Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He...
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and...
LES RACINES OCCULTES DU NAZISME
Les sectes secrètes aryennes et leur influence sur l’idéologie du IIIe Reich
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2010
L'occultisme et l'ésotérisme liés au Troisième Reich firent une entrée fracassante en littératture en 1960, lorsque Louis Pauwels et Jacques Bergier publièrent Le Matin des magiciens. Suivirent de nombreux romans et des films, tant ce sujet nourrit de fantasmes et de fictions. Point de romanesque...
The View from the Bridge
Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."
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When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as...
Florence Foster Jenkins
The biography that inspired the critically-acclaimed film
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins was the most famous, though untalented, soprano in twentieth century America. Her extraordinary story is now a film directed by Stephen Frears starring Meryl Streep as the indomitable Florence Foster Jenkins and Hugh Grant as her husband/manager, St. Clair Bayfield. In this...
The Reaper
Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Preorder REAPER: GHOST TARGET now, Nick Irving's debut thriller that Brad Thor calls "one hell of a read"!
The Instant New York Times Bestseller by Co-Star of Fox's American Grit and Legendary Ranger Nick Irving
Groundbreaking, thrilling and revealing, The Reaper is the astonishing...
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award
"CAPTIVATING" (Missourian) • "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) • "FASCINATING"...
The Catcher Was a Spy
The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
**Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd
“A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review**
Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player...
Aldous Huxley
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
When Aldous Huxley died on November 22, 1963, on the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, he was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century. Associated in the public mind with his dystopian satire, Brave New World, and experimentation...
Willie
The Life of Willie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In 2000, readers voted Willie Morris (1934–1999) Mississippi’s favorite nonfiction author of the millennium. After conducting over fifty interviews and combing through over eighty boxes of papers in the archives at the University of Mississippi, many of which had never been seen before by researchers,...
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
A Political Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
New details of the remarkable relationship between two leaders who teamed up to change history.
It?s well known that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were close allies and kindred political spirits. During their eight overlapping years as U.S. president and UK prime minister, they stood...
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the *author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility
In his most provocative and practical book yet,one of the foremost thinkers of...
Treasure Islands
Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A thrilling ride inside the world of tax havens and corporate masterminds
While the United States experiences recession and economic stagnation and European countries face bankruptcy, experts struggle to make sense of the crisis. Nicholas Shaxson, a former correspondent for the Financial Times...
by Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world.
What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn...