H Nicholas: 53 books
by H. Nicholas Spinelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
It's 1941, the world is at War, and England stands alone against the German onslaught. A young Egyptologist at the Royal London Museum, Reginald Billings, in a burst of patriotic fervor joins the RAF and is assigned to an observation platform in the middle of the Egyptian desert. The lieutenant's...
Cruel World
The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison,...
The Rape of Europa
The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told...
by H. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Marx's Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals provides an original look at how Marx understood the role of money, extending his theory to consider how prices move over the course of business cycles. Key modern theories of price are also analysed; Neoclassical, Post Keynesian and Sraffian theories are contrasted with Marxian thought.
by Haig H. Kazazian Jr., Moyra Smith, Nicholas Wright Gillham
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
3 cutting-edge books reveal the latest genetic breakthroughs – and their implications for you, your health, and your world
These three cutting-edge books reveal how modern genetics has already transformed the world – and will transform it again and again in the coming years. Mobile...
Kissinger the Negotiator
Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Foreword by Henry Kissinger
In this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors—all experienced negotiators—offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time.
Politicians, world leaders, and business...
Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs
More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews).
Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
by Gail E. Wagner, David H. Dye, Nicholas P
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
Screw Chocolate 2
14(+2) Queer Valentines to Get You Through February 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Roses, cupid’s arrows, chocolate—chocolate? Screw chocolate! Queer up Valentine’s Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love.
This...
by Francis Dupuis-Déri, Benjamin Pillet, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Dès la fin du XIXe siècle, des anarchistes comme les géographes Pierre Kropotkine ou Élisée Reclus se sont intéressés aux peuples autochtones, qu’on a aussi qualifiés de « sociétés sans État ». Au début des années 2000, un peu partout sur le continent américain, des Autochtones ont...
Connected
The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives.
Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than...
Strong Hermeneutics
Contingency and Moral Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ethics, particularly in the approaches of deconstruction and hermeneutics. At the same time, questions of identity have risen to prominence in philosophy and beyond into cultural studies and literature.
Strong Hermeneutics is a clear and accessible...