Books with author James Carter

Fourteen years since its first publication, the bestsellerNasty People has been revised and updated to cover the motivations of nasty people, how to avoid confrontation with a nasty boss, how to handle a nasty spouse, and much more, including: How to break the cycle of nastiness A new understanding of personality disorders and depression Narcissism, nasty behavior, and self-doubt Nasty people and self-validation The role adrenaline plays in nasty behavior and our responses to it. Everyone knows a person who has been hurt, betrayed, or degraded by nasty individuals or has experienced it themselves. In three books, Jay Carter, Psy. D., shows readers how to stop this cycle of overt and covert abuse, without resorting to nasty tactics. Now for the first time, this series is released together to cover all areas of dealing with difficult people. With straight-talking advice, real-life anecdotes, and psychology that makes sense, Carter explains how to handle and stop painful behavior that harms both the perpetrator and the victim.

This book is set in the year 1512, at the time of Michelangelo, da Vinci, and the Medici family, as a travel guide for first time visitors to Florence, Italy. The guide provides travelers to Renaissance Florence with information about everyday life in city, where to stay, how to find the great art and architectural treasures, as well as information about the city's history, festivities, sports, and great shopping sites.

Famed for its lean that has defied gravity since its inception over 800 years ago, this book chronicles what modern engineers consider to be the most flawed building still standing today. Closed in 1990 due to fears of imminent collapse, a panel of world famous engineers have finally understood why it has been leaning and have solved the engineering problem of arresting any further lean and have stabilized this beautiful bell tower for future generations.

Life for medieval villagers who lived far from larger towns and cities was a daily test of personal character and dependence upon their fellow villagers. Village life was one of hard work primarily for farmers in the local fields but also for small merchants who like the farmer, scratched out a living while obligated to the laws and customs of the village lord who occupied the apex of medieval village social structure. This book honors the millions of mostly poor and struggling peasants as they lived, married, laughed, danced, gave birth, and died in their small dank cottages at a time when struggle and hard work were the two constants of their lives.

A generation after a war lost, in a land without hope, an escaped slave discovers a glowing stone that may hold the secrets to heal his crooked world back to the Utopia it once was. A mythical titan rises from the ashes, and four rogues, a daredevil, and a legendary Amnesty Warrior with a hidden past, curiously cross paths to try to protect their world from the evil that originally shambled it.

To this day, the name Stalin conjures an image of a frightening shadowy figure who was, by all respected accounts, the worst killer in history. This book hopes to answer some pivotal questions about the man. Who was Stalin? Where did he and his ideas come from? How did he wield his power and why? And what is the scale of the horrors Stalin inflicted?