Nicholas: 2917 books
Warriors of God
Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford. Now Blanford has written the first comprehensive inside account of Hezbollah and its enduring struggle...
The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements
Designing Flexible Solutions for Public Procurement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Framework agreements have arisen in response to the well documented and high costs of public procurement procedures. The agreements have significant potential to improve procedural efficiency in public procurement, but are complex to operate. Inadequate preparation and implementation can also frustrate...
by Nicholas Abson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The world order is structured in three levels; factions, authorities and collectives. Symbolically, it is a triangle, but more accurately a Pyramid.Factions are the power at the pinnacle, the authorities the instrument of power beneath and the collectives the builders of value at the base.It is a feudal arrangement, little different from the past, merely of greater sophistication.
Markets Over Mao
The Rise of Private Business in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic...
On Paper
The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
**A Best Book of the Year:
Mother Jones • Bloomberg News • National Post • *Kirkus ***
In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes—the consummate bibliophile’s bibliophile—shows how paper has been civilization’s constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very...
White-Collar Government
The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult...
Modern Monopolies
What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates...
Acing Airbnb
The complete guide to successful short-stay accommodation hosting
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The ultimate handbook for all Airbnb hosts either current or future! Packed with insider tips, checklists, screenshots and real-life examples, Acing Airbnb gives hosts of all levels of experience the tools they need to succeed.
Short-stay accommodation hosting is a lucrative emerging industry...
by Nicholas Carr
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.
With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog,...
So You Want To Be A Baller? The Comprehensive Guide To Go From Broke on the Bus to Balling in a Benz
So You Want To Be A Baller? The Comprehensive Guide To Go From Broke on the Bus to Balling in a Benz
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Nicholas Brown over a six year span has studied what people did, mainly rags to riches stories, in order to become ballers, i.e. rich and then wealthy. This easy to read book is over 180 pages of anecdotes and advice highlighting 13 key factors some utilized in order to ball out.
The World the Railways Made
Wolmar's Railway Library
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some,...
How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue...
by Sherilyn Pastor, Nicholas M. Insua
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This brand new resource is the all-inclusive reference encompassing ISO, AAIS, and MSO Business Income coverage programs. It delivers: • Line-by-line analysis of full-text forms and endorsements • Turnkey case law application to clarify tricky policy language and settle potential interpretation...
Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber
Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products...