Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
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,...
by Nicholas Booth
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England.
In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey — London’s iconic law court — for the...
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth
The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves...
by Nicholas Jolley
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire's Candide.
In this outstanding...
by Nicholas R. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
All over the British Isles natural springs appear. Many are regarded as holy and are reputed to possess healing properties. Among the most venerated of these healing waters are the Red and White Springs that flow from the base of the famed Glastonbury Tor. In The Red & White Springs of Avalon the...
The Watercooler Effect
An Indispensable Guide to Understanding and Harnessing the Power of Rumors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
"A fresh look at informal communication, and how information spreads rapidly...An absorbing and compelling book." -Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs
"Nicholas DiFonzo is one of the world's experts on why rumors spread. If you've...
by Nicholas Russell
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
We are moving into a New Golden Age of Humanity. The Spiritual Hierarchy has taken its place on earth once again, in the form of the millions of New Souls who are here at this time.
The New Souls are in fact highly evolved beings who have achieved Spiritual Mastery before in previous lifetimes. They...
by Nicholas Roerich
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In "Shambhala" N.Roerich has recorded the way of his journey through Central Asia and Tibet in the terms of spirit. It is a record of legends, of parables, of notes--the very substance of which the larger reality is composed, and all revealing different facets of the theme of Shambhala....
A History of County Wexford
A comprehensive study of Wexford’s history, culture and people
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Brimming with vitality and information, Nicholas Furlong’s comprehensive A History of County Wexford is an indispensable guide to Wexford’s history, culture and people. Furlong starts with Wexford’s first settlement and tells the story of Wexford up to the present day, looking at its Gaelic...
My Account of the Hajj
The Pilgrimage of a White Anglo-Saxon Australian to Mecca and Medina
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Rare are works that combine personal revelations with explanations of Islam in a manner to which Westerners can easily relate. The beauty of Nicholas Account of the Hajj (italicise) is that an Australian farm boy with an education imbued in Christian principles, and a lifetime of exposure to religions...
by Nicholas of Cusa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Known for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity, Nicholas of Cusa wrote this, his most popular work, against a backdrop of widespread Church corruption. God, he believed, is found in all things, and thus cannot be perceived by man's senses and intellect alone. The path to ultimate knowledge,...
The Growth of the Medieval City
From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (It is also fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use it with its equally impressive sequel which is being published simultaneously.) In it, Professor...
by Nicholas Ian Allen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Bowties & Bowl Games 2014 SEC Football Preview is a comprehensive preview publication for the upcoming 2014 Southeastern Conference football season. Former football coach Nicholas Ian Allen provides observations, insight and analysis for all 14 SEC programs, including position-by-position breakdowns...
The Nolympics
One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Nicholas Lezard loved London. Then the London 2012 Olympics came along ...
Suddenly his beloved city was invaded by über-people in branded sportswear who had contorted their bodies into odd shapes in order to run a bit faster, or throw things a bit further. Not to mention armies of reptilian...