Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
Baby Meets World
Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A dynamic new story about how babies make their way in the world—and how grown-ups have tried to make sense of these tiny inscrutable beings.
As a new parent, Nicholas Day had some basic but confounding questions: Why does my son find the straitjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting and...
by Nicholas De Lange
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2008
The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism is a remarkable feat of Reference scholarship by renowned Cambridge professor and translator, Nicholas de Lange. With an approachable A-Z format the book covers everything from Jewish traditions and biographical entries on key historical figures to theology, religious...
Glow Kids
How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses—and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces—the Glow Kids—are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or...
Have a Nice Doomsday
Why Millions of Americans are Looking
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. The rest...
by Ethan Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Calvin is just an everyday seventeen year old young man. He, like so many before him, is just trying to find his purpose in life, and carve his own path, if needed. It's 1954, in the rural town of Humboldt, Tennessee. Calvin is very well known in Humboldt High, but Calvin is also a greaser. Rough,...
by Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It is also a highly entertaining...
The Field of Blood
The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states
During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and setting up the Crusader States...
Sheba
Through the Desert in Search of the Legendary Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Three thousand years ago, a dusky queen swept into the court of King Solomon, and from that time to the present day, her tale has been told and retold. Who was this queen? Did she really exist? In a quixotic odyssey that takes him to Ethiopia, Arabia, Israel, and even a village in France, Nicholas...
by Nicholas Eberstadt
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The Korean peninsula during the Cold War provided a cruel but historically unparalleled real-world “experiment” in the relationship between polity and material advance: an ethnically and culturally homogenous nation was, in 1945, suddenly divided by an arbitrary boundary line and then subjected...
The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
In Pursuit of American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author. In The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Buccola provides an important and...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
Now Filmed As The Mercy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
'A masterpiece.' New Yorker
'Wholly riveting, brilliantly researched.' Evening Standard
'A meticulous investigation into the seeds of disaster... fascinating, uncomfortable reading.' Sunday Times
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst was trying to market a nautical navigation device he had...
by Nicholas Cronk
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors — arguably the defining personality — of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to...
by Nicholas Duncan-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Women, you must realize that you are not a soul or a body, but a spirit. You must cultivate the attitude of training your soul to come into compliance with the dictates of your spirit. A lot of good men have left good women like you for other women who have learned this important principle.As a woman...
by S. Marie Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
1 Thessalonians 5:11 says, "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do." In other words, as Christians, we must encourage each other in good times and in bad. While In The Valley is a 14-day devotional of encouragement to uplift mind and soul while you...