Nick: 3195 books
by Nick Foxx
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
A how-to book full of personal anecdotes and stories collected during a long career as a club musician.
Part fiction, part essay, this work contains material unsuitable for minors.
by Nick McDonell
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Published to critical acclaim around the world, and soon to be a major motion picture directed by Joel Schumacher, Twelve established its seventeen- year-old author Nick McDonell as a powerful voice of the new millennium. The chilling novel follows prep school dropout White Mike through the week between...
Nothing Personal?
Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.
Features original, unpublished empirical material from four...
New York Nights
Writing, Producing and Performing in Gotham
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
New York Nights shares the personal experiences, gossipy anecdotes, and critical commentary of a television and concert producer who has been firmly entrenched in the exciting and unpredictable comedy and jazz scene in a city that never sleeps.
Producer Nick Catalano introduced early audiences...
by Nick Knight
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
"Scholars of Marxism will be in Nick Knight's debt for this pioneering study of one of the most important figures in the development of Marxism in China. Knight makes an important case about the relationship of Chinese Marxist thought to Marxist thought in general (with particular attention to...
Hard Core Logo
Portrait of a Thousand Punks
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
Joe Dick, Billy Tallent, John Oxenburger, and Pipefitter are Hard Core Logo — Vancouver’s legendary, but now defunct, punk band.
Joe Dick coaxes his former bandmates to overcome personal differences and reunite for a benefit concert for their ageing punk mentor, Bucky Haight, who has been...
The Zoom
Drama at the Touch of a Lever
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning...
China's Forgotten People
Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to be up to a million Muslims held in 're-education camps' in the Xinjiang region of North-West China. One of the few Western commentators to have lived in...
The Journey Home
Spiritual guidance for everyday
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Following Christ is a dynamic venture in faith. God may call his people to step into the unknown, but he travels with them on their way. This collection of daily readings, activities and prayers provides a valuable resource for the journey. Nick Aiken highlights the discoveries and liberating truths...
by Nick Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all!
This is the story of the hapless artists and the all-powerful Svengali's who created them,...
The Social Body
Habit, Identity and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2001
This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemporary social science debates on the body, and develops a coherent new perspective.
Nick Crossley critically reviews the literature on mind and...
by Nick Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Movie watching has never been so wide-ranging or so popular. The rise of Internet-based video on demand has transformed the way films are distributed and exhibited, with many previously unobtainable and obscure films becoming available for global audiences to view instantly.
The second edition...
The Making of Them
The British Attitude to Children and the Boarding School System
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
In the 21st century British society is still shaped by a private education system devised to gentrify the Victorian middle classes and produce gentlemen to run the Empire. Yet it is not on the political agenda; it is rarely the subject of public debate, and we remain blind to its psychological implications....
by Nick Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A mind-bending journey through the outer reaches of the late Sixties and Seventies: the drugs, the movies, the music, the murders. Equal parts autobiography, paean to 60s and 70s cinema, DIY guide for aspiring screen-writers, and inquiry into the nature of truth, fiction and memory, 68½ is a true genre-buster.