Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books
Jugarse la piel
Asimetrías ocultas en la vida cotidiana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 29, 2019
En uno de sus libros más provocadores, el famoso pensador Nassim Nicholas Taleb redefine lo que significa comprender el mundo, tener éxito en una profesión, contribuir a una sociedad justa y equitativa, detectar el absurdo e influir en los demás. Citando ejemplos que van desde Hammurabi a Séneca,...
by Nicholas Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
How did Australia achieve such phenomenal success in its wine business? Historian and critically acclaimed wine writer Nicholas Faith gives an indepth account of the growth and international boom of Australia's wine industry and describes how these wines have risen to the point of becoming the world's...
Raising Dust
A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, and rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century...
The Lifeboat Service in England: The North West and Isle of Man
Station by Station
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea. Today, the volunteer lifeboat crews on the coasts of Lancashire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man operate high-tech, state-of-the-art lifeboats for the purpose of saving lives at sea....
The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency
American Public Diplomacy, 1989–2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.
Have it your way
52 brilliant ideas for getting everything you want
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone saw things your way a little more often? How much easier it would be to get things done and achieve what you set out to do. With the help of Have it your way you can learn how to turn every situation to your own advantage by employing clever influencing methods to bring...
by Nicholas Pavone
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
''The more effectively a team of employees work together, the more work they’ll be able to get done. Of course, having more people means being able to put forth more effort. But, a large team may actually get in each other’s way if they are not working together effectively. Even if you don’t...
The Black Prince of Baseball
Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
As America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base paths. Against this backdrop, Hal Chase...
by Rev. Nicholas A. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Presbyterian minister Nicholas A. Davis joined the Fourth Regiment of Texas Volunteers as chaplain in 1861. Soon after, the unit moved to Virginia, where they fought in the Seven Days Campaign, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg. Rev. Davis wrote his memoir two years into battle, drawing...
Decoding Air Travel
A Guide to Saving on Airfare and Flying in Luxury
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
"Decoding Air Travel" is the most comprehensive and insightful work to date on the intricacies of the modern air travel system from a customer perspective, and the most effective tool for making travel more affordable, convenient, comfortable and fun.
It’s the only book that can teach...
Collapse of a Country
A Diplomat's Memoir of South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The first Canadian diplomat to be posted to war-torn Sudan, Nicholas Coghlan was a natural choice to lead Canada’s representation in the new Republic of South Sudan soon after the country was founded in 2011. In late 2013, Coghlan and his wife Jenny were in the capital, Juba, when it erupted in...
by Nicholas Harris
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Public policy essays dealing with political economy, public and private corruption, and indigenous land rights.
Adam Smith
An Enlightened Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from...
by Nicholas Tarling
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Imperialism in Southeast Asia examines its subject against a backdrop of those countries that could at a given time be called imperialist: Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US. Examining the imperialist phenomenon from this wide-ranging perspective reveals imperialism as driven by rivalry;...