A Guide to Writing College Admissions Essays provides practical advice and helpful suggestions for students writing their college admissions essays, primarily the 650-word Common App essay and supplementary essays that many schools require as part of their admission applications. With more students applying to college-and those students applying ......
Its dwarves versus dragons in the first of the epic "A Tournament of Shadows" series. Discover the origins of one of contemporary fantasy's best-written characters, Morlock Ambrosius. Before history began, the dwarves of Thrymhaiam fought against the dragons as the Longest War raged in the deep roads beneath the Northhold. Now the dragons have ......
Papermaking by hand is carried on professionally by only a small number of dedicated papermakers around the world. Yet the craft of papermaking attracts interest from many areas - bookmakers, calligraphers, artists, teachers, sculptors, and printers. The problem has always been where to buy supplies and machinery.
A single source for an incredible amount of book and author information. While this is a "how to" for book collectors, it is also intended for people who love books and would like to know more about the books, authors, and reading genres they most enjoy. The Handbook presents enough factual data for all would-be collectors to make knowledgeable ......
This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence, and provides a framework for evidence-informed state juvenile justice systems: The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders.
A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford in 2003. There are twelve different essays by authors from various countries, including Australia, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning
This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.
Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV
Is heroism possible for everyone? Should it be? What kinds of stories do we tell when we talk about heroes and what do these stories reveal about how we view ourselves? This book takes up these questions and more by reflecting on twenty-first century American television shows. Among the shows examined are Only Murders in the Building, Game of ......
