Christ was a substance, an oil or ointment contained especially in the Spinal Cord, consequently in all parts of the body, as every nerve in the body is directly...

"Summer of '94" is a novella about the shattering of lives in a community when one of its young members is abducted. The story is told through the eyes of Zack, a young man at the age of 12, on the threshold of adulthood. It is the last vestige of innocence; a time when Nirvana flooded the...

Love at First Fight is a book that will give your marriage encouragement and hope if you find that the once endearing, charming, and distinct qualities that once attracted you to your spouse are now a source of stress and conflict. In sharing humorous, personal stories from both the male and female...

Impassive, I stand in the turmoil, my load laid down to watch the best and worst of humankind thronging the narrow street Good Friday is a deeply agonising, moving, and yet essential part of the Christian calendar. How can we process the events that took place on that dark day? Kevin Carey...

Bani Chamberlain has spent years trying to convince her parents that she's not the bully, but the one being bullied. They, however, are so wrapped up in their own marital problems that they refuse to hear Bani's pleas for help. It's not until her parent's split up after a late night confrontation...

The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or classroom. It is an easy-to-use text providing practical exercises in specific aspects of Shakespeare's language such as meter, imagery, rhetoric and...

Is this year’s black fly infestation the shape of drones to come? Cassie isn’t sure where her relationship is going, but she’s heading to New Hampshire’s Connecticut Lakes on the trail of the mother of all black fly infestations. She needs to locate a secret lab and the international...