Nicholas: 2917 books
OCR Ancient History GCSE Component 1
Greece and Persia
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: The Persian Empire, 559–465 BC by James Renshaw
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by Nicholas Crane
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilization
Born at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers...
From Childhood to Chivalry
The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Originally published in 1984, this is a study of the kings and the aristocracy who ruled England between the Conquest and the Reformation. Not, as usual, about their adult lives, but how they became the people they were through childhood and education. The first such study of its kind, it follows...
Castes of Mind
Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival...
by Nicholas Trajano Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial...
Circumference
Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
How do you measure the size of the planet you're standing on?
"Circumference" is the story of what happened when one man asked himself that very question. Nicholas Nicastro brings to life one of history's greatest experiments when an ancient Greek named Eratosthenes first accurately...
The Poppy
A History of Conflict, Loss, Remembrance, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In the aftermath of the horrific trench warfare of the First World War, the poppy - sprouting across the killing fields of France and Belgium, then immortalized in John McCrae’s moving poem - became a worldwide icon. Yet the poppy has a longer history: as the tell-tale sign of human cultivation of...
by Nicholas Duncan-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Behind every great victory or major achievement, someone has paid a price. Greatness has many admirers and fans, but few ever produce physical, emotional and spiritual currency to obtain their own personal greatness. Archbishop Duncan-Williams challenges everyone to get off sidelines of mediocrity...
by Alvin Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Wales is a land of ghosts and dark legends, strange animals and unexplained phenomena. From the Abergele Ghost Ship to the Witch Lakes of the Brecon Beacons, Alvin Nicholas takes the reader on a comprehensive A–Z tour. Supernatural Wales is the definitive guide to Welsh ghosts, hauntings, monsters...
Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry
Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive...
Ax Murders of Saxtown
The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes.
In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant...
Mercury, Mining, and Empire
The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven...
by Nicholas Everitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of British Secret Service During the Great War. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...
America's Strategy in World Politics
The United States and the Balance of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective....