Wickham: 70 books
Treading Water
My Life In And Out Of The Pool
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Tracey’s long awaited autobiography reveals the highs and lows of a much-loved Australian sports star, candidly and fearlessly.
'Tracey Wickham has the greatest killer instinct in Australian sport.' Dawn Fraser
In the water, Tracey Wickham was a marvel. Out of it, she was a mess. As...
The Muslim Brotherhood
Evolution of an Islamist Movement - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Following the Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved a level of influence previously unimaginable. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rise and dramatic fall for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region are disputed and remain open to debate. Drawing on more...
by Chris Wickham
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope...
by Madeleine Wickham
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks.
Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover --...
by Madeleine Wickham
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Secret Is Out!
Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, and The Gatecrasher is just as delicious as her internationally bestselling Shopaholic series.
Everything's coming up roses for Fleur Daxeny, as she goes through more rich men than she does designer hats. Beautiful and utterly irresistible,...
The Inheritance of Rome
Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
**"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary...
40 Love
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who...
Sleepwalking into a New World
The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Amid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a bold new look at how these autonomous city-states came about, and fundamentally...
Dancing with Demons
The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Dusty Springfield led a tragic yet inspiring life, battling her way to the top of the charts and into the hearts of music fans world-wide. Her signature voice made songs such as "I Only Want to Be with You," "Son of a Preacher Man," and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,"...
by Rhonda Parrish, Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sirens are beautiful, dangerous, and musical, whether they come from the sea or the sky. Greek sirens were described as part-bird, part-woman, and Roman sirens more like mermaids, but both had a voice that could captivate and destroy the strongest man. The pages of this book contain the stories of...
ggplot2
Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to:
produce...
R for Data Science
Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience,...
Framing the Early Middle Ages:Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses...
Woodholme
Growing up Alone
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
"PG-rated autobiography of a young man's coming-of-age in a black Baltimore ghetto. Journalist Wickham (USA Today, Gannett News Service) was orphaned in 1954 at the age of eight when his father shot his wife to death before turning the gun on himself … Woodholme constitutes a good argument...