Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
America's Other Army
The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
"America's Other Army" brings the high-flying world of international diplomacy down to earth and puts a human face on a mysterious profession that has undergone a dramatic transformation since September 11, 2001.
Through the stories of American diplomats, the book explains how their work affects...
Echoes from the Cobblestones
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Nicholas A. Kefalides recalls a time when the heavy boots of invading armies echoed off the cobblestone streets of Greece, where he was born and spent his childhood and youth. Kefalides memories begin with the 1930s as social and political events shaped his attitudes and beliefs. It was also a period...
by Charlie Cottam, David L. S. Hodgkinson, Steve Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: Relations between Greek states and between...
Spooked
How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
A searing indictment of our time and “a concise and convincing essay on the nastiness of the CIA and the power it wields over American media” (Oliver Stone, Academy Award–winning screenwriter and director).
The American people depend on a free press to keep a close and impartial watch on...
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions...
Before the Nation
Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they 'lived well with the Turks', and yearned for the days...
by Nicholas Platt
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
China Boys offers a close-up, worm's-eye view of the U.S. opening to China and the pioneer days in U.S.-China relations that followed. Diplomat Nicholas Platt describes preparations for the historic Nixon visit to China in 1972 and the interplay within the U.S. delegation during the visit itself. He...
by Nicholas Sheffield
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The new launcher has been a revelation with its ability to get equipment into orbit at an economical price. But can it be used to launch humans?
There's only one way to find out... fire up a chimpanzee and hope for the best.
Danny is his name. He's been training for months. But when it comes to the big day will he be in the right frame of mind for the mission?
Life Script
How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle...
The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities
An Unconventional Compendium of Health Facts and Oddities, from Asthmatic Mice to Plants that Can Kill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver)
In this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, spoons out...
by Dr Nicholas Seager
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Why have scholars located the emergence of the novel in eighteenth-century England? What historical forces and stylistic developments helped to turn a disreputable type of writing into an eminent literary form?
This Reader's Guide explores the key critical debates and theories about the rising...
Marketing the Third Reich
Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In this fascinating volume, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketing, conceptualising the Reich as a product campaign. Building on his acclaimed Selling Hitler (2016), he uses marketing scholarship to show how propaganda...
The Great Bear Sea
Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read take readers on an expedition into the wondrous and mysterious underwater world of the Great Bear Sea. This amazing part of the northeast Pacific Ocean is home to some of the planet's mightiest and most beloved residents: whales, sea lions, dolphins, orcas, sea otters...
Projecting Empire
Imperialism and Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Projecting Empire, James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull have written the first major study of imperialism and cinema for over thirty years. This welcome text maps the history of empire cinema in both Hollywood and Britain through a series of case studies of popular films, including adventures, biopics,...