David Nicholas: 68 books

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...

Matthew and Marcie Hatch live in a Mews in central London with their Poodle, Poodley.Life has been good to them, Marcie is possibly going to be the next UK Prime Minister and Matt’s career as an engineer in the arms industry has been, shall we say interesting. Everything changes when an incident...

In September 2004, the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory board appointed by the Director of National Intelligence, initiated the Study on Educing Information (EI). This study is an ongoing effort to review what is known scientifically about interrogation and other forms of human intelligence...

Zacharia Tobias has retired from The United Western Navy. This might be considered ‘just cause’ for a celebration, but visiting Daisy’s Bar after consuming such a large amount of alcohol, proved not to be one of Zack’s best ideas.Zack does not normally ‘play well with others’, but despite...

Ogres are a species from another planet. The ones that live on Earth are aware they are different, not that they are aliens. Kip is happier than a dog with two tails, that Jevin, his pet Ogre has found love with Sally. Sally thought her pottery fairies were fairly realistic, but it was only...

Nicholas Favaza teams with William David Birch in the Classic tale, Gravestones, an ageless tribute to all which is Righteous and Just. Birch complements Favaza exquisitly in the dual effort as a Dark Force bears down upon the Community of Cleer Creek. Lock your doors, but fret not; if you are truly...

A high school drop-out who served in the American army and then managed to slip into Oxford on the G.I. bill, Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Shirt-Sleeves is an account of his conversation written in a...

‘There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today’ – Susan Haigh, The Short Review Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...

Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...

Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;  Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;  Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...

YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD. Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...

A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that...