Nick: 3195 books
Bristol's Bastards
In Iraq with the 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry of Minnesota's National Guard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Minnesota’s toughest farm boys take on Iraqi insurgents
in one of the most irreverent and outrageous memoirs to come out of the war
Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard, composed in large part of farm kids from the Midwest who could replace...
Scoreboard, Baby
A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—mystical, magical, miraculous—changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry’s four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: “explosive . . . chilling” (Sports Illustrated), “blistering”...
by Nick Talevski
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature especially when it involves our icons celebrities and musicians. Knocking On Heavens Door is the definitive book of rock n roll pop R&B and blues deaths. Often only the biggest selling artists are written...
Haters, Baiters and Would-Be Dictators
Anti-Semitism and the UK Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
For fifty-five years, from 1919 until 1975, The Britons published Jew-hating literature. For the forty years until his death in 1948, the founder and president of The Britons, Henry Hamilton Beamish, devoted his life to touring the world as an obsessive preacher of this hatred. Using material he has...
EIGA
Cinema in the Philippines During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nick Deocampo’s continuing film saga investigates on its third volume how World War II affected the growth of cinema in the Philippines (1942-1945). Revealed in the book is a vast wealth of information about Japanese wartime manipulation of motion pictures that would only lead to the inglorious...
An Empire on the Edge
How Britain Came to Fight America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent.
In this powerful but fair-minded...
Sherlock Holmes
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
“An in-depth biography of the world’s most famous detective that will intrigue Sherlockians and non-Sherlockians alike.” —Publishers Weekly
He has been called a genius and a fraud, a hero and an addict, but who really was Sherlock Holmes? With an attention to detail that would make his...
by Allan Ford, Nick Corble
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The Indian Scout motorcycle is the favoured mount for Wall of Death riders all over the world. Drawing upon modern and archive material, Wall of Death owner and rider Allan Ford and author Nick Corble explore the reasons behind this relationship and bring the story of the Wall up to date, including...
by Nick Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In this highly readable book, Nick Clayton charts the origins of the bicycle, a machine that is still regarded as the most efficient means of translating human energy into motion. Focusing on the early years of development, the author examines the technological developments that have led to the modern...
An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist
A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is a country? Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton brings to life the origins and histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the margins of legitimacy in the global order. From long-contested lands like Crimea...
Mission
How the Best in Business Break Through
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
In Mission: How the Best in Business Break Through, Michael Hayman and Nick Giles show companies how to join the ranks of today's business winners.
Business as usual is over. Belief is the new currency and to succeed you must follow new rules: purpose as the route to profit; mind share to gain...
Underrated:
The Yankee Post Roast Book of Awesome Underappreciated Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Contrary to popular legend, every dog does not have his day. Some dogs--i.e., musicians, actors, foodstuffs, sitcoms, beverages, albums, and movies--are perennially overlooked. This book will change all that. Using a highly scientific, unabashedly subjective, yet uncannily accurate formula, the brilliant...
Mission Driven Business
The Proven System to Express Your Purpose and Propel Profits, Productivity and Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Apple. Uber. Amazon. Chipotle. Federal Express. Zappos.
What do these phenomenally successful companies have in common? They're all Mission-Driven businesses-and have been since day one of their existence.
Now for the first time, Nick Nanton and JW Dicks, the Emmy Award-winning marketing...
Thrive and Survive in Business
The Why, What and How of Building Sustainable Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This book helps you discover which questions to ask, the pitfalls to avoid, what to do and where to find practical help.
Nick says: “I have written this book for all the amazing people whose livelihoods are currently, or are about to become, dependent upon their wits and hard work. That...