Books with author John Carson

Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning television series--and now feature film--Downton Abbey: Rules for Household Staff is a grand gift book for fans that reveals the proper etiquette and techniques required for those working in the manor or on the grounds of the Grantham estate. The household staff of Downton Abbey carries out their duties with effortless dignity, finesse and pride. Yet how do they know how exactly to lay the table, when to leave the room to give Lord and Lady Grantham their privacy, how to care for Lady Mary's furs and which uniform to wear when? This recently recovered and fascinating staff handbook answers all of these questions and more. Covering all the main positions of the Downton household―footman, lady's maid, housekeeper, groundsman and more―and with a general introduction for new members of staff from Carson the Butler, this book tells you everything you need to know about working below stairs in the grand estate of Downton Abbey.

Want to better your car control, and be a safer and more aware driver on the road? More drivers have access to race tracks around the world than at any other time in history. Learn how to attend a High Performance Driving event with your regular street car. You don't need a Ferrari or every modification for your car in order to attend a track day and become a better driver. The problem with most driving books is that they don't explain all the tactical things one must know to have success in a track day environment, and focus all on driving techniques. Better Car Control summarizes years of track day experience into an easy read experience. Some of the topics covered are: car preparation, proper safety practices, what modifications to do first versus last, proper protocols, what to do on track, what to do in between track sessions, driver improvement strategies, wet versus dry vehicle set ups, how to use load transfer to your advantage, and lots of tips for advanced and seasoned performance drivers. Plus, a whole lot more.This book covers everything you need to know about participating in HPDE events. Click the buy button and learn the right way to take your car to the track now ,and have fun while doing it.

Want to better your car control, and be a safer and more aware driver on the road? More drivers have access to race tracks around the world than at any other time in history. Learn how to attend a High Performance Driving event with your regular street car. You don't need a Ferrari or every modification for your car in order to attend a track day and become a better driver. The problem with most driving books is that they don't explain all the tactical things one must know to have success in a track day environment, and focus all on driving techniques. Better Car Control summarizes years of track day experience into an easy read experience. Some of the topics covered are: car preparation, proper safety practices, what modifications to do first versus last, proper protocols, what to do on track, what to do in between track sessions, driver improvement strategies, wet versus dry vehicle set ups, how to use load transfer to your advantage, and lots of tips for advanced and seasoned performance drivers. Plus, a whole lot more. This book covers everything you need to know about participating in HPDE events. Click the buy button and learn the right way to take your car to the track now ,and have fun while doing it.

“Haunting and funny, full of folk wisdom and unflinching honesty.” – Publishers WeeklyPlaywright and poet Jo Carson has long been mining the rich field of everyday life in her native Appalachia region and East Tennessee. Collecting found stories as part of her ongoing “People Pieces” series, she has created a remarkable distillation of the rhythms and nuances of a specific landscape that proves common to us all. These fifty-four monologues and dialogues are statements of life from the region of the heart.“The pieces all come from people. I never sat my desk and made them up. I heard the heart of each of them somewhere. A grocery store line. A beauty shop. The emergency room. A neighbor across her clothesline to another neighbor. I am an eavesdropper and I practiced being invisible to get them.” – Jo Carson, from the Preface.JO CARSON is an author of poems, plays, short stories and essays who lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee. She has toured internationally with Stories I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet and her play, Daytrips, has been widely produced. Ms. Carson has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

So this was the end ol his basketball career! The old man had dumped him, used him for an example in some crazy moral lesson. So he had broken training a few times. Other guys did. But who had scored the points when they were needed? Les Beach, that's who! But, no, Raines had called him a ball hog...self-centered, conceited, biggity, headline hunter...The way Les Beach sees it, everyone has it in for him because he comes from the wrong side of town. He doesn t realize that he brings many of his troubles upon himself, and he will fight at the scrape of a shoe. Only his fierce love for the game and the interest of a few special people make him swallow his pride to get back on the team, but even then it takes some doing to knock the chip off his shoulder.

Albert Einstein is considered to have been one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, changing the way we look at science and the universe.Einstein escaped from the tyranny of pre-war Nazi Germany where his fellow Jews were being persecuted and murdered. When Albert Einstein made his new life in America, he used his status as the first global superstar of science to work for peace throughout the world.At times a complete biography of a person might be intimidating, but Carl Johnson cuts it down into 75 easy to comprehend facts about Albert Einstein for a youngster to read. We are sure that the facts about Einstein in this book will fascinate you and stimulate you to learn even more about this remarkable scientist and human being.

There's a tree that takes anger. Trevor Baker is a big, heavy, and very angry nine-year-old boy who is the neighborhood and school bully.One night after his mother takes away his television, he storms out of the house, shouting, punching, and kicking anything in his path. Unsatisfied after acting out his violence, he comes across the only force that can change him: a large old maple tree next to his house that's tall enough to touch his bedroom window on the second floor.At first, Trevor challenges the tree. Then as his anger consumes him, he punches and kicks it, inflicting minor injuries (mostly to his pride), but it calms him down.Returning to his room, Trevor continues talking to himself, but is no longer shouting that nobody likes him, until he hears a voice. It is the tree that becomes his Anger Tree.The two become good friends, though only Trevor can hear its words, so he reads to the tree and it gives him advice, telling Trevor there's a bigger world for him to explore.This inspirational story will bring out emotions in everyone, and it's a book to be read over and over again.John H. Cary grew up in LaGrange, Georgia, and now resides in Masan, South Korea, where he teaches university students in Linhe, Inner Mongolia. He holds degrees in horticulture, environmental design, political science, and oriental medicine. He is the author of Dixie World, Scary Terry, Enemy Family, and, under the pen name of E. J. Hunter, Pest Control. He is also an avid fisherman and archer.Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JohnHCary

The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played their strategic cards very well. Though the dynasty ended in cruelty and incompetence under Andronikos I (the Terrible), it fought a valiant rear-guard action in keeping eastern Christendom alive. The Komnene dynasty saw several changes in Byzantine military practice, such as the adoption of heavy cavalry on the western model, the extensive use of foreign mercenaries and the neglect of the navy (both of which were to prove a huge and possibly fatal disadvantage). A chapter is devoted to the famous Varangian Guard, which included many Saxons in exile following the Norman conquest of England. The terrible defeat at Myriokephalon in 1176 sealed the doom of the dynasty, preparing the way for the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders.