Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
Le Hasard sauvage
Comment la chance nous trompe
Language: French
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Sommes-nous vraiment capables de distinguer le génie visionnaire de l'imbécile chanceux? Pourquoi nous obstinons-nous à vouloir trouver des messages sensés dans des évènements dus au seul hasard? Et n'aurions-nous pas une fâcheuse tendance à ordonner le réel selon une routine mentale biaisée,...
Ich bin mal eben wieder tot
Wie ich lernte, mit Angst zu leben
Language: German
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Zehn Millionen Menschen in Deutschland leiden unter einer Angsterkrankung und Panikattacken. Nicholas Müller, der ehemalige Sänger von Jupiter Jones ("Still"), erzählt über seine Umwege aus der Krankheit. Der Herzschlag beschleunigt sich, der Blutdruck steigt, der Atem wird schneller, kalter Schweiß...
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin...
Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
***Antifragile *is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan,...
by Rex Forehand, Nicholas Long
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
A clinically proven, five-week program for improving your child's behavior
Rex Forehand, Ph.D. and Nicholas Long Ph.D. have helped thousands of parents achieve discipline using positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming the child's self-esteem. Their clinically proven, five-week program...
by Nicholas Gannon
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
“A dreamy charmer of a book, full of clever wordplay that practically demands it be read out loud.”—New York Times
Have you ever wanted to hold a little piece of the impossible? Lavishly illustrated in full color, The Doldrums is an extraordinary debut about friendship, imagination, and...
by Nicholas Carr
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a...
Cognac
The story of the world's greatest brandy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world’s greatest brandy provides an authoritative account of how the much-loved spirit is produced and matured. Nicholas Faith, the world’s leading authority on cognac, explores the reasons for the spirit’s complex character, and reveals...
Priscilla
The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his late aunt’s personal belongings, he was unaware of...
by C. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Through vast and unique life experiences, C. Nicholas has written a compelling book that helps others have a better understanding of life's big questions on various topics and the anomalies that happen in our everyday lives. C. Nicholas was born in Tunkhannock, PA, but raised since age 2 in West Chester,...
by Nicholas Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Engraved shell-cases, bullet-crucifixes, letter openers and cigarette lighters made of shrapnel and cartridges, miniature airplanes and tanks, talismanic jewelry, embroidery, objects carved from stone, bone and wood – all of these things are trench art, the misleading name given to the dazzling...
Hidden Warbirds
The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII's Lost Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
"If you only have room in your collection for one book on WWII-era warbird wreck histories and recoveries, then it should be this one. Nicholas Veronico’s thorough research and clear, concise writing style makeHidden Warbirdsa fascinating joy to read." -Alan Griffith, author ofConsolidated...
Film Directing Fundamentals
See Your Film Before Shooting
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books, Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, the reader...
Buryin' Daddy
Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and...