Nick: 3195 books
by Nick Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
"68½ - Movies, Manson & Me" was first published, in electronic and print form, in 2016. The feedback I subsequently received, from both readers, was that, while they loved the bits about my sex life, the drugs, the rock & roll and even the movie trivia, they could have happily done...
Scattered Ghosts
One Family's Survival through War, Holocaust and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
When two Hungarian Jewish refugees landed by accident in Britain in the winter of 1956, they had little idea what the future would hold. But they carried with them the traces of their turbulent past, just enough to provide the clues to their past. Scattered Ghosts combines memoir, investigation and...
The Movies That Changed Us
Reflections on the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Nick Clooney, one of America's most respected film critics and historians, presents a distinctive catalog of movies that have influenced and altered not only the world of cinema, but also the world in which we live.
Since the advent of moving pictures, there have been films that exist as more than...
Last of the Dandies
The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three decades he was the ultimate arbiter in matters of taste, style and fashion -- what D'Orsay wore today, society would wear tomorrow.
He...
by Nick Robb
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
After several years as living as someone else, Rinthalla sets out on her own in a bid to craft her own identity while caring for an ailing W.P. She also has to contend with Megaraco who has so far refused to marry W.P. despite their many years together.
VHS
Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The decade of 1988-1998 was the Golden Age of VHS, a time when anybody with a pulse, a camcorder, and a few bucks could market a video. Comedy writers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have spent the last 20 years collecting the best odd and unintentionally hilarious videotapes ever produced. Since 2004,...
The Stop
How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“[A] terrific book about a visionary post–food bank project.” —**Michael Pollan
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**
British super chef Jamie Oliver called it "amazing," writing that he'd traveled all over the world and never seen anything like it. New York Times food writer...
Gnomon
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
**A Best Science Fiction Book of 2017 -- The Guardian
From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical...
by Nick Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Attention spans are shrinking, the pace of life is accelerating, and no ones job is completely secure. As a result, everyone who lives on the planet and has a job needs at least 30-second speeches - one that tells the world who they are and the other that tells the world what they do. This short-form...
The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare: 1918-1920
Justice and Liberty for All
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In this volume of the Explaining Modern History Series, Nick Shepley explores the roots of American anti Communism and how a strong and independent left wing movement in the USA was broken during and immediately after World War One. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America in the 1920s and beyond.
Cyber-Proletariat
Global Labour in the Digital Vortex
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation.
Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing...
Modern Football Is Still Rubbish
Slinging mud at whats left of the beautiful game
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Nick Davidson and Shaun Hunt were hoping that their first book, Modern Football is Rubbish, would put right all the ills of the present day game. But, amazingly, the administrators at club and national level took no notice and the putrification of the beautiful game continued. Hence they return - slinging mud at what's left of the game they love.
Kill the Messenger
How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Soon to be a major motion picture!
Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called...
by Shane Ross, Nick Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens...