Books by John Carey

C++ is a mature multi-paradigm programming language that enables you to write high-level code with great control over the hardware. This book updates your working knowledge of modern C++ by showing how you can use algorithms and data structures to build scalable, efficient modern applications.

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the human spirit.

A study of the fascinating relationship between media and everyday life. It investigates the human factors involved in technological change and their implications for future media. It is suitable for media and communication scholars, historians, organizational theorists, and industry professionals.

Do the arts make us better people? Why should "high" art be thought higher than "low"? In the first part of this spirited polemic, Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes a provocative case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.

English Renaissance Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner in honour of her seventieth birthday