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The War Lords: Military Commanders Of The Twentieth Century (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
by Michael CarverDetailed profiles of forty-three military commanders of the twentieth century, from Patton to Rommel, Yamamoto, and Zhukov, written by top historians. In The War Lords, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders on the twentieth-century world stage, written by such prominent historians as Alistair Horne, Norman Stone, Stephen Ambrose, Lord Kinross, and Martin Middlebrook. Included are: Field-Marshal the Earl Alexander, E.H.H. Allenby, Claude Auchinleck, Field-Marshal Sir, Omar N. Bradley, General of the Army, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet the Viscount, Karl Doenitz, Admiral, Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Chief Marshal, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army, Ferdinand Foch, Bernard Freyberg, Lieutenant-General Lord, Heinz Guderian, General, Douglas Haig, William F. Halsey, Fleet Admiral, Ian Hamilton, Arthur Harris, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir, Paul von Hindenburg, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Joseph Joffre, Alphonse Juin, Marshal, Mustafa Kemal, Ivan Koniev, Marshal, Erich Ludendorff, Douglas C. MacArthur, General of the Army, John Monash, Bernard L. Montgomery, of Alamein, Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Burma, Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, George S. Patton, General, John J. Pershing, Philippe Petain, Erwin Rommel, Field-Marshal, William Joseph Slim, Field-Marshal the Viscount, Carl A. Spaatz, General, Raymond A. Spruance, Admiral, Joseph W. Stilwell, General, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, Hugh Trenchard, Erich Von Falkenhayn, Erich Von Manstein, Field Marshal, Gerd Von Rundstedt, Field-Marshal, Archibald Wavell, Field-Marshal Earl, Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral & Georgii Zhukov, Marshal.
All of Us: The Collected Poems (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Raymond CarverThis prodigiously rich collection suggests that Raymond Carver was not only America&’s finest writer of short fiction, but also one of its most large-hearted and affecting poets. Like Carver&’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All of Us are marked by a keen attention to the physical world; an uncanny ability to compress vast feeling into discreet moments; a voice of conversational intimacy, and an unstinting sympathy. This complete edition brings together all the poems of Carver&’s five previous books, from Fires to the posthumously published No Heroics, Please. It also contains bibliographical and textual notes on individual poems; a chronology of Carver&’s life and work; and a moving introduction by Carver&’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher.
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
by Sonora CarverA Girl and Five Brave Horses is the story of Sonora Carver and was the basis for the movie Wild Hearts Can't be Broken. Carver answered the following want ad: Wanted: Attractive young woman who can swim and dive. Likes horses, desires to travel. See Dr. W. F. Carver, Savannah Hotel. From there she became the first woman to jump from forty and sixty feet into a pool of water with diving horses. Carver was blinded during a jump as a result of hitting the water off balance and detaching both of her retinas. Despite this she continued to jump for another eleven years. An amazing and inspiring story. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
A Girl and Five Brave Horses
by Sonora Carver Elizabeth LandSonora Carver, when she was 16 never dreamed that she would be in show business doing an act that was amazing and exciting. But when she ran into Dr. Carver, and saw the Diving Horses act, she fell in love. Sonora had a great life traveling the country, riding and doing shows, and loving the horses she worked with. Klataw, John the Baptist, Juda, Red Lips, Snow, and Lightning, all were her family and her friends. Then one day Red Lips did a very dramatic nose dive and Sonora hit the water with her eyes open and face first. Her life changed after that day and this is her story. This book was the inspiration for the movie "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken".
Where The Hell Have You Been?: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape
by Tom CarverIn November 1942 a young British army officer was captured. This gripping story tells of Richard"s internment in a POW camp in northern Italy and of his subsequent escape.
Where The Hell Have You Been?: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape
by Tom CarverIn November 1942 a young British army officer was captured. This gripping story tells of Richard"s internment in a POW camp in northern Italy and of his subsequent escape.
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts
by Conor CarvilleSamuel Beckett and the Visual Arts is the first book to comprehensively assess Beckett's knowledge of art, art history and art criticism. In his lifetime Beckett thought deeply about visual culture from ancient Egyptian statuary to Dutch realism, from Quattrocento painting to the modernists and after. <P><P>Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished sources, this book traces in forensic detail the development of Beckett's understanding of painting in particular, as that understanding developed from the late 1920s to the 1970s. In doing so it demonstrates that Beckett's thinking about art and aesthetics radically changes in the course of his life, often directly responding to the intellectual and historical contexts in which he found himself. Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes.<P> Draws on a wide range of new sources, both published and unpublished.<P> Demonstrates the changes in Beckett's thinking about art and aesthetics over his career.<P> Reorients Beckett's relationships with modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes.
