Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
Shakespearean Arrivals
The Birth of Character
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare's tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how...
Fleas, Flies, and Friars
Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals,...
by Nicholas Antinozzi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
People are seldom what they seem and Bill Huggins is no exception. During the days before the economy grinds to a halt, Jimmy Logan sees something in his neighbors that nearly breaks his heart. This short story prequel to Desperate Times will take you inside Bill’s world, where things aren’t always...
Nietzsche's Last Laugh
Ecce Homo as Satire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Nietzsche's Ecce Homo was published posthumously in 1908, eight years after his death, and has been variously described ever since as useless, mad, or merely inscrutable. Against this backdrop, Nicholas D. More provides the first complete and compelling analysis of the work, and argues that this so-called...
Soul Dust
The Magic of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? And why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research, proposes a startling new theory. Consciousness, he argues, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show...
The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions
A Philosophical Adventure with the World's Greatest Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What...
by Nadine Holdsworth, Nicholas Hytner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
How has theatre engaged with the nation-state and helped to formulate national identities? What impact have migration and globalisation had on the relationship between theatre and nation?
Theatre& Nation explores how theatre institutions, playwrights, theatre-makers and performance artists...
by Nicholas Dent
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
In this superb introduction, Nicholas Dent covers the whole of Rousseau's thought. Beginning with a helpful overview of Rousseau's life and works, he introduces and assesses Rousseau's central ideas and arguments. These include the corruption of modern civilization, the state of nature, his famous...
Winter in Fireland
A Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures...
Redemption
The Last Battle of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary...
Dead Men Talking
Collusion, Cover-Up and Murder in Northern Ireland's Dirty War
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Following the revelations of the secret conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunmen of the Ulster Defence Association in Ten-Thirty-Three, Nicholas Davies now dramatically reveals the evidence and facts that the Sir John Stevens Inquiry is still trying to establish regarding links...
by Nicholas Wapshott
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Before Pearl Harbor, before the Nazi invasion of Poland, America teetered between the desire for isolation and the threat of world war.
May 1938. Franklin Delano Roosevelt—recently reelected to a second term as president—sat in the Oval Office and contemplated two possibilities: the rule...
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite...
by Nicholas Smaligo
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events. The book is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. It debunks a number of myths and misunderstandings that have become...