Nick Allen: 7 books

This is the inspirational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from outdoorsman to wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to back to the life in the mountains he loves through sheer determination and grit. This book follows Nick's first faltering steps back into the back country and his decision...

Detailing the experiences of soldiers from 13 NATO countries, this is truly an international account of the war in AfghanistanBetween 2006 and 2013, journalist Nick Allen traveled to Afghanistan to "embed" himself with soldiers on the front line in the war against the Taliban. He was...

A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War,...

A professional football player is supposed to get his violence in the glare of the floodlights and his sex very much in private. But when all-league quarterback “Jet” Black refused to throw a playoff game for racketeer Rudy Stark, such conventions were thrown into jarring reverse. He found himself...

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’...

Rethinking the Region argues that regions are not simply bounded spaces on a map. This book uses unique research of England during the 1980s to show how regions are made and unmade by social processes. The book examines how new lines of division both social and geographical were laid down as free-market...

A professional football player is supposed to get his violence in the glare of the floodlights and his sex very much in private. But when all-league quarterback “Jet” Black refused to throw a playoff game for racketeer Rudy Stark, such conventions were thrown into jarring reverse. He found himself...