George Carpenter: 8 books

Bilbao is the capital of Vizcaya province in the Basque Country in northern Spain. The city is set on the Nervión river and benefits from a milder climate than in most other regions of Spain. Temperatures rarely fall below freezing in wintertime or rise over 34ºC in summertime.  ...

San Juan is the largest city in the Caribbean and is the capital city of Puerto Rico. The island was recently voted the most popular island to visit in the Caribbean and San Juan was named as one of the top 50 world cities for tourists. There is much Spanish heritage in the city’s historical architecture...

Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second largest in the United States. “The City of Angels” is a melting pot of 18 million people in its sunny location among the forests, mountains and gorgeous beaches of the Pacific Ocean. Los Angeles is the world headquarters of the movie...

Pisa is a famous city in Italy that is best known for the world famous Leaning Tower but which offers much more. Pisa offers some of the most beautiful views of the Tuscan mountains and is just a short drive away from the scenic hill towns and villages of Tuscany.    TABLE OF CONTENTS:  Introduction...

Late studies in the Psychology of Sex have led to some interesting speculations with regard to the poet Shelley; and it is with pleasure that I write a few lines by way of introduction to the following paper by my friend, George Barnefield, which puts very clearly, as I think, some points in Shelley's...

Among the manifold operations of living creatures few have more strongly impressed the casual observer or more deeply interested the thoughtful student than the transformations of insects. The schoolboy watches the tiny green caterpillars hatched from eggs laid on a cabbage leaf by the common white...

A volume in the Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans series, this 1901 life of Longfellow was written with an admiring yet varied and precise pen. The book was described in a contemporary review in the Nation as "at once workmanlike and sympathetic. . . . It's chief virtues are clarity and good sense."

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...