Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
Which Way's Up?
The Big Challenges Facing Britain and How to Confront Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Nicholas Boles, newly elected MP for Grantham and Stamford, is the founder and former director of the influential right-of-centre think tank, Policy Exchange. More importantly, this close friend of David Cameron and leading Conservative moderniser drew up the Tories' plans for government, making him...
by Nicholas D. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Saving Sailing is an appealing blueprint for the revival of family sailing – and other quality uses of free time for rewarding lifelong pastimes.
Participation in sailing is declining in America, down more than 40% since 1997 and 70% since 1979. In this provocative book, researcher and avid...
Surrender
How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
British industry at the start of the New Elizabethan Age was a world leader. The first - British - jet airliner was taking to the skies, the first nuclear power station was under construction at Calder Hall and British firms were pioneering the computer. Our shipyards reigned almost supreme, and from...
Balthus
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art.
The...
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...
by Nicholas May
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Short Story - Ages 13+: When Jimmy wastes the money he was given to buy his little brother a birthday present, he talks a strange vendor at the local Flea Market into selling him a set of Disappearing Ink markers with the little change he has left over. Hoping his mother doesn't realize he wasted...
by Nicholas Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
From British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of a frenetic and full life—from the 1940s to the present—in Europe and America, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
Haslam has found himself at...
How to See the World
An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to...
On Weaving
New Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The classic book on the art and history of weaving—now expanded and in full color
Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications...
Lastingness
The Art of Old Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
One of the country's leading literary scholars, explores the fascinating question of why some people's creative talents flourish with age while others' fade.
America grows older yet stays focused on its young. Whatever hill we try to climb, we're "over" it by fifty and should that...
by Nicholas Becher
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A young man is taken hostage in the Nevada desert after his fiance's father discovers they are engaged.
by Nicholas Galt
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The true story of what happened to Osama Bin Laden
by Nicholas Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the clichés to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's...
The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era—written by the grandson of one of them
Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and...