Nicholas Books

Let's face it, databases are just "naked ladies" on the Internet. They have no protection at all. This is the first book that I've ever bought that shows how to use crypto to get some clothes on those ladies and keep your credit card number and mine safe. Word to the wise-buy this book.

Culpeper's book on herbs is simple and to the point. The books clear, informative layout allows you to look up most any herb and find out how to grow, pick and use it. Informative, simple and to the point, it's a book worth having if you're concerned about your health or the health of someone you care about.

A fascinating book! The author describes in today's language Culpeper's basic practice of medicine. It brings forth our rich medical tradition and explains how everything in nature is interconnected. "as above, so below!"

Cats belong to a supernatural world of poetency and prowess. They are the survivors, the creatures most at home in their environment, the fastest and most successful predators on earth. Since Alexander, kings have hunted them; Hercules and David conquered them and wore their skins. The Egyptians worshipped them as goddesses; the shamans and sorcerers of Central Africa and South America took on their shapes to gain entry to the spirit realm; the the dark cicrcle of witchcraft they are the envoys of Satan. Tamed, they remain free, our link with the superhuman in the wild. Between the feline and the human worlds has developed a mysterious rapport expressed in magic, in folk belief, and in the continuing presence of countless millions of pet cats as the objects of everyday worship. Wonderful color photos.

Most histories of Roman antiquity principally focus on the elite aristocracy and the military generals that supported or overthrew them. The Culture Of The Roman Plebs by independent scholar Nicholas Horsfall is a welcome and long needed history that specifically addresses the life of the common people that populated and made possible what became known as the Roman Empire. From the noisy, active role of the common populace, to their songs, dances, music, shows, games, and daily life, The Culture Of The Roman Plebs fills in the larger picture. Of special note is the Nicholas Horsfall has meticulously translated and reconstructed what the average Roman talked and thought about as recorded in graffiti and the other odds and ends of notation derived from the records of ordinary Roman life as they have survived over the past two thousand years. The Culture Of The Roman Plebs is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to academic library collections and would make an excellent title for community library Ancient History collections for non-specialist general readers with an interest in Roman history.

The Daleks are a huge part of Doctor Who history and sci-fi history in general. When the Doctor Who series was halted it was the novels, radio plays and fan fiction that kept it alive. The Dalek stories were a huge part of this. Now, to get them, you can dish out money for CDs OR you can buy this book which has Dalek Empire and Dalek War, which is equal to about eight audio CDs. You can use your MIND and imagination and your own silly voice to read the book. Maybe even out loud if you want. When nobody else is around. Oh, I still plan to get the audio CDs, but this is still fun to have. Lots of behind the scene information and interviews with Nicholas Briggs. Who else, besides the late, great Terry Nation could have pulled off creating so many great stories of the Daleks? Well, besides John Peel.

I am already so happy with this book, and I am only halfway through. Although Nicholas has some gaps in her experiential knowledge of American dance history, she has gone the extra mile to link the dancers at Dartington to the American, Indian, and Central European dance concerns of the times (1900s-1940s) in such a way that dance history teachers will no longer be able to see the events during that period as isolated occurences.

Dartington was both an incubator and a crossroads point for what was a period of extreme evolution, a forty year pendulum swing between dance as community-building, art-making creative process and as highly defined technically-challenging expressive mythos. At Dartington, performative practices, choreographic principles, technique class content, dance education, and community dance were all discussed, argued over, and perhaps, most startling in our times, attended to by none other than the Elmhirsts themselves.

Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst were certainly fascinating characters and their story is compelling in its own right. But the fact they created a place for sustainable agriculture and art, for Gaia and Terpsichore, is an idea that can resonate deeply today, as we all seek solutions, personal and technological, to the climate change crisis and resource-soaking wars.

There have been other such moments in dance history: Ascona, Hellerau, Black Mountain College, Judson. The common experience of artists responding to the world at the same time they create deep communal connections and develop new ways of making art is a primary narrative. What happened at Dartington is a huge part of that narrative. Thanks to Larraine Nicholas for pulling the facts together, opening the door into a time and place of powerful intersections, and writing so clearly and with careful attention about the most timely of issues: artists creating community in challenging moments.

When I was divorced last year and had to find a lawyer for the first time, this book saved me lots of frustration (and probably lots of time and money). It's very useful -- and it's even fun to read. The author's one smart guy. Everyone ought to have this book handy, because sometime, everyone has to hire a lawyer for something. Don't do it without this book.

Best translation of this work. Useful notes and essays. Highest recommendation.

This should be required reading for anyone who designs interfaces. If users are having a hard time using your software then you need this book. Great conversational style with well thought out content and screen shots. I wish I had this book earlier in my career.