Carl: 2594 books

We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture...

The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...

Introduction by SAS and Gulf War hero Andy McNab DCM MM Includes all three volumes of On War’s 1908 edition Every diagram and map from Von Clausewitz’s original Translated by Col JJ Graham Bonus material: Introductions and notes by Col FN Maude, CB Bonus material: A memoir of Von Clausewitz...

Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see. Expert art instructor Carl...

“Fourteen writers take on perhaps the most important cultural issue of our time: figure out what we’re talking about when we’re talking about cat videos.” —New York magazine   Are cat videos art? This essay collection, funded by a Kickstarter campaign, addresses not just our fascination...

Well-documented and compassionate, this memoir follows journalist Carl Crow as he journeys from Rangoon to the wartime Chinese capital of Chongqing in 1939. Including interviews with senior government members, this record chronicles the daily struggle of the Chinese people under Japanese bombardment. A valuable historical resource, this firsthand account is also a gripping travel narrative.

Carl Medearis, an expert on Islam, shares simple, practical ways Christians can reach out to Muslim neighbors and co-workers. This is a selection from Muslims, Christians, and Jesus.

This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish...

A beautiful young orphan, convent raised, must make the decision to join the sisters or to join the outside world on her 18th birthday. Her sheltered life doesn't prepare her for a world of firsts. She finds her first job and then her first boyfriend. Claude will be Vivian’s first love and the man...

Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg’s magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States,...

The story of William Penn is one of great personal tragedy as well as great ability and courage in the face of religious persecution. In England in the seventeenth century, Penn was jailed six times for his beliefs as a Quaker, yet through his connections at court and his deep understanding, good...

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface,...

In story one Paul comes into possession of a jacket that renders the wearer invisible and he's sure as hell's going to have fun with it. Follow his adventures as he gets into all kinds of naughty mischief and proves the saying "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" correct....

How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past? Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical...