Carroll: 1589 books

**For fans of Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Jack Cheng’s See You in the Cosmos, here is “a haunting and poignant exploration of family, loss, and redemption” (Booklist, Starred Review).     ** When Alice is suddenly bundled off to her estranged grandmother Nell’s house,...

On August 2, 1990 Iraqi forces, led by Saddam Hussein, invaded the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait.  Jim and Shirley Carroll were missionaries on assignment when the first shots were fired.  This is their story… This is a true story of faith under fire. You’ll be inspired as...

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or...

Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama 24 to the Marvel Comics miniseries The Call of Duty, and from the reality show American Chopper to the movie...

"Illegal Jesus" is a research essay uncovering the intricacies of young, Hispanic, immigrant (legal or otherwise) males and exposing the symptomatic challenges of acculturation and enculturation in contemporary America. Specifically, the struggles of Hispanic extended families and newly...

**"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality." —Brian Greene As you read these words, copies of you are being created.** Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of...

A Regency Christmas Romance from Susan Carroll, award winning author of the Bride FinderVillains can come in many disguises, even with a handsome face and a gold-braided uniform. So thinks Chloe Waverly when her father's untimely death results in an unknown naval captain being appointed...

In "Alice im Wunderland" erzählt Lewis Carroll von den wundersamen Begegnungen des Mädchens Alice in ihrer Traumwelt. Die Abenteuer, die Alice im Wunderland erlebt, sind sehr spannend, fordern ihr aber einigen Mut und Überwindung ab. Von Abenteuer zu Abenteuer wächst sie an ihren Aufgaben....

The National Book Award–winning author “seizes the moment of Catholicism’s sexual-abuse crisis” to call for a Vatican III (Publishers Weekly). Elaborating on “A Call for Vatican III” from his New York Times–bestseller Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, James Carroll...

Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings, Carroll points out, can arise even where...

11 Major Works of Lewis Carroll A Tangled Tale Alice in Wonderland Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing Feeding the Mind Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Rhyme And Reason Sylvie and Bruno The Game of Logic The Hunting of the Snark Three Sunsets and Other Poems Through the Looking Glass

Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy. In...

The Game of Logic is a book, published in 1886, written by the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under his literary pseudonym Lewis Carroll. In addition to his well-known children's literature, Dodgson/Carroll was an academic mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. Lewis...

A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical...