Andrew J Nichols

Public Health and Community Medicine

Selling Your Skills: Strategies for Turning a Liberal Arts Education Into a Job You Love

An education in the liberal arts--humanities, social sciences, and basic science--builds a vast range of analytical, interpretive, and communication skills that 21st Century employers demand. These skills are essential for success in the knowledge economy, so why do so many graduates struggle to fin...

Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings: Am I Being Haunted? (Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified)

"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio 
by which the dead outnumber the living."--Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space OdysseyWhat are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions?Why do they visit, and what do they want from us?Are OBEs, NDEs, and PDEs real?Exposed, Uncov...

Ctesias: On India

A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monog...

Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings: Am I Being Haunted?

What are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions?Why do they visit, and what do they want from us?Are OBE, NDE, and PDE real?Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, and Hauntings tackles these questions and more, as some of the worldGÇÖs best known paranormal experts come together in a...

Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire

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 betwee...

Ctesias: On India

A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monog...

Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American Frontier (Jeffersonian America)

Red Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main concern of Federalist and Indian leaders was not the transfer of land, but the restoration of social order on the frontier. Nichols focuses on the "middle ground" of Indian treaty conferenc...

Ghost Detective: Adventures of a Parapsychologist

HAUNTED HOUSES HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES. ARE THEY REAL? Parapsychologist Andrew Nichols earned his world-wide reputation as a phantom sleuth routing banshees, breaking curses, exorcising ghosts, and exposing cranks and frauds. In Ghost Detective, he recounts his most chilling and fasci...