Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books

Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries. In Things Japanese: Everyday Objects of Extraordinary Beauty and Significance, author Nicholas Bornoff and photographer Michael Freeman examine over 60 traditional objects...

Filha de imigrantes mexicanos, Maria Sanchez é uma advogada inteligente, bonita e bem-sucedida que aprendeu cedo o ­valor do trabalho duro e de uma rotina regrada. Porém um trauma a faz questionar tudo em que acreditava e voltar para sua cidade natal, a pequena Wilmington. A cidade também...

A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart...

A game-changing sales model that targets opportunities in every stage of today's long-lead sale Target Opportunity Selling reveals best practices based on first-hand interviews with top sales performers throughout the world. Leading sales trainer Nic Read describes what he calls the...

In the run-up to the general election of May 2010 it was universally acknowledged that whatever the outcome, this vote would start a fresh chapter in British political history. But no one anticipated just how fresh that chapter would be - Twists and turns made it an election like no other. David Cameron...

芝加哥大學最有趣的心理實驗課！ 世界頂尖商學院教授20年精采研究，帶你真正讀懂人心，得到行事為人的智慧！ ★「這是我近年來讀過最精妙也最有趣的一本書！」──《蘋果橘子經濟學》作者李維特 ★《華爾街郵報》《泰晤士報》《衛報》重量級媒體推薦，突破心智盲點的「真心」科學大冒險！   「以為」，是這世上最曖昧可怕的一個字眼！ 人類天生具有「讀心術」，但許多苦難和失敗也由此而來。 誤判人心，可能掀起小波瀾，也可能釀出滔天巨禍...... 根據調查，人最想要的超能力是穿越時空和讀心術。 但你其實天生就能「讀心」，了解別人的想法、感受、信念、需求，甚至知道對方知道些什麼。 這種能力讓朋友有默契、讓敵人互相寬恕、讓陌生人產生同理心，讓夫妻、同事甚至社會國家之間得以合作。 遺憾的是，這種能力也常造成誤解與不必要的衝突，導致人際關係決裂、夢想破滅...... 本書為你帶來洞悉的智慧，徹底為你以為的別人，和你以為的自己，架上溝通的橋梁！   【作者簡介】 尼可拉斯．艾普利　Nicholas...

The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the imaginative strength of Bach's music continues...

This stimulating Very Short Introduction to music invites us to really think about music and the values and qualities we ascribe to it. The world teems with different kinds of music-traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop-and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing...

Singer Nicholas Clapton first visited Budapest to record a recently discovered mass by an almost unknown eighteenth-century Hungarian composer. There, he discovered a striking sense of otherness in spite of Hungary’s central geographical and cultural position within Europe. And with that, a deep...

The most remarkable double agent of World War II, Eddie Chapman was witty, handsome, and charming. Too bad he was also a con man, womanizer, and safe-cracker. To the British, though, he was known as ZigZag, one of MI5’s most valuable agents. To the Abwehr-German military intelligence-he was known...

The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery...

What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones' repetition and attitude inspired a genre, and Ramones set its tone. Nicholas Rombes examines punk history, with the recording of...

The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews,...

From the renowned British author of The Dancer Upstairs comes this “meticulous, lyrical history” of the remote island and his family’s connection to it (Publishers Weekly).   Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “one of the best English novelists of our time,” Nicholas Shakespeare decided...