Lincoln
by Richard CarwardineCarwardine (American history, Oxford U. ) received the Lincoln Award--the first British scholar to do so--for this biography, originally published in 2003 by Pearson/Longman. Half of it addresses Lincoln's (1809-65) career and the roots of his political ambition before he became president of the US. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Calling Dr. Carson (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Red #Level N)
by Alice CaryAt age eight, Ben Carson decided he wanted to be a doctor. But now he's got an F in math. It looks as if he might not pass fifth grade. Should Ben change his mind?
A Shining Star of Science Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Gold #Level P)
by Alice CaryA Shining Star of Science: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Author: Alice Cary
You Can't Stop Trudy (Fountas & Pinnell LLI Red #Level M)
by Alice CaryImagine swimming through six-foot-high waves. Now imagine doing it for fourteen hours straight. Who could do such a thing? Meet Gertrude Ederle.
Althea Gibson, the Tiger of Tennis (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Alice Cary Jani OrbanNIMAC-sourced textbook. Changing the Face of Tennis. Althea Gibson spent her childhood getting into trouble on the streets of Harlem, New York. She grew up to change the world of championship tennis forever.
Wilma Rudolph: Walk, Run, Win (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 2)
by Alice Cary Jani OrbanNIMAC-sourced textbook
Meet Abraham Lincoln (Landmark Books)
by Barbara CaryThis warmly told biography of our sixteenth president is enriched by many authentic but seldom told anecdotes and complemented by bold color illustrations that capture the spirit of Lincoln and his era. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry with The Lady Falkland, Her Life
by Elizabeth Cary Lady Falkland Barry Weller Margaret W. FergusonThe Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. With this textually emended and fully annotated edition, the play will now be accessible to all readers. The accompanying biography of Cary further enriches our knowledge of both domestic and religious conflicts in the seventeenth century.
Black Ice
by Lorene CaryIn 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, "a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intelligent passion, and joyous love."
Ladysitting: My Year With Nana At The End Of Her Century
by Lorene CaryLorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew—even their shared past. From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting” her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. Brilliantly weaving a narrative of her complicated yet transformative relationship with Nana—a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100—Cary looks at Nana’s impulse to control people and fate, from the early death of her mother and oppression in the Jim Crow South to living on her own in her New Jersey home. Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Nana was a force: Her obstinacy could come out in unanticipated ways—secretly getting a driver’s license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary’s father. But Nana could also be devoted: to Nana’s father, to black causes, and—Cary had thought—to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Facing the inevitable end raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself with late-night sweets and the loyalty of caregivers. When Nana doubts Cary’s dedication, Cary must go deeper into understanding this complicated woman. In Ladysitting, Cary captures the ruptures, love, and, perhaps, forgiveness that can occur in a family as she bears witness to her grandmother’s 101 vibrant years of life.
Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist
by Phillip CaryPhillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space--a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. Although it has often been suggested that Augustine in some way inaugurated the Western tradition of inwardness, this is the first study to pinpoint what was new about Augustine's philosophy of inwardness and situate it within a narrative of his intellectual development and his relationship to the Platonist tradition. Augustine invents the inner self, Cary argues, in order to solve a particular conceptual problem. Augustine is attracted to the Neoplatonist inward turn, which located God within the soul, yet remains loyal to the orthodox Catholic teaching that the soul is not divine. He combines the two emphases by urging us to turn "in then up"--to enter the inner world of the self before gazing at the divine Light above the human mind. Cary situates Augustine's idea of the self historically in both the Platonist and the Christian traditions. The concept of private inner self, he shows, is a development within the history of the Platonist concept of intelligibility or intellectual vision, which establishes a kind of kinship between the human intellect and the divine things it sees. Though not the only Platonist in the Christian tradition, Augustine stands out for his devotion to this concept of intelligibility and his willingness to apply it even to God. This leads him to downplay the doctrine that God is incomprehensible, as he is convinced that it is natural for the mind's eye, when cleansed of sin, to see and understand God. In describing Augustine's invention of the inner self, Cary's fascinating book sheds new light on Augustine's life and thought, and shows how Augustine's position developed into the more orthodox Augustine we know from his later writings.
O elefante já está na mala
by Paola CasadeiCarlotta tem dezesseis anos e viveu toda a sua vida na África, participando de safaris e admirando os animais. Sua família decide mudar-se para a Itália e lá ela precisa encontrar novos amigos. As antigas amigas moram em diferentes países e o apoio mútuo via Skype é um importante fator para a integração nas novas sociedades. Carlotta adora fotografia e mantém álbuns que a ajudam a manter vivas suas memórias e a refletir. Sua mãe adora preparar os pratos tradicionais dos países onde viveu, thiboudienne, bobotie, frango yassa, mafé, lembrando-se dos anos vividos na África e tentando seguir em frente. Convida amigos e conversa sobre suas viagens. A família permanece aberta ao mundo e, no final, organiza uma grande viagem à Índia onde Carlotta encontrará uma de suas amigas. What do you want to do ? Copy What do you want to do ? Copy What do you want to do ? Copy What do you want to do ? Copy What do you want to do ? Copy
MAESTRA DE LA LAGUNA, LA (EBOOK)
by Gloria V. CasañasElizabeth O Connor, una de las maestras norteamericanas que Sarmiento consigue traer a la Argentina, no sospecha hasta qué punto aquella empresa sobrepasa sus expectativas. Valiente, culta y decidida, su sangre irlandesa es puesta a prueba más de una vez, tanto en la Gran Aldea que sigue siendo Buenos Aires como en la pampa brava, donde el eco de los malones resuena aún, a la luz de la estrella del gran Calfucurá. La joven maestra trae consigo la nueva enseñanza, pero ignora que bajo la Cruz del Sur existen otras lecciones que ella debe aprender, en una sociedad salvaje donde las reglas son escritas con sangre y en la que los códigos del amor son muy distintos a los de su Massachusetts natal. Mientras tanto, en el Río de la Plata, un hombre de alcurnia que busca olvidar su condición y hundirse en el oprobio, lejos de la sociedad que lo vio nacer, es sin duda un condenado, pero# no hay condenado que no desee la salvación. Podrá una mujer civilizada, sin otras armas que su educación y su perseverancia, redimir al alma más oscura?
Renata Tebaldi: The Voice of an Angel
by Carlamaria Casanova Connie De CaroAuthorized biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest operatic sopranos. Includes complete performance history and discography.
41
by Claudia Casanova George W. BushNunca desde los tiempos de John Quincy Adams y John Adams en la Casa Blanca hace 190 años han sido padre e hijo presidentes de los Estados Unidos. En 41: un retrato de mi padre, George W. Bush el presidente número 43, nos guía a lo largo de la vida y el liderazgo de su padre, George H.W. Bush, el presidente número 41. Íntimo y conmovedor, 41 es un libro que solo un hijo --y también presidente-- podía escribir. La vida de George H.W. Bush es una gran historia americana. A raíz del ataque a Pearl Harbor y contra los deseos de su padre, pospuso sus estudios para pilotar en las fuerzas armadas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras varias misiones en el Pacífico, regreso a Estados Unidos donde se casó con Barbara Pierce, la mujer que tanta influencia tendría sobre padre e hijo. Tras una exitosa carrera en Wall Street, su espíritu aventurero hizo que la joven familia se trasladara a Texas. Recordando su niñez en Midland, Texas, George W. Bush explora como su padre desarrolló su instinto, su capacidad para las relaciones personales, y su habilidad para arriesgar al tiempo que triunfaba en el mundo del petróleo primero y en política después. George W. Bush describe las extraordinarias tres décadas de su padre en la política --en el Congreso primero, más tarde como embajador, director de la CIA, vicepresidente bajo Ronald Reagan y finalmente presidente de los Estados Unidos en 1988. Pero más que una biografía, 41 nos ofrece las lecciones que un hijo aprendió del hombre al que admira y adora. George W. Bush reflexiona sobre la influencia que su padre tuvo en su vida tanto personal como política, y revela como el apoyo constante y silencioso de su padre lo ayudó en los momentos más difíciles. George H.W. Bush fue uno de los políticos más influyentes norteamericano del siglo XX, y uno de los hombres de estado más queridos del siglo XXI. 41 es un emotivo tributo a un inspirador padre y a un gran estadounidense.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
by Giacomo CasanovaCasanova was an Venetian adventurer and author (1725 - 1798). His Memoirs provide an intimate insight into the life of European society in the eighteenth century. These Memoirs are the history of a unique life, a unique personality, one of the greatest of autobiographies; as a record of adventures. They tell the story of a man who loved life passionately for its own sake: one to whom woman was, indeed, the most important thing in the world, but to whom nothing in the world was indifferent. The bust which gives us the most lively notion of him shows us a great, vivid, intellectual face, full of fiery energy and calm resource, the face of a thinker and a fighter in one. (Introduction, Arthur Symons)