Nicholas: 2917 books
Deified Person
A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Deified Person: A Study of Deification in Relation to Person and Christian Becoming focuses on a theological exploration of “person” through the notion of deification and is placed within a Christian Orthodox–Byzantine context. The book offers new interpretations of person in relation to Christian...
Black War
Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Between 1825 and 1831 close to 200 Britons and 1000 Aborigines died violently in Tasmania’s Black War. It was by far the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history, yet many Australians know little about it. The Black War takes a unique approach to this historic event, looking chiefly...
The Greatest Day in History
How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Cam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Unlike 1945, the First World War did not end neatly with the unconditional surrender of the Germans. After a dramatic week of negotiations, military offensives and the beginning of a Communist revolution, the German Imperial regime collapsed. The Allies eventually granted an armistice to a new German...
To Follow in Their Footsteps
The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice...
De Duitse oorlog
de Tweede Wereldoorlog door de ogen van burgers en soldaten
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Ondanks bibliotheken vol boeken over oorsprong, verloop en verschrikkingen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog begrijpen we eigenlijk nog steeds niet waarom ‘gewone’ Duitsers achter de oorlog bleven staan, zelfs toen ze wisten dat die niet meer te winnen was. Wat was de oorlog die de Duitsers dachten te...
Radical
A Portrait of Saul Alinsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
From Left to Right, one man has influenced them all: Saul Alinsky. Radical is a personal portrait of this controversial mastermind of popular movements, a man who is often called the American Machiavelli.
The tactics and strategy of Alinsky, who died in 1972, have been studied by people as...
by Nicholas Popper
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive *History of the World. *Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English...
by Nicholas Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee was a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia's most respected and watched current affairs program, alongside Ray Martin, George Negus, Ian Leslie, Richard Carleton, Mike Munro, Jennifer Byrne, Liz Hayes and Tara Brown, among others. All This in 60 Minutes is the...
by Nicholas Delbanco
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2000
Told in the alternating voices of a family who moves from London to New York at the end of the Second World War, Nicholas Delbanco's memoiristic novel is a moving story about how a family of immigrants come to terms with life in America.
How does a German Jewish family from London blend a past...
Collision Low Crossers
A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting...An instant classic." -- New York Times Book Review
By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball,...
William
The Inside Story of the Man Who Will Be King
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In this sensitive and beautifully illustrated biography, royal expert Nicholas Davies explores the complex character behind this monarch of the future. Davies follows Prince William from his birth at St. Mary's, Paddington, through his happy-go-lucky childhood and awkward pre-teenage years, to his...
by Nicholas Pang
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2012
2012 is certainly heating up to be another banner year for minimalist running shoes. For the past two years, I've been on a journey to search for the perfect minimal shoe for myself. Fortunately, I've been able to wear-test almost every pair of barefoot-style running shoe on the planet. My bare feet...
The Lifeboat Service in Scotland
Station by Station
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The history of the lifeboat service in Scotland is one of outstanding bravery and tragedy. Bravery, exemplified in the Gold medal-winning rescues by the Peterhead lifeboat in 1942 and Lerwick lifeboat in 1997. And tragedy, when lifeboat men gave their lives at Arbroath, Fraserburgh, Longhope and elsewhere...
The Lifeboat Service in England: The South West and Bristol Channel
Station by Station
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824 and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea. Today, the volunteer lifeboat crews on the coasts of Cornwall, North Devon and Somerset operate high-tech state-of-the-art lifeboats in their work of saving lives at sea. The RNLI...