Charles R Barber

Charles Barber (author)

Charles Barber (born December 1962) is an American author who writes ... Barber attended Harvard University, where he studied with and was greatly...

Charles E. Barber

Charles Edward Barber (November 16, 1840 February 18, 1917) was the sixth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1879 until his death in 1917.

Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered (Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe)

Not all casualties of war die on the battlefield. In the wake of World War II, Yugoslavia purged its territory of the ethnic Germans who had formed a part of its human mosaic. Tarred with their ethnic origins and the conscription of their fighting-age men into the Waffen SS, the Volksdeutsche, as th...

Lost in the Stars: The Forgotten Musical Life of Alexander Siloti

Alexander Siloti (1863-1945), a name associated with musical greats such as Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff, was a pianist, conductor, impresario, advocate for new music, and mentor of new composers; a musical great in his own right. Lost in the Stars is Charles Barber's recreation of the vital...

Early Modern English

Now available in a completely revised edition, this book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700--the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. It will be useful to serious students of the history ...

Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm

Figure and Likeness presents a thought-provoking new account of Byzantine iconoclasm--the fundamental crisis in Christian visual representation during the eighth and ninth centuries that defined the terms of Christianity's relationship to the painted image. Charles Barber rejects the conventional m...

The English Language (Canto Classics)

This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the Engl...

Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors (American Lives)

Day after day, night after night, desperate men come to sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber’s desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and disease, of violence and the voices that plague them. Between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and f...

Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber

Drawing heavily on their 15-year correspondence, this book is the first English-language biography of Carlos Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked. This biography considers Kleiber's singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his r...

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

American doctors dispense approximately 230 million antidepressant prescriptions every year, more than any other class of medication. Charles Barber explores this disturbing phenomenon, examining the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it. Mo...

Breaking the Logjam: Obstacles to Forest Policy Reform in Indonesia and the United States

Securing Protected Areas in the Face of Global Change: Issues And Strategies

Chaste Maid in Cheapside

Women Beware Women

The Story of Language

Leeds Playhouse: A Souvenir Brochure Issued on the Occasion of the Opening of the Theatre in September 1970

The Theodore Psalter

Poetry in English: An Introduction