Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that...
Empires of the Word
A Language History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries...
Rights of Passage
Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting...
Before the Dawn
Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Nicholas Wades articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanitys origins as never before-a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings...
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...
The Year Without Summer
1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816...
by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
#1 National Bestseller
From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our...
Wiseguy
The 25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best...
by Nicholas Kilmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In 1920, Nicholas Kilmer's grandfather Frederick Frieseke, one of the preeminent American impressionists, purchased a farmhouse in Mesnil, a Norman town almost completely (to quote a local taxi driver) sunken away dans la nature. Until his death in 1939 he lived and painted there in the company of...
by Erin Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Genius scientist Mason Riley can cure world hunger, impress the media and piss off the Vice President of the United States all before breakfast. But he’s not sure he can get through his high school class reunion.
Then he meets the new girl in town.
Adrianne Scott loves Sapphire Falls....
Breathless Seduction
A Limited Edition Collection of Contemporary Romance Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Will these hot couples embrace romance, be tempted by desire, or lose it all?
Whether it’s the allure of a perfectly-honed body, the sweltering taboo of a bad boy, or the fantasy of an ideal lover, we’ll feed your addiction in this sizzling collection of fifteen mouthwatering love stories.
Escape...
A Taste of Shifter Geekdom
Vanguard Elite, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017
Darrell is a weapons geek.
Guns, knives, nunchakus, throwing stars, he’s deadly with all of them.
While all seems set for him to pass his upcoming boot camp armory exam, life quickly becomes complicated when curvy, outspoken Julia invades his personal space.
If she doesn’t...
by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The sixth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith's propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man's mission to save the world.
The newly christened leader of Delta Force Team Ghost, Master Sergeant Joe Fitzpatrick arrives in Normandy over 70 years after Allied Forces...
by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
New York Times bestselling series
From the bestselling author that brought you the award-winning Extinction Cycle series comes an all new vision of the apocalypse and the future of humanity.
Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without...