David Nichols: 43 books
Dig
Australian Rock and Pop Music, 1960-85
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
David Nichols tells the story of Australian rock and pop music from 1960 to 1985 formative years in which the nation cast off its colonial cultural shackles and took on the world.
Generously illustrated and scrupulously researched, Dig combines scholarly accuracy with populist flair. Nichols...
The Limits of Liberty
Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the...
by David Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
When Robert Forster and Grant McLennan formed the Go-Betweens in Brisbane in 1977, they were determined to be different. They were angular, spare, and poetic when crashing directness was the prevailing style. Their heroes were Dylan, Creedence, and Television, when it was more fashionable to cite...
The End(s) of Community
History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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Between the Judge and the Executioner: Revisiting the Silent Foundations of Hegel’s Moral Point of View
Joshua Ben David Nichols
The second chapter of this section shifts the focus to the role of execution in the transition from abstract right to morality in Hegel’s Philosophy...
The Brand Gym
A Practical Workout to Gain and Retain Brand Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
This refreshingly simple, practical guide demonstrates how brand management can boost business performance. It is the ideal inspiration for creating growth in today's tough economic times. Following the template of the highly successful original version, the book consists of a programme of 8 "workouts"...
by Timothy Burns, George Anastaplo, Laurence D. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
mate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn in exquisite detail, variations on the body metaphor abound in the works of Shakespeare. Attention to the political dimensions of this metaphor...
Eisenhower 1956
The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential...
Engines of Diplomacy
Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between...
A Matter of Justice
Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Fifty years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce a federal court order desegregating the city's Central High School, a leading authority on Eisenhower presents an original and engrossing narrative that places Ike and his civil rights policies in...
Ike and McCarthy
Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” (The Washington...
Peoples of the Inland Sea
Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600–1870
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region—the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and many others—shared a tumultuous history. In the colonial era their rich homeland became a target of imperial ambition and an invasion zone for European...
The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails
A How-To Handbooks for Owners and Builders
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic. The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric...
Golden Hour E-Book
The Handbook of Advanced Pediatric Life Support (Mobile Medicine Series)
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The Golden Hour: The Handbook of Advanced Pediatric Life Support, by Drs. David G. Nichols, Myron Yaster, Charles Schleien, and Charles N. Paidas, a new edition in the Mobile Medicine Series, presents today’s life-saving approaches for the critically ill or injured child. Time is of the essence...
Collateral Damage
How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system.
For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate...