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He has published 30 books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel is The Years (2013), and his most recent work of nonfiction is Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays (2017). In 2015, he published The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts. In 2016, he published the Omnibus collection, Dear Wizard: The ...
1987–present. Website. grantnicholas .net. Grantley Jonathan Nicholas (born 12 November 1967) is a Welsh musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Feeder. [1] In 2014, Nicholas released his debut solo album Yorktown Heights. In the following year, a released a mini-album titled Black Clouds .
Nassim Nicholas Taleb [a] ( / ˈtɑːləb /; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist [1] [2] whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty . Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume ...
Nicholas Cullinan. Robert Nicholas Cullinan OBE (born 29 December 1977) is an art historian and curator. On 6 January 2015, he was appointed the 12th director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, [1] a post he began several months later. [2] It was announced on 28 March 2024 that he had been appointed Director of the British Museum.
The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi -controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Nikolaj Velimirović. Nikolaj Velimirović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Николај Велимировић; 4 January 1881 [ O.S. 23 December 1880] – 18 March [ O.S. 5 March] 1956) was bishop of the eparchies of Ohrid and Žiča (1920–1956) in the Serbian Orthodox Church. An influential theological writer and a highly gifted orator, he was often ...
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016 ...
