Nicholas: 2917 books
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
The Lifeboat Service in South East England
Station by Station
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824, and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea; nowhere is this more evident than in the south-east of England. The lifeboats and lifeboat crews from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent have been involved in some of the most dramatic,...
by Nicholas Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Musicians, music lovers and music critics have typically considered Beethoven's overtly political music as an aberration; at best, it is merely notorious, at worst, it is denigrated and ignored. In Political Beethoven, Nicholas Mathew returns to the musical and social contexts of the composer's political...
About Bioethics
Philosophical and Theological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Policy in Bioethics develops when people can reach agreement. We make progress when we listen to each other. About Bioethics, as the first of a series, explains the different secular and theological approaches to Bioethics, seeking to identify strengths as well as weaknesses because it is the strengths...
The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953
Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent who sabotaged the whole...
Run to the Sound of the Guns
The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
As part of an elite special operations unit at the fighting edge of the Global War on Terrorism, Nicholas Moore spent over a decade with the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this compelling biography, a detailed narrative of gruelling life on the ground...
by James A. Stone, David P. Shoemaker, Major Nicholas R. Dotti
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In September 2004, the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory board appointed by the Director of National Intelligence, initiated the Study on Educing Information (EI). This study is an ongoing effort to review what is known scientifically about interrogation and other forms of human intelligence...
Two-Edged Sword
The Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In the first major study of the Royal Canadian Navy's contribution to foreign policy, Nicholas Tracy takes a comprehensive look at the paradox that Canada faces in participating in a system of collective defence as a means of avoiding subordination to other countries. Created in 1910 to support Canadian...
The Making of a Rescuer
The Inspiring Life of Otto T. Trott, Md, Rescue Doctor and Mountaineer
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
This is a book about the making of a hero - a rescuer. There are few of us that can claim to be bigger-than-life heroes, but surely the story of Dr. Otto Trotts life is the story of one of these. Because of his existence many lives have been saved or improved, human suffering has been reduced, and...
by Nicholas Fellows
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2015
First exams: Summer 2017
Master the skills you need to set yourself apart and hit the highest grades. This year-round course companion develops the higher-order thinking skills that top-achieving...
Finding Pathways
Mixed-Method Research for Studying Causal Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Social scientists have identified a need to move beyond the analysis of correlation among variables to the study of causal mechanisms that link them. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes propose that a solution lies in 'pathway analysis', the use of case studies to explore the causal links between related...
Staging Habla de Negros
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater...
by Nicholas Afanasiev
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Church of the Holy Spirit, written by Russian priest and scholar Nicholas Afanasiev (1893–1966), is one of the most important works of twentieth-century Orthodox theology. Afanasiev was a member of the “Paris School” of émigré intellectuals who gathered in Paris after the Russian revolution,...
Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds
A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
An intimate, behind-the-curtains tour of the sets, costumes, spacecraft, alien planets, creatures, weapons, and gadgets used to create the stunning world of Doctor Who.
From distant galaxies in the far-flung future, to ancient history on the planet Earth, Doctor Who is unique for the breadth...