Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
by Nicholas Roe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but prey to doubt, suspicion, and jealousy; sure of his...
Gunnar Asplund's Gothenburg
The Transformation of Public Architecture in Interwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In the west coast port city of Gothenburg, Sweden, the architect Gunnar Asplund built a modest extension to an old courthouse on the main square (1934–36). Judged today to be one of the finest works of modern architecture, the courthouse extension was immediately the object of a negative newspaper...
You Never Ate Lunch in This Town to Begin With…
An Outsider's Inside Look at the Outside of Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Hollywood isn't all about the A-listinternationally famous actors and directors, highly paid writers, powerful producers. No, it's also about the failures, the inhabitants of the periphery, the bottom layers of the entertainment pyramid. That's the role Nicholas Kolya reluctantly played for the last...
El cisne negro. Nueva edición ampliada y revisada
El impacto de lo altamente improbable
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2012
¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto.
El éxito de Google y You Tube, y hasta ell...
Last Voyages
The Lives and Tragic Loss of Remarkable Sailors Who Never Returned
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Looking back at the lives and sailing careers of some of our lifetime’s finest yachtsmen, this collection of eleven original, moving accounts is just as much a celebration of the good – tales of hope, achievement and courageous spirit – as it is an account of their tragic final voyages. Included...
Mississippi Notebook
Freedom Summer June-August 1964
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
One of those who watched and was watched in the turbulent summer of 1964 was Chicago Daily News reporter Nicholas von Hoffman. Through ten tense weeks and over 6000 miles of dusty roads and highways, from the Delta to the piney hills to the Gulf, von Hoffman studied the state of mind of the State...
by Nicholas Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
It is extraordinary enough that one small area in north-eastern France, on the northern edge of Europe’s wine-growing regions, should be capable of producing the finest sparkling wine in the world, one of the few worth discussing as a wine and not merely as a sparkling beverage. Yet champagne fascinates...
Notes On A Beermat
Drinking and Why It's Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
First published in 2001 to national acclaim, Notes on a Beermat is Nicholas Pashley’s ode to the amber nectar of the gods, a witty meditation on beer and everything that goes with it—from socializing to the solitary pleasures of a beer and a book, to the qualities necessary in a good pub.
Most...
Mr Moon Has Left the Stadium
Confessions of a Matchday Announcer
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
JEREMY NICHOLAS is West Ham United's stadium announcer. A supporter since the age of six, Jeremy's blood runs claret and blue. In the summer of 1998, after decades in the stands, he became the voice of his club - announcing the players, the substitutions, the trials and tribulations, and best of all...
Balancing Acts
Behind the Scenes at London's National Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
From the Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning former director of London's National Theatre--this is a fascinating, candid, eloquent memoir about his career directing theater, producing films and opera, and working closely with some of the world's most celebrated actors.
The list of...
by Nicholas Coleridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
From the catwalks of Paris to the sweatshops of South Korea; from Seventh Avenue glitz to Tokyo new-wave… The sophisticated brokings of the fashion conspiracy have generated a powerful new force in the world economy; designer money.
Nicholas Coleridge presents a fascinating portrait of the...
by Nicholas Pang
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
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by Nicholas Pang
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Pinterest - The BasicsWhat is Pinterest?The Rise of PinterestWhat Can You Do with Pinterest?Pinterest Content RestrictionsPin EtiquettePinning 101 On PinterestPinterest Profile & Account SettingsPinterest Pinning & Re-pinningCreating & Managing Your Pinterest BoardsCommenting On PinterestThe Attack...
All That Glitters
The Fall of Barings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
**The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring, the oldest merchant bank in London, in 1995 and the ultimate rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who brought down the venerable institution with speculative investing.
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John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his coauthor...