Author: Susan Coll
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, acceptance
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312426968
ISBN-13: 9780312426965
Acceptance is a satire of America’s overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and parents surrender their evenings, their weekends, and their sanity to the race for admission. Maya, Taylor, and "AP" Harry (so named for all the advanced placement courses under his belt) are high school students in a Washington, D.C. suburb called Verona, each gunning for admission to the most prestigious colleges. Olivia is an overworked admissions officer, under siege from applications and every kind of desperate appeal. The application process threatens t
Author: Eric Coll
Publisher: Teracom Training Institute
Keywords: telecom
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2004-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0973027509
ISBN-13: 9780973027501
Combining three textbooks formatted into a standard 7" x 9" softcover textbook with high-quality paper, a laminated cover and professional binding, 420 pages, over 175 diagrams and a full index, Telecom 101 has three parts: • Fundamentals of Telecommunications, • Understanding Data Communications and • Understanding IP and Networking, with the same content as the course workbook for our three-day core training Course 101, "Telecom, Datacom and Networking for Non-Engineers", plus additional bonus sections. This content, tuned and refined over the course of twelve years, has b
Author: Coll Minogue
Publisher: Crowood Press
Keywords: ceramics, slab
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-05-26
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1847970044
ISBN-13: 9781847970046
The slab-building technique for creating ceramics has been around for centuries and remains a popular construction method for artists today. The basic aspects and astounding versatility of slab-building is unveiled in this lushly illustrated survey. The working methods of 16 international ceramists are covered in detail and accompanied by images of their sculptures and vessels as well as hints on making the most of the slab-built technique. A gallery of pieces from 14 other contemporary artists is also provided as well as photographs and studies of several historical slab-built pieces.
Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Keywords: american, century, family, arabian, ladens, bin
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1594201641
ISBN-13: 9781594201646
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family’s rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed the family and how one member’s rebellion changed America The Bin Ladens rose from poverty to privilege; they loyally served the Saudi royal family for generations—and then one of their number changed history on September 11, 2001. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll tells the epic story of the rise of the Bin Laden family and of the wildly diverse lifes
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, poems, coll
Number of Pages: 716
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1844710432
ISBN-13: 9781844710430
This book collects all the poems published by Andrew Taylor since his first book appeared in 1971, together with a substantial section of new work, and confirms him as one of Australia’s most original and individual poets. The poems range through explorations of personal and family relationships, encounters with a wide variety of landscapes and cultures, and social and political issues. A strong sense of mortality is balanced by a delight in the details of the physical world, a fascination with everyday objects, and a belief in the regenerative power of love. Poems for children and aging
Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: south, asia, journey, road, trunk, grand
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143115197
ISBN-13: 9780143115199
Available for the first time in paperback, Steve Coll’s trek across a socially and politically damaged South Asia Bestselling author Steve Coll is one of the preeminent journalists of the twenty-first century. His last two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and New York Times bestseller The Bin Ladens, have been praised for their creative insight and complex yet compelling narratives-and have put him on par with journalists such as the legendary Bob Woodward. Now, for the first time ever, the paperback edition of On the Grand Trunk Road is finally available, revised and updated
Author: Ivar Da Coll
Publisher: Norma S A Editorial
Keywords: spanish, papel, torre, dulces, medias
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-08-13
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 9580433984
ISBN-13: 9789580433989
