Nicholas P: 81 books
Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion
Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the Zapatista revolt on New Year's Day 1994. Wearing...
by Nicholas P. Cafardi
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Priests Without People by Nicholas Cafardi is a novel about cardinals, bishops, pastors, seminarians, lay people, and, yes, even popes trying to find their way to salvation in the turmoil resulting from the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church. It’s the 1960’s, and strange things are...
The Amoeba in the Room
Lives of the Microbes
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells, which are preyed upon by billions of viruses. Fifty million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere every year. And the human gut is home to somewhere between 500 and 1,000 species of bacteria. The more we learn about microbial biodiversity,...
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard
The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Stinkhorns, puffballs, the "corpse finder," deadly galerina, Satan's bolete, birch conks, black mold, the old man of the woods--the world of fungi is infinitely varied and not a little weird. Now, in Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard, Nicholas Money introduces readers to a dazzling array of fungi, from brewer's...
Bestiary
Three Weird Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Bestiary: Three Weird Tales is a collection of short stories by author Nicholas P. Oakley, featuring:
Bestiary - A lonely harvester driver on a remote planet happens upon a wild beast that he adopts as a companion, but the relationship isn’t all that it seems…
The Chattel’s...
The Religious Roots of the First Amendment
Dissenting Protestants and the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditional understandings of the genesis of the separation of church and state rest on assumptions about "Enlightenment" and the republican ethos of citizenship. In The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Nicholas P. Miller does not seek to dislodge that interpretation but to augment...
The Rise of Yeast
How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, the examination of which, with a little care, tends to open up such very considerable issues as does yeast." Huxley was right. Beneath the very foundations...
by Nicholas P. Money
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In recent decades we have come to realize that the microbial world is hugely diverse, and can be found in the most extreme environments. Fungi, single-celled protists, bacteria, archaea, and the vast array of viruses and sub-viral particles far outnumber plants and animals. Microbes, we now know,...
Mushrooms
A Natural and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mushrooms hold a peculiar place in our culture: we love them and despise them, fear them and misunderstand them. They can be downright delicious or deadly poisonous, cute as buttons or utterly grotesque. These strange organisms hold great symbolism in our myths and legends. In this book, Nicholas...
by Nicholas P. Snoek
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Nicholas P. Snoek was born in Holland in 1940; grew up in BC, Canada; took a BA with honours in English at UBC in 1963; a high school teaching certificate in 1968, then turned to public accounting in 1973; went to Ontario in 1976 to work at management accounting in the Tri-City area till 1997, and...
by Gail E. Wagner, David H. Dye, Nicholas P
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this...
by Edited by Nicholas P. Cafardi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A collection of essays by noted Catholic scholars on how Catholics should participate in the political process.
The Year Without Summer
1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816...
by Adel B. Korkor, Nicholas P. Resheske
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this book, Adel B. Korkor, M.D. combines his love of nature and animal photography with his strong desire for the well-being especially self-worth and respect of children everywhere. He believes not only that children's futures depend on it, but also the future of nature in its magical beauty.