Nick: 3195 books
by Mr Nick Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Matchbox toys were ubiquitous items for children across the Western world. Originally labelled Christmas-cracker trash by retailers and shopkeepers, the small-scale 1-75 series soon began to see unprecedented worldwide sales in the 1950s. Smaller and cheaper than most of its competitors' toys, Matchbox...
by Mattias Frey, Greg Taylor, Cecilia Sayad
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have...
by Nick Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually...
The Dallas Cowboys -- Free Preview
The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The definitive, must-have account of the all-time players, coaches, locker rooms and boardrooms that made the Dallas Cowboys "America's Team."
Since 1960, the Cowboys have never been just about football. From their ego-driven owner and high-profile players to their state-of-the-art...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.
For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend—make that ex-girlfriend— Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam...
Anglo-Irish Relations
1798–1922
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Providing essays, sources with questions and worked answers, together with background to each topic within Irish history, Nick Pelling provides a good foundational text for the study of Anglo-Irish relations.
For centuries the relationship between Ireland and England has been difficult. Anglo-Irish...
A Place Beyond
Finding Home in Arctic Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Nick Jans leads us into his "found" home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among the wolves, traveling with Inupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at...
Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Named a best book of the year by:
the Los Angeles Times
the San Francisco Chronicle
the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
the Chicago Tribune
the Seattle Times
"A stunning...
Writing for TV and Radio
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This essential companion offers invaluable insights and solid, practical guidance to those keen to write for TV and radio.
PART 1 explores the nature of the media. It looks at the history of writing drama and comedy for radio and TV through a consideration of its key elements and some of the...
by Nick Mamatas
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Vasilis “Billy” Kostopolos is a Bay Area Rust Belt refugee, failed sci-fi writer, successful barfly and, since the exceptionally American zombie apocalypse, an accomplished “driller” of reanimated corpses. There aren’t many sane, well-adjusted human beings left in San Francisco, but facing...
The Complex
How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life—a real-world Matrix come alive
Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex—an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives.
From...
The Tapping Solution
A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Nick Ortner, founder of the Tapping World Summit and best-selling filmmaker of The Tapping Solution, is at the forefront of a new healing movement. In his upcoming book, The Tapping Solution, he gives readers everything they need to successfully start using the powerful practice of tapping – or...
by Nick Neely
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Coast: the edge of land, or conversely the edge of sea. Range: a measure between limits, or the scope or territory of a thing. Coast Range, the debut collection of essays from writer Nick Neely, meticulously and thoughtfully dwells on these intersections and much more. The book’s title refers to...
Tomorrow's Battlefield
U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim...