Carol: 4546 books
Surpassing the Spectacle
Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2001
In her newest book, leading social critic Carol Becker offers a timely analysis of the nature of art and its role in politics and society. Completed just before the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center catastrophe, Surpassing the Spectacle is now especially relevant in its analysis of the spectacle...
by Carol Shields
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
“Shields writes with an almost painfully attuned ear for the nuances of language and the way they attach to feelings and probe the most delicate layers of human consciousness. . . . She reminds us again why literature matters.” — New York Times Book Review
With an Introduction by Margaret...
Faithless
Tales of Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.
Mudwoman
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
“Oates is just a fearless writer…with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.”
—Los Angeles Times
“[An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel.”
—Booklist (starred review)
One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the...
In the Bleak Midwinter
This Christmas, she'll fight to keep her family. A heart-warming wartime family saga, perfect for winter 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga set at the heart of wartime London at Christmas, from the bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas. Perfect for fans of Sheila Newberry and Rosie Goodwin
'Surely one of the best saga writers of her time' – Rosie Clarke
THIS CHRISTMAS, SHE'LL...
Not just a mirror. Looking for the political theatre today
Performing Urgency 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Der englischsprachige Band Not Just a Mirror setzt sich mit grundlegenden Fragen des politischen Theaters in der Gegenwart auseinander und stellt künstlerisch-politische Strategien und Praktiken von Theatermachern aus aller Welt vor - u. a. Chto Delat, Milo Rau, Kretakör, Faustin Linyekula, Public...
Gun Women
Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This "fact" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a...
The Tattooed Girl
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life.
Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive...
Don't Panic, I'm Islamic
Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
‘Bursting with creativity, wit and intelligence’ Brian Eno
How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can't trust the media any longer, but there's no need to fret: Don't Panic, I'm Islamic provides you with the answers.
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by Carol Clewley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is a true story of two members from the Colorado Springs High School Class of 1958, who, ironically, meet again at age 58. Although they each married and divorced other mates, their history and lives had many parallels. The author draws upon all of her life’s experiences, including surviving...
by Carol Hampson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
He climbed, only to let goand now she must follow
Shockwaves had already reached the rock-climbing community when Carol was awakened in the night with the news of her sons death. Chris Hampsona well-known climber whose grace, warmth, commitment, and Zen-like focus inspired many friendshad fallen...
Living Our Story
Narrative Leadership and Congregational Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Living Our Story explores how good narrative work—the retrieval, construction, and performance of valued stories—takes place in ministry. Authors Larry A. Golemon, Lee Ramsey, N. Graham Standish, Tim Shapiro, Carol Johnson, Mike Mather, Niles Elliot Goldstein, and Diana Butler Bass examine this...
by Ellen Carol DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it.
This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman...
Emblems of Pluralism
Cultural Differences and the State
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
From outlawing polygamy and mandating public education to protecting the rights of minorities, the framing of group life by the state has been a subject of considerable interest and controversy throughout the history of the United States. The subject continues to be important in many countries. This...