Carroll: 1589 books
Marriage on the Frontier
Western Romance
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The town's schoolteacher, Miss Jane Stanton is not your average woman. Driven by curiosity and adventure, she ventures out of town only to land in a dangerous situation. The man that accidentally runs across her in her time of need, helps her, and then disappears. Almost fully recovered, Jane sees John...
The Philosophy of Horror
Or, Paradoxes of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1990
Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings...
by Íde B O'Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book charts the end of Irish emigration to America as we have known it. It is a story about 1980s emigrants, a generation forced out of Ireland by an economic recession, who could return home when the Irish economy improved in the late 1990s. Many did so while others chose to remain living in...
by Jane Suzanne Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed...
House of War
The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast—often hidden—impact on America.
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people...
Three Squares
The Invention of the American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
We are what we eat, as the saying goes-but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our national identity as the food on our plates, as food historian Abigail Carroll vividly demonstrates in Three Squares. Reaching back to colonial America, when settlers...
by Tom Carroll, Nick Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The long-awaited autobiography of one of Australia's surfing legends.
On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part...
On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea
A Scientific Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually...
The Concussion Crisis
Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
FOR FAR TOO LONG, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its...
Lay Saints
Ascetics and Penitents
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
"These are the footprints that the saints on ascending to heaven left behind upon our earth, in order that we, following after, might attain to the same reward." -The Venerable Bede In Lay Saints: Ascetics and Penitents, Joan Carroll Cruz guides you through the lives of fifty-eight lay men...
by Jo Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
It’s time for JO CARROLL to pack her rucksack again, and this time she’s heading west, to Cuba.Everyone, it seems, has been to Cuba, or wants to go to Cuba, or knows about it. Cuba, they insist, is on the brink of change. A market economy will finally see off the old cars and rationing. They’ve...
Lay Saints
Martyrs
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In Lay Saints: Martyrs, Joan Carroll Cruz guides you through the lives of seventy-three lay men and women who achieved the heights of sanctity. These inspiring biographies present martyrs who displayed extraordinary fortitude in holding fast to their faith in the midst of great persecution. Find a...
The Feedback Imperative
How to Give Everyday Feedback to Speed Up Your Team's Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
See faster results through everyday feedback.
The Feedback Imperative: How to Give Everyday Feedback to Speed Up Your Team’s Success reveals the hidden reasons why giving feedback to employees can be so difficult and yet so urgently needed in today’s workplace, and provides the definitive...
The Mindful Leader
Awakening Your Natural Management Skills Through Mindfulness Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
A new generation of business leaders is turning to mindfulness as a cutting-edge leadership tool. Scientific research suggests that the practice of mindfulness (a technique for learning to live in the present moment) can help individuals to gain clarity, reduce stress, optimize performance, and develop